Ethnic groups of 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) besides Syriac Christians 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.
*Anatolia is mostly populated by Turks, besides minorities (notably Kurds).
*the Caucasus has many ethnicities, see peoples of the Caucasus.
*North Africa (the Maghreb, Eritrea, North Sudan and Somalia) has Berbers, Somalis, Habesha, Jews, and Nubians.

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
**Yemenite Jews
**Palestinian Jews
**Syrian Jews
**Iraqi Jews
**Bahraini Jews
**Saudi Jews
**Kuwaiti Jews
**Emirati Jews
**Omani Jews
**Jordanian Jews
**Egyptian Jews
**Lebanese Jews
*Kurdish people
**Kurdish Jews
**Shabak
**Zangana
*Israelis (see Demographics of Israel; 75% ethnic Jews)
*Syriac/Assyrian/Chaldean
**Chaldean Christians
**Syriac-Aramaeans
**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. Many North African nomads, such as the Bedouin, maintain a traditional pastoral lifestyle on the desert fringes.

Peoples of North Africa: the Maghreb, Eritrea, North Sudan and Somalia (excluding Egypt, which is listed under Fertile Crescent above):
*Arabs
**Banu Hilal
*Berber peoples
**Kabyle
**Siwi
**Mozabite
**Chleuh
**Tuareg
**Zenata
**Berber Jews
*Somalis
*Habesha (Eritrea)
*Ethnic Jews
**Sudanese Jews
**Moroccan Jews
**Tunisian Jews
**Algerian Jews
**Libyan Jews
*Nubians

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
*Mountain Jews
*Georgian Jews
*Azeris

ee also

*Arab world
*Archaeogenetics of the Near East
*Ethnic groups of Africa
*Ethnic groups of Europe