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  2. Ethnic groups of Argentina - Wikipedia

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    Argentina's Jewish population is, by far, the largest in all of Latin America and is the fifth largest in the world. Buenos Aires itself is said to have over 100,000 practicing Jews, making it one of the largest Jewish urban centers in the world (see also History of the Jews in Argentina).

  3. Argentines - Wikipedia

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    Argentina is a multiethnic society, home to people of various ethnic, racial, religious, denomination, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. [19] [20] [21] As a result, Argentines do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship and allegiance to ...

  4. Indigenous peoples in Argentina - Wikipedia

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    The extensive explorations, research and writing by Juan Bautista Ambrosetti and other ethnographers during the 20th century, which followed earlier pioneer studies by anthropologists such as Robert Lehmann-Nitsche, [18] encouraged wider interest in indigenous people in Argentina, and their contributions to the nation's culture were further ...

  5. History of Argentina - Wikipedia

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    The history of Argentina can be divided into four main parts: the pre-Columbian time or early history (up to the sixteenth century), the colonial period (1536–1809), the period of nation-building (1810–1880), and the history of modern Argentina (from around 1880).

  6. Immigration to Argentina - Wikipedia

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    The history of immigration to Argentina can be divided into several major ... The government calculates that 504,000 people entered the country during the same period ...

  7. Etymology of Argentina - Wikipedia

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    In Italian and Venetian, Argentina (masculine argentino) means "(made) of silver, silver coloured", derived from the Latin "argentum" for silver. The earliest description of the region by the word Argentina has been found on a Venetian map in 1536. [4] The Portuguese cartographer Lopo Homem made reference to the place as "Terra Argentea" in a ...

  8. Culture of Argentina - Wikipedia

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    The culture of Argentina is as varied as the country geography and is composed of a mix of ethnic groups.Modern Argentine culture has been influenced largely by the Spanish colonial period and the 19th/20th century European immigration (mainly Italian and Spanish), and also by Amerindian culture, particularly in the fields of music and art.

  9. History of Argentine nationality - Wikipedia

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    Ideas and practices of nationality and citizenship in the Republic of Argentina (and before that, in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata and the Inca Empire) have changed with distinct periods of its history, including but not limited to periods of indigenous, colonial, republican, and military rule.