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*There are also significant populations in '''the Americas''', with the largest contingent being in '''the United States'''. However, many people of Luxembourgish descent also live in '''Canada and Brazil''', to which large waves of Luxembourgers emigrated in the nineteenth century. | *There are also significant populations in '''the Americas''', with the largest contingent being in '''the United States'''. However, many people of Luxembourgish descent also live in '''Canada and Brazil''', to which large waves of Luxembourgers emigrated in the nineteenth century. | ||
*Others migrated to '''Hungary''' along with Germans during the first phase of German eastward settlement in the 12th century. Transylvanian Saxons and Banat Swabians are the descendants of these settlers.<ref>"Luxembourgers", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourgers, accessed 13 May 2021.</ref> | *Others migrated to '''Hungary''' along with Germans during the first phase of German eastward settlement in the 12th century. Transylvanian Saxons and Banat Swabians are the descendants of these settlers.<ref>"Luxembourgers", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourgers, accessed 13 May 2021.</ref> | ||
====Brazil==== | |||
*There are an estimated 50,000 Brazilians of partial Luxembourgian descent. Luxembourgian immigration to Brazil occurred mainly around 1828, when nearly 1,000 Luxembourgers settled there.<ref>"Luxembourgian Brazilians", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourgian_Brazilians, accessed 13 May 2021.</ref> | |||
== References == | == References == | ||