Slovene Argentines
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 30,000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
|
Buenos Aires, San Carlos de Bariloche, Mendoza, Paraná, Córdoba |
|
| Languages | |
| Slovene, Spanish | |
| Religion | |
| Catholic with a Lutheran minority |
Buenos Aires, San Carlos de Bariloche,
Argentines of Slovene descent, also Slovene Argentines or Argentine Slovenes (Slovene: argentinski Slovenci), is a term referring to the group of Slovenes residing in Argentina. According to Jernej Zupančič of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, they number around 30,000.
The Slovenes in Argentina are descendants of three main groups of immigrants that arrived from the Slovene Lands mostly in the 20th century. The first were economic immigrants from the Prekmurje region and the Hungarian Slovenes. The second, much stronger wave was represented by Slovenes from the Julian March who moved to Argentina in the 1930s to escape the Italian Fascist persecution; they came mostly from the Vipava Valley and the Kras plateau. Their number was estimated at around 30,000. The third wave was composed of Slovene political immigrants that settled in Argentina after 1945 to escape Communist persecution. Their number was between 6,000 and 8,000. Most of the descendants of the latter group still use the Slovene language, including second and third-generation immigrants.
They are concentrated mainly in Buenos Aires and Greater Buenos Aires, San Carlos de Bariloche and Mendoza, with some smaller communities settled in Rosario, San Miguel de Tucumán and Paraná.
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