Crete's mild climate attracts interest from northern Europeans who want a holiday home or residence on the island.

Before the arrival of the Europeans, the region was inhabited both by Algonquian ( Ojibwa, Cree and Algonquin ) in the northern / western portions and Iroquois and Wyandot ( Huron ) tribes more in the south / east.

In 1713, the Viceroyalty of New Granada ( northern South America ) was created in response to other Europeans trying to take Spanish territory in the Caribbean region.

People of Mediterranean origin report as painful some radiant heat intensities that northern Europeans describe as nonpainful, and Italian women tolerate less intense electric shock than Jewish or Native American women.

The republics include a wide variety of peoples, including northern Europeans, Tatars, Caucasus peoples, and indigenous Siberians.

This supposed that the civilisation of northern Europeans was superior to that of Aborigines, based on comparative technological advancement.

The genetic mutations leading to light skin, though different among East Asians and Europeans, suggest the two groups experienced a similar selective pressure due to settlement in northern latitudes.

This figure excludes people staying less than 24 hours in France, such as northern Europeans crossing France on their way to Spain or Italy during the summer.

In the nineteenth century, other settlers often referred to mixed-race people as Indian, Portuguese or Arab, in attempts to classify them to account for physical differences from northern Europeans.

Upon journey ’ s end, Father Marquette and Louis Jolliet became the first Europeans to see and map the northern portion of the Mississippi River.

Most northern, central, and eastern Europeans ( Finns, Swedes, English, Irish, Germans, and Ukrainians ) showed > 90 % in the ‘ northern ’ population group, while most individual participants with southern European ancestry ( Italians, Greeks, Portuguese, Spaniards ) showed > 85 % in the ' southern ' group.

The racial characteristics of the people of Earthsea are for the most part " red-brown " in coloring, like Native Americans ; in the South and East Reach and on Way, they are much darker brown, but with straight black hair ; in Osskil, they have a more central or eastern European look, though still with dark skin, and the Kargs resemble predominantly blond northern Europeans.

The use of litotes appeals specifically to certain cultures including the northern Europeans and is popular in English, Russian, and French.

Tartary ( Latin: Tartaria ) or Great Tartary ( Latin: Tartaria Magna ) was a name used by Europeans from the Middle Ages until the twentieth century to designate the Great Steppe, that is the great tract of northern and central Asia stretching from the Caspian Sea and the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean inhabited mostly by Turkic, Mongol peoples and also by some Cossacks of Russian origin, citizens of the Mongol Empire who were generically referred to as " Tartars ", i. e. Tatars.

The northern section was called Tonkin by Europeans, and the southern part called Cochinchina by most Europeans and Quinam by the Dutch.

Originally, Catai was the name applied by Central and Western Asians and Europeans to northern China ; it obtained wide currency in Europe after the publication of Marco Polo's book ( he referred to southern China as Manji ).

Cochise and the Chokonen-Chiricahua lived in the area that is now the northern Mexican region of Sonora, New Mexico, and Arizona, which they had moved into sometime before the coming of the Europeans.

As with many such plants, the area of origin is often ascribed by Americans to Europe, and by northern Europeans to southern Europe.

A major landmark on the northern end of the trail in Lake Simcoe was used to describe the trail as a whole, and eventually the southern end became known simply as " Toronto " to the Europeans.

Up to the early 19th century, the northern area of Greenland and Canada remained completely unexplored by Europeans.

The law as it stood then excluded Asians and Africans and preferred northern and western Europeans over southern and eastern ones.

Abducted from the north of Ireland, the slaves were called westmen ( Vestmenn ), as Ireland was the most western part of the world known to northern Europeans then ( c. 840 ).

With the arrival of northern Gothic people, particularly the Scirii in the then Roman province of Pannonia by 493 a soundshift changed Boi to Bai ( Bajuwari ).

In the 1930s and 1940s, contra dances appear to have been done only in small towns in widely scattered parts of northeastern North America, such as Ohio, the Maritime provinces of Canada, and particularly northern New England.

The Cathars were largely a homegrown, Western European / Latin Christian phenomenon, springing up in the Rhineland cities ( particularly Cologne ) in the mid-12th century, northern France around the same time, and particularly southern France — the Languedoc — and the northern Italian cities in the mid-late 12th century.

However, in many areas of the United States, the area of forest is stable or increasing, particularly in many northern states.

These plans were not realised, however, primarily because of post-1973 oil price increases and a drought in 1975-77 that particularly affected northern Ghana.

On 26 December 2004, a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated parts of northern Sumatra, particularly Aceh.

Rioplatense Spanish, and particularly the speech of the city of Buenos Aires, has intonation patterns that resemble those of Italian languages, because Argentina has had a continuous large influx of Italian settlers since the second half of the nineteenth century: initially primarily from northern Italy ; then, since the beginning of the twentieth century, mostly from southern Italy.

Longships were also double-ended, the symmetrical bow and stern allowing the ship to reverse direction quickly without having to turn around ; this trait proved particularly useful in northern latitudes where icebergs and sea ice posed hazards to navigation.

Evidence also exists that certain Macedonian Slavs, particularly those in the northern regions, considered themselves as Serbs el come caca and the Greek Idea predominated in southern Macedonia where it was supported by substantial part of the Slavic population.

But splinter groups broke off and headed back south ; settling in modern day northern Malawi, particularly Mzimba district where they mixed with another migrant group coming from across Lake Malawi called the Bawoloka.

French is still popularly spoken and remains the second language in Morocco whilst Spanish is also widespread, particularly in the northern regions.

Because most Mandarin dialects are found in the north, the group is also referred to, particularly among Chinese speakers, as the " northern dialect ( s )" ().

As a satellite of Siena since the Battle of Montaperti in 1260, Montalcino was deeply involved and affected by the conflicts in which Siena became embroiled, particularly in those with the city of Florence in the 14th and 15th centuries, and like many other cities in central and northern Italy, the town was also caught up in the internecine wars between the Ghibellines ( supporters of the Holy Roman Empire ) and the Guelphs ( supporters of the Papacy ).

Winter can be particularly harsh in the northern, mountainous regions.

The northern part of the island is an RSPB reserve due to its importance for birdlife, particularly Great skuas and red-throated divers.

The term red tide is also sometimes used to describe harmful algal blooms on the northern east coast of the United States, particularly in the Gulf of Maine.

After 1930, when the Japanese began industrial development on the Korean Peninsula, particularly in the northern provinces adjacent to Manchuria, the urban portion of the population began to grow, reaching 11. 6 % for all of Korea in 1940.

Deforestation ; soil erosion, particularly in the northern region.

Much of the gaming materials and other writings focus particularly on these Five Empires which control much of the world's northern continent ( only about an eighth of the planet's surface has published maps ).

Tibetan Buddhism is the body of Buddhist religious doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet and certain regions of the Himalayas, including northern Nepal, Bhutan, and India ( particularly in Arunachal Pradesh, Ladakh, Dharamsala, Lahaul and Spiti in Himachal Pradesh, and Sikkim ).

Numerous artifacts that some attribute to the Norse Greenlanders have been found in Canada, particularly on Baffin Island and in northern Labrador.

Various residential and commercial developments are underway, particularly in the northern districts, while Bucharest's historic centre is currently undergoing restoration.