An Arab diaspora is present around the world in significant numbers, most notably in the Americas, Western Europe, Turkey, Indonesia, and Iran.
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The Nabataeans, an Arab people, ruled a kingdom near Petra in the 3rd century BCE.
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The Charter of the Arab League endorsed the principle of a unified Arab homeland whilst respecting the individual sovereignty of its member states.
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In Biblical etymology, Arab comes from the desert origin of the Bedouins it originally described (arava means 'wilderness').
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Arab tribes came into conflict with the Assyrians during the reign of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, and he records military victories against the powerful Qedar tribe among others.
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From 1517 to 1918, much of the Arab world was under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire.
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Arab expatriates contribute to the circulation of financial and human capital in the region and thus significantly promote regional development.
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Arab traders have long operated in Southeast Asia and along the East Africa's Swahili coast.
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Arab Americans are found in every state, but more than two thirds of them live in just ten states: California, Michigan, New York, Florida, Texas, New Jersey, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
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Arab Haitians are more often than not, concentrated in financial areas where the majority of them establish businesses.
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In South Asia, where Arab ancestry is considered prestigious, many communities have origin myths that claim Arab ancestry.
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Social attitudes have remained constant because Arab society is more conservative and demands conformity from its members.
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Arab miniaturists absorbed Chinese and Persian influences brought by the Mongol destructions, and at last, got totally assimilated and subsequently disappeared due to the Ottoman occupation of the Arab world.
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Arab Architecture encompasses a wide range of both secular and religious styles from the foundation of Islam to the present day.
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Pre-Islamic Arab music was similar to that of Ancient Middle Eastern music.
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Arab's work is considered instrumental in the development of science and astronomy.
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Arab solved the equation sin x = a cos x discovering the formula:.
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Arab gives other trigonometric formulae for right-angled triangles such as:.
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Arab discovered the reciprocal functions of secant and cosecant, and produced the first table of cosecants, which he referred to as a "table of shadows", for each degree from 1° to 90°.
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Arab combined observations, experiments and rational arguments to support his intromission theory of vision, in which rays of light are emitted from objects rather than from the eyes.
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