Arabs in Greece, the Glossary
Arabs in Greece (Άραβες στην Ελλάδα, العرب في اليونان), known as Araves, are the people from Arab world countries, particularly Lebanon, Syria, the Palestinian territories, Iraq, Jordan, many of whom are Christian, and also small groups from Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya and Sudan, who emigrated from their native nations and currently reside in Greece and are mainly Muslim.[1]
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37 relations: Alexandros Abdel Rahim, Algeria, Angelos Chanti, Arab diaspora, Arab world, Arabic, Arabs, Assyrian people, Athens, Berbers, Christianity, Copts, Demographics of Jordan, Egypt, Egyptians, Greek language, Iraq, Iraqis, Islam, Jordan, Kurds, Lebanese people, Lebanese people in Greece, Lebanon, Libya, Maronite Church, Melkite Greek Catholic Church, Morocco, Oriental Orthodox Churches, Palestinian territories, Palestinians, Refugees of the Syrian civil war, Sudan, Syria, Syrians, Thessaloniki, Tunisia.
- Arab diaspora in Europe
- Ethnic groups in Greece
- Greek people of Arab descent
- Middle Eastern diaspora in Greece
Alexandros Abdel Rahim
Alexandros Abdel Rahim (Αλέξανδρος Αμπντέλ Ραχήμ; born 23 September 1993) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a winger.
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Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.
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Angelos Chanti
Angelos Abdel Chanti (Άγγελος Αμπντέλ Χαντί; born 7 September 1989), known in Jordan as Malek Shehadeh Ahmad Abdel-Hadi (مالك شحادة أحمد عبد الهادي), is a professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Almyros Gaziou.
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Arab diaspora
Arab diaspora is a term that refers to descendants of the Arab emigrants who, voluntarily or as forcibly, migrated from their native lands to non-Arab countries, primarily in the Americas, Europe, Southeast Asia, and West Africa.
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Arab world
The Arab world (اَلْعَالَمُ الْعَرَبِيُّ), formally the Arab homeland (اَلْوَطَنُ الْعَرَبِيُّ), also known as the Arab nation (اَلْأُمَّةُ الْعَرَبِيَّةُ), the Arabsphere, or the Arab states, comprises a large group of countries, mainly located in Western Asia and Northern Africa.
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Arabic
Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.
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Arabs
The Arabs (عَرَب, DIN 31635:, Arabic pronunciation), also known as the Arab people (الشَّعْبَ الْعَرَبِيّ), are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa.
Assyrian people
Assyrians are an indigenous ethnic group native to Mesopotamia, a geographical region in West Asia.
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Athens
Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.
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Berbers
Berbers, or the Berber peoples, also called by their endonym Amazigh or Imazighen, are a diverse grouping of distinct ethnic groups indigenous to North Africa who predate the arrival of Arabs in the Arab migrations to the Maghreb.
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Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Copts
Copts (niremənkhēmi; al-qibṭ) are a Christian ethnoreligious group indigenous to North Africa who have primarily inhabited the area of modern Egypt since antiquity.
Demographics of Jordan
Jordan has a population of more than 11.1 million inhabitants as of 2023.
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Egypt
Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
Egyptians
Egyptians (translit,; translit,; remenkhēmi) are an ethnic group native to the Nile Valley in Egypt.
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Greek language
Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Iraq
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.
Iraqis
Iraqis (العراقيون) are people who originate from the country of Iraq.
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Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
Jordan
Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia.
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Kurds
Kurds or Kurdish people (rtl, Kurd) are an Iranic ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria.
Lebanese people
The Lebanese people (الشعب اللبناني / ALA-LC) are the people inhabiting or originating from Lebanon.
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Lebanese people in Greece
Lebanese people in Greece (Λιβανέζοι στην Ελλάδα, يوناني لبناني) include immigrants and descendants of immigrants from Lebanon, numbering approximately 30,000 people of Lebanese descent.
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Lebanon
Lebanon (Lubnān), officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.
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Libya
Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
Maronite Church
The Maronite Church (لكنيسة المارونية; ܥܕܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ ܡܪܘܢܝܬܐ) is an Eastern Catholic sui iuris particular church in full communion with the pope and the worldwide Catholic Church, with self-governance under the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches.
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Melkite Greek Catholic Church
The Melkite Greek Catholic Church, or Melkite Byzantine Catholic Church, is an Eastern Catholic church in full communion with the Holy See as part of the worldwide Catholic Church.
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Morocco
Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
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Oriental Orthodox Churches
The Oriental Orthodox Churches are Eastern Christian churches adhering to Miaphysite Christology, with approximately 50 million members worldwide.
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Palestinian territories
The Palestinian territories, also known as the Occupied Palestinian Territory, consist of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip—two regions of the former British Mandate for Palestine that have been occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967.
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Palestinians
Palestinians (al-Filasṭīniyyūn) or Palestinian people (label), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs (label), are an Arab ethnonational group native to Palestine.
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Refugees of the Syrian civil war
Refugees of the Syrian civil war are citizens and permanent residents of Syria who have fled the country throughout the Syrian civil war.
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Sudan
Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa.
Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.
Syrians
Syrians (سوريون) are the majority inhabitants of Syria, indigenous to the Levant, who have Arabic, especially its Levantine dialect, as a mother tongue.
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Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki (Θεσσαλονίκη), also known as Thessalonica, Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica, is the second-largest city in Greece, with slightly over one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of Macedonia, the administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace.
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Tunisia
Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is the northernmost country in Africa.
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See also
Arab diaspora in Europe
- 2015 European migrant crisis
- Al-Salam Mosque, Odesa
- Arab European League
- Arabs in Austria
- Arabs in Bulgaria
- Arabs in Denmark
- Arabs in Europe
- Arabs in Finland
- Arabs in France
- Arabs in Germany
- Arabs in Greece
- Arabs in Italy
- Arabs in Malta
- Arabs in Romania
- Arabs in Serbia
- Arabs in Spain
- Arabs in Sweden
- Arabs in Switzerland
- Arabs in Turkey
- Arabs in the Caucasus
- Arabs in the Netherlands
- Cypriot Arabic
- European Union response to the 2015 migrant crisis
- European migrant crisis
- Iraqi diaspora in Europe
Ethnic groups in Greece
- Albanians
- Albanians in Greece
- Arabs in Greece
- Armenians in Greece
- Aromanians
- Aromanians in Greece
- Arvanites
- Assyrians in Greece
- Australians in Greece
- Black Greeks
- Bulgarians
- Cappadocian Greeks
- Corfiot Italians
- Corfiot Maltese
- Diagoras Stadium
- Filipinos in Greece
- Georgians
- Greek Macedonians
- Greek Muslims
- Greeks
- Italian Islands of the Aegean
- Italian colonists in the Dodecanese
- Italians in Greece
- Karagounides
- Karamanlides
- Macedonian Bulgarians
- Macedonian Turks
- Macedonians (ethnic group)
- Maniots
- Megleno-Romanians
- Minorities in Greece
- Muslim minority of Greece
- Politis–Kalfov Protocol
- Pomaks
- Pontic Greeks
- Romaniote Jews
- Russians in Greece
- Sarakatsani
- Serbs in Greece
- Sfakians
- Slavic speakers of Greek Macedonia
- Thessalian Bulgarians
- Turks in Greece
- Turks of Western Thrace
- Turks of the Dodecanese
- Vallahades
Greek people of Arab descent
- Arabs in Greece
- Marina Satti
Middle Eastern diaspora in Greece
- Arabs in Greece
- Armenians in Greece
- Assyrians in Greece
- Iraqis in Greece
- Kurds in Greece
- Turks in Greece
- Turks of Western Thrace
- Turks of the Dodecanese
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabs_in_Greece
Also known as Syrians in Greece.