Arabs in Greece: Difference between revisions

'''Arabs in Greece''' ({{lang-gr|Άραβες στην Ελλάδα}}, {{lang-ar|العرب في اليونان}}), known as '''''Araves''''',<ref name="Kniffka1995">{{cite book|author=Hannes Kniffka|title=Elements of culture-contrastive linguistics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j2wbAQAAIAAJ|date=June 1995|publisher=P. Lang|isbn=978-0-8204-2927-4|page=244}}</ref> are the people from [[Arab world]] countries, particularly [[Lebanon]], [[Syria]], the [[Palestinian Territories]], [[Iraq]], [[Jordan]], many of whom are Christian, and also small groups from [[Egypt]], [[Algeria]], [[Tunisia]], [[Morocco]], [[Libya]] and [[Sudan]], who emigrated from their native nations and currently reside in Greece and are mainly Muslim in religion. Although some these people belong to different religions and ethnic descent near Arab ethnic, such as [[Copts|Coptic Christians]], [[Berbers]], [[Syriacs]] and [[Kurds]] , they're usually mistakenlyreferred alsoto calledas Arabs. The majority tend to live in [[Athens]] and [[Thessaloniki]]. However, they can be found in all parts of the country. In addition, Greece has people from Arab world countries, who have the status of refugees (e.g. [[refugees of the Syrian civil war]]) or illegal immigrants trying to immigrate to Western Europe.