Flemish Americans

Flemish Americans
Total population
(12,111 (2000)^[1])
Languages
American English, Flemish
Religion
Roman Catholicism

Flemish Americans are Americans of Flemish descent and a subgroup of Belgian Americans. In the 2000 census, 12,111 American identified themselves as being of full or partial Flemish ancestry.

History

On 13 August 1914, a Flemish-language newspaper, Gazette van Detroit, was founded by Belgian emigrants in Detroit. As of 2014, the newspaper is still in publication.^[2]

Notable Flemish-Americans

George W. Goethals, the builder of the Panama Canal. He was born in 1858 in Brooklyn, N.Y. of Flemish parentage. He was the son of John Louis and Marie LeBarron, who emigrated to the United States from Stekene, near Ghent in 1850.
Frank Oz, a noted puppeteer of partial Flemish ancestry.

References

↑ "Table 1. First, Second, and Total Responses to the Ancestry Question by Detailed Ancestry Code: 2000". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2013-06-01.
↑ A Short History of the Gazette Van Detroit, Gazette Van Detroit Accessed on 16-04-2015

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European Americans

Central Europe	Austrian¹ Czech Silesian German¹ Amish Frisian German Texan Pennsylvania Dutch German Mennonites from Russia Hungarian Hungarian Ohioans Liechtensteiner Luxembourgian Polish¹ Kashubian Slovak Slovene Sorbian Swiss

Eastern Europe	Azerbaijani⁵ Belarusian Georgian⁵ Kazakh⁶ Russian^1, ² Chechen Cossack Kalmyk Ukrainian Cossack Rusyn

Northern Europe	Estonian Finnish Latvian Lithuanian Scandinavian Danish Faroese Greenlandic Icelandic Norwegian Norwegian Dakotan Norwegian Minnesotan Sami Swedish

Southeast Europe³	Albanian Bosnian Bulgarian Croatian Greek Macedonian Moldovan Montenegrin Romanian Serbian Turkish⁴

Southern Europe	Italian Sicilian Maltese Monacan Portuguese Sanmarinese Spanish Asturian Basque Canarian Catalan Galician Hispano

Western Europe	Belgian Flemish British Cornish English Manx Scots-Irish Scottish Welsh Dutch French Basque Breton Cajun Corsican Irish

Other Europeans	Roma Hungarian Slovak Romanies⁷ Louisiana Creole Cajun Isleños

¹ Poles came to the United States legally as Austrians, Germans, Prussians or Russians throughout the 19th century, because from 1772-1795 till 1918, all Polish lands had been partitioned between imperial Austria, Prussia (a protoplast of Germany) and Russia until Poland regained its sovereignty in the wake of World War I. ² Russia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. The vast majority of its population (80%) lives in European Russia, therefore Russia as a whole is included as a European country here. ³ Yugoslav Americans are the American people from the former Yugoslavia. ⁴ Turkey is a transcontinental country in the Middle East and Southeast Europe. Has a small part of its territory (3%) in Southeast Europe called Turkish Thrace. ⁵ Azerbaijan and Georgia are transcontinental countries. They have a small part of their territories in the European part of the Caucasus. ⁶ Kazakhstan is technically a bicontinental country, having a small portion in European hands. ⁷ Disputed; Roma have recognized origins and historic ties to Asia (specifically to Northern India), but they experienced at least some distinctive identity development while in diaspora among Europeans.

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Flemish Americans

History

Notable Flemish-Americans

See also

References

Further reading

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