Syria Other Erotic

This residual category covers Syrian populations not enumerated in the other composition rows — approximately 0.5% of the population. Includes Syrian Assyrian (the historic Christian Assyrian community of the Khabur River, substantially reduced through post-2014 ISIS displacement of the Khabur villages), Syrian Circassian (descendants of 19th-c. Caucasus refugees, predominantly in the Quneitra and Damascus countryside regions), Syrian Roma / Domari, Iranian Shia (the Twelver Shia communities including post-1979 Iranian-revolutionary settlement in Damascus), Iraqi refugees, plus other smaller groups.