Luxembourgers
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| Luxembourgers | ||
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| Image:Luxembourgers.JPG | ||
| Total population |
>430,000 |
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| Regions with significant populations | Image:Flag of Luxembourg.svg Luxembourg ~300,000 [1] |
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| Language(s) | Luxembourgish, French, German | Religion(s) | Christianity (predominantly Roman Catholic, some Protestants) | Related ethnic groups | Germans, French |
Luxembourgers are defined as an ethnic group, sharing Luxembourgian culture and being of Luxembourgian descent.
[edit] Location
Most ethnic Luxembourgers live in Luxembourg. However, there is a relatively large diaspora, in Europe and elsewhere. Particularly, there are populations in the surrounding countries of Belgium, France, and Germany. For the most part, this is due to historic reasons, especially the three Partitions of Luxembourg, which led to former territories of Luxembourg being incorporated into each of the three surrounding countries.
There are also significant populations in the Americas, with the largest contingent being in the United States. However, many people of Luxembourgian descent live in Argentina and Brazil, to which large waves of Luxembourgers emigrated in the nineteenth century, as did Germans at the same time.[5]
[edit] See also
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ a b Luxembourgish. Ethnologue (2005). Retrieved on 2007-06-25.
- ^ Total US population by ancestry. United States Census Bureau (2000). Retrieved on 2007-06-25.
- ^ Luxembourgers in America. Library of Congress (12 January 2006). Retrieved on 2007-06-25.
- ^ Luxemburgers. Joshua Project. Retrieved on 2007-06-25.
- ^ a b c (French) Wey, Claude (2002). L’émigration luxembourgeoise vers l’Argentine. CDMH. Retrieved on 2007-06-25.
