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  2. Caucasus Germans - Wikipedia

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    Church of the Saviour, a German church in Baku, Azerbaijan. Caucasus Germans (German: Kaukasiendeutsche) are part of the German minority in Russia and the Soviet Union.They migrated to the Caucasus largely in the first half of the 19th century and settled in the North Caucasus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and the region of Kars (present-day northeastern Turkey).

  3. List of German Americans - Wikipedia

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    German Americans (German: Deutschamerikaner) are citizens of the United States who are of German ancestry; they form the largest ethnic ancestry group in the United States, accounting for 17% of U.S. population. [1] The first significant numbers arrived in the 1680s in New York and Pennsylvania. Some eight million German immigrants have entered ...

  4. German Americans - Wikipedia

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    German bakers introduced the pretzel, which is popular across the United States. Germans introduced America to lager, the most-produced beer style in the United States, and have been the dominant ethnic group in the beer industry since 1850. [31] [201]

  5. Germans in the American Revolution - Wikipedia

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    America Goes to War: A Social History of the Continental Army (1995) complete text online; Nolt, Steven, Foreigners in Their Own Land: Pennsylvania Germans in the Early American Republic, Penn State U. Press, 2002 ISBN 0-271-02199-3; Percy, Sarah. Mercenaries: The history of a norm in international relations (Oxford University Press, 2007).

  6. German diaspora - Wikipedia

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    German is the second most commonly used scientific language [142] [better source needed] as well as the third most widely used language on websites after English and Russian. [143] Deutsche Welle (German pronunciation: [ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈvɛlə]; "German Wave" in German), or DW, is Germany's public international broadcaster. The service is ...

  7. German Americans in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    German-Americans were the largest ethnic contingent to fight for the Union in the American Civil War [citation needed].More than 200,000 native-born Germans, along with another 250,000 1st-generation German-Americans, served in the Union Army, notably from New York, Wisconsin, and Ohio.

  8. German language in the United States - Wikipedia

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    German-Americans, especially immigrants, were blamed for military acts of the German Empire, and even speaking German was seen as unpatriotic. Many German-American families anglicized their names (e.g. from Schmidt to Smith, Schneider to Taylor, Müller to Miller), and German nearly disappeared in public in many cities. In the countryside, the ...

  9. Category:American people of German descent - Wikipedia

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    American people of Swiss-German descent (2 C, 89 P) Pages in category "American people of German descent" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 3,526 total.