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Venezuelans form one of the main immigrant groups in Spain, which is also the European country to which most Venezuelans choose to migrate because of shared language, customs and family ties. Similarly to nationals from other countries of Ibero-America , Venezuelans of origin are allowed to apply for dual Spanish citizenship after two years of ...
European explorers named Venezuela ("Little Venice") after observing local indigenous houses on stilts over water. During the first quarter-century of contact, the Europeans limited themselves to slave hunting and pearlfishing on the northeastern coast; the first permanent Spanish settlement in Venezuela, Cumaná, was not made until 1523. [4]
A Spanish expedition led by Alonso de Ojeda, while sailing along the length of the northern coast of South America in 1499, gave the name Venezuela ("little Venice" in Spanish) to the Gulf of Venezuela, because of its imagined similarity to the famed Italian city. Spain's colonization of mainland Venezuela started in 1522.
The vast majority of Venezuelan-born people residing in Europe live in Spain and/or have acquired Spanish citizenship, either in Venezuela or in Spain. Between 2015 and 2018 the number of Venezuelan-born residents in Spain increased from 165,893 to 255,071 people. [ 208 ]
This makes Spain the 4th country in Europe by immigration numbers and the 10th worldwide. Spain attracts significant immigration from Latin America and Eastern Europe. The fastest-growing immigrant groups in 2017 were Venezuelans, Colombians, Italians, Ukrainians, and Argentines. [5]
President of Venezuela for three separate terms, from 1870–1877, from 1879–1884, and from 1886–1887. Laureano Zavarce: 1868: 1868 Guillermo Tell Villegas: 1869: 1872: interim President of Venezuela in 1868, 1870 and 1892; Foreign Minister twice. José María Rojas Espaillat: 1873: 1876 Eduardo Calcaño y Panizza: 1882: 1886 Carlos Rangel ...
Venezuela is among the most urbanized countries in Latin America; [22] [23] the vast majority of Venezuelans live in the cities of the north and in the capital. The territory of Venezuela was colonized by Spain in 1522 amid resistance from Indigenous peoples.
Venezuelan expatriate sportspeople in Spain (1 C, 97 P) Pages in category "Venezuelan expatriates in Spain" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.