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The majority of Syrian Arabs speak a variety of dialects belonging to Levantine Arabic.Arab tribes and clans of Bedouin descent are mainly concentrated in the governorates of al-Hasakah, Deir ez-Zor, Raqqa and eastern Aleppo, forming roughly 30% of the total population and speaking a dialect related to Bedouin and Najdi Arabic.
The community of Syrian Jews inside Syria once numbered 30,000 in 1947, but has only 200 today. [140] The Syrian people's beliefs and outlooks, similar to those of most Arabs and people of the wider Middle-East, are a mosaic of West and East. Conservative and liberally minded people will live right next to each other.
There are many different origins of Afro-Syrians, the most common ones are the Arab slave trade, African Muslims settling in Syria during the Islamic Golden Age, [6] African refugees that received Syrian citizenship, [7] Syrian refugees in Africa who mixed with the local Africans, Syrian refugees in Brazil who mixed with Afro-Brazilians, [8] and interracial marriages between Syrians and black ...
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]
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.
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 people of Egyptian descent (2 P) T. Syrian Turkmen people (1 C, 7 P) Y. Syrian Yazidis (1 P) This page was last edited on 21 February 2024, at 10:57 (UTC ...
A broken portrait of Bashar al-Assad is seen on on the ground at Mezzah Military Airport on Dec. 16, 2024, in Damascus. Credit - Chris McGrath—Getty Images After 13 years of civil war, and 54 ...