page_title: Ethnic groups in Baltimore
section_title: Dominicans
hierarchical_section_title: Ethnic groups in Baltimore / Ethnic groups / Hispanics and Latinos / Dominicans
caption_attribution_description: English: El Merengue Restaurant, a Dominican restaurant in Greektown, Baltimore, Maryland.
context_page_description: There have been a variety of ethnic groups in Baltimore, Maryland and its surrounding area for 12,000 years. Prior to European colonization, various Native American nations have lived in the Baltimore area for nearly 3 millennia, with the earliest known Native inhabitants dating to the 10th millenium BCE. Following Baltimore's foundation as a subdivision of the Province of Maryland by British colonial authorities in 1661, the city became home to numerous European settlers and immigrants and their African slaves. Since the first English settlers arrived, substantial immigration from all over Europe, the presence of a deeply rooted community of free black people that was the largest in the pre-Civil War United States, out-migration of African-Americans from the Deep South, out-migration of White Southerners from Appalachia, out-migration of Native Americans from the Southeast such as the Lumbee and the Cherokee, and new waves of more recent immigrants from Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and Africa have added layers of complexity to the workforce and culture of Baltimore, as well as the religious and ethnic fabric of the city.
context_section_description: At, 1,111 people, Dominican Americans made up 0.2% of Baltimore's population.
  In September 2014, immigrants from the Dominican Republic were the thirteenth largest foreign-born population in Baltimore.
caption: El Merengue, a Dominican restaurant in Greektown, June 2018.
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