Syrians in Chile

Syrians in Chile

Infobox Ethnic group
group = flagicon|Syria Syrian Chilean flagicon|Chile
"Chileno sirio"


caption =
poptime = Small minority
popplace = Chile
langs = Chilean Spanish, Arabic
rels = Christianity (Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism), with Muslim and Jewish minorities
related = Syrians

Syrian Chileans, like Palestinian Chileans arrived in Chile in the early part of the 19th and 20th centuries to escape the religious persecutions of the Ottoman Empire.Fact|date=September 2008

They quickly set up as professionals and became very wealthy.Fact|date=September 2008 Like other Arab Chileans, they are mainly Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christians, the Muslims and Jews being a very small minority in the group.Fact|date=September 2008


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