Sirio-uruguayo السوريون في اوروجواي | |
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Regions with significant populations | |
Montevideo [ citation needed] | |
Languages | |
Rioplatense Spanish ( Uruguayan Spanish), Arabic | |
Religion | |
Christianity, Islam, and Judaism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Other Uruguayan people, Syrian people |
Syrian Uruguayans ( Arabic: السوريون في اوروجواي) are Uruguayan citizens of Syrian descent or Syrian-born naturalized Uruguayans.
Uruguay has several thousands of people with Arab descent, whose ancestors came mostly from Lebanon; a minority came also from Syria. [1]
There were Muslims, Christians, and also some Jews among them. [2]
As of October 2014, Uruguay received a new immigration flow of Syrian people, this time as a consequence of the Syrian Civil War. [3] 42 Syrian people from five families were received by President José Mujica on 9 October. [4] Because of allegedly insufficient support by the government, some Syrians prostested in 2015 and requested visa to leave the country. [5] One family reportedly tried to leave Uruguay via Serbia in August 2015 but was sent back because of missing visa. [6]