Ethnic groups in the Middle East
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The ethnic groups of the Middle East fall into several categories:
- The Middle East proper is dominated by Arabs. There are various other ethnic groups, mostly Iranian (notably the Kurds) and Turkic (Turkmen), Assyrians and ethnic Jews (notably Israelis). Some Arabized populations can be considered sub-ethnicities, such as the Egyptians, the Lebanese or the Marsh Arabs in Iraq.
- Greater Persia is mostly populated by Persians and Kurds, besides Turkic, Arab and other minorities such as Armenians and Assyrians.
- Anatolia is mostly populated by Turkish people, besides minorities (notably Kurds).
Fertile Crescent and Arabia
Ethnic groups of Egypt, the Levant, Mesopotamia and the Arabian peninsula (the Middle East proper)
- Arabs
- Egyptians
- Lebanese
- Marsh Arabs
- Palestinians
- Druze
- Qara
- Arab Jews
- Kurdish people
- Israelis (see Demographics of Israel; 75% ethnic Jews)
- Assyrians
- Maronites
- Iraqi Turkmen
- Syrian Turkmen
Persia and Central Asia
Peoples of Greater Iran (overlaps with the Caucasus and with Mesopotamia to the west)
- Persian people
- Pashtun people
- Kurdish people
- Tajik people
- Baluch people
- Talysh people
- Gilaki people
- Kurds
- Mazandarani people
- Lurs
- Turkmen people
- Kypchaks
- Tatars
- Nogais
- Kumyks
- Persian Jews
North Africa
The inhabitants of North Africa are generally divided in a manner roughly corresponding to the principal geographic regions of North Africa: the Maghreb, the Nile Valley, and the Sahara. Northwest Africa on the whole is believed to have been inhabited by Berbers since before the beginning of recorded history, while the eastern part of North Africa has been home to the Egyptians. Following the Muslim-Arab conquest in the 7th century AD and later migrations in the 14th century, the demographics of the region have changed drastically.
Peoples of North Africa: the Maghreb, Egypt, Eritrea, North Sudan and Somalia.
(refer to ma'riftu ansaab al 'arab by al-qalqashindi)
(refer to ma'riftu ansaab al 'arab by al-qalqashindi)
Anatolia
Ethnic groups of Anatolia:
- Turks
- Turkish Jews
- Kurds
- Pontic Greeks
- Assyrian people
- Peoples of the Caucasus in Turkey
- Zaza people
Caucasus
Ethnic groups of the Caucasus
- Abkhaz people
- Adyghe people
- Ubykh people
- Chechens
- Ingush people
- Georgians
- Armenians
- Azeris
- Assyrians