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In the 19th century, German immigrants settled in Midwest, where land was available. Cities along the Great Lakes, the Ohio River, and the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers attracted a large German element. The Midwestern cities of Milwaukee, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chicago were favored destinations of German immigrants.
Was settled by Mennonite Swiss immigrants, who named it after the capital city of Switzerland, Bern. [14] Berne: New York: Originally spelt "Bern," the town was initially settled by German Palatine refugees. Berne: Ohio: Named after the city of Bern by its first settler, a Swiss immigrant. [15] Bettendorf: Iowa
Many of its present-day inhabitants speak German [131] In the 18th century, German immigrants settled the areas of Tingo Maria, Tarapoto, Moyobamba, and the Amazonas Department. [132] German immigrants largely settled in Lima, and to a lesser extent Arequipa. [133] Uruguay: By 1940, there were 50,000 Germans living in the country. [110] Venezuela
Such German Americans were the earliest European settlers of the Shenandoah Valley, mostly in the northern portions. Scotch-Irish, many of whom also migrated from Pennsylvania, mostly settled in the southern portions of the valley. It was considered the backcountry in contrast to established communities of the Tidewater and Piedmont.
Of all those who left the German lands between 1835 and 1910, 90 percent went to the United States, most of them traveling to the Mid-Atlantic states and the Midwest. [3] Many Germans chose Milwaukee due to its geographic position on Lake Michigan's west coast. It eventually became known as "the German Athens" (German: Das deutsche Athen).
During the first flux of German immigration (between 1846 and 1875) German colonies were primarily set up in the "Frontera" region. The second wave of immigration occurred between 1882 and 1914 and consisted mainly of industrial and agricultural workers, mainly from eastern Germany; the third wave (after 1918) settled mainly in the cities.
This is a departure from Standard German, where a dative neuter article ("einem") would be used. This is an example of a restructuring of the DOM in Wisconsin German. Example 3 illustrates innovative case marking: instead of a dative neuter definite article ("dem"), a distinctly masculine accusative definite article has been selected. [1]
Texas Germans (German: Texas-Deutsche) are descendants of Germans who settled in Texas since the 1830s. The arriving Germans tended to cluster in ethnic enclaves; the majority settled in a broad, fragmented belt across the south-central part of the state, where many became farmers. [1]