Romanian Argentines are

Argentine Argentines, Argentinians or Argentineans are people from Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical, or cultural. For most Argentines, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their ...

citizens of Romanian descent or a group of

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-born people who nowadays reside in

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. Romanian immigration to Argentina began in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. It started along with the massive wave of European immigrants who arrived in the country during that period. Many Romanian immigrants to Argentina were Jewish. Numerically, this current was significantly lower than that of other peoples of

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History

Romanian immigration to Argentina can be divided into three waves:

First wave

The first wave ranges from the late nineteenth century until after

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. Immigrants came mainly from

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(

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and

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) and the

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Bessarabia Bessarabia () is a historical region in Eastern Europe, bounded by the Dniester river on the east and the Prut river on the west. About two thirds of Bessarabia lies within modern-day Moldova, with the Budjak region covering the southern coa ...

). The earliest of whom is adventurer

Julius Popper Julius Popper (December 15, 1857 – June 5, 1893), known in Spanish as Julio Popper (), was a Romanian Jew and later Argentinian colonial engineer and explorer. He was known as a modern "conquistador" of Tierra del Fuego in southern South Amer ...

, who perpetrated the

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Second wave

The second wave of Romanian immigrants in Argentina came just after the end of the

Third wave

The third wave came in the 90's, after the end of the communist regime in Romania.

Romanian Jews

As part of the first wave of Romanian immigrants who arrived to Argentina, Jewish settlers founded numerous towns in Santa Fe and Entre Ríos, including those of

Moisés Ville Moisés Ville () is a small town (''comuna'') in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, founded on 23 October 1889 by Eastern European and Russian Jews escaping pogroms and persecution. The original name was ''Kiryat Moshe'' ("Town of Moses" in H ...

, Palacios, Las Palmeras and Monigotes. Many families of Romanian-Jewish background joined these groups of pioneers.

Notable people

References

External links

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