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American Brazilians
An American Brazilian ( pt, italic=yes, américo-brasileiro, norte-americano-brasileiro, estadunidense-brasileiro) is a Brazilian person who is fully, partially or predominantly of European-American descent or a U.S.-born immigrant in Brazil. The Confederados is a cultural sub-group in the nation of Brazil. They are the descendants of people who fled from the Confederate States of America to Brazil with their families after the American Civil War. At the end of the American Civil War in the 1860s, a migration of Confederates to Brazil began, with the total number of immigrants estimated in the thousands. They settled primarily in Southern and Southeastern Brazil: in Americana, Campinas, São Paulo, Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, Juquiá, New Texas, former Xiririca now Eldorado, Rio de Janeiro and Rio Doce. A few other places also received immigrants: one colony settled in Santarém, Pará – in the north on the Amazon River – and the states of Bahia and Pernambuco also rece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Bárbara D'Oeste
Santa Bárbara d'Oeste is a municipality in the State of São Paulo in Brazil. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of Campinas. It lies about northwest of the State capital. It occupies an area of , of which is urban. In 2020, the population was estimated at 194,390 by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, making it the 43rd most populous city in São Paulo and the sixth largest in the metropolitan region of Campinas. Santa Bárbara d'Oeste has an annual average temperature of , and the original vegetation of the area predominates. The city has an urbanization rate of 98.73%. As of 2009, there were 44 medical institutions in the city, and its human development index (HDI) is rated as 0.819 in relation to the rest of the state. Founded on 4 December 1818, when the Church was built, the city was named in honor of its patron saint, Santa Barbara, it was originally part of Piracicaba. It separated from Piracicaba in 1900. Since Margaret Grace Martins donated the lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-speaking Countries
The following is a list of English-speaking population by country, including information on both native speakers and second-language speakers. List * The European Union is a supranational union composed of 27 member states. The total English-speaking population of the European Union and the United Kingdom combined (2012) is 256,876,220 (out of a total population of 500,000,000, i.e. 51%) including 65,478,252 native speakers and 191,397,968 non-native speakers, and would be ranked 2nd if it were included. English native speakers amount to 13% of the whole population of the EU and the UK, while the percentage of people that speak English "well enough in order to be able to have a conversation", either as first (32%), second (11%) or third (3%) foreign language, was 38%. * When taken from this list and added together, the total number of English speakers in the world adds up to around 1,200,000,000. Likewise, the total number of native English speakers adds up to around 350, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swiss Brazilians
Swiss Brazilians ( pt, helveto-brasileiros, brasileiros suíços) are Brazilian citizens of full or partial Swiss ancestry, who remain culturally connected to Switzerland, or Swiss-born people permanently residing in Brazil. Notable Swiss Brazilians * Clóvis Bornay *José Carlos Bauer * A. C. Frieden * Émil Goeldi * Oswaldo Goeldi * Cláudio Heinrich * Heloísa Périssé * Ricardo Boechat * Adriana Lima *Adolfo Lutz * Berta Lutz * Jorge Paulo Lemann * Eric Walther Maleson * Gérard Moss *Sabrina Sato * Leticia Spiller * Xuxa Meneghel See also * Immigration to Brazil * White Brazilians * Swiss people The Swiss people (german: die Schweizer, french: les Suisses, it, gli Svizzeri, rm, ils Svizzers) are the citizens of Switzerland or people of Swiss ancestry. The number of Swiss nationals has grown from 1.7 million in 1815 to 8.7 million ... * Swiss Americans References European Brazilian {{Brazil-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austrian Brazilians
