White Africans of European ancestry

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White Africans of European ancestry refers to citizens or residents in Africa who can trace full or partial ancestry to Europe. They are distinguished from Arabs, Berbers, and Copts in North Africa, who are sometimes identified as 'White' in U.S. Law, but not European. In 1989, there were an estimated 4.6 million White people with European ancestry on the African continent. Most are of Anglo-Celtic, Dutch, French, German, and Portuguese origin. To a lesser extent, there are also those who descended from Belgians, Greeks, Italians, Scandinavians, and Spaniards. The majority once lived along the Mediterranean coast or in Southern Africa. The earliest permanent European communities in Africa during the Age of Discovery were formed at the Cape of Good Hope; Luanda, Angola; São Tomé Island; and Santiago, Cape Verde through the introduction of Portuguese and Dutch traders or military personnel. Other groups of White settlers arrived in newly established French, German, Belgian, and British settlements...

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