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Arab Argentine
	Notable Arab Argentines:; Carlos Menem · Felipe Sapag
Total population
	3.5 million; 8.65% of Argentina's population
Regions with significant populations
	Throughout Argentina
Languages
	Rioplatense Spanish, Arabic and Arabic dialects.
Religion
	Predominantly Christian; with Muslim and Jewish minority
Related ethnic groups
	Other Arabs, Arab American, Lebanese Canadian, Lebanese Australian, Spanish Argentine

An Arab Argentine is a Argentina citizen or resident alien whose ancestry traces back to any of various waves of immigrants, largely of Arab cultural and linguistic heritage and/or identity, originating from one or more of the twenty-two countries which comprise the Arab World.

Although a highly diverse group of Argentines — in ancestral origins, religion and historic identities — Arab Argentines hold a heritage that shares common linguistic, cultural, and political traditions.

The majority of the 3.5 million Arab Argentines are from either Lebanese or Syrian background.^[1] There is also a small Palestinian community in Argentina.^{[citation needed]} Of the total 3.5 million Arab Argentines 700,000 Arab Argentines are Muslims.^[2]

[edit] History

In the 19th century, the first Arabs settled in Argentina. Most Arabs who came during this time period were Sirio-Libanese Arabs (During that time, Syria and Lebanon were one territory). From 1891 to 1920, 367,348 people of Arabic heritage immigrated into Argentina.^[3] When they were first processed in the ports of Argentina, they were classified as Turks because what is modern day Lebanon and Syria was a territory of the Turkish Ottoman Empire. The causes for Arabs to leave their homeland were an accelerated increase in demographics in Lebanon, the persecution of Christians by the Ottoman Turks, and a war in Tripoli on 1911.^[3] The Arab immigrants settle in the provinces of Buenos Aires, Salta, Jujuy, La Rioja, San Juan, Mendoza, Santiago del Estero, Misiones, Chaco, and the Patagonia. A large percentage on Arabs settled in the Cuyo region (which is made up of the provinces of San Juan, San Luis, Mendoza, and La Rioja).

Rocío Chalup, Queen of the Arab Collectivity in the Fiesta Nacional del Inmigrante in Oberá, Misiones.

[edit] Figures

Arab net migration to Argentina from 1871 to 1976
Year period	Arab immigrants
1871-1880	672
1881-1890	3,537
1891-1900	10,572
1901-1910	35,398
1911-1920	39,052
1921-1930	18,894
1931-1940	1,682
1941-1950	2,063
1951-1960	1,083
1961-1970	278
1971-1976	-30
Total	113,201

[edit] Prominent Argentines of Arab descent

[edit] References

[edit] See also

[fearab.org.ar-0] Inmigracion sirio-libanesa en Argentina

[1] Árabes y musulmanes en América Latina

[oni.escuelas.edu.ar-2] Bajaron de los Barcos: Sirios, Turcos y Libaneses

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[edit] History

[edit] Figures

[edit] Prominent Argentines of Arab descent

[edit] References

[edit] See also