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By 1880 there were around 1,000 Slovene Americans, many of whom worked in the Upper Midwest as miners; within 30 years, about 30,000 to 40,000 Slovenian immigrants lived in the area of Cleveland, Ohio, the center of Slovene American culture. [2]
The 1970 census listed 46,000 foreign-born or mixed-parentage Slovenes in the Cleveland area. [8] The Slovene community continued to push east into Lake County through the 1980s, with a peak population over 50,000 Slovene-Americans in the greater Cleveland area by 1990. [9]
Slovenian emigrants to the United States (17 P) Pages in category "American people of Slovenian descent" The following 117 pages are in this category, out of 117 total.
Tony Adamle – American football player – Ohio State Buckeyes and Cleveland Browns (member of 1950 and 1954 NFL Championship teams) Jeff Blatnick – Olympic champion in freestyle wrestling; Frank Brimsek – ice hockey player; Bryant Dunston – professional basketball player for the Slovenian national team since he acquired Slovenian ...
A sizable minority of Slovenes are non-religious or atheists, [104] according to the published data from the 2002 Slovenian census, out of a total of 47,488 Muslims (who represent 2.4% of the total population), 2,804 Muslims (who in turn represent 5.9% of the total Muslims in Slovenia) declared themselves as Slovenian Muslims.
Slovenian people of North American descent (1 C) Slovenian people of West Asian descent (2 C) * Carniolan people by descent (2 C) + Immigrants to Slovenia (8 C, 3 P) J.
George Voinovich – U.S. Senator, former Governor of Ohio and Mayor of Cleveland, (Slovenian mother; born and raised in the United States, never lived in Slovenia) Anton Vratuša (1915–2017) – politician and diplomat, who was the Prime Minister of Slovenia from 1978–80 and of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, also its ...
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