Aleppo 's large Christian population swelled with the influx of Armenian and Assyrian Christian refugees during the early 20th-century and after the Armenian Genocide and Assyrian Genocide of 1915 . After the arrival of the first groups of Armenian refugees coming from the death camps in Deir ez Zor and historic Armenia ( 1915 – 1922 ) the population of Aleppo in 1922 counted 156,748 of whom Muslims were 97,600 ( 62.26 % ) , native Christians - mostly Catholics - 22,117 ( 14.11 % ) , Jews 6,580 ( 4.20 % ) , Europeans 2,652 ( 1.70 % ) , Armenian refugees 20,007 ( 12.76 % ) and others 7,792 ( 4.97 % )
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Armenians in Syria