Chechen Americans

Chechen Americans
Total population
(250-1,000^[1])
Regions with significant populations
New York City, Miami, Boston, Los Angeles
Languages
American English, Chechen, Russian
Religion
Sunni Islam

Chechen Americans are Americans of Chechen descent. Chechen people have origins from Chechnya, a federal subject of Russia.

Demographics

They are a small minority group with a population numbering only several hundred, as of 2013. Exact statistics are difficult to obtain because Chechens are categorized as Russians in asylee reports. The most significant Chechen communities are in the Boston, Washington, D.C., New York City, and Los Angeles areas.^[2]

Notable people

Lists of Americans
By U.S. state
By ethnicity or nationality
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Danish Dominican Americans (Dominica) Dominican Americans (Dominican Republic) Dutch
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Gambian Georgian German Ghanaian Greek Guatemalan Guinean Guyanese
Haitian Hispanic and Latino Hmong Honduran Hungarian
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Native American Native Hawaiian Nepalese New Zealand Nicaraguan Nigerian Norwegian
Pakistani Palauan Palestinian Panamanian Paraguayan Peruvian Polish Portuguese Puerto Ricans Stateside
Romani Romanian Russian Rusyn
Salvadoran Scotch-Irish Scottish Senegalese Serbian Sicilian Singaporean Slovak Slovene Somali South African Spanish Hispanos Sri Lankan Sudanese Surinamese Swedish Swiss Syrian
Taiwanese Tajikistani Tanzanian Thai Tongan Trinidadian and Tobagonian Turkish
Ugandan Ukrainian Uruguayan Uzbek
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Welsh

Ilyas Akhmadov, foreign minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.
Khassan Baiev, trauma surgeon.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (born 1993) and Tamerlan Tsarnaev (1986-2013), brothers convicted of the April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon bombing in Boston, Massachusetts.

References

↑ Andrew Meier (April 19, 2013). "The Chechens in America: Why They’re Here and Who They Are". The Daily Beast. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
↑ Bishop, Tricia (April 28, 2013). "Chechens in U.S. feel shame, fear over Boston bombing". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved May 4, 2013.

External links

Chechnya Advocacy Network

European Americans
Central Europe	Austrian^1, Czech German^1, Amish German Texan Pennsylvania Dutch German Mennonites from Russia Hungarian Hungarian Ohioans Kashubian Liechtensteiner Luxembourgian Polish^1, Slovak Slovene Sorbian Swiss
Eastern Europe	Armenian⁵ Azerbaijani⁵ Belarusian Chechen Georgian⁵ Kazakh⁶ Russian^1, ² Cossack Kalmyk Ukrainian Cossack Rusyn
Northern Europe	Danish Estonian Faroese Finnish Icelandic Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian Norwegian Dakotan Norwegian Minnesotan Sami Swedish
Southeast Europe³	Albanian Bosnian Bulgarian Cypriot Croatian Greek Macedonian Moldovan Montenegrin Romanian Serbian Alaskan Serbs Turkish⁴
Southern Europe	Italian Sicilian Maltese Monacan Portuguese Sanmarinese Spanish Asturian Basque Canarian Catalan Galician Hispano
Western Europe	Basque Belgian Flemish Breton Corsican British Cornish English Manx Scots-Irish/Ulster Scots Scottish Welsh Dutch French Cajun Frisian Irish
Other Europeans	Non-Hispanic whites Métis 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 Armenia, 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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