Lebanese Chileans
Lebanese Chileans, are immigrants to Chile from Lebanon. Most are Christian and they arrived in Chile in the mid-19th to early-20th centuries to escape from poverty. Ethnically Lebanese Chileans are often called "Turks", (Spanish: Turcos) a term believed to derive from the fact that they arrived from present day Lebanon, which at that time was occupied by the Ottoman Turkish Empire. Most arrived as members of the Eastern Orthodox church and the Maronite church, but became Roman Catholic. A minority are Muslim.
| Total population | |
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| 27,000 descendants | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Valparaíso, La Serena, Santiago | |
| Languages | |
| Chilean Spanish, Lebanese Arabic | |
| Religion | |
| Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Arab Chileans |
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| Lebanese people |
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The Greek Orthodox Christians built St George's Orthodox Cathedral, Santiago in 1917. It is a cathedral of the Church of Antioch with six parishes.
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