Most of the present-day inhabitants of the Banda Islands are descended from migrants and plantation labourers from various parts of Indonesia, as well as from indigenous Bandanese.

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 inhabitants of Diego Garcia through the period from 1793 to 1971 were plantation workers, but also included Franco-Mauritian managers, Indo-Mauritian administrators, Mauritian and Seychellois contract employees, and in the late 19th Century, Chinese and Somali employees.

Most of the inhabitants live in the administrative center, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

Most residents of Asunción and virtually all rural inhabitants were illiterate.

Most of the Comyn castles in Moray, Aberdeen and Buchan were destroyed and their inhabitants killed.

Most inhabitants live in a city agglomeration on the French border, surrounding the capital of Saarbrücken.

Most of the Ebla palace tablets, which date from that period, are about economic matters ; they provide a good look into the everyday life of the inhabitants, as well as many important insights into the cultural, economic, and political life in northern Mesopotamia around the middle of the third millennium B. C.

Most inhabitants of Silesia today speak the national languages of their respective countries ( Polish, Czech, German ).

Most of the Bulgarian and Greek population are Christians, while most of the Turkish inhabitants of Thrace are Muslims.

Most of the current inhabitants are descended from the slaves brought to work on the Loyalist plantations, or from liberated Africans set free by the British navy after the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire in 1807.

Most references to the islands from occasional visitors comment on the lack of law and order and the lack of religiosity of the inhabitants.

Most people today live in settlements far larger than anything known in early times, while some areas, such as Kilmartin and many of the islands, such as Islay and Tiree may well have had as many inhabitants as they do today.

Most inhabitants were black indigenous Africans with a diversity of ethnic and cultural backgrounds, ranging from Shangaan and Makonde to Yao or Shona peoples.

Most inhabitants of these areas will consider dew points above oppressive.

Most of the inhabitants are Roman Catholics, with a high life expectancy of over 80 years.

Most of the 4. 5 million inhabitants live in the north, and all but one of the island's few larger cites are located there.

Most of its inhabitants became refugees in bitterly cold weather during the Evacuation of East Prussia.

Most species are strictly freshwater inhabitants, but a considerable number are found in brackish water, such as roach and bream.

Most inhabitants of Miranda do Douro are either merchants or farmers.

Most of the colony's inhabitants originate from Corinth or Corcyra ( Corfu ).

Most of the German inhabitants were expelled.

Most houses had a square center room with other rooms attached to it, but a great variation in the size and materials used to build the houses suggest they were built by the inhabitants themselves.

Most of the inhabitants would not be allowed to return to their homes until after the Civil War ended in May 1865.

Most of the inhabitants of Knoxville, a mile away, moved to Roberta when the railroad arrived.

Most perished as they crossed the frozen Danube on foot, only for the ice to give way.

Most of the rest of the family perished in Holocaust, though one grandmother and a few others survived.

Most of what we have from the Babylonians was inscribed in cuneiform with a metal stylus on tablets of clay, called laterculae coctiles by Pliny the Elder ; papyrus seems to have been also employed, but it has perished.

Most of the local Jews perished in the Vitebsk Ghetto massacre.

Most of the activists perished in the Great Purge, but some-particularly lower level-remained.

Most of Biłgoraj's Jews perished in the Holocaust.

Most of the 4097 Jews listed by the Germans were eventually deported to the Auschwitz death camp complex and perished there in the Holocaust.

Most members of his family perished in the death camps throughout Europe, including his grandmother who was killed in the gas chamber, while his father was killed in Čakovec by Hungarians on March 15, 1945.

Most ( but not all ) prominent Left Opposition members recanted between 1929 and 1934, but perished during the Great Purge of the mid-late 1930s along with the oppositionists who remained unrepentant.

Most of the inhabitants either perished in the danger and the helplessness of the runaway or they scattered across other places.

Most of his work, like the vast majority of ancient literature, perished, but not before parts of his writings were repeated by Sextus Julius Africanus in his History of the World.

Most of Kosh perished in the attack, but Kosh managed to break off a piece of himself and place it within Sheridan, which would later be revealed during Sheridan's resurrection.

Most, if not all of these perished during Final Crisis, releasing their godly essence.

Most of them perished in the holocaust.

Most of its members perished in Sobibor and Auschwitz.

Most of the crew perished.

Most of the residents and garrison perished ; some 700 rebels died as well.

Most of the 86 who were killed in the train wreck perished in the first 35 seconds after the collision.

Most of the 86 who were killed in the train wreck perished in the first 35 seconds after the collision.

Most of the original KPP members and leaders perished during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge.