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Immigrants arriving to Argentina European Immigration to Argentina (1869-1947) Immigrants' Hotel, Buenos Aires.Built in 1906, it could accommodate up to 4,000. The Great European Immigration Wave to Argentina was the period of greatest immigration in Argentine history, which occurred approximately from the 1860s to the 1960s, when more than six million Europeans arrived in Argentina. [1]
The origins of the various European diasporas [1] can be traced to the people who left the European nation states or stateless ethnic communities on the European continent. From 1500 to the mid-20th century, 60–65 million people left Europe, of which less than 9% went to tropical areas (the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa). [2]
Also notable were Jewish immigrants escaping persecution, giving Argentina the highest Jewish population in Latin America, and the 7th in all the world. The total population of Argentina rose from 4 million in 1895 to 7.9 million in 1914, and to 15.8 million in 1947; during this time the country was settled by 1.5 million Spaniards and 3.8 ...
In late August, a ruling from a New York Court of Appeals determined that Argentina had to pay in full to holdouts from its 2001 default. Moreover, the court determined that if the country does ...
The painful economic steps that Argentina's new president, Javier Milei, announced this week sound draconian: Slashing the currency's value in half. Inflation in Argentina has hit 161%. Its debts ...
Argentina’s military dictatorship led to killings and disappearances of at least 30,000 people. The film "Azor" explores the complicity of even neutral countries.
Argentina, [C] officially the Argentine Republic, [A] [D] is a country in the southern half of South America.It covers an area of 2,780,085 km 2 (1,073,397 sq mi), [B] making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world.
Spanish emigrant settlements were established in Argentina in the period before Argentina's independence from Spain, and again in larger numbers during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Between the 15th and 19th centuries, the Spanish Empire was the sole colonial power in the territories that became Argentina after the 1816 Argentine ...