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Today, by far the largest group of Arabs living in Germany is from Syria, with 1,281,000 people with a Syrian immigrant background alone in 2023. [1] Syrians mostly arrived in Germany after 2015, when the German government under Angela Merkel decided to keep the borders open to refugees from the Syrian civil war . [ 3 ]
Assyrians: mostly in Sweden and Germany, as well as in Russia, Armenia, Denmark and Great Britain (see Assyrian diaspora). Assyrians have been present in Eastern Turkey since the Bronze Age (circa 2000 BCE). Kurds: approximately 2.5 million, mostly in the UK, Germany, Sweden and Turkey.
Most Arabs came to Germany in the 1970s, partly as Gastarbeiter from Morocco, the Turkish Province of Mardin (see: Arabs in Turkey) and Tunisia.However, the majority of Arabs in Berlin are refugees of the conflicts in the Middle East, e.g. the Lebanon Wars, Palestinian exodus, the recent Iraq War, Libyan Civil War and Syrian Civil War.
Arab presence in Europe predates Islam, and became predominant during the eras of the Roman and Byzantine Empire.The Romans conquered the Nabatean Kingdom in the Southern Levant, and named the province Arabia Petraea, and led a failed invasion of Yemen and South Arabia and what they called Arabia Felix or "Happy Arabia".
The Union of Muslims of Russia is the direct successor to the pre-World War I Union of Muslims, which had its own faction in the Russian Duma. The post-Communist union formed a political party, the Nur All-Russia Muslim Public Movement , which acts in close coordination with Muslim imams to defend the political, economic, and cultural rights of ...
Germany’s top diplomat on Friday accused Russian agents of “intolerable” hacking of the emails of a key governing party, and joined NATO and European Union countries in warning that Russia's ...
KYIV (Reuters) -Russian forces are buying Starlink satellite internet terminals in "Arab countries" for use on the battlefield, Ukraine's military spy agency said on Tuesday. The Elon Musk-owned ...
Estimates of the percentage of Muslims in Russia (the biggest group of Muslims in Europe) vary from 5 [83] to 11.7%, [75] depending on sources. It also depends on if only observant Muslims or all people of Muslim descent are counted. [84] The city of Moscow is home to an estimated 1.5 million Muslims. [85] [86] [87]