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  Mexico - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
General Ignacio Zaragoza defeated the largely unsupported French Army in Mexico at the city of Puebla on May 5, 1862, celebrated as Cinco de Mayo ever since.
A similar case is that of the Plautdietsch language, spoken by the descendants of German and Dutch Mennonite immigrants in the states of Chihuahua and Durango.
Scandinavian languages and traditions can also be heard in Chihuahua, like Swedish and Norwegian in Nueva Escandinavia and other Scandinavian colonies in the north of the country.
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 Mexico - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
This Second Mexican Empire was fought off by then-president of the Republic, the Zapotec Benito Juárez, with diplomatic and logistical support from the United States and the military expertise of General Porfirio Díaz.
The official figures for foreign-born citizens in Mexico are 493,000 (since 2004), with a majority (86.9%) of these born in the US (with the exception of Chiapas, where the majority of immigrants are from Central America).
Nowadays, most of the people who live in the city of Chipilo (and many of those who have migrated to other cities) still speak the unaltered Veneto dialect spoken by their great-grandparents making the Veneto dialect an unrecognized minority language in the city of Puebla.
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 Mexico
General Ignacio Zaragoza defeated the French Army (arguably the most powerful in the world at the time) at the city of Puebla on May 5, 1862, celebrated as Cinco de Mayo ever since.
According to the CIA World Factbook, about 60 percent of the population is mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white), another 30% is Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian.
English is the main language spoken in U.S. expatriate communities such as those along the coast of Baja California and the town of San Miguel de Allende.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/m/me/mexico.html   (6062 words)

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