Gibraltarian people
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| c. 40,000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Gibraltar 23,757+
|
|
 United Kingdom
|
11,830+ |
 Spain
|
~3,000 |
 United States
|
570 |
| Other |
905 |
| Languages | |
| English, Spanish Llanito (vernacular) |
|
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| British, Spanish, Andalusians, Catalans, Italians (Genoese), Maltese, Portuguese, Jews | |
905
The Gibraltarians (colloquially Llanitos) are a cultural group native to Gibraltar, a British overseas territory located near the southernmost tip of the Iberian Peninsula at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea.
Gibraltarians are a racial and cultural mixture of the many immigrants who came to the Rock of Gibraltar over three hundred years. They are the descendants of economic migrants who came to Gibraltar following its capture by an Anglo-Dutch force in 1704. All but 70 of the existing population of 4,000 fled to the surrounding Campo de Gibraltar.
Most Gibraltarian surnames are Mediterranean or British extraction. The exact breakdown is as follows:
Genoese and Catalans (who arrived in the fleet with Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt) became the core of Gibraltar's first civilian population under Habsburg Gibraltar. Sephardi Jews from Tetouan in Morocco, who had previously been suppliers to English Tangier, began supplying fresh produce to Gibraltar in 1704.
Jews in Gibraltar by 1755 together with the Genoese formed 50% of the civilian population (then 1,300). In 1888 construction of the new harbour at Gibraltar began to provide an additional coaling station on the British routes to the East. This resulted in the importation of Maltese labour both to assist in its construction, and to replace striking Genoese labour in the old coaling lighter-based industry. Maltese and Portuguese people formed the majority of this new population. Other groups include Minorcans (due to the links between both British possessions during the 18th century; immigration began in that century and continued even after Minorca was returned to Spain in 1802 by the Treaty of Amiens),Sardinians, Sicilians and other Italians, French, and British people.
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