Macedonian, although mutually intelligible with Bulgarian, certain dialects of Serbian and to a lesser extent the rest of the South Slavic dialect continuum is considered by Bulgarian linguists to be a Bulgarian dialect, in contrast with the contemporary international view, and the view in the Republic of Macedonia which regards it as a language in its own right.

A collection of academic papers exploring the operation of contemporary hawala networks, and the role they play in the transmission of migrant workers ' remittances from Europe to South Asia

The Hangul Society, originally founded by Ju Si-gyeong, announced a proposal for a new, strongly morphophonemic orthography in 1933, which became the prototype of the contemporary orthographies in both North and South Korea.

The jaguar is also a common fixture in the mythology of many contemporary native cultures in South America, usually being portrayed as the creature which gave humans the power over fire.

* 1921 – The Soviet republics of Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia sign the Treaty of Kars with the Grand National Assembly of Turkey to establish the contemporary borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.

The word satyagraha itself was coined through a public contest that Gandhi sponsored through the newspaper he published in South Africa, ' Indian Opinion ', when he realized that neither the common, contemporary Hindu language nor the English language contained a word which fully expressed his own meanings and intentions when he talked about his nonviolent approaches to conflict.

By the beginning of the 19th century, the area that would eventually become the South African Republic was home to thousands of human settlements, including chiefdoms, villages and substantial towns such as Dithakong, whose population was comparable in size to that of contemporary early 19th century Cape Town.

According to the contemporary Indian philosopher and tantric author, founder of Ananda Marga school of Tantra Yoga, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, also known by his spiritual name, Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, tantra had its origin in India and South Asia.

The term South Asia refers to the contemporary political entities of the Indian subcontinent and associated island.

The South Bank Exhibition included a Design Review, that presented " an illustrated record of contemporary achievement in British industry ", showing " the high standard of design and craftsmanship that has been reached in a wide range of British products.

The South Bank Exhibition showed the work of contemporary artists, including murals by Victor Pasmore, John Tunnard, Feliks Topolski and John Piper and sculptures by Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Lynn Chadwick, Jacob Epstein and Reg Butler.

Bamberger ( 1974 ) examines several matriarchal myths from South American cultures and concludes that portraying the women from this matriarchal period as evil often serves to restrain contemporary women.

The most recent development is characterised by some interesting one-off conversions and extensions to Victorian properties ; new housing by developers that often follows designs based on the brick architecture of the South of England ; and contemporary steel framed commercial and leisure buildings.

To date several galleries have been redesigned, notably, in 2002: the main Silver Gallery, Contemporary ; in 2003: Photography, the main entrance, The Painting Galleries ; in 2004: the tunnel to the subway leading to South Kensington tube station, New signage throughout the museum, architecture, V & A and RIBA reading rooms and stores, metalware, Members ' Room, contemporary glass, the Gilbert Bayes sculpture gallery ; in 2005: portrait miniatures, prints and drawings, displays in Room 117, the garden, sacred silver and stained glass ; in 2006: Central Hall Shop, Islamic Middle East, the new café, sculpture galleries.

The first exhibition will focus on art from South and Southeast Asia and is to be curated by Singaporean June Yap, who has worked for six years in the curatorial departments of modern and contemporary art museums, including the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore and the Singapore Art Museum.

* any or all of the cultures of Korea: traditional culture or North or South Korean contemporary cultures

In 1884, the Marquis de Mores, a French nobleman and contemporary of Theodore Roosevelt, established a stage line between Medora, North Dakota and Deadwood, South Dakota.

Neighborhoods range from the Victorian-era style South Hill and Browne's Addition, to the Davenport Arts District of Downtown, to the more contemporary neighborhoods of North Spokane.

* John Shelton Reed, sociologist and essayist, author or editor of eighteen books, most of them dealing with the contemporary American South.

During his presidency, he introduced South Korea's contemporary welfare state, successfully shepherded South Korea's economic recovery, brought in a new era of economic transparency and fostered a greater role of South Korea in the world stage, including the FIFA World Cup, jointly hosted by Korea and Japan in 2002.

In 2009 Irish television production company Accomplice TV received funding from the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland and TV3 ( Ireland ) for their contemporary adaptation of the play set in South County Dublin.

Several fossils sites from South Africa seem to show that Dinofelis may have hunted and killed Australopithecus africanus since they harbored fossilized remains of Dinofelis, hominids, and other large contemporary animals of the period.

As with the West Africa theory, this idea does not have the backing of serious historians, nor contemporary written records of the time in the Near East.

The earliest dating of iron in Sub-Saharan Africa is 2500 BC at Egaro, west of Termit, making it contemporary to the Middle East.

Defoe's next novel was Captain Singleton ( 1720 ), a bipartite adventure story whose first half covers a traversal of Africa and whose second half taps into the contemporary fascination with piracy.

In a wider sense, extended to contemporary religions, it includes most of the Eastern religions and the indigenous traditions of the Americas, Central Asia, Australia and Africa ; as well as non-Abrahamic folk religion in general.

Divination remains an important aspect of the lives of the people of contemporary Africa, especially amongst the usually rural, socially traditionalistic segments of its population.

Historical examples of religious individuals or institutions promoting claims that contradict both contemporary and modern scientific consensus include creationism ( see level of support for evolution ), and more recently, Pope Benedict XVI's 2009 statements claiming that the use of condoms to combat the AIDS epidemic in Africa was ineffective and counterproductive.

His problem was that despite his military successes, he was eclipsed by his contemporary Pompey the Great who blackmailed the dictator Sulla into granting him a triumph for victory in Africa over a rag-tag group of dissident Romans ; a first in Roman history on a couple of counts.

Graeme Barker notes there are: " similarities in the respective archaeological records of the Natufian culture of the Levant and of contemporary foragers in coastal North Africa across the late Pleistocene and early Holocene boundary ".

Diplomatic records found on different sites have detailed the correspondence between the city and the various contemporary empires in the Mediterranean, Near East, and Africa.

H. erectus may not have been the only hominin to leave Africa ; European fossils are sometimes associated with Homo ergaster, a contemporary of H. erectus in Africa.

“ Ethnographic examples ‘ third genders ’ can come from distinct societies located in Thailand, Polynesia, Melanesia, Native America, western Africa, and elsewhere and from any point in history, from Ancient Greece, to sixteenth century England to contemporary North America.

Traditional gumboot dances, as well as contemporary versions, can be seen throughout Africa and the United States, though in South Africa gumboot dancing has become something of a tourist attraction, rather than a celebration of liberation under oppression.

In the early 1990s Cooder collaborated on two world music " crossover " albums, which blended the traditional American musical genres that Cooder has championed throughout his career with the contemporary improvised music of India and Africa.

Anthony Burgess wrote that Graham Greene's ability to encapsulate the essence of an exotic setting in a single book is exemplified in The Heart of the Matter ( 1948 ); his contemporary Evelyn Waugh stated that the West Africa of that book replaced the true remembered West Africa of his own experience.

According to book's publisher, Dusty Spark Publishing it is regarded as " one of the literary achievement of postwar Liberia and contemporary Africa.

In 1578 the Saadi sultan Ahmad al-Mansur, contemporary of Queen Elizabeth I, defeated Portugal at the Battle of Ksar El Kebir, beating Sebastian I. Portugal had landed in North Africa after Abu Abdallah asked him to help recover the Saadian throne.

According to Leakey et al., " the new fossils confirm the presence of two contemporary species of early Homo is, habilis and rudolfensis, in addition to Homo erectus, in the early Pleistocene of eastern Africa ".

In contemporary times, it is used in varied contexts in South Africa to show solidarity in sporting events and other national events to relay the message that the players are not alone and are part of a team.

In 2005, Coetzee criticised contemporary anti-terrorism laws as resembling those employed by the apartheid regime in South Africa: " I used to think that the people who created Africa's laws that effectively suspended the rule of law were moral barbarians.