The city of Newark,

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, includes a large

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population. Newark has been nicknamed "Little Portugal" due to its large number of Portuguese-speaking and Portuguese-descended people. Most Lusophone Americans in Newark live in the working-class neighborhood of

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. In addition to immigrants from

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, Newark also has a large population of immigrants from

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and Cape Verde and to a lesser extent

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History

The first Portuguese immigrants to Newark came during the early 1900s and the greatest influx of Portuguese was during the 1950s. Today there is very little immigration from

. Now, most Lusophone immigrants arrive from

and Portuguese-speaking Africa, especially Cape Verde. Other places of origin include

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and Galicia, a region of Spain where Galician/Gallego is the spoken

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, also known as old-Portuguese because it is the ancestor of modern Portuguese.

Demographics

In 1995, there were 30,000 Portuguese-Americans living in Newark. 2000 Census data showed that Newark had 15,801 residents of

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ancestry (5.8% of the population), while an additional 5,805 (2.1% of the total) were of Brazilian ancestry.QT-P13 - Ancestry: 2000 from the Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3) - Sample Data for Newark city, New Jersey

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. Accessed February 3, 2014.

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