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*There are over 12,000 foreign workers from 81 countries registered in the Uruguayan social security. | *There are over 12,000 foreign workers from 81 countries registered in the Uruguayan social security. | ||
*As of October 2014, Uruguay received a new immigration flow of '''Syrian''' people as a consequence of the Syrian Civil War.<ref>"Immigration to Uruguay", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Uruguay, accessed 4 June 2021.</ref> | *As of October 2014, Uruguay received a new immigration flow of '''Syrian''' people as a consequence of the Syrian Civil War.<ref>"Immigration to Uruguay", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Uruguay, accessed 4 June 2021.</ref> | ||
====Spanish Uruguayans==== | |||
*Between the 15th and early 19th centuries, the Spanish Empire was the sole colonial power in the Banda Oriental (now Uruguay). Thus, before 1811, a great part of the European settlers in Uruguay were from Spain, and they carried the Spanish colonial administration, including religious affairs, government and commercial business. A substantial '''Spanish-descended Criollo population''' gradually built up in the new cities, while some mixed with the indigenous populations '''(mestizos)''', with the Black slave population '''(mulattoes)''' or with other European immigrants. | |||
*The Spanish immigrants arriving between 18th and 20th century have different origins, but a significant number of them are from ''''https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Uruguayans#Canary Islands the Canary Islands], Catalonia, Galicia and the Basque Country.''' | |||
===Emigration from Uruguay=== | ===Emigration from Uruguay=== | ||