Syrian diaspora
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term Syrian diaspora refers to the native Syrian people living outside of Syria as either immigrants or refugees. Note that this differs from the other Syrian people living in other areas of Greater Syria, who are of related ethnolinguistical family, speaking Eastern Arabic languages, which belong to a group of languages and dialects known as Levantine Arabic.
According to the Syrian Ministry of Expatriates, the Syrian diaspora is estimated at over 18 million people who emigrated to North America, Europe, South America, Australia and Africa. An estimated one million Syrians live in the USA, including those who are third or fourth generation Arab Americans of Syrian descent.
The majority of the Syrian diaspora happen to be Christians of the Eastern Orthodox Churches and Eastern Rite Churches which is a local form of Roman Catholicism goes back thousands of years before the Islamic Arab conquest of Syria in the 8th century AD.
|
||||||||||
 |
This Syria-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
