who were the syrians
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Syrians This article is about Syrians as the majority group of Syria. For other uses, see Syrian (disambiguation) . For the population of Syria, see Demographics of Syria. For Syrians outside of Syria, see Syrian diaspora. The Syrian people (Arabic: الشعب السوري ‎ / ALA-LC: al-sha‘ab al-Sūrī; Syriac: ܣܘܪܝܝܢ) are the inhabitants of Syria, and their ancestors who share a common Levantine Semitic ancestry. The term also refers to the citizens of Syria, regardless of ancestry, mother tongue, ethnic identity, or culture.
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- Question: Who were the Canaanites?. Answer: The Canaanites were a group of ancient people who lived in the land of Canaan on the eastern shores of the Mediterrean Sea. Canaan is described in the Bible as extending from Lebanon toward the Brook of Egypt in the south and the Jordan River Valley in the east.
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Druze The Druze, also known as the Sons of Grace, are a secretive, tightly-knit religious sect whose origins can be traced to Egypt a thousand years ago. They believe that God was incarnated on earth in the form of their leader, al-Hakim bi-Amrih Alla. The Druze do not have their own homeland.
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What is the history of Syrian Christians in Kerala? The above image shows the entire Christian community in Kerala, India. The Syrian Christians are the Saint Thomas Christians (Nasranis). Their history starts from the evangelic movements done by Saint Thomas the Apostle in Kerala during 52 AD. They were a part of the Church of the East.
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So Far: Syrian Refugees in U.S. Include 2,098 Muslims, 53 Christians (CNSNews.com) – President Obama said Monday that calls from some quarters for the U.S. to admit only Christian refugees from Syria were “shameful,” yet the reality is that today’s refugee system discriminates, not against Syrian Muslims, but against Christians and other non-Muslim minorities.
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- Most of the so-called Palestinians are in fact interlopers and squatters from Syria - and others places - mostly in the 1920s and 1930s who simply took possession of pieces of land in Israel. So much for their unfounded claims that they have been there since time immemorial!.
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Syria The country is 90.3 percent Arab. Kurds are estimated to constitute between 3 and 9 percent of the population. Also represented are Turks; Armenians, most of whom fled Turkey between 1925 and 1945; and small numbers of Circassians, Assyrians, and Jews. The Bedoins are Arabs, but form a distinct group.
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- The Amorites were an ancient Semitic-speaking people from ancient Syria who also occupied large parts of southern Mesopotamia from the 21st century BC to the end of the 17th century BC. Pharaonic-styled mural painting in Tal Saka archaeological site
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Openning Salvo One of the challenges for modern Assyrians, claiming to have always known they survived since the fall of the Assyrian empire, was to explain how it was that, for all those centuries, the Nestorians referred to themselves as Syrians (Suryaye/Arameans) and never Assyrians, until the 19th century.
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Golden hamster Syrian hamsters originate from Syria and were first described and officially named in 1839 by British zoologist George Robert Waterhouse. Waterhouse's original specimen was a female hamster; he named it Cricetus auratus or the Syrian hamster. The skin of the specimen is kept at the Natural History Museum in London.
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Hamite A member of a group of peoples of northern and northeast Africa, including the Berbers, Tuaregs, and the ancient Egyptians and their descendants, thought to be descended from the biblical patriarch Ham. No longer in technical use.
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- The Huns. Huns, nomadic Asian people, probably of Turkish, Tataric, or Ugrian origins, who spread from the Caspian steppes (the areas north of the Caspian Sea) to make repeated incursions into the Roman Empire during the 4th and 5th centuries AD.he Huns first overcame the Alani, another nomadic group, who lived on the plains between the Volga and Don rivers. They then moved on to overthrow the Ostrogothic kingdom between the Don and Dnestr rivers.
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- Swamp People on History. September 23 at 8:22am ·.
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Western Wall In English, the name Syria was formerly synonymous with the Levant (known in Arabic as al-Sham), while the modern state encompasses the sites of several ancient kingdoms and empires, including the Eblan civilization of the 3rd millennium BC.
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U.S. to accept Syrian refugees in greater numbers after slow start Syrian refugees wait for food parcels at a camp near Arsal, Lebanon, on Oct. 25. The United States has taken in only 300 of the more than 3.2 million refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war.
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fellahin Examples. 1  The fellahin were the real Egyptians: Arabic-speaking peasants, traditional farmers whose precarious methods—the waterwheel powered by a cow or donkey, irrigation through the annual Nile flood—had changed little since pharaonic times. Three Empires on the Nile.
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Syrian Jews There were large communities in Aleppo (Halabi Jews, Aleppo is Halab in Arabic) and Damascus (Shami Jews) for centuries, and a smaller community in Qamishli on the Turkish border near Nusaybin. In the first half of the 20th century a large percentage of Syrian Jews immigrated to the U.S., Latin America and Israel.
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SYRIAN Meaning: A native or inhabitant of Syria. Classified under: Nouns denoting people. Hypernyms (Syrian is a kind of...): Asian; Asiatic (a native or inhabitant of Asia) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of Syrian): Damascene (a native or inhabitant of Damascus) Holonyms (Syrian is a member of...):
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Syrians The Syrian diaspora consists of 15 million people of Syrian ancestry, who emigrated to North America (United States and Canada), European Union member states (including Sweden, France and Germany), South America (mainly in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela and Colombia), Australia, and Africa. Contents.
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Everything You Need to Know About the Syrian Civil War From how Syria got embroiled in a bloody civil war in the first place to why the U.S. is getting involved now, here's everything you need to know about Syria, but were too afraid to ask. At just 67-years-old, Syria is a nation that has endured the amount of political strife of a country more than twice its age.
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The Scythians and Israel The Scythians were driven out of the Middle East and into Southern Russia which became known as Scythia. Pliny (77 CE) b: VI. XIX says that oriignally the Scythians were called Arami. This term means Syrian but it was also applied to people from Judah and would too have been applicable to those of the Ten Tribes.
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- Assyrian people (Syriac: ܐܫܘܪܝܐ‎), or Syriacs (see names of Syriac Christians), are an ethnic group indigenous to the Middle East. Some of them self-identify as Chaldeans, or as Arameans.
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- (Redirected from Assyrians) Assyrian is a descriptor referring to things related to Assur and the ancient civilization of Assyria. In modern times it may refer to the indigenous Assyrian people of northern Iraq, north east Syria, south east Turkey and north west Iran who claim descent from ancient Assyria.
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Arabs Arabs (Arabic: عَرَب‎‎ [ˈʕarab] ) are an ethnic group inhabiting the Arab world. They primarily live in the Arab states in Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and western Indian Ocean islands.
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Facts about the Syrian Refugees We asked the administration for a demographic breakdown of Syrian refugees who are seeking to resettle in the U.S., and it provided a chart that shows 23,826 total applicants — 15,937, or 67 percent, of whom are women (of all ages) and male children (age 0 to 11). Men (age 18 and older) accounted for 25.5 percent.
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Arabs Arab tribes , most notably the Ghassanids and Lakhmids , begin to appear in the southern Syrian Desert from the mid 3rd century CE onward, during the mid to later stages of the Roman and Sasanian empires. Tradition holds that Arabs descend from Ishmael , the son of Abraham . The Arabian Desert is the birthplace of Arab, as well other Arab group