Many of the Aegean Islands, or chains of islands, are actually extensions of the mountains on the mainland.

Many top nationalist generals, including Chiang, had studied and trained in Japan before the Nationalists had returned to the mainland in the 1920s, and maintained close personal friendships with top Japanese officers.

Many airports were near Cagliari ( Elmas, Monserrato, Decimomannu, currently a NATO airbase ) from which airplanes could fly to Northern Africa or mainland Italy and Sicily.

Many of Lin's supporters sought refuge in Hong Kong ; those who remained on the mainland were purged.

Many traditional customs, such as fortune telling, paper art, feng shui consultations, wearing traditional Chinese dresses for weddings, the use of the traditional Chinese calendar, scholarship in classical Chinese literature and the practice of referring to the Chinese New Year as the “ New Year ” rather than the “ Spring Festival ” have been weakened in mainland China.

Many Taiwanese businesspeople use the link through Kinmen to enter the Chinese mainland, seeing it as cheaper and easier than entering through Hong Kong.

Many parts of the mainland foreshore and southern islands are settled.

Many, especially in the mainland, were retained in the form of regional units ( περιφερειακές ενότητες ) within the empowered regions, which largely took over the prefectures ' administrative role.

Many popular mainland Chinese, Hong Kong and Taiwanese music artists were included in promotions for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Many of the young mainland Chinese journalists being trained at US and other universities and professional programs in the West have been characterized by their trainers as " smart ," " aware ," and devoted to the profession.

Many millions of people in India believe that " statues of " the god Ganesh drink milk and people in Taiwan buy airplane seat tickets for the " statue of " the goddess Matsu to visit her mainland Chinese home.

Many Loyalists settled in mainland Nova Scotia and soon requested the creation of their own colony.

Many of those who leave for the mainland are young as-in common with remoter rural areas generally-there are few work opportunities and limited access to further / higher education.

Many people in Hong Kong consider themselves as " Hong Kongese " or " Hong Konger " instead of " Chinese " as they feel like if they tell people they're Chinese, people would think they are from mainland china, which, for many reasons, they do not like to be considered as " Mainland Chinese ".

Many political commentators claimed that Hong Kong would experience a surge in people claiming the right of abode from mainland China, possibly disrupting the economy of Hong Kong, which prompted the Hong Kong Government to ask the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress to reinterpret Articles 22 ( 4 ) and 24 ( 2 )( 3 ) of Hong Kong's Basic Law, which effectively overturned the court decision.

Many people from Hong Kong had moved to Mainland China and started families, and under the immigration law prior to 1 July 1997, their children born in mainland China had no right of abode in Hong Kong.

Many mainland bishops, whose dioceses were under Lombard were unhappy with the reconciliation.

Many of the " Norfolk Island pines " growing in Hawaii, including their descendants growing as potted ornamentals on the U. S. mainland, are actually Cook pines, the two species having been confused when introduced.

Many celebrities from mainland China, Taiwan and also Hong Kong use Sina's Microblog as a platform to reach out to their fans and supporters.

Many passengers from the Eastern Province choose not to use the mainland King Fahd International Airport.

Many people make the adventurous, but rewarding, drive to the tip of Cape York, the northernmost point of mainland Australia.

Many police stations were built during this period due to the large number of people who moved to Hong Kong from mainland China and the corresponding increase in difficulty with maintaining law and order.

Many hālau hula ( schools ), including some from the U. S. mainland and Japan, attend the festival each year to participate in the festival exhibitions and competitions, which are considered the most prestigious of all hula contests.

Many in mainland China see one-party rule as effective and any talk of political reform is meant to change the way the party governs, rather than remove it from power.

Many scholars see the persistence of Germanic Arianism as a strategy that was followed in order to differentiate the Germanic elite from the local inhabitants and their culture and also to maintain the Germanic elite's separate group identity.

Many inhabitants speak bornholmsk ( Bornholmian ), which officially is a dialect of Danish.

Many of the inhabitants fought, escaped to the jungle, or fled to the safety of passing Dutch ships This Spanish action was counterproductive as English, Dutch, and French pirates were now free to establish bases on the island's abandoned northern and western coasts, where wild cattle were now plentiful and free.

Many Polish inhabitants were executed, arrested, expelled to the General Government or used as forced labour ; at the same time many Germans and Volksdeutsche were settled in the city.

Many of the " Black Poor " were African Americans, who had been given their freedom after seeking refuge with the British Army during the American Revolution, but also included other West Indian, African and Asian inhabitants of London.

Many of its inhabitants were Germans and Finns, with the former forming a political and economical elite in the city.

Many inhabitants have plots of land ( at the patches ) on which they grow potatoes.

Many inhabitants of the department's small towns also commuted to jobs in Montevideo by express bus.

Many of the surviving inhabitants, particularly members of the intelligentsia, were now targeted and deported to Siberia in the beginning of the second Soviet occupation.

Many middle class inhabitants of France during this time were living under the absolute power of their absolute monarchy that had been in power for some time.

Many Roman antiquities still exist, testifying to the close link between the Maltese inhabitants and the people of Rome.

Many of the inhabitants who only speak German and not Danish do not consider the region any different from the rest of Schleswig-Holstein.

Many of the city's boroughs have a relatively high percentage of originally non-Dutch inhabitants – i. e. Kanaleneiland 83 % and Overvecht 57 %.

Many were killed by the pursuing Scottish army or by the inhabitants of the countryside that they passed through.

Many rural inhabitants come to the city for reasons of seeking fortunes and social mobility.

Many inhabitants around the present city have names bearing witness to the Alan presence – Allaines.

Many of its present day inhabitants speak German In the 18th century, German immigrants settled the areas of Tingo Maria, Tarapoto, Moyobamba, and the Amazonas Department.

Many of the early inhabitants of the county were recipients of Revolutionary War land grants.

Many of the inhabitants of Northumbria were Danes, who had enjoyed lesser taxation than in other parts of England.

Many of the early inhabitants have been laid to rest in San Lorenzo Pioneer Cemetery, including Moses Wicks, who brought oysters to San Leandro Bay ( by boat around the cape ) from Patchogue, Long Island ..

Many of New Preston's inhabitants are part-time residents who principally reside in New York City, so census data may not accurately reflect the population's actual demography.

" Many inhabitants of Apalachicola, however, choose to translate the name of their town as " land of the friendly people.

* Many of the villages current and former inhabitants are of Cajun heritage and French is spoken by many families as a second language.

Many early inhabitants obtained grants to lots near the road and Hammond Brook to farm the land.