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Greek Uruguayans (Greek: Έλληνες της Ουρουγουάης) are Uruguayan residents either fully or partially of Greek descent or Greece-born people who reside in Uruguay.

Overview

The Greek community in Uruguay; most of them live in the Montevideo area. Some of them also settled in the frontier city of Rivera.

The 2011 Uruguayan census revealed 103 people who declared Greece as their country of birth.

The Greek community center and the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Nikolaos are located on 19 de Abril Avenue in Prado. Another important Greek institution in Montevideo is the Maria Tsakos Foundation which offers free lessons of the Greek language, of Greek dances and cooking and organizes cultural activities. The Great Uruguayan footballer, Obdulio Varela was of part-Greek descent and is to date the only footballer with any Greek blood in them to win the FIFA World Cup.

There was also a very small number of Greek Jews.

Notable people

• Fernando Kanapkis, footballer
• Obdulio Varela, footballer
• Carlos Linaris, footballer
• Graciela Paraskevaidis, musicologist
• Circe Maia, poet

See also

• Greek people
• Greek diaspora
• Greek-Uruguayan relations

References

1. "Subjectivity and frontierland" (in Spanish). Brecha. 15 November 2019.
2. "Immigration to Uruguay" (PDF) (in Spanish). INE. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 August 2013. Retrieved 6 March 2013.
3. "100 years of Jewish institutional presence in Uruguay" (PDF). ORT Uruguay (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 May 2019.

External links

• Bilateral relations between Greece and Uruguay Archived 2006-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
• A Greek association
• Greek embassy in Uruguay
• Hellenic Community in Uruguay

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