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Basque Americans (Basque: Euskal estatubatuarrak, Spanish: Vasco estadounidenses) are Americans of Basque descent. According to the 2000 US census , there are 57,793 Americans of full or partial Basque descent.
Main article: Basque people The Basque diaspora is the name given to describe people of Basque origin living outside their traditional homeland on the borders between Spain and France. Many Basques have left the Basque Country for other parts of the globe for economic and political reasons, with a substantial population in Chile and Colombia. Notably, the Basque diaspora is sometimes referred ...
The first Basque expedition recorded in Newfoundland took place in 1517, but it was around 1530s that a regional establishment could be identified. [1] Its assumed that Basque fishermen gradually approached the American continent, by pursuing cod in first instance, and progressively derivating to the more profitable whaling.
Basques have been living in Northern Nevada for over a century and form a population of several thousand. Basque immigrants first came in the mid-1800s during the Gold rush. The Basques have also been closely-tied to sheep herding in Nevada and neighboring states. The Basque-American culture is especially prominent in the town of Winnemucca.
Currently about 33 percent of the population in the Basque Autonomous Community speaks Basque. Navarre has a population of 601,000; its administrative capital and main city, also regarded by many nationalist Basques as the Basques' historical capital, is Pamplona (Iruñea in modern Basque). Only Spanish is an official language of Navarre, and ...
Basque-American history (2 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Basque diaspora in the United States" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
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The table also excludes all mixed raced/multiracial persons from the racial categories, assigning them to their own category. The information on Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa, add up to more than 100% as the racial data for Hispanics was not broken out separately in the 2020 Census.