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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.
Italian Venezuelans (Italian: italo-venezuelani; Spanish: ítalo-venezolanos) are Venezuelan-born citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent, whose ancestors were Italians who emigrated to Venezuela during the Italian diaspora, or Italian-born people in Venezuela. Italians were among the largest groups of European immigrants to ...
Venezuelan people of European-Jewish descent (6 C) Venezuelan people of Scandinavian descent (2 C, 1 P) Venezuelan people of Yugoslav descent (1 C, 1 P) A.
The refugee agency UNHCR estimates that more than 7.7 million Venezuelans have left since 2014, the largest exodus in Latin America’s recent history, with most settling in the Americas, from ...
The Romanian community in Venezuela is around 10,000 people. [1] They are mostly immigrants who arrived in the country, like many other European nationalities, following the Second World War and the policies of the governments of the Warsaw Pact . [ 2 ]
Over 7 million people have fled Venezuela alone, according to the United Nations. Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans have come to the U.S.-Mexico border since 2021.
Despite this lack of organization, the strong Russian footprint on the cultural life of Venezuela in the early 20th century was owed to the Russian artist Nikolai Ferdinandov. El Ruso, as he was called by Venezuelans. A full-fledged Russian diaspora in Venezuela began to appear only in 1947. It was then, two years after the end of the Second ...
José Antonio Colina, a former Venezuelan National Guard lieutenant who leads an organization of politically persecuted Venezuelans in South Florida, told the Herald that he respected the federal ...