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[[Croatia Emigration and Immigration]] – Wiki page with additional larger databases which also include Chileans<br> | |||
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*One of the most important groups of European immigrants in Chile are the Croats, whose number of descendants today (2009) is estimated to be 400,000 persons. Other authors claim, on the other hand, that close to 4.6% of the Chilean population must have some Croatian ancestry. According to some references, up to 50% of the population of '''Punta Arenas''' are descendants of Croats. Chile is the second-ranked country in the world for number of Croatian descendants, after Croatia itself. | *One of the most important groups of European immigrants in Chile are the Croats, whose number of descendants today (2009) is estimated to be 400,000 persons. Other authors claim, on the other hand, that close to 4.6% of the Chilean population must have some Croatian ancestry. According to some references, up to 50% of the population of '''Punta Arenas''' are descendants of Croats. Chile is the second-ranked country in the world for number of Croatian descendants, after Croatia itself. | ||
*The first Croatian immigrants came from '''Dalmatia''', arriving in the mid-19th century in escape from the '''wars unleashed in that region or from pestilence on the islands in the Adriatic Sea'''. | *The first Croatian immigrants came from '''Dalmatia''', arriving in the mid-19th century in escape from the '''wars unleashed in that region or from pestilence on the islands in the Adriatic Sea'''. | ||