Spaniards in Mexico
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| All over Mexico | |
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| Mexican Spanish. Minority speaks Castillian Spanish, Galician, Catalan, and Basque. | |
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| Predominantly Roman Catholicism | |
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| Spanish, Mestizos, Galicians, Castilians, Catalans, Asturians, Cantabrians, Aragonese |
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A Spanish Mexican (in Spanish Español Mexicano), is a Mexican citizen of Spanish descent or origin.
Spaniards make up the largest group of Europeans in Mexico[citation needed]. Most of them arrived during the colonial period but hundreds of thousands of others have since then immigrated, especially during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s [2]. In colonial times, Spaniards born in the Americas were called Criollos, and those born in Spain were called Peninsulares or Gachupínes,which was used in a derogatory manner.There are about 16 million people of unmixed Spanish ancestry and 74 million more with partial ancestry.[3]
The first Spaniards who arrived in Mexico were soldiers and sailors from Extremadura, Andalucía and La Mancha after the conquest of America[4][5]. At the end of the 16th century both commoner and aristocrat from Spain were migrating to Mexico.
The largest population of Spanish descent are located in states like Jalisco, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Durango, Guanajuato, Mexico City, Puebla, and Veracruz. Also, Northern Mexico is inhabited by many millions of Spanish descendants. Some states like Chihuahua, Sonora, and Nuevo Leon, have those of Spanish descent as the majority of the population.
Most recent migrants came during the Spanish Civil War. More than 100,000 Spanish refugees settled in Mexico during this era. Some of the migrants returned to Spain after the civil war, but many more remained in Mexico[citation needed].
The Asturians are a very large community that have a long history in Mexico, dating from colonial times to the present. There are about 42,000 people of Asturian descent in Mexico[citation needed]. The Catalans are also very numerous in Mexico. According to sources from the Catalan community, there are approximately 12,000 around the country.[citation needed]. There are also as many as 8,500 Basques[citation needed], 6,000 Galicians[citation needed], and 1,600 Canary Islanders[citation needed].
Regions
As the Spanish royal Government doted the New Spain from Kingdoms and Territories, a great part of them followed names. So we can find lots of Basque criollos in Durango and Southern Chihuahua as those territories were part of the Kingdom of New Vizcay, Galician decendents in Jalisco beeing part of the Kingdom of New Galicia.
See also
References
- ^ http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/379167/Mexico
- ^ http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=083e0b4728d31cd23a57533cf02c46c5
- ^ http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/379167/Mexico
- ^ http://www.emperadores.es/circuitos/tierra-de-conquistadores
- ^ http://www.allspainaccommodation.com/extremadura/extremadura.htm
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