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*As with other immigrants that arrived in America, several Portuguese surnames have been changed to align with more American sounding names, for example Rodrigues to Rogers, Oliveira to Oliver, Martins to Martin, Pereira to Perry, Moraes or Morais to Morris, Magalhães to McLean, Souto to Sutton, Moura to Moore, Serrão to Serran, Silva to Silver or Sylvia, Rocha to Rock (or Stone), Madeira or Madeiros to Wood, Pontes to Bridges, Fernandes to Frederick, Costa to Charlie, Emo or Emos to Emma and Santos to Stan.<ref name="PA"/> | *As with other immigrants that arrived in America, several Portuguese surnames have been changed to align with more American sounding names, for example Rodrigues to Rogers, Oliveira to Oliver, Martins to Martin, Pereira to Perry, Moraes or Morais to Morris, Magalhães to McLean, Souto to Sutton, Moura to Moore, Serrão to Serran, Silva to Silver or Sylvia, Rocha to Rock (or Stone), Madeira or Madeiros to Wood, Pontes to Bridges, Fernandes to Frederick, Costa to Charlie, Emo or Emos to Emma and Santos to Stan.<ref name="PA"/> | ||
====Portuguese Angolans==== | |||
*The Portuguese colony of Angola was founded in 1575 with a '''hundred families of colonists and four hundred soldiers'''. | |||
*Many Portuguese settlers married '''native Africans''' resulting in a mixed-race (mulato, later generally called mestiço) population. | |||
*Angola was declared a formal Portuguese province in the 19th century, but only in the early 20th century did the mainland government allow '''large-scale white emigration and settlement to Angola''' and its other provinces. | |||
*In 1960, Angola had up to 172,000 Portuguese settlers. The majority of whom came from rural agrarian backgrounds in Portugal who saw engaging in commerce in Angola as one of the few means of upward social mobility available to them. | |||
*As the Angolan war of independence began in 1961, triggering off a late colonial development of Angola, there was an '''influx of Portuguese military personnel, as well as civil servants and other people'''.As a consequence, the number of Portuguese living in Angola went up to about 350,000. This number would have been higher, had a significant part of the settlers not left for other countries, especially '''Namibia, Brazil, South Africa and the United States'''. | |||
*When the Salazar regime in Portugal was abolished by a military coup in Portugal, in 1974, and independence was granted to the colonies by the new government, '''whites overwhelmingly left Angola''' after independence in 1975. Most of them went to Portugal, where they were called '''retornados''' and were not always welcomed, while others moved to neighboring '''Namibia (then a South African territory), South Africa or Brazil, or United States'''. It is estimated that around 250,000 left the country in 1975 and by 1976 only 30,000 to 40,000 remained in Angola. | |||
*After Angola abandoned in 1991 the socialist regime adopted in 1975, many Portuguese Angolans returned to Angola. Due to Angola's economic boom, which started in the 1990s, an increasing number of Portuguese without previous attachment to Angola have migrated to Angola for economic reasons, most importantly the recent national economic boom. As of 2008, Angola was the '''preferred destination for Portuguese migrants in Africa'''.Portuguese nationals numbered an estimated 120,000 in 2011, reaching about 200,000 in 2013.<ref>"Portuguese Angolans", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Angolans, accessed 30 May 2021.</ref> | |||
====Portuguese Brazilians==== | ====Portuguese Brazilians==== | ||
*After 1530, the '''Portuguese''' started to settle in Brazil in significant numbers. | *After 1530, the '''Portuguese''' started to settle in Brazil in significant numbers. | ||