 Roughly 100,000 Arabic-speakers settled in Mexico during this time period.They came mostly from Lebanon, and Syria, and settled in significant numbers in Nayarit, Guanajuato, Puebla, Mexico City and the Northern part of the country (mainly in the states of Baja California, Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Zacatecas, Coahuila, and Durango), as well as the cities of Tampico and Guadalajara .They also came for slave trade in the 18th century.