Originally Posted by
Tenma de Pegasus
Its a big thing everywhere, Sao Paulo, Parana and Bahia received a lot of recent spaniards, all the country has a lot of spanish colonial ancestry. I have some ancestors by father and mother that came from Galicia and Navarra to the colony.
Spanish surnames are also common in Brazil, they are mostly absorbed together with other iberian surnames. Spanish people were very absorbed by the white colonial mass since the first beggining, unlike italians or germans that at first created their onw villages.
I am curious about the surname Toledo, is it common in Portugal or its just another name common in Brazil but actually from Spain?
The spanish ancestry of Brazil is direct via Spain, maybe Rio Grande do Sul and Mato Grosso do Sul have some spanish via our neighbors. You havent heard about spanish ancestry? Brazilians too. They are considered together as portugueses due to be very similar and rapidly desapeared inside groups already in Brazil for generations. Even them spaniards are very old in Brazil, they participated even in the expasion of Portuguese America during Iberian Union, so yes, its many centuries of absorption among us.
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