Portuguese Mozambicans
| Total population | |
|---|---|
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(82,593 (0.36% of the population)  25,000 Portuguese immigrants (2011)) |
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| Regions with significant populations | |
| Maputo, Matola, Beira, Pemba | |
| Languages | |
| Portuguese, Xitsonga, Makhuwa, Ndau dialect of Shona, Swahili, and other Bantu languages | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity (predominantly Roman Catholic with some Protestants) | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Portuguese people, Portuguese Brazilian, white Brazilians, Portuguese Africans |
(82,593 (0.36% of the population)
57,593 Mozambican citizens (2012)
Portuguese Mozambicans (Portuguese: luso-moçambicanos) are Mozambican-born descendants of Portuguese settlers.
Portuguese explorers turned to present-day Mozambique and two other PALOP nations (Angola and Guinea-Bissau) to bring black slaves to Portugal before bringing them to work for their plantations in their Latin American province, the present-named Brazil. The first permanent Portuguese communities in the region were established in the 16th century. The whole region was divided into prazos (agricultural estates), to be lived by Portuguese settler families in the 17th century. Mozambique was declared a Portuguese province by the 19th century. By the early 20th century, the mainland government permitted more white emigration and settlement to the region, and Mozambique had 370,000 Portuguese settlers, who improved its economy, by the 1960s. It was during this time that António de Oliveira Salazar led Portugal, in which several thousands of Portuguese citizens fled to other countries, especially neighbouring Rhodesia and South Africa as well as Brazil and the United States. Blacks and some mestiços and whites revolted against Portuguese rule in 1974.
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