Wikipedia's first sentence called it “people of arab descent living in germany”. Today it says “from syria”.
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Arabs living in Germany Ethnic group Arab Germans , also referred to as German Arabs or Arabic Germans ( German : Araber in Deutschland/Deutsch-Araber ; Arabic : العرب في المانيا ), are ethnic Arabs living in Germany . They form the second-largest predominantly Muslim immigrant group . Today, by far the largest group of Arabs living in Germany is from Syria , with 1,281,000 people with a Syrian immigrant background alone in 2023. Syrians mostly arrived in Germany after 2015, when the German government under Angela Merkel decided to keep the borders open to refugees from the Syrian civil war . Since then, they have been by far the largest group of immigrants to Germany. To a lesser extent, there has been Arab immigration before, most notably by Moroccans during the guest worker movement or by Palestinian and Lebanese refugees who moved to Germany, especially West Berlin, in the 1980s. The majority of Arabs in Germany are refugees from the conflicts in the Middle East . Federal Statistical Office of Germany .
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The opening as it stood in 2015
Ethnic group Regions with significant populations Berlin , Frankfurt am Main , Munich , Cologne , Hanover , Bremen , Dortmund , Essen , Hamburg , Düsseldorf , Bonn , Gelsenkirchen , Offenbach , Leipzig Languages German , Arabic Religion Majority Islam , but also Christianity . Arabs in Germany are people of Arab descent living in Germany . They form the second-largest predominantly Muslim immigrant group in Germany after the large German - Turkish community. There is an estimated number of 400,000- 500,000 people of Arab origin residing in Germany. Most Arabs came to Germany in the 1970s, partly as Gastarbeiter from Morocco , the Turkish Province of Mardin (see: Arabs in Turkey ) and Tunisia . However, the majority of Arabs are refugees of the conflicts in the Middle East, e.g. the Lebanese Civil War , Palestinian exodus and the recent Iraq War , Libyan Civil War , and current Syrian civil war .
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Ethnic group Arab Germans are German citizens of Arab descent. They form the second-largest predominantly Muslim immigrant group in Germany after the large German–Turkish community. There is an estimated number of 400,000 to 500,000 people of Arab origin residing in Germany in 2013.In the following years, the numbers doubled as they are an estimated 1,000,000+ people.As of 31 December 2017, the total of people (from Arab League ) reached 1,234,365. Most Arabs moved to Germany in the 1970s, partly as Gastarbeiter from Morocco , the Turkish Province of Mardin (see: Arabs in Turkey ) and Tunisia . Later many came from Kuwait , Lebanon , and recently many came from Syria and Iraq . The majority of Arabs are refugees of the conflicts in the Middle East . The first notable Arab-German was Emily Ruete , originally Salama bint Said, a Princess of Zanzibar who became pregnant by a German man who was her neighbor.Fearing retaliation, she eloped with him to Germany, converted to Christianity , and married him.She later published her autobiography, “Memoirs of an Arabian Princess”.
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Ethnic Arabs living in Germany Ethnic group Arab Germans , also referred to as German Arabs or Arabic Germans ( ; ), are ethnic Arabs living in Germany . They form the second-largest predominantly Muslim immigrant group in Germany after the large Turkish German community. There is an estimated number of 400,000 to 500,000 people of Arab origin residing in Germany in 2013. In the following years, the numbers doubled as they are an estimated 1,000,000+ people. As of 2020, the total number of people from Arab League countries reached 1,401,950. Most Arabs moved to Germany in the 1970s, partly as Gastarbeiter from Morocco , the Turkish Province of Mardin (see: Arabs in Turkey ) and Tunisia . Later many came from Kuwait , Lebanon , Egypt , and recently many came from Syria and Iraq . The majority of Arabs are refugees of the conflicts in the Middle East . The first notable Arab-German was Emily Ruete , originally Salama bint Said, a Princess of Zanzibar who became pregnant by a German man who was her neighbor. Fearing retaliation, she eloped with him to Germany, converted to Christianity , and married him. She later published her autobiography, “Memoirs of an Arabian Princess”.
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