descendants
mestico, angolares (descendants of Angolan slaves), forros (descendants of freed slaves), servicais (contract laborers from Angola, Mozambique, and Cape Verde), tongas (children of servicais born on the islands), Europeans (primarily Portuguese)
www.exxun.com/SaoTomeandPrincipe/c_pp.html
descendants
... in the south), Temne (principal vernacular in the north), Krio (English-based Creole, spoken by the descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area, a lingua franca and ...
www.exxun.com/SierraLeone/c_pp.html
descended
The population of the Faroe Islands is largely descended from Viking settlers who arrived in the 9th century. The islands have been connected politically to Denmark since the 14th century. A high ...
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descended
... the country for a couple of decades. After the regime's collapse early in 1991, Somalia descended into turmoil, factional fighting, and anarchy. In May 1991, northern clans declared an independent Republic ...
www.exxun.com/Somalia/a_fg.html
descendent
... Ibn Saud) after a 30-year campaign to unify most of the Arabian Peninsula. A male descendent of Ibn Saud, his son ABDALLAH bin Abd al-Aziz, rules the country today as ...
www.exxun.com/SaudiArabia/a_fg.html
descendents
Arab 95%, Armenian 4%, other 1% note: many Christian Lebanese do not identify themselves as Arab but rather as descendents of the ancient Canaanites and prefer to be called Phoenicians
www.exxun.com/Lebanon/c_pp.html
descendents
... much to promote foreign investment and to bridge the economic, social, and political gaps between the descendents of the original settlers and the inhabitants of the interior. In 1980, a military coup ...
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descending
dominated by extension of Ethiopian north-south trending highlands, descending on the east to a coastal desert plain, on the northwest to hilly terrain and on the southwest to flat-to-rolling ...
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descent
UK and Norman-French descent with small percentages from other European countries
www.exxun.com/Guernsey/c_pp.html
descent
Manx (Norse-Celtic descent), Britons
www.exxun.com/IsleofMan/c_pp.html
descent
homogeneous Mediterranean stock; citizens of black African descent who immigrated to mainland during decolonization number less than 100,000; since 1990 East Europeans have entered Portugal
www.exxun.com/Portugal/c_pp.html
descent
African descent 50%, white 25%, Chinese 25%
www.exxun.com/SaintHelena/c_pp.html
descent
... not included because the US Census Bureau considers Hispanic to mean a person of Latin American descent (including persons of Cuban, Mexican, or Puerto Rican origin) living in the US who may ...
www.exxun.com/UnitedStates/c_pp.html
described
... the Coast Guard to the Department of the Interior. A 1998 scientific expedition to the island described it as a unique preserve of Caribbean biodiversity; the following year it became a National ...
www.exxun.com/NavassaIsland/a_fg.html
described
... in general, most countries make the following claims measured from the mean low-tide baseline as described in the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea: territorial sea - 12 nm ...
www.exxun.com/World/b_mp.html
describes
... 29.1% land. The former portion is divided into large water bodies termed oceans. Exxun.com recognizes and describes five oceans, which are in decreasing order of size: the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian ...
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describing
Bhutan cooperates with India to expel Indian Nagaland separatists; lacking any treaty describing the boundary, Bhutan and China continue negotiations to establish a common boundary alignment to resolve territorial disputes arising from ...
www.exxun.com/Bhutan/i_ti.html
describing
... claims most of India's Arunachal Pradesh to the base of the Himalayas; lacking any treaty describing the boundary, Bhutan and China continue negotiations to establish a common boundary alignment to resolve ...
www.exxun.com/China/i_ti.html
describing
Lacking a treaty or other documentation describing the boundary, portions of the Lebanon-Syria boundary are unclear with several sections in dispute; since 2000, Lebanon has claimed Shab'a Farms area in ...
www.exxun.com/Lebanon/i_ti.html
describing
... Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) patrolling a buffer zone since 1964; lacking a treaty or other documentation describing the boundary, portions of the Lebanon-Syria boundary are unclear with several sections in dispute ...
www.exxun.com/Syria/i_ti.html
descriptions
... 1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October note: The Hague is the seat of government; time descriptions apply to the continental Netherlands only, not to the Caribbean components
www.exxun.com/Netherlands/d_gv.html
Desenvolvimento
Etica [Abdul CARIMO Issa, chairman]; Human Rights and Development (Direitos Humanos e Desenvolvimento) or DHD [Artemisia FRANCO, secretary general]; Institute for Peace and Democracy (Instituto para Paz e Democracia) or IPADE [Raul ...
www.exxun.com/Mozambique/d_gv.html
desert
mostly high plateau and desert; some mountains; narrow, discontinuous coastal plain
www.exxun.com/Algeria/b_mp.html
desert
mostly low desert plain rising gently to low central escarpment
www.exxun.com/Bahrain/b_mp.html
