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"Germania" was the common term for German American neighborhoods and their organizations. [139] Deutschtum was the term for transplanted German nationalism, both culturally and politically. Between 1875 and 1915, the German American population in the United States doubled, and many of its members insisted on maintaining their culture.
The East Germanic peoples, the Langobards, and the Suevi in Spain converted to Arian Christianity, [284] a form of Christianity that believed that God the Father was superior to God the Son. [285] The first Germanic people to convert to Arianism were the Visigoths, at the latest in 376 when they entered the Roman Empire.
California and Pennsylvania have the largest populations of German origin, with more than six million German Americans residing in the two states alone. [3] More than 50 million people in the United States identify German as their ancestry; it is often mixed with other Northern European ethnicities. [4]
1526: Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón briefly establishes the failed settlement of San Miguel de Gualdape in South Carolina, the first site of enslavement of Africans in North America and of the first slave rebellion. 1527: Fishermen are using the harbor at St. John's, Newfoundland and other places on the coast.
The German diaspora (German: Deutschstämmige) consists of German people and their descendants who live outside of Germany. The term is used in particular to refer to the aspects of migration of German speakers from Central Europe to different countries around the world.
In this map of German colonies, yellow marks Klein-Venedig and red the Prussian colonies, some of them in the Caribbean. Klein-Venedig ("Little Venice"; also the etymology of the name "Venezuela") was the most significant part of the German colonization of the Americas between 1528 and 1546.
An increasing number of people ignored the ancestry question or chose no specific ancestral group such as "American or United States". In the 2000 census this represented over 56.1 million or 19.9% of the United States population, an increase from 26.2 million (10.5%) in 1990 and 38.2 million (16.9%) in 1980 and are specified as "unclassified ...
The Germanic peoples (also called Teutonic, Suebian or Gothic in older literature) [217] were an Indo-European ethno-linguistic group of Northern European origin, identified by their use of the Germanic languages which diversified out of Proto-Germanic starting during the Pre-Roman Iron Age. [web 14]