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The German minority population in Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union stemmed from several sources and arrived in several waves. Since the second half of the 19th century, as a consequence of the Russification policies and compulsory military service in the Russian Empire, large groups of Germans from Russia emigrated to the Americas (mainly Canada, the United States, Brazil and Argentina ...
Today, 8% of the Argentine population or 3.5 million Argentines claim German ancestry. Of those, more than 2.5 million claim Volga German descent, [14] making them the majority of those having German ancestry in the country, and accounting for 5.7% of the total Argentine population. Descendants of Volga Germans outnumber descendants of Germans ...
Portion of German settled population in Crimea in 1926 In red indicated German national districts in the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. On 18 October 1921, the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was created as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (i.e. part of Russia).
Groß-Friedrichsburg, a Brandenburg colony (1683–1717) in the territory of modern Ghana. Germans had traditions of foreign sea-borne trade dating back to the Hanseatic League; German emigrants had flowed eastward in the direction of the Baltic littoral, Russia and Transylvania and westward to the Americas; and North German merchants and missionaries showed interest in overseas engagements. [4]
German graves (early 19th century) in the village of Pshonyanove, Odesa Raion, Odesa Oblast, Ukraine The Black Sea Germans (German: Schwarzmeerdeutsche; Russian: черноморские немцы, romanized: chernomorskiye nemtsy; Ukrainian: чорноморські німці, romanized: chornomors'ki nimtsi) are ethnic Germans who left their homelands (starting in the late-18th century ...
Church of the Saviour, a German church in Baku, Azerbaijan. Caucasus Germans (German: Kaukasiendeutsche) are part of the German minority in Russia and the Soviet Union.They migrated to the Caucasus largely in the first half of the 19th century and settled in the North Caucasus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and the region of Kars (present-day northeastern Turkey).
German colonies in Africa, 1914. The following were German African protectorates: Kionga Triangle, 1894–1916; German South West Africa, 1884–1915; German West Africa, 1884–1915 Togoland, 1884–1916; Kamerun, from 1884–1916; Kapitaï and Koba, 1884–1885; Mahinland, March 11, 1885 – October 24, 1885; German East Africa, 1885–1918
Russia Germans can receive a more specific name according to where and when they settled. For example, an ethnic German born in a village in Odesa is a Ukraine German, a Black Sea German and a Russia German (the former Russian Empire). Alternatively, the Germans of Odesa belong to the group of the Germans of Ukraine, of the Black Sea, of Russia ...