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Syrian Turkmen or Syrian Turkomen[1] are Syrian citizens of Oghuz Turkish descent, who had been living in the Syrian province of the Ottoman Empire before its dissolution and continue to live in the modern country of Syria. The estimates of the number of Turkmens, living in Syria is unknown. The major cities with notable Turkmen populations are Latakia, Hama and Homs. The language spoken by the Turkmen of Syria is close to Standard Turkish. However, a high number of Turkmen integrated into the mainstream Syrian society adopt Arabic as their primary language.
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Long before the Islamic era, the Huns overrun Syria and Iraq (391 - 400 AD). The Turks were founded in large numbers in the Sasanian Iraq and Syria. The Turkmen of Syria appear in the history as an important factor in the Crusade wars during the reign of the Seljuk Empire. They founded the Syrian Seljuk (1092 – 1117) and the Atabakian state in Aleppo (1104). Thereafter a large number of Turkmen entered Syria during the Turko-Mongol conquest and Ottoman Turkmen after Malazgirt battle in 1071.
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