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The presence of Arabs in Syria is recorded since the 9th century BC, [78] and Roman period historians, such as Strabo, Pliny the Elder, and Ptolemy, reported that Arabs inhabited many parts of Syria, [79] which according to modern historians indicate either an ethnic group or a nomadic way of life.
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.
% of Syrian population [51] Notes [51] Syrian Arabs: 80–85%: The Arabs form the majority in all districts except for the Al-Hasakah Governorate. Kurds: 10%: The majority of Kurds are Sunni Muslims, with a Yazidi minority; concentrated in Syrian Kurdistan region and major urban centres outside that region. Turkmen/Turkoman: 4–5%
Syria, [d] officially the Syrian Arab Republic, [e] [14] is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east and southeast, Jordan to the south, and Israel and Lebanon to the southwest.
The Al-Otrush Mosque is a 14th-century Mamluk mosque.. The largest religious group in Syria are Sunni Muslims. Sunnis make up about 74% of the population, [7] of whom Arabic-speaking Sunnis form the majority, followed by the Kurds, Turkmens/Turkomans, Circassians, and Palestinians.
Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is an Alawite. [10] The Alawites are the third largest religious group in Syria, after the Sunni and Shi'a Muslims. [10] Hafez al-Assad and his son, former President Bashar al-Assad, belong to the Alawite sect. [10]
There are Christian Syrians who have a more predominant Arab origin than Muslim Syrians. Therefore many Syrians have some sort of Bedouin Arab origin, since Arabs migrated from Yemen & Saudi Arabia into Syria. The Ghassanids were Christian Bedouins who played a huge role in the genetic admixture of Syrian Christians.
The Arabs (Arabic: عَرَب, DIN ... Greek, and Armenian to describe the early Arab conquerors of Mesopotamia, Syria and Egypt, refers to the descendants of Hagar ...