Austrian Brazilians (Portuguese: ''Austro-brasileiro, Austríaco brasileiro'') refers to Brazilians of full, partial, or predominantly Austrian ancestry, or Austrian-born people residing in Brazil. Brazil is home to the second largest German-Austrian population outside their respective nations, after the United States. German is the second most spoken language in the country. The author Stefan Zweig who wrote about Brazil, and the Habsburg-Lorraine Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Empress consort of Brazil, are among the most prominent Austrians to settle in Brazil. Notable Austrian Brazilians * Jorge Mautner * Cláudio Heinrich * Juca Chaves * Fritz Köberle * Erwin Kräutler *Maria II of Portugal *Maria Leopoldina of Austria * Princess Francisca of Brazil *Otto Maria Carpeaux * Prince Pedro Luiz of Orléans-Braganza * Pedro II of Brazil * Pedro Neschling * Stefan Zweig *Xuxa * Adriano Laaber * Taís Araújo See also * Austria–Brazil relations * Immigration to Brazil * White ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish Brazilians
Polish Brazilians ( pt, polono-brasileiros) refers to Brazilians of full or partial Polish ancestry who are aware of such ancestry and remain connected, to some degree, to Polish culture, or Polish-born people permanently residing in Brazil. Also, a Polish Brazilian may have one Polish parent. In 2021 the number of people of Polish origin in Brazil is estimated at even 5 million. A large percentage of Polish-Brazilian descendants immigrated to neighboring areas of Argentina and Paraguay. There is also a significant amount of Polish and other Eastern European descendants in the Brazilian diaspora in North America. Polish immigrants began arriving in Brazil in the late 19th century and their total number was estimated at around 200,000. Up until 1920, they were mostly classified as "Russians" and other nationalities due to the Partitions of Poland. Immigration The first Polish immigrants arrived in the port of Itajaí, Santa Catarina, in August 1869. They were 78 Poles from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Brazilians
Russian Brazilians ( pt, Russo-brasileiros, russian: Русские бразильцы ''Russkiye Brazil'tsy'') are Brazilian citizens of full or partial Russian ethnic background or Russian-born people residing in Brazil. The term can also refer to someone with a Brazilian mother and Russian father, or vice versa. Today, there are close to 2 million descendants of Russian immigrants in Brazil, many of this population are descendants from the Volga Germans that immigrated to Brazil following their expulsion from the Soviet Union. However many are White Russians who arrived in Brazil right after the Russian Civil War in the 1920s. In the 1950s, a wave of Chinese immigrants belonging to the country's ethnic Russian community also arrived in Brazil. Fernando Lázaro de Barros Basto in ''Síntese da história da imigração no Brasil'' (1970) gives a total number of 319,215 immigrants from "Russia" (i.e. the Russian Empire pre-1917 and the Soviet Union post-1917) for the period of 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czech Brazilians
Czech Brazilians refer to Brazilians of Czech descent who were born in or who trace their ancestry to the territory of the historic Czech lands or succession states, now known as the Czech Republic, and are residents and/or citizens of Brazil. Czech people in Brazil Although Czech Jesuits such as Valentin Stansel had been working in Brazil since the 18th century, the first Czech immigrants arrived in 1823. Among these early immigrants was Jan Nepomuk Kubíček, a Catholic carpenter from Třeboň and one of the great-grandfathers of Juscelino Kubitschek, the 24th President of Brazil (from 1956 to 1961). In the 20th century there were three large waves of Czechs who moved to Brazil: in the 1930s, after the Communist takeover (1948) and after the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact troops (1968). Most of those immigrants settled down in Southern Brazil. Southern Brazil More or less influence of the Czech immigration can be noticed in the three states of Southern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Brazilians
German Brazilians (German: ''Deutschbrasilianer'', Hunsrik: ''Deitschbrasiliooner'', pt, teuto-brasileiros) refers to Brazilians of full or partial German ancestry. German Brazilians live mostly in the country's South Region, with a smaller but still significant percentage living in Southeast Region. Between 1824 and 1972, about 260,000 Germans settled in Brazil, the fifth largest nationality to immigrate after the Portuguese, the Italians, the Spanish, and the Japanese. By 1940, the German diaspora in Brazil totaled about a million. The rapid increase in numbers was due to a relatively high birth rate, the highest in Brazil amongst immigrant groups although still lower than that of the local population. The majority settled in the Brazilian states of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Paraná, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Less than 5% of Germans settled in Minas Gerais, Pernambuco, and Espírito Santo. According to a 1999 survey by IBGE researcher Simon Schwartzman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scandinavian Brazilians
