minorities
... special powers to protect regional interests, including the safeguarding of cultural and linguistic traditions among ethnic minorities) and the National Assembly (400 seats; members are elected by popular vote under a system ...
www.exxun.com/SouthAfrica/d_gv.html
minorities
indigenous population: Swedes with Finnish and Sami minorities; foreign-born or first-generation immigrants: Finns, Yugoslavs, Danes, Norwegians, Greeks, Turks
www.exxun.com/Sweden/c_pp.html
minorities
Ukrainian (official) 67%, Russian 24%, other 9% (includes small Romanian-, Polish-, and Hungarian-speaking minorities)
www.exxun.com/Ukraine/c_pp.html
minorities
... connected to land-use issues and the lack of equitable mechanisms for resolving disputes. Various ethnic minorities, such as the Montagnards of the Central Highlands and the Khmer Krom in the southern ...
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minority
... 99%, European less than 1% note: almost all Algerians are Berber in origin, not Arab; the minority who identify themselves as Berber live mostly in the mountainous region of Kabylie east of ...
www.exxun.com/Algeria/c_pp.html
minority
Burmese, minority ethnic groups have their own languages
www.exxun.com/Burma/c_pp.html
minority
... pay for imports rests primarily on weather conditions and international coffee and tea prices. The Tutsi minority, 14% of the population, dominates the coffee trade. An ethnic-based war that lasted for ...
www.exxun.com/Burundi/e_ec.html
minority
... peace agreements in December 2006 and October 2007. Power remains in the hands of an ethnic minority. In June 2005, President Idriss DEBY held a referendum successfully removing constitutional term limits and ...
www.exxun.com/Chad/a_fg.html
minority
Standard Chinese or Mandarin (Putonghua, based on the Beijing dialect), Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghainese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, minority languages (see Ethnic groups entry)
www.exxun.com/China/c_pp.html
minority
... following years of resistance to British rule. Tensions between the Greek Cypriot majority and Turkish Cypriot minority came to a head in December 1963, when violence broke out in the capital of ...
www.exxun.com/Cyprus/a_fg.html
minority
Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic (an Inuit dialect), German (small minority) note: English is the predominant second language
www.exxun.com/Denmark/c_pp.html
minority
... authoritarian one-party state and proceeded to serve as president until 1999. Unrest among the Afars minority during the 1990s led to a civil war that ended in 2001 following the conclusion ...
www.exxun.com/Djibouti/a_fg.html
minority
Hebrew (official), Arabic used officially for Arab minority, English most commonly used foreign language
www.exxun.com/Israel/c_pp.html
minority
Italian (official), German (parts of Trentino-Alto Adige region are predominantly German speaking), French (small French-speaking minority in Valle d'Aosta region), Slovene (Slovene-speaking minority in the Trieste-Gorizia area)
www.exxun.com/Italy/c_pp.html
minority
... under UNMIK authority continue to keep the peace within Kosovo between the ethnic Albanian majority and the Serb minority in Kosovo; Kosovo and Macedonia completed demarcation of their boundary in September 2008
www.exxun.com/Kosovo/i_ti.html
