Portuguese in the Netherlands
Portuguese in the Netherlands (also known as Portuguese Dutch or the Dutch Portuguese Community) is a term that refers to citizens or residents of the Netherlands whose ethnic origins lie in the South Western European nation of Portugal.
Demographics
Portuguese Dutch are Portuguese-born citizens with a Dutch citizenship or Dutch-born citizens of Portuguese ancestry or citizenship.
Portuguese arrived to the Netherlands in the early and middle 18th century, as immigrants, mostly from Madeira Island and Lisbon. Over 20,000 of Dutch people claim that they are of Portuguese descent.
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Bold denotes ethnic groups that (partly) originate from within contemporary and historic parts of the Netherlands
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