Scandinavian Brazilians ( pt, escandinavo-brasileiro) refers to Brazilians of full or partial Scandinavian ancestry, or Scandinavian-born people residing in Brazil. The Scandinavian settlement in Brazil began in the mid to late 19th century and was predominant when around 3,640 Scandinavian peoples arrived in Brazil, mainly from Sweden. Many Scandinavians came to Brazil for economic reasons and to start a new life. In recent years, a few Norwegians and Swedes have migrated to the littoral zone of the State of Rio Grande do Norte (mainly Natal) and Ceará, attracted by the beaches and the tropical climate. History Daniel Solander became the first Swedish person to ever visit Brazil when he came to the country in 1768. Mass emigration from Norway started circa 1865–1866, after the civil war was over. Several ship-owners saw the opportunity to earn good money by transporting migrants to the New World. United States, Canada and Brazil received many Norwegians. In Curitiba, one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Brazilians
Dutch Brazilians ( pt, Neerlando-brasileiro) refers to Brazilians of full or partial Dutch ancestry. Dutch Brazilians are mainly descendants of immigrants from the Netherlands. The Dutch were among the first Europeans settling in Brazil during the 17th century. They controlled the northern coast of Brazil from 1630 to 1654. A significant number of Dutch immigrants arrived in that period. The state of Pernambuco (then Captaincy of Pernambuco) was once a colony of the Dutch Republic from 1630 to 1661. There are a considerable number of people who are descendants of the Dutch colonists in Paraíba (for example in Frederikstad, today João Pessoa - the second most Dutch city in Brazil on XVII century, after Mauristaadt), Pernambuco, Alagoas and Rio Grande do Norte. During the 19th and 20th century, Dutch immigrants from the Netherlands immigrated to the Brazil's Center-South, founded a few cities and prospered. The majority of Dutch Brazilians reside in Espírito Santo, Paraná, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Brazilians
Irish Brazilians ( pt, Irlando-brasileiros or ; ga, Gael-Bhrasaíligh) are Brazilian citizens of Irish ancestry, or Irish-born people residing in Brazil. Many Irish immigrants to Brazil changed their surnames to resemble Portuguese names more closely, often losing the common prefix 'O'. History The first known Irish settler in Brazil was a missionary, Thomas Field, who arrived to Brazil in late 1577 and spent three years in Piratininga (present-day São Paulo). In 1612, the Irish the Irish brothers Philip and James Purcell established a colony in Tauregue, at the mouth of the Amazon River, where English, Dutch, and French settlements were also established. Many of the colonists traded in tobacco, dyes, and hardwoods. A second group of Irish settlers led by Bernardo O'Brien of County Clare arrived in 1620. The first recorded Saint Patrick's Day celebration was on 17 March 1770. During the Cisplatine War, Brazil sent recruiters to Ireland to recruit men as soldiers for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottish Brazilians
Scottish Brazilians ( pt, escoto-brasileiros) refers to Brazilians of full, partial, or predominantly Scottish ancestry, or Scottish-born people residing in Brazil. Notable Scottish Brazilians * Archie McLean * Carlos Drummond de Andrade * Charles Miller – considered to be the father of football in Brazil, born to Scottish father and Brazilian mother * Eric Leme Walther Maleson – considered to be the father of Ice Sports in Brazil, 1st Olympic Brazilian Bobsleigh Athlete, Founder and President of the Brazilian Ice Sports Federation (BISF/CBDG). Winner of 3 Bronze Medals at America Bobsleigh Cup (Lake Placid) in 2000, 2001 and 2002. * Samuel Wallace MacDowell IIIhttp://escolas.educacao.pe.gov.br/layout.php?portal=7020&p=historia * Warwick Estevam Kerr * Scott MacKenzie, darts player See also * Brazil–United Kingdom relations * Immigration to Brazil * White Brazilians * Scottish people The Scots ( sco, Scots Fowk; gd, Albannaich) are an ethnic group and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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