Romansh, spoken by two percent of the population in southeast Switzerland, is an ancient Rheato-Romanic language derived from Latin, remnants of ancient Celtic languages and perhaps Etruscan.

The Latin name for that settlement, " Bonna ", may stem from the original population of this and many other settlements in the area, the Eburoni.

27. 7 % of the population was foreign born, 51. 8 % came from Asia, 30. 8 % from Europe, 8. 2 % from Latin America and 9. 2 % from other ( mostly Canada ).

Large-scale population movements from rural to urban areas of Latin America and to other regions of the world have increased the geographic distribution of Chagas disease, and cases have been noted in many countries, particularly in Europe.

" Earlier, in December 1984, the Council on Hemispheric Affairs had issued a report condemning the Contras and the United States government as being among the worst human rights violators in Latin America: " The CIA directed forces are among the worst human rights violators in Latin America, responsible for systematic brutality against a civilian population.

* Vulgar Latin and Late Latin among the uneducated and educated populations respectively of the Roman empire and the states that followed it in the same range no later than 900 AD ; medieval Latin and Renaissance Latin among the educated populations of western, northern, central and part of eastern Europe until the rise of the national languages in that range, beginning with the first language academy in Italy in 1582 / 83 ; new Latin written only in scholarly and scientific contexts by a small minority of the educated population at scattered locations over all of Europe ; ecclesiastical Latin, in spoken and written contexts of liturgy and church administration only, over the range of the Roman Catholic Church.

Guatemala City also has a sizeable Indigenous population and minority groups such as Germans and other Europeans, Jewish, Asians primarily Chinese and Korean, and many groups of other Latin American origins such as Peruvian, and Colombian amongst others.

There is a sizable minority population of European origin, especially Portuguese, as well as Brazilians and other Latin Americans.

In classical antiquity, the " liberal arts " denoted those subjects of study that were considered essential for a free person ( Latin: liber, " free ") to master in order to acquire those qualities that distinguished a free person from slaves-the latter of whom formed the greater number of the population in the classical world.

The name of the region also survives in the tribal designation of the ancient population of Latins, Latini in the Latin language spoken by them and passed on to the city-state of Ancient Rome.

Bilateral relations between Nigeria and Brazil focus primarily upon trade and culture, the largest country in Latin America by size, and the largest country in Africa by population are remotely bordered across from one another by the Atlantic Ocean.

However, it may have also resulted from early Christian missionaries focusing their efforts within major population centers ( e. g., St. Paul ), rather than throughout an expansive, yet sparsely populated, countryside ( hence, the Latin term suggesting " uneducated country folk ") until a bit later on.

The majority of the population in most of Latin America was of either African or Amerindian decent, and the Creole elite had little interest in giving these groups power and broad-based popular sovereignty.

Its population includes a two-thirds majority of Alemannic German speakers and a one-quarter Latin minority ( French, Italian and Romansh ), see linguistic geography of Switzerland.

" With a population of only three million, Uruguay has rapidly become Latin America's outsourcing hub.

White supremacist groups can be found in some countries and regions with a significant white population including Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, and South Africa.

His first major act is to change the official language of the East Roman Empire from Latin to Greek ( already the language of the vast majority of the population ).

His first major act is to change the official language of the East Roman Empire from Latin to Greek ( already the language of the vast majority of the population ).

It entailed the recruitment of clerical scholars from Mercia, Wales and abroad to enhance the tenor of the court and of the episcopacy ; the establishment of a court school to educate his own children, the sons of his nobles, and intellectually promising boys of lesser birth ; an attempt to require literacy in those who held offices of authority ; a series of translations into the vernacular of Latin works the king deemed " most necessary for all men to know "; the compilation of a chronicle detailing the rise of Alfred's kingdom and house ; and the issuance of a law code that presented the West Saxons as a new people of Israel and their king as a just and divinely inspired law-giver.

If the Christian faith fell into ruin in his kingdom, if the clergy were too ignorant to understand the Latin words they butchered in their offices and liturgies, if the ancient monasteries and collegiate churches lay deserted out of indifference, he was answerable before God, as Josiah had been.

Jonah (; or ; Greek / Latin: Ionas ) is the name given in the Hebrew Bible ( Tanakh / Old Testament ) to a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BC, the eponymous central character in the Book of Jonah, famous for being swallowed by a fish or a whale, depending on translation.

The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem was a Catholic kingdom established in the Levant in 1099 after the First Crusade.

The numbers of Latin inhabitants increased, as the minor crusade of 1101 brought reinforcements to the kingdom.

Each king then swore his individual oath in front of their assembled armies, not in Latin nor in his own language, but in the vernacular of the other's kingdom.

To some extent Reich is comparable in meaning and development to the English word realm ( via French reaume " kingdom " from Latin regalis " royal ").

Except for its Latin cognate regnum ( kingdom ) it is cognate with Scandinavian rike / rige,, and, as found in bishopric.

Both Livy ( in Latin, living in Augustus ' time ) and Plutarch ( in Greek, a century later ), described how Rome had developed its legislation, notably the transition from a kingdom to a republic, by following the example of the Greeks.

The term was understood in the Latin world as well, where Pliny the Elder glossed it as follows: " each is the equivalent of a kingdom, and also part of one " ( regnorum instar singulae et in regna contribuuntur ).

From a very early date, British coins have been inscribed with the name of the ruler of the kingdom in which they were produced, and a longer or shorter title, always in Latin ; among the earliest distinctive English coins are the silver pennies of Offa of Mercia, which were inscribed with the legend " King Offa ".

The southern highlands of the region were later named Judea after the kingdom of Judah, while the coastal region came to be known as Παλαιστίνη in Greek ( Latin Palaestina ), from the name of the Philistines.

The chief sources for Pelagius's life and career are two Latin chronicles produced in the late ninth century in the kingdom he founded.

In biology, kingdom ( Latin: regnum, pl.

The Bulgarian kingdom and Byzantine remnants soon united against the newly-founded Latin Empire.

The highest political division beneath that of kingdom among the Anglo-Saxons was the ealdormanry and, while the title ealdorman was replaced by the Danish eorl ( later earl ) over time, the first ealdormen were referred to as duces ( the plural of the original Latin dux ) in the chronicles.

Noricum, within the context of ancient history, is the Latin name for a Celtic kingdom, or federation of twelve tribes, including most of modern Austria and part of Slovenia.

