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Syrian Americans are Americans of Syrian ancestry or nationality. Syrian Americans may be members of a number of differing ethnicities including Arabs Assyrians/Syriacs Antiochian Greeks Kurds Armenians and Circassians. It is believed that the first significant wave of Syrian immigrants to arrive in the United States was in 1880. Many of the earliest Syrian Americans settled in New York Boston and Detroit.

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language
American English, Arabic language, Western Armenian, Neo-Aramaic languages, Kurdish languages
population place
Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio, Texas, Massachusetts, New York, Iowa
religion
Judaism, Sunni Islam, Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch, Melkite Greek Catholic Church
total population
154560

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