Greek Uruguayans
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Greek Uruguayans (Greek: Έλληνες της Ουρουγουάης) are Uruguayan residents either fully or partially of Greek descent or Greece-born people who reside in Uruguay.
Overview
The Greek community in Uruguay; most of them live in the Montevideo area. Some of them also settled in the frontier city of Rivera.[1]
The 2011 Uruguayan census revealed 103 people who declared Greece as their country of birth.[2]
There was also a very small number of Greek Jews.[3]
Notable people
- Fernando Kanapkis, footballer
- Obdulio Varela, footballer
- Carlos Linaris, footballer
- Graciela Paraskevaidis, musicologist
- Circe Maia, poet
See also
References
- ^ "Subjectivity and frontierland" (in Spanish). Brecha. 15 November 2019.
- ^ "Immigration to Uruguay" (PDF) (in Spanish). INE. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 August 2013. Retrieved 6 March 2013.
- ^ "100 years of Jewish institutional presence in Uruguay" (PDF). ORT Uruguay (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 May 2019.
External links
- Bilateral relations between Greece and Uruguay Archived 2006-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
- A Greek association
- Greek embassy in Uruguay
- Hellenic Community in Uruguay