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Hungarian Ohioans are Hungarian Americans living in Ohio.Their number was 203,417 in 2010 and 183,593 in 2014. [2] Fairport Harbor, Ohio is 11.8% Hungarian American. In Cleveland and its neighboring areas there live more than 107,000 Hungarians, of which over 7,400 speak the language, the third highest number in the nation.
Initially, Sámi populations were drawn to the United States by employment opportunities in mining and logging industries. Sámi immigrants are first recorded to have arrived in the United States in the 1860s, when a number were recruited to work in the Keweenaw Peninsula copper mines. The majority of these miners were from northern Sweden and ...
From 1913 to 1920, the Swedish race-segregation political movement created a race-based biological institute that collected research material from living people and graves. Throughout history, Swedish settlers were encouraged to move to the northern regions through incentives such as land and water rights, tax allowances, and military exemptions.
The region stretches over four countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia.To the north, it is bounded by the Barents Sea, Norwegian Sea, and White Sea. [2] [3] Lapland (/ ˈ l æ p l æ n d /) has been a historical term for areas inhabited by the Sami based on the older term "Lapp" for its inhabitants, a term which is now considered outdated or pejorative. [4]
Life Care Centers of America was founded by Forrest Preston in 1970, and he remains the sole owner, chairman, and CEO. [1] Since 1995, the company's headquarters have been located at the Campbell Center at 3001 Keith Street NW in Cleveland in the location of a former shopping mall. [2] As of 2015, the company employs 42,000 people. [1]
The headquarters of the Central Association of Conservative Laestadians in the Kontinkangas district of Oulu, Finland. Most Laestadians in Finland are part of the national Lutheran Church of Finland (cf. Communion of Nordic Lutheran Dioceses); but in America, where there is no official Lutheran church, they founded their own denomination, [4] which split into three sub-groups in the mid-20th ...
Containing a total of 18 single-family-homes, 81 semi-attached townhouses, and a 40 unit apartment building, work on Phase I was completed in early 2011, and Phase II was completed fall 2011. Additionally, CMHA was able to use more than $17 million to complete Phase III of Heritage View, which consisted of 69 units, 46 semi-attached townhomes ...
The first significant wave of Latvian settlers who immigrated to the United States came in 1888 to Boston. [2] By the end of the century, many of those Latvian immigrants had moved on to settle primarily in other East Coast and Midwest cities, such as New York City, Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Chicago, as well as coastal cities on the West Coast, such as Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, and ...