Russian Mennonites

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The Russian Mennonites (German: Russlandmennoniten, lit. 'Russia Mennonites', i.e., Mennonites of or from the Russian Empire]; Spanish: Menonitas rusos) are a group of Mennonites who are the descendants of Dutch and North German Anabaptists who settled in the Vistula delta in West Prussia for about 250 years and established colonies in the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine and Russia's Volga region, Orenburg Governorate, and Western Siberia) beginning in 1789. Since the late 19th century, many of them have migrated to countries throughout the Western Hemisphere. Most of the rest were forcibly relocated, so very few of their descendants live in the locations of the original colonies. Russian Mennonites are traditionally multilingual but Plautdietsch (Mennonite Low German) is their first language as well as their lingua franca. In 2014, there were several hundred thousand Russian Mennonites: about 200,000 live in Germany, 74,122 in Mexico, 150,000 in Bolivia, 40,000 in Paraguay, 10,000...

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