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So from what I know most Lebanese Maronites tend to not consider themselves as Arabs but rather as Phoenicians who got Arabinized. Now I've also read that there was an Arab tribe who came from Yemen called as 'Ghassanids', this Arab tribe migrated from the Arabian peninsula to the Levant and settled there a lot before the Arab Muslims conquests in 700's, the Ghassanids were also Christians.
Now for the questions for Maronites:
1.how do you know that you don't have Arab Ghassanid ancestry in your DNA? (Since Maronites possibly intermarriage with them)
2.why do many Maronites have Arabic surnames?
Can you explain it to me please? Thanks.
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