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Austrians In Uruguay
Austrian Uruguayans are people born in Austria who live in Uruguay or Uruguayan-born people of Austrian descent. Overview In the times of the Austro-Hungarian Empire diplomatic relations were established with Uruguay, with Baron Anton von Petz celebrating a Treaty of Friendship, Trade and Navigation between both countries, which enabled immigration During the two World Wars thousands of Austrians escaped Europe, most of them fleeing to South America, including a small but significant Austrian-Jewish community. The Central Austrian Committee for Latin America was established in Montevideo in 1943. The 2011 Uruguayan census revealed 141 people who declared Austria as their country of birth. There are some members of the Austrian nobility in Uruguay, such as the Habsburgs and the Auerspergs. There is an institution, the Alpine Club Montevideo (german: Alpenländer Verein Montevideo), which was established in 1934 by Austrians and Germans. Notable Austrian Uruguayans * Nelly W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uruguayan Spanish
Uruguayan Spanish (Spanish: ''Español uruguayo'' or ''castellano uruguayo'') is the variety of Spanish spoken in Uruguay and by the Uruguayan diaspora. Uruguayan Spanish is recognized as a variety of Rioplatense Spanish. Influences * There is strong influence of Italian and its dialects, particularly Genovese, because of the presence of large Italian communities in the country (for example in Montevideo and Paysandú). The Uruguayan accent differs from the accents of Spain and other Spanish American countries, except for Argentina, due to Italian influence. There are many Italian words incorporated in the language (''nona'', ''cucha'', ''fainá'' (" farinata, chickpea flour crêpe"), ''chapar'', ''parlar'', ''festichola''"house party", etc.), as well as words of Italian derivation (for example: ''mina'' derived from ''femmina'', or ''pibe'' ("child") from ''pivello''). * In the southeastern department of Rocha, as well as along the northern border with Brazil there is some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nelly Weissel
Nelly Weissel (26 June 1920 – 13 August 2010) was a Uruguayan actress of the stage. Weissel's career as a South American leading lady spanned more than 40 years. Known for her headstrong independence and spirited personality, she regularly played strong-willed, sophisticated women. A long-time cast member of the Comedia Nacional, she was best known for her theatre roles as Mary Cavan Tyrone in Eugene O'Neill's 1956 play Long Day's Journey into Night. Her performance in Huit Clos by Satre was praised among those of Katharine Hepburn and Cacilda Becker. Starring in several other performances, Weissel won Uruguay's Best Actress of 1959 and 1961. Early life Weissel was born in Montevideo to merchant Leopoldo Weissel Hefele and Luisa Urbin, coming from a family of Austrian, Spanish and Italian descent.. While in Montevideo, she studied at the Deutsche Schule, after which she wrote a weekly column for La Mañana. Later, Weissel married the celebrated Uruguayan artist Juan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethnic Groups In Uruguay
Uruguayans ( es, uruguayos) are people identified with the country of Uruguay, through citizenship or descent. Uruguay is home to people of different ethnic origins. As a result, many Uruguayans do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship and their allegiance to Uruguay. Colloquially, primarily among other Spanish-speaking Latin American nations, Uruguayans are also referred to as "''orientals s in Easterners'" ( es, orientales). Uruguay is, along with much of the Americas, a melting pot of different peoples, with the difference that it has traditionally maintained a model that promotes cultural assimilation, hence the different cultures have been absorbed by the mainstream. Uruguay has one of the most homogeneous populations in South America; the most common ethnic backgrounds by far being those from Spain, Italy, Germany and France i.e. Spanish Uruguayans, Italian Uruguayans, German Uruguayans , French Uruguayans and Polish Uruguayans. Immigrati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungarians In Uruguay
Hungarian Uruguayans () are people born in Hungary who live in Uruguay or Uruguayan-born people of Hungarian descent. Overview Hungarian Uruguayans are a local ethnic minority; their presence is small but meaningful, numbering around 2,000-3,000 of which ca. 150 were born in Hungary. In 1925 was established a Society of Hungarian-Language Workers in UruguayHungarian workers in Latin America They even had some influence within the . In 1936, Hungarian migrants established the Hungarian Home of Uruguay ( hu, Uruguayi Magyar Otthon), an ethnic association. There is also a small [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Uruguayans
The German community in Uruguay numbers ca. 10,000 German expatriates and 40,000 people of German descent. Most of them live in the Montevideo area, although there are German minorities in Paysandú, Río Negro, San José and Canelones. History One of the first Germans to come to the region was Ulrich Schmidl (known locally as Ulrico Smidel), who arrived at the oriental shores of the River Plate in the early 16th century and described the Charrúas. The 2011 Uruguayan census revealed 1,167 people who declared Germany as their country of birth. Religion Local Germans practise different Christian religions: *Roman Catholic: the Pallottine Fathers, with presence at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes. *Evangelical Church: with its own temple at Juan Manuel Blanes 1116 in Montevideo. *Mennonite: there are four Mennonite settlements - Colonia Nicolich, El Ombú, Gartental, and Colonia Delta. There is also an important presence of German Jews, with religious activities at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Immigration To Uruguay
Immigration to Uruguay began in several millennia BCE with the arrival of different populations from Asia to the Americas through Beringia, according to the most accepted theories, and were slowly populating the Americas. The most recent waves of immigrants started with the arrival of Spaniards in the 16th century, during the colonial period, to what was then known as the ''Banda Oriental''. Immigration to Uruguay is very similar to, if not the same, as immigration to Argentina. Throughout its history, Uruguay has experienced massive waves of immigration from all around the world, specifically from the European continent, and today 90–95% of the Uruguayan population has European ancestry. The largest of these waves of immigration occurred between the last third of the 19th century and World War II, when the whole European continent was in turmoil. The largest groups of immigrants in Uruguay are the Spanish and Italians, both establishing the backbone of modern-day Urugua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austria–Uruguay Relations
Diplomatic relations between both countries exist since the times of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: in 1870, Baron Anton von Petz celebrated a Treaty of Friendship, Trade and Navigation between both countries. The Austrian Ambassador in Buenos Aires is concurrent to Uruguay; Austria has an honorary consulate in Montevideo. Uruguay has an embassy in Vienna (the ambassador being also concurrent to Hungary and Slovakia) and a consulate in Salzburg. There is also a small but significant group of people with Austrian descent in Uruguay, including some former members of the Austrian nobility. Since 2009 there is a Social Security Agreement between both countries. See also * Austrians in Uruguay *Foreign relations of Austria * Foreign relations of Uruguay References External links Uruguay Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laetitia D'Arenberg
Laetitia Marie Madeleine Susanne Valentine de Belzunce d'Arenberg (born September 2, 1941),''Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser'' XVI. "Haus Österreich". C.A. Starke Verlag, 2001, p.103. . known as Laetitia d'Arenberg, is a French Uruguayan businesswoman. Personal life She was born on September 2, 1941, in Brummana, Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon (now Lebanon). She is a daughter of Henri de Belzunce, ''Marquis'' de Belzunce, and Marie-Thérèse de la Poëze d'Harambure (1911–2005), members of the historical French nobility by birth. Her father was an officer in the Moroccan Tirailleurs and died fighting for France at the Battle of Monte Cassino on May 13, 1944.Enache, Nicolas. ''La Descendance de Marie-Therese de Habsburg, Reine de Hongrie et de Bohême''. ICC, Paris, 1996. pp. 121, 131. in French. He belonged to a family of ancient nobility in France, originally from Lower Navarre, who held the ''seigneurie'' of Belzunce near Bayonne (where the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
