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The Bahrani people or Baharna (singular Bahrani Arabic: بحراني ، بحارنة‎) are the indigenous inhabitants of the archipelago of Bahrain. Most Shia Bahraini citizens are ethnic Baharna. The Baharna are descendants of the original pre-Islamic inhabitants of Bahrain. The pre-Islamic population of Bahrain consisted of Christianized Arabs (mostly the Abd al-Qays tribe) Aramean Christians Persian-speaking Zoroastrians and Jewish agriculturalists.

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