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The presence of North Africans in the United States is recorded since the 16th century. Even then, some of the early explorers who accompanied the Spanish on their expeditions in the United States were North Africans, a group that also contributed to the settlement of some Spanish colonies of that country. Most of the North Africans are a mix and match of North Africa natives (descending mostly of Berber tribes and native Egyptians) and descendants of conquerors and Arabs invaders (from Arabian Peninsula) people. Most North African have now, the Muslim religion. Currently, the North African population in the United States exceeds 800,000 people. Its largest populations are found in the eastern United States.〔(Egyptian Americans by Mona Mikhail )〕 North Africans in the U.S. can be of Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian, Libyan, Egyptians, Sahrawi, Mauritanian and northern Sudanese origin. They are also sometimes included in that group the Canarians, that by the geography situation of the Canary Islands in the North Africa, and the partly North African ancestry of his population (the Canarians are a mixture of North African of Berber origin and Europeans) are also considered North Africans (although politically are Europeans, and linguistically, being Spanish, Hispanics). Most North Africans in the United States are considered to be Arab Americans as well. Although according to the 2000 census there were 3,217 North Africans in the country, the number of people that indicated some North African specific origin exceeded with many this figure (the Marocco American, per example were more of 37.000 people in the same census). As of 2008, there were over 800,000 North Africans in the United States hailing from North Africa's the various native ethnics groups. While some North Africans may not identify and are not perceived to be white, the U.S. Census classifies them as such. ==History== The first centuries of a North African presence in the U.S. is related to the Spanish colonial period in the Southern part of the present-day United States. Moroccan presence in the United States was rare until the mid-twentieth century. The first North Africa who came to the current United States was probably the Azemmouri or Estevanico´s slave, a Muslim Moroccan pilot boat of Berber origin, who participated in the Pánfilo de Narváez's ill-fated expedition to colonize Florida and the Gulf Coast in 1527. Only Azemmouri and three of his comrades survived during the eleven-year- long of journey, of 5,000 mile, from Florida to the West Coast, ending the tour in Texas.〔(Se confirma la presencia de musulmanes hispanos en la América precolombina ) (in Spanish: It confirms the presence of Hispanic Muslims in pre-Columbian America)〕 So, in 1534, them crossed the southern from United States until Arizona, being also, more later, one of four men who accompanied Marcos de Niza as a guide in search of the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola, preceding Coronado.〔Martínez Laínez, Fernando; Canales, Carlos (2009). ''Banderas Lejanas: la Exploración, Conquista y Defensa por España del Territorio de los Actuales Estados Unidos'' (In Spanish: Far Flags: Exploration, conquest and Defence by Spain of the Territory of the United States Current). EDAF. ISBN 978-84-414-2119-6〕He was also the first explorer who entered an Indian village.〔 Later, in 1566, forty years before Jamestown, the Spanish founded the colony of Santa Elena, la Florida. The colony grew for over twenty years until it was invaded by the British in 1587. Many of the Santa Elena colonists were Moriscos and Jews. Ethnically, many of the Santa Elena colonists were Muslims of Berber origin and Sephardic Jews, recruited by the Portuguese Captain Joao Pardo in the thick Galician mountains of northern Portugal in 1567, i.e. less than a year before the climax of the Inquisition against Muslims. When Santa Elena fell, its inhabitants-including the converted Jews and Muslims-escaped into the mountains of North Carolina. And there survived, often marrying Native American, and then joining a second group that came to American shores, ironically in 1587, the same year that Santa Elena fell.〔 However, until the second half of the 20th century, most of the North African people who emigrated to the United States came, actually, from the Canary Islands, that politically belong to Spain. They came to some the Spanish colonies of South from United States with the objective to found and repopulate regions for Spain. In 1539, Hernando de Soto recruited some expeditionaries in this archipelago to explore La Florida, and in 1569 embarked another group of Canarian farmers (known in the Americas as Isleños) with this destination. During the 18th century other groups of Canarian people arrived to the present United States, and became established in several zones of the South of this country. Thus, in 1731 arrived 16 Canarian families to San Antonio (Texas), between 1757 to 1780, arrived more of 984 Canarian families to Florida (that, although they promoted the agriculture of this state, the most of the settlers of Florida emigrated to Cuba when Florida was sold to the UK in 1763, well as when, after being recovered by Spain, was ceded to the United States in 1819) and between 1778 and 1783 emigrated more of 2,000 Canarians to Louisiana. Thus, more than 3,000 canaries emigrated to the Spanish colonies in North America during the 18th century.〔Hernández González, Manuel. La emigración canaria a América (Canary emigration to Americas). Pages 43 (about the Canarian emigration of Texas and Florida), page 51(about the Canarian emigration to Louisiana). First Edition January, 2007〕 However they are Spanish politically. The continentals North Africans only began to emigrate to United States in significant numbers since the 1960s, most of them were Egyptian (that fled of his country when be developed a popular revolt and the change of system that it caused). 〔Until this moment the continental North Africans that arrived to United States were very few, not reaching to 100 people in the first half of the 19th century. Many of emigrates North Africans were Jews during the first half of the 20th century. 〔(Evertculture:Morocco American ). Posted by Elizabeth Shostak〕Many Moroccans, Algerians and Tunisians also began to arrive significantly in the 1970s. 〔While that the Sudanese not started arriving in significant numbers until the 1980s, in his majority to escape the civil war in his country.〔(Health and Health-Related Factors of Sudanese )〕 The most of North African emigrate by economic reasons, religious persecutions, for get a better education in foreign universities or as political refugee fleeing or the Civil and political wars. All them were also the reasons of the emigration North African to United States.〔〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「North Africans in the United States」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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