Christian Areas
Christians spread throughout Syria and they are a majority in some provinces; important areas are
- Aleppo, where the largest Armenian population resides.
- Damascus contains a sizable Christian community.
- Homs, which has the second largest Christian population known, especially in the nearby Valley of Christians, a popular tourism site close to the Crac des Chevaliers;
- Saidnaya;
- Tartous;
- Latakia
- Suwayda;
- and Al-Hasakah and Qamishli, which has a large ethnic Assyrian/Syriac population.
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