Syrian people
The
Syrian people are the inhabitants of the Syrian Arab Republic and their ancestors who share a common Levantine Semitic ancestry. The term also refers to the citizens of the Syrian Arab Republic, regardless of ancestry, mother tongue, ethnic identity, or culture. The cultural and linguistic heritage of the Syrian people is a blend of both indigenous elements and the foreign cultures that have come to rule the land and its people over the course of thousands of years. The Syrian republic has a population of 17,951,639,
including ethnic minorities mainly Kurds, Armenians, Assyrians, Turkmens, Circassians and Greeks. the dominant racial group is Syrians descendants of the old indigenous peoples who mixed with Arabs and identify themselves as such in addition to ethnic Aramean Syriacs. The Syrian diaspora consists of over 18 million people of Syrian ancestry who emigrated to North America, Europe, South America, Australia and Africa. Damascus, the capital of Syria, is one of the longest continuously-inhabited cities in the world.