After the Bible's translation into Greek, the word Diaspora then was used to refer to the population of Jews exiled from Israel in 587 BCE by the Babylonians, and from Judea in 70 CE by the Roman Empire.

It subsequently came to be used to refer to the historical movements of the dispersed ethnic population of Israel, to the cultural development of that population or to the population itself.

The population of the Gaza Strip had been greatly augmented by an influx of Palestinian refugees who fled from Israel before and during the fighting.

" This " Israel " was a cultural and probably political entity of the central highlands, well enough established to be perceived by the Egyptians as a possible challenge to their hegemony, but an ethnic group rather than an organised state ; Archaeologist Paula McNutt says: " It is probably ... during Iron Age I a population began to identify itself as ' Israelite '," differentiating itself from its neighbours via prohibitions on intermarriage, an emphasis on family history and genealogy, and religion.

Both the biblical and Assyrian sources speak of a massive deportation of people from Israel and their replacement with settlers from other parts of the empire – such population exchanges were an established part of Assyrian imperial policy, a means of breaking the old power structure-and the former Israel never again became an independent political entity.

When the Shi ' a population of southern Lebanon realized that Israel had no intention of leaving, they rebelled.

The State of Israel has a population of approximately 7, 848, 800 inhabitants as of 2012.

For example, whilst the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics defines the area of Israel to include the annexed East Jerusalem and Golan Heights and to exclude the militarily controlled regions of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, it defines the population of Israel to also include Israeli settlers living in the West Bank.

The percentage of world Jewry living in area of the former Palestinian Mandate has steadily grown from around 78, 000 in 1900 ( 12 % of the population of the Ottoman Palestine ) to nearly 6 million in 2005 ( 76 % of the population of Israel ).

By the late 8th century BC the territory of Israel was the most densely settled in the entire Levant, with a population of about 350, 000.

Kahane's legislative proposals focused on transferring the Arab population out from the Land of Israel, revoking Israeli citizenship from non-Jews, and banning Jewish-Gentile marriages and sexual relations, based on the Code of Jewish Law compiled by Maimonides in the Mishneh Torah.

Most of the Jewish population has left to Israel and Venezuela.

According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, 75. 7 % of Israel's population is Jewish.

Arabs, who make up 20. 4 % of the population, are the largest ethnic minority in Israel.

Nazareth is known as " the Arab capital of Israel "; the population is made up predominantly of Arab citizens of Israel, almost all of whom are either Muslim ( 69 %) or Christian ( 30. 9 %).< ref >< p > In the New Testament, the city is described as the childhood home of Jesus, and as such is a center of Christian pilgrimage, with many shrines commemorating biblical events.

In 2009, the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics reported that Nazareth's population was 69 % Muslim and 30. 9 % Christian.

It is the only urban area with over 50, 000 residents in Israel where the majority of the population is Arab.

In the 20th century, a segment of the Orthodox population ( notably as represented by the World Agudath Israel movement formally established in 1912 ) disagreed with Modern Orthodoxy and took a stricter approach.

The first population census in Syria was taken by the French Mandatory Regime in 1921-22.

For one example, the Hatay Province was transferred to Turkey from Syria after the majority-Turkish population complained of mistreatment.

As one of the wealthiest and more populous provinces of the Roman Empire, it is estimated that the population of Roman Syria in the early Roman Empire was only exceeded in the mid-20th century, when it may have been as high as 7-8 million or more, if Palestine and Jordan are included, but not including the eastern section of modern day Syria beyond the Euphrates.

Aleppo ( population 2, 301, 570 ) in northern Syria is the largest city.

The Kurds, many of whom speak Kurdish, make up 9 % of the population and live mostly in the northeast corner of Syria, though sizable Kurdish communities live in most major Syrian cities as well.

There is mobile phone coverage in most parts of Syria providing access to 96 % of the population.

The central claim of Kahanism is that the vast majority of the Arabs of Israel are now, and will continue to be, enemies of Jews and Israel itself, and that a Jewish theocratic state, governed by Halakha, absent of a voting non-Jewish population and including Israel, the West Bank, Gaza Strip, areas of modern-day Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and even Iraq should be created.

For example, Ulrich Jasper Seetzen noted during his travels in Ottoman Syria in 1808-09 that 150 persons were employed in the glass industry in Hebron, while later, in 1844, Robert Sears wrote that Hebron's population of 400 Arab families " manufactured glass lamps, which are exported to Egypt.

One thousand years ago Christians were the majority population in today's Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine and Egypt.

The Hurrian population of Syria in the following centuries seems to have given up their language in favor of the Assyrian dialect of Akkadian or, more likely, Aramaic.

Though many Palestinians still were opposed to compromising on the principle of defeating Israel by armed struggle, the existing groups could not channel their desires, as many of them were led by the elite among the exile population, who were detached from the reality of the refugee camps, be they in the West Bank and Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, or Jordan.

Although many other Rust Belt cities contain large Arab-American populations, New Castle is unique for its large population of Alawite Muslims from Syria.

In the aftermath, most Jewish population is annihilated ( about 580, 000 killed ) and Hadrian renames the province of Judea to Syria Palaestina, and attempts to root out Judaism.

The population of Lebanon was decidedly pro-French, and that of Syria anti-French with a pan-Arab nationalist bent.

At the time, native outcry for unification of Syria met with rejection ; in early September, 1920, the French divided the territories of their mandate based on heterogeneous population, in an effort to grant ' local autonomy ' to demographic regions.

Colin McEvedy and Richard Jones suggest that in the 12th century, Syria had a population of 2. 7 million, Palestine and Transjordan had 500, 000 inhabitants, and Egypt had a population of under 5 million.

Luwian was among the languages spoken during the second and first millennia BC by population groups in central and western Anatolia and northern Syria.

Arabs formed the population base ( religious, industrial, and commercial functions ) and the general population included the original inhabitants of the city, immigrants from different parts of Syria, North Africans who accompanied Qalawun's army during the liberation of Tripoli, eastern Christians, some Western families, and a minority of Jews.

In Syria, events in Lebanon stirred the Muslim population of Damascus to attack the Christian minority with between 5, 000 and 25, 000 of the latter being killed, including the American and Dutch consuls, giving the event an international dimension.

The Post-war occupation of the country by Syria was particularly politically disadvantageous to the Christian population as most of their leadership was driven into exile, or had been assassinated or jailed.

" The Palmah ' intentionally left open the exit routes for the population to " facilitate " their exodus ...' " According to Gilbert, " The Arabs of Safed began to leave, including the commander of the Arab forces, Adib Shishakli ( later Prime Minister of Syria ).

Daraa (, ), also Darʿā, Dara ’ a, Deraa, Dera, and Derʿā (" fortress ", compare Dura-Europos ), is a city in southwestern Syria, near the border with Jordan, with a population of 97, 969 as of the 2004 census.

The population of Akkad, like nearly all pre-modern states, was entirely dependent upon the agricultural systems of the region, which seem to have had two principal centres: the irrigated farmlands of southern Iraq that traditionally had a yield of 30 grains returned for each grain sown and the rain-fed agriculture of northern Iraq, known as " the Upper Country ".

The civilian population of the city dropped to near zero during the eight-years Iran – Iraq War. As of the 1986 census due to the war the population dropped to only 6 people.

Analysis of the attack suggested that the Mujahideen Shura Council and Al-Qaeda in Iraq were responsible, and that the motivation was to provoke further violence by outraging the Shia population.

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Iraq, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

The 2009 IMF population estimate of Iraq is 31, 234, 000.

Iraq is the region known outside the Islamic world as Mesopotamia, the population estimate in 1920 was 3 million.

In 1925, the commission recommended that the region stay part of Iraq, under the condition that the British hold the mandate over Iraq for another 25 years, to ensure the autonomous rights of the Kurdish population.

In the 9th and 10th centuries, the black Zanj slaves may have constituted at least a half of the total population in lower Iraq.

The campaign takes its name from Surat al-Anfal in the Qur ' an, which was used as a code name by the former Iraqi Ba ' athist administration for a series of attacks against the peshmerga rebels and the mostly Kurdish civilian population of rural Northern Iraq, conducted between 1986 and 1989 culminating in 1988.

( see Halabja poison gas attack ) The attack occurred in conjunction with the 1988 al-Anfal campaign designed to reassert central control of the mostly Kurdish population of areas of northern Iraq and defeat the Kurdish peshmerga rebel forces.

The United States now maintains that Saddam ordered the attack to terrorize the Kurdish population in northern Iraq, but Saddam's regime claimed at the time that Iran was responsible for the attack which some including the U. S. supported until several years later.

However, this had proven to completely backfire both on Iraq and on the part of the Arab states, for Khomeini was widely perceived as a hero for managing to defend Iran and maintain the war with little foreign support against the heavily backed Iraq and only managed to boost Islamic radicalism not only within the Arab states, but within Iraq itself, creating new tensions between the Sunni Ba ' ath Party and the majority Shiite population.

The oil reserves of Kuwait ( with a population of 2 million next to Iraq's 25 ) were roughly equal to those of Iraq.

Although the population exchange of the Arabs of Palestine with Jews from across the Arab world took place around the period of the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the idea of the transfer of Arabs from Palestine, usually to Iraq ( where there was a sizable Iraqi Jewish population ), had been considered about half a century beforehand.

95. 8 % of the population are Finnish citizens, and the most sizeable minorities are from Russia, Estonia, Iraq, and Iran.