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Flemish people also emigrated at the end of the fifteenth century, when Flemish traders conducted intensive trade with Spain and Portugal, and from there moved to colonies in America and Africa. [28] The newly discovered Azores were populated by 2,000 Flemish people from 1460 onwards, making these volcanic islands known as the "Flemish Islands".
The 2009-2013 survey estimated 141,580 people of 5 years and over to speak Dutch at home, [ 3 ] which was equal to 0.0486% of the total population of the United States. In 2021, 95.3% of the total Dutch American population of 5 years and over only spoke English at home.
In the 17th and the 18th centuries, many Belgians left their mark on American history, including Baron Baltimore, who was related to Flemish aristocrats. Belgian officers also fought during the American Revolutionary War ; these included Charles De Pauw (a Fleming who accompanied Lafayette to North America), Thomas Van Gaasbeck, Jacques Rapalje ...
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American people of Flemish descent (15 P) Pages in category "Flemish diaspora in the United States" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
An increasing number of people ignored the ancestry question or chose no specific ancestral group such as "American or United States". In the 2000 census this represented over 56.1 million or 19.9% of the United States population, an increase from 26.2 million (10.5%) in 1990 and 38.2 million (16.9%) in 1980 and are specified as "unclassified ...
About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate; Contribute ... People of Flemish descent (15 C, 8 P) I. Flemish expatriates in Italy (1 P) U. Flemish American (1 C, 2 P)
After some early trading expeditions, the first Dutch settlement in the Americas was founded in 1615: Fort Nassau, on Castle Island along the Hudson, near present-day Albany. The settlement served mostly as an outpostfor fur tradewith the native Lenapetribespeople, but was later replaced by Fort Orange.