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*There are also other large Lebanese communities in Latin American countries, namely '''Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Venezuela, Haiti and Dominican Republic'''. | *There are also other large Lebanese communities in Latin American countries, namely '''Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Venezuela, Haiti and Dominican Republic'''. | ||
*Many Lebanese have also been settled for quite some time in the '''United States, Australia, France, Canada, The United Kingdom, South Africa and in the European Union member states'''. There are also sizable populations in the '''United Arab Emirates, Singapore''' as well as francophone West Africa, particularly '''Ivory Coast and Ghana'''.<ref>"Lebanese diaspora", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_diaspora, accessed 11 July 2021.</ref> | *Many Lebanese have also been settled for quite some time in the '''United States, Australia, France, Canada, The United Kingdom, South Africa and in the European Union member states'''. There are also sizable populations in the '''United Arab Emirates, Singapore''' as well as francophone West Africa, particularly '''Ivory Coast and Ghana'''.<ref>"Lebanese diaspora", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_diaspora, accessed 11 July 2021.</ref> | ||
== | ==Lebanese Americans== | ||
* | *Large scale-Lebanese immigration began in the late 19th century and settled mainly in '''Brooklyn and Boston, Massachusetts'''. They were marked as '''Syrians'''; many of the immigrants were Christians. Upon entering America, many of them worked as peddlers. The first wave continued until the 1920s. | ||
* | *The second wave of Lebanese immigration began in the late 1940s and continued through the early 1990s, when Lebanese immigrants had been '''fleeing the Lebanese Civil War'''. Between 1948 and 1990, over 60,000 Lebanese entered the United States. Since then, immigration has slowed to an estimated 5,000 immigrants a year, and those who now settle are predominantly Muslim, in contrast to the predominantly-Christian population of immigrants of previous waves. | ||
*'''Dearborn, Michigan''' has the highest concentration of Arab Americans in the United States, at over 40%. The rest of '''Metro Detroit''' has an even larger population of Lebanese residents. | |||
*'''Brooklyn, New York''' has one of the oldest Lebanese populations in America, dating over 125 years; one large center is in the Bay Ridge section. Once predominantly Christian, the Lebanese in Bay Ridge are today equally split between Muslims and Christians. | |||
*'''South Paterson, New Jersey''' historically had a large Lebanese Christian population dating back to the 1890s, but only a few remain, and the neighborhood has largely been replaced by new Palestinian immigrants. | |||
*'''Brooklyn''' holds a significant Lebanese community, with a Maronite Cathedral the center of one of two eparchies for Maronite Lebanese in the United States, the other being in Los Angeles. | |||
*'''Other sizeable Lebanese communities''' are found in: | |||
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*Easton, Pennsylvania | |||
*Utica, New York | |||
*San Diego, California | |||
*Jacksonville, Florida | |||
*Sterling Heights, Michigan | |||
*Los Angeles County and San Francisco, California | |||
*Peoria, Illinois | |||
*Grosse Pointe, Michigan | |||
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*Miami, Florida | |||
*Wichita, Kansas | |||
*Bloomfield, Michigan | |||
*Fall River, Massachusetts | |||
*Worcester, Massachusetts | |||
*Boston, Massachusetts | |||
*Methuen, Massachusetts | |||
*Lawrence, Massachusetts | |||
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*Salem, New Hampshire | |||
*Cleveland, Ohio | |||
*Lansing, Michigan | |||
*East Grand Rapids, Michigan | |||
*Lafayette, Louisiana | |||
*St. Clair Shores, Michigan | |||
*Toledo, Ohio | |||
*Houston, Texas | |||
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==For Further Reading== | ==For Further Reading== | ||