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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
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.
Smaller and later numbers of settlers were German Catholics or German Jews. 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 ...
Germans dominated the first big wave of European settlers to Iowa, forced from their homeland by revolution. German heritage remains prevalent today.
Settled by German immigrants, who named it after Bremen, Germany: Bremen: Maine: Mostly settled by German immigrants, who named it after Bremen, Germany when the town was incorporated on February 19, 1828. [28] Bremen: North Dakota: Named after Bremen, Germany. Bremen: Ohio: Named after Bremen, Germany. [29] Bremen Township: Minnesota: Named ...
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.
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]
German Mexicans were important in the development of the Mexican cheese and brewing industries. The brewing industry, in Monterrey, Nuevo León, and Mazatlán, Sinaloa, were developed in large part by ethnic German immigrants bringing to the region famed Bavarian style dark malt brewing techniques. [17]