Total population | |
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1,500[citation needed] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Caracas[citation needed] | |
Languages | |
Spanish (Venezuelan Spanish) · Romanian | |
Religion | |
Christianity (there is also a small group of Romanian Jews) | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Venezuelan of European descent |
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Romanian Venezuelans are Venezuelans of Romanian descent or a Romania-born person who resides in Venezuela.[citation needed]
The Romanian community in Venezuela is around 10,000 people.[1] They are mostly immigrants who arrived in the country, like many other European nationalities, following the Second World War and the policies of the governments of the Warsaw Pact.[2] Romanians became adjusted to Venezuelan society, because Romanian and Spanish belong to Romance languages, as well as Romanians' Latin identity.[citation needed]
During the Venezuelan refugee crisis, some Venezuelans of Romanian descent migrated to Romania.[3]
Notable people
[edit]- Joana Benedek - model and telenovela actress.
- Jacques Braunstein - musician, economist, publicist and disc jockey.
- Paul Georgescu - hydraulic engineer. Emeritus professor of Simon Bolivar University.
- Sofia Imber - journalist and cultural promoter, creator of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas.
- Lya Imber - first woman in Venezuela to earn the degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences.
- Moisés Kaufman - playwright, director and founder of Tectonic Theater Project.
- Thea Segall - photographer
See also
[edit]- Romanian diaspora
- Immigration to Venezuela
- Romanian Orthodox Church of Caracas
- Venezuelans of European descent
Notes
[edit]- ^ "America Latină". Departamentul pentru Românii de Pretutindeni (in Romanian). Archived from the original on 2012-12-21. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
- ^ Cruz, Edgar (1997-05-02). "La Iglesia ortodoxa rumana de Venezuela. UN TROZO DE LOS CÁRPATOS EN EL HATILLO". El Universal (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2015-07-22. Retrieved 2015-07-22.
- ^ "Refugiat în propria țară: „Ori plec, ori mor!" Un tânăr din Venezuela a fugit de socialism în România, după ce, în urmă cu 70 de ani, bunicul lui român fugea de comunism în Venezuela!" (in Romanian).