Lithuanians in Uruguay
Memorial in the Republic of Lithuania Square, Montevideo, featuring the traditional Columns of Gediminas.
A Lithuanian Uruguayan is a Uruguayan citizen who is fully or partially of Lithuanian descent.
Lithuanians migrated to Uruguay mostly during the 1920s and 1930s; they eventually reached the 10,000-people-mark. They established their own institutions, such as the Uruguay-Lithuania Cultural Association[1] and several Lithuanian-language newspapers, notably Naujoji Banga.
There is also a small Lithuanian Jewish community in Montevideo.
The 2011 Uruguayan census revealed 104 people who declared Lithuania as their country of birth.[2]
Notable people
- Zoma Baitler, artist
- Victorio Cieslinskas, Olympic basketball player (bronze in 1952)
- Vladas Doukšas, footballer
- José Gurvich, painter
- Leonel Pilipauskas, footballer
References
- ↑ Uruguay-Lithuania Cultural Association
- ↑ "Immigration to Uruguay" (PDF). INE. Retrieved 6 March 2013. (Spanish)
| Americas | |
|---|---|
| Europe | |
| Oceania | |
| International | |
| Indigenous | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-Indigenous |
| ||||||||||||||
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 10/6/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.