| Group: | Lebanese Chileans |
| Population: | 27,000 descendants[1] |
| Popplace: | Valparaíso, La Serena, Santiago |
| Langs: | Chilean Spanish, Lebanese Arabic |
| Rels: | Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism |
| Related: | Arab Chileans |
Lebanese Chileans, are immigrants to Chile from Lebanon. Most are Christian and they arrived in Chile in the mid-19th to early-20th centuries to escape from poverty.Ethnically Lebanese Chileans are often called "Turks", (Spanish: Turcos) a term believed to derive from the fact that they arrived from present day Lebanon, which at that time was occupied by the Ottoman Turkish Empire.[2] Most arrived as members of the Eastern Orthodox church and the Maronite church, but became Roman Catholic.[3] A minority are Muslim.[4]
