Syrian (disambiguation)
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A Syrian is a citizen of the Syrian Arab Republic. The name is also used for the native inhabitants of the historical regions of Syria, members of Syrian Christian churches and as a synonym for ethnic Assyrians.[1][2]
Syrian may also refer to:
Animals
- Syrian (horse)
- Syrian brown bear, a subspecies of brown bear
- Syrian camel, an extinct species of camel from Syria
- Syrian elephant, extinct elephant
- Syrian hamster, a commonly kept pet
- Syrian serin, a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae
- Syrian wild ass, an extinct subspecies of Equus hemionus
- Syrian woodpecker, a member of the woodpecker family, the Picidae
People
- Syrian American, resident of the United States of Syrian ancestry or nationality
- Syrian Brazilian, resident of Brazil of Syrian ancestry or nationality
- Syrian diaspora, refers to the native Syrian people, living outside of Syria, as either immigrants or refugees
- Syrian Jews, Jews who inhabit the region of the modern state of Syria, and their descendants born outside Syria
- Ephrem the Syrian (306–373), Syriac and a prolific Syriac-language hymnographer and theologian of the 4th century. He is venerated by Christians throughout the world, and especially in the Syriac Orthodox Church, as a saint
- Michael the Syrian (died 1199), Michael the Elder, in opposition to his nephew, was a patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 1166 to 1199
- Rezon the Syrian, the Syrian was an enemy of King Solomon mentioned in 1 Kings
- Syrian (band), an Italian synthpop band
Places
- Syrian Desert, located in the northern Arabian Peninsula covering 200,000 square miles
- Syrian tetrapolis
Other
- Syrian Malabar Nasrani
- Syrian Arabic, a variety of Arabic spoken in Syria
See also
- Syria (disambiguation)
- Syriac (disambiguation)
- Sirian (disambiguation)
- Syrian (language)
- Syrian bean-caper
- Cerean (disambiguation), homophone of "Syrian"
References
- ^ Joseph, John (1983). Muslim-Christian Relations and Inter-Christian Rivalries in the Middle East: The Case of the Jacobites in an Age of Transition. SUNY Pres. p. 150. ISBN 9780873956000.
- ^ Andrade, Nathanael John (2009). "Imitation Greeks": Being Syrian in the Greco-Roman World (175 BCE--275 CE). ProQuest. p. 11. ISBN 9781109110753.
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