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Syria's estimated pre–Syrian Civil War 2011 population was 22 ±.5 [2] million permanent inhabitants, which included 21,124,000 Syrians, [3] as well as 1.3 million Iraqi refugees [4] and over 500,000 Palestinian refugees. [4]
Syria entered on the invitation of Suleiman Franjieh, the Maronite Christian president at the time to help aid the Lebanese Christian militias against the Palestinian militias. [263] [264] Over the following 15 years of Lebanese civil war, Syria fought for control over Lebanon.
On the other hand, some other countries, like the small Asian state of Bhutan, have only recently had a thorough census for the first time: In Bhutan's case in particular, before its national 2005 population survey, [2] [3] [4] the IDB estimated its population at over 2 million; this was drastically reduced when the new census results proved to ...
Centres of Assyrian population Official data Estimation(s) Article ... Syria: 200,000 [13] –400,000 [14] –877,000 [15] (pre-Syrian civil war) Assyrians in Syria
The Christian population of Syria comprised 10% of the Syrian population before 2011. [23] Estimates of the number of Christians in Syria in 2022 range from less than 2% to around 2.5% of the total Syrian population. [17] [24] Most Syrians are members of either the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch (700,000), or the Syriac Orthodox Church.
Israel captured most of the strategic plateau from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War, annexing it in 1981. ... double its population on the occupied Golan Heights while saying threats from Syria ...
Population figures for Kurds in Syria are contentious and politicized. No census since the French mandate has included ethnic identity. Due to a lack of reliable data, only estimates can be given. [79] Most population estimates of Syrian Kurds range between 1.8 and 3.5 million, or about 8–15% of Syria's total population of 22 million. [80]
The group he leads is among the more organized of the many rebel factions who took part in the offensive, having spent the past few years governing 4 million people in Idlib through a semi ...