Portuguese American
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Portuguese Americans are citizens of the United States whose ancestry originates in the southwest European nation of Portugal. Colloquially, the term is also incorrectly applied to people whose ancestry stems from Portuguese-speaking countries. Such use of the term "Portuguese American" is employed as a synonym to Luso American.
All in all, a Portuguese-American, denotes any person born in the United States whose family came to the USA from Portugal.
[edit] History
Portuguese people have had a long history in America, which may even be pre-Columbian, although there is lack of solid historical evidence. Navigators, like the Corte-Real family, may have visited the North American shores.[1] There is a monumental landmark, the Dighton Rock, in Massachusetts, that testifies their presence in the area. During the Colonial period, there was some limited Portuguese emigration to the present day United States, as there was to the Italian and French emigration.
In the late 19th century, many Portuguese, mainly Azorean and Madeiran, immigrated to the United States, establishing in cities like East Providence, Rhode Island; Bristol, Rhode Island; New Bedford, Massachusetts; Fall River, Massachusetts; East Cambridge, Massachusetts, Newark, New Jersey; Jacksonville, Illinois; and Tulare, California.
There were around 1 million Portuguese Americans in the United States by the year 2000.
[edit] External Links
- Igreja Portuguesa de Nossa Senhora de Fátima — Church of Our Lady of Fatima, Yonkers, New York
- Portuguese American Community Center, Yonkers, New York
- Portuguese-American Historical & Research Foundation Franklin, North Carolina
- Congregation Shearith Israel — the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue (New York, NY, USA)
- Kahal Kadosh Mikveh Israel (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
- Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island
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- Distinguished Americans & Canadians of Portuguese Descent
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