Most of the region was a part of the Kingdom of Sweden from the 13th century to 1809, when the vast majority of the Finnish-speaking areas of Sweden were ceded to the Russian Empire ( excluding the Finnish-speaking areas of the modern-day Northern Sweden ), making this area the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland.

Most modern-day knives follow either a fixed-blade or a folding construction style, with blade patterns and styles as varied as their makers and countries of origin.

Most modern-day houses contain sanitary facilities and a means of preparing food.

Most modern-day pilgrims travel by bus, rarely choosing the old-fashioned method of going by foot.

Most modern-day estuaries were formed during the Holocene epoch by the flooding of river-eroded or glacially scoured valleys when sea level began to rise about 10, 000-12, 000 years ago.

Most people designated as " Lhoba " within modern-day Tibet Autonomous Region in China actually refer to themselves via a diverse set of autonyms ( names recognized by a community itself ), and do not traditionally self-identify as a single entity.

Most of modern-day Iranian Georgians are their descendants though subsequent waves of deportations also occurred throughout the 17th and 18th centuries.

Most modern-day households contain sanitary facilities and a means of preparing food.

Most of the Zhōu nobles withdrew from the Wei River valley and the capital was reestablished downriver at the old eastern capital of Chengzhou near modern-day Luoyang.

Most Sotho today live in South Africa, as the area of the Orange Free State was originally part of Moshoeshoe's nation ( modern-day Lesotho ).

Most modern-day Chinese people cannot read seal script, so it is generally not used outside the fields of seals and calligraphy.

Most of South America spun so that the western edge of modern-day Brazil lined up with eastern North America, forming a continental margin that extended into the southern edge of Scandinavia.

Most of the musical activity did not take place in what is modern-day Burgundy, which has its capital in Dijon ( even though the Dukes of Burgundy maintained an administrative center there ).

Most modern-day pilgrims would wish to follow Sigeric's documented route in the reverse order, i. e. from Canterbury to Rome, and so would journey from Canterbury to the English coast before crossing the Channel to Sumeran ( now called Sombres ) landing at the point where the seaside village of Wissant now lies.

Most modern-day visitors tour that part of the cave.

Most historians and archeologists support the theory that the Slavic homeland originated in areas spanning modern-day southern Poland and Elbe valley in Germany.

Most of the slaves came from the Gold Coast, and in particular from modern-day Ghana.

Most are in modern-day Germany, but some are in other countries including Denmark, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic and Poland.

Most of the modern-day " National Trails Highway " follows latter-day U. S. Route 66, however, and not any of the alignments that actually were part of the original road ( the main exception being the section of road between Barstow and Victorville, which follows the almost exact routing of the 1925 realignment of the road ).

Most prominent of these among classical scholars is Imam ash-Shafi ` i, and among modern-day thinkers are Sayyid Qutb and Mawdudi, who support their view with evidence from the Quran and the Sunnah, and from historical practice.

Most of modern-day Eskişehir was rebuilt after the Turkish War of Independence ( 1919-1922 ), but a number of historic buildings remain, such as the Kurşunlu Cami Mosque.

Most African Americans are of West and Central African descent and are descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States.

Most of the inhabitants were descendants of the original Puritan colonists, but there was also a small elite of Anglican " worthies " who were not involved in village life, who made their livings from estates, investments, and trade, and lived in mansions along " the Road to Watertown " ( today's Brattle Street, still known as Tory Row ).

Most Chinese numerals of later period were descendants from Shang dynasty oracle numerals of 14th century B. C.

Most Hong Kong people nowadays are the descendants of immigrants from Mainland China and around the world after the end of World War II.

Most descendants of these Irishmen moved off the islands as African slavery was implemented and blacks began to replace whites.

The independence of Pakistan in 1947 saw the settlement of the what is now the largest ethnic community in the city, the Muhajirs who migrated from India in search of a Muslim homeland and settled in Pakistan, that's why the culture of Karachi is very similar to any Indian Muslim dominant city and the city's first language is Urdu because of these Muhajir unlike other parts of the country Most properties vacated by Hindus were granted to Urdu-speaking Muslim migrants who had migrated from India, Known as Muhajirs, their descendants now form the majority of Karachi's residents, these Mohajirs of Urdu, Gujrati, Marathi, Konkani Muslims from India and Bengali origin are around 13 million.

Most of the current generation of gods have been revealed to be the descendants of the Elder Goddess Gaea.

Most of the descendants of those Muslims and Jews who submitted to compulsory conversion to Christianity rather than exile during the early periods of the Inquisition, the Moriscos and Conversos respectively, were later expelled from Spain, when the Inquisition was at its height, and Portugal.

Most Seychellois are descendants of early French settlers and East Africans who arrived in the 19th century.

Most of the classes listed are not " complete " taxa, meaning that they do not include all the descendants of the first representative of the group.

Most of the slaves liberated by the squadron chose to settle in Sierra Leone, and Freetown in particular, rather than return home ; thus the population included descendants of many different peoples from all over the west coast of Africa.

Most Cajuns resided in Acadiana, where their descendants are still predominant.

Most Icelanders are descendants of Norwegian settlers and Celts from Ireland and Scotland who were brought over as slaves during the age of settlement.

Most of this original land was retained after the Mexican American war in 1848, by descendants of the original Yorba family.

Most members of these bands were direct descendants of the first settlers of Barrington.

Most of the population today is composed of descendants of those original pioneer families of the 1850s and the 1860s.

Most of Hirsch's writings have been translated into English and Hebrew by his descendants, starting with " Horeb " in the 1950s ( by Dayan Isidore Grunfeld of London ) and his Torah commentary in the 1960s ( by his grandson Isaac Levi, also of London ).

Most specifically, however, salsa refers to a particular style that was developed by mid-1970s groups of New York City-area Cuban and Puerto Rican immigrants, and stylistic descendants like 1980s salsa romantica.

Most inhabitants are descendants of settlers from Finland who came over in the 18th century, escaping famine and war.

Most Mexican Americans are the descendants of the Indigenous peoples of Mexico and / or Europeans, especially Spaniards.

Most of the aquatic species in the Mackenzie River are descendants of those of the Mississippi River and its tributaries.

Most of the Unitarian " descendants " hold membership in the Unitarian Universalist Association, founded in the 1960s by a merger with the theologically similar Universalists.

Most are housed in museums outside of their native countries, however some reside in their native locations under the care of the descendants of those who made the mystery knot records.