page_title: Lebanese people in Germany
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Lebanese people in Germany / Ethnic Lebanese / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Support for the 2015 protests in Lebanon, Berlin, Alexanderplatz, August 29, 2015 Deutsch: Unterstützung für die Proteste im Libanon 2015, Berlin, Alexanderplatz, 29. August 2015
context_page_description: In the narrow sense, Lebanese people in Germany include migrants from Lebanon living in Germany and their descendants, excluding Palestinians.
  In the broader sense, it also include those Palestinians who immigrated from Lebanon to Germany and their descendants. According to this definition, you have three significant and large groups: Ethnic Lebanese, Mhallami and Libo-Palestinians.
  No concrete data exists on the religious affiliations, however it is commonly assumed that Shia Muslims and Sunni Muslims make up the majority of the Lebanese and Palestinian population in Germany.
context_section_description: Although there has been sporadic migration from the Middle East to Germany since the 20th century, the real growth of the German Lebanese population began in 1975, with the start of the civil war in Lebanon which drove thousands of people away. Nevertheless most people immigrated in the 1980s and in the beginning of the 1990s (the year after the war) to Germany as refugees. Especially in the late 1980s a large number fled to Germany. Notably in the second half of the 1990s and in the beginning of the 2000s, many Lebanese were naturalized.
caption: Lebanese people in Germany express their support of the 2015 Lebanese protests in Berlin at Alexanderplatz, August 29, 2015
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