Lebanese Colombians are Colombians of Lebanese descent. Most of the Lebanese escaped to Colombia because of financial hardships and the repressions of the Turkish Ottoman Empire. When they were first processed in the ports of Colombia they were classified as Turks because what is modern day Lebanon was a territory of the Turkish Ottoman Empire.
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