Luxembourgers

Luxembourgers

Infobox Ethnic group
group = Luxembourgers


population = >430,000
regions = flagcountry|Luxembourgnbsp|5~300,000 cite web|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ltz |title=Luxembourgish |accessdate=2007-06-25 |year=2005 |publisher=Ethnologue ]
region1 = flagcountry|United States
pop1 = >45,139
ref1 = [cite web|url=http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/QTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=01000US&-qr_name=DEC_2000_SF3_U_QTP13&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF3_U |title=Total US population by ancestry |accessdate=2007-06-25 |year=2000 |publisher=United States Census Bureau] cite web|url=http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/imlu/luxem.html |title=Luxembourgers in America |accessdate=2007-06-25 |date=12 January 2006 |publisher=Library of Congress ]
region2 = flagcountry|France
pop2 = 40,000
ref2 =
region3 = flagcountry|Belgium
pop3 = 30,000
ref3 =
region4 = flagcountry|Germany
pop4 = 15,000
ref4 = Fact|date=January 2008
region5 = flagcountry|Brazil
pop5 = 25,000 - 80,000
ref5 = fr icon cite web|url=http://www.cdmh.lu/resources/pdf/_base_documents/3108332430.pdf |title=L’émigration luxembourgeoise vers l’Argentine |first=Claude |last=Wey |accessdate=2007-06-25 |year=2002 |publisher=CDMH |format=PDF]
region6 = flagcountry|Argentina
pop6 =
ref6 =
languages = Luxembourgish, French, German
religions = Christianity (predominantly Roman Catholic, some Protestants)
related = Germans, French
footnotes =

Luxembourgers are defined as an ethnic groupFact|date=July 2008, sharing Luxembourgian culture and being of Luxembourgian descent.

Location

Most ethnic Luxembourgers live in Luxembourg. However, there is a relatively large diaspora, in Europe and elsewhere. Particularly, there are populations in the surrounding countries of Belgium, France, and Germany. For the most part, this is due to historic reasons, especially the three Partitions of Luxembourg, which led to former territories of Luxembourg being incorporated into each of the three surrounding countries.

There are also significant populations in the Americas, with the largest contingent being in the United States. However, many people of Luxembourgian descent live in Argentina and Brazil, to which large waves of Luxembourgers emigrated in the nineteenth century, as did Germans at the same time.

ee also

* Luxembourg Americans

Footnotes

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