============+=========+============+========+=============+=========== | | | | | ESTIMATED NAME | RACE | RELIGION | SPEECH | HOMELAND | NUMBER ------------+---------+------------+--------+-------------+----------- Allevis (see| | | | | Tahtajis) | | | | | ------------+---------+------------+--------+-------------+----------- Ansariyehs |Armenoid |Monotheistic| Arabic |Syrian mts. | 175,000 | | | | and Cilician| | | | | plains | ------------+---------+------------+--------+-------------+----------- Aptals |Armenoid |Sunni |Arabic |Syrian mts. | uncertain ------------+---------+------------+--------+-------------+----------- Arabs |Semitic |Mohammedan |Arabic |South of | 300,000? | | | | Tauric and | | | | |Armenian mts.| ------------+---------+------------+--------+-------------+----------- Arameans |Semitic |Hebrew |Aramean | | 300 ------------+---------+------------+--------+-------------+----------- Armenians |Armenoid |Christian |Armenian|Armenian | 1,000,000 | | | (Aryan)| highland, | [260] | | | | Taurus and | | | | | Anti-Taurus | | | | | ranges | ------------+---------+------------+--------+-------------+----------- Asdias (see | | | | | Yezidis) | | | | | ------------+---------+------------+--------+-------------+----------- Avshars |Turki |Shia |Turkish |Anti-Taurus | uncertain ------------+---------+------------+--------+-------------+----------- Balikis |Armenoid |Mixed |Mixed |Near Sasun | uncertain | | Mohammedan | Arabic,| | | | and | Kurdish| | | | Christian | and | | | | |Armenian| | ------------+---------+------------+--------+-------------+----------- Bejvans |Semitic |Mixed |Arabic |Near Mosul | uncertain | | Mohammedan | | | | | and | | | | | Christian | | | ------------+---------+------------+--------+-------------+----------- Chaldeans |Semitic |Roman |Syriac, |Near Diarbekr| 50,000 | | Catholic | Kurdish| and Jezireh;| | | | and | Sert and |