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Italian settlement Santa Teresa, Espírito Santo: Total population; c. 450,000 (by citizenship) [1] c. 32,000,000 (by ancestry, about 15% of the total Brazilian population) [2] [3] [4] However, it is important to note that there are no official numbers of how many Brazilians have Italian ancestry, as the national census does not ask the ancestry of the Brazilian people since 1940.
The Italian language in Brazil has been widespread since the second half of the 19th century, particularly due to Italian emigration to Brazil.Today there are an estimated 26 million descendants of Italians residing in the country; [1] among them, Italian is estimated to be spoken as a first language by about 50,000 people. [2]
Italian regional immigration to Brazil, which has the most people of Italian origin outside Italy. Unlike other countries with Italian immigrants, Brazil prioritized Northern Italy which it considered more developed. Immigration to Brazil is the movement to Brazil of foreign peoples to reside permanently. It should not be confused with the ...
An Italian businessman was arrested in the Brazilian city of Natal as part of an international investigation into a mafia network worth an estimated 500 million euros ($550 million), Italy's ...
Italian-Brazilian culture (1 C, 13 P) Pages in category "Italian diaspora in Brazil" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Immigration began is a smaller scale and spontaneously between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th, gaining intensity in the period from 1875 to 1914, when, through a colonizing program of the Brazilian government, eighty to one hundred thousand Italian immigrants entered the state of Rio Grande do Sul.
Brazil's public prosecutor has told the Supreme Court that the Brazilian government can extradite Cesare Battisti, an Italian left-wing former guerrilla convicted of murder in his country. The top ...
The names of thirteen of Brazil's twenty six states also have Amerindian origin. Starting in the early 19th century, Brazil started to receive substantial immigration of non-Portuguese-speaking people from Europe and Asia. Most immigrants, particularly Italians [24] and Spaniards, adopted the Portuguese language after a few generations.