Syrian Americans
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Syrian Americans are Americans of Syrian descent or background. The first significant wave of Syrian immigrants to arrive in the United States began in the 1880s. Many of the earliest Syrian Americans
Syrian children between 1910 and 1915
The Christian quarter of Damascus, which was destroyed in the 1860 civil war
Paterson, New Jersey, home to the second-largest Syrian American population after New York City
Men smoking shisha and playing cards in a Syrian restaurant, Little Syria (Manhattan), 1910
Syrians
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Syrians are the native inhabitants of Syria, most of whom have Arabic in its Levantine dialect as a mother tongue. The cultural and linguistic heritage of Syria is a blend of both indigenous elements
Syrian Americans
…There are also sizeable minority populations from Syria in the U.S. including Jews, Kurds, Armenians, Assyrians, and Circassians. The earliest known Syrian and first Arab to die for the United States was Private Nathan Badeen, an immigrant from Ottoman Syria who died fighting British forces during the…
Syrians in traditional folk costume in As-Suqaylabiyah, Syria
A partial relief of Tiglath-Pileser III, r. 745–727 BC, under whom the Neo-Assyrian Empire was consolidated, centralized and significantly expanded.
Umayyad fresco from Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbî, built in the early 7th century.
Portrait of a woman with the national flag of Syria, also known as "The Independence flag".