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Syrian Bosniaks; Sunni Muslim Greeks; Muslim Ossetians [7] [8] Black people of Yarmouk Basin, descendants of sub Saharan African slaves brought to the region during the Middle Ages; Christian minority groups Assyrians, a Semitic Christian indigenous people of Northeast Syria, who speak various Neo-Aramaic languages belonging to the Eastern ...
The people of Western Syria show close relations with the people of Northern Lebanon. [126] Mitochondrial DNA shows the Syrians to have an affinity with Europe; main haplogroups are H and R. [127] Based on Mitochondrial DNA, the Syrians, Palestinians, Lebanese and Jordanians form a close cluster. [128]
A further 70,000 people were trapped on the border with Jordan at Rukban in 2016–18, [27] [28] with up to 40,000 still there in 2019. [29] A significant part of the population lives in territory outside government sovereignty. At its peak in 2015, ISIL ruled over ten million people across Syria and Iraq. [30]
Pages in category "Ethnic groups in Syria" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. ... Assyrian people; Assyrians in Syria; B. Bedouin; Black ...
The question of ethnic identity and self-designation is sometimes connected to the scholarly debate on the etymology of "Syria". The question has a long history of academic controversy, but majority mainstream opinion currently strongly favours that Syria is indeed ultimately derived from the Assyrian term Aššūrāyu.
Most critically, those who build Syria’s next political system will need to overcome the most important legacy of the half century of Assad rule: the ethnic and sectarian conflict and strife ...
A security source told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that the influx of people attempting to leave Syria includes Iranians and Iraqis - but that most come from Syrian minority groups. It comes despite ...
Syrian baklava maker in Little Syria in 1916. Syrian immigrant children on Washington Street in Lower Manhattan in 1916. Syrian folk group in Brazil. Syrian diaspora refers to Syrian people and their descendants who chose or were forced to emigrate from Syria and now reside in other countries as immigrants, or as refugees of the Syrian Civil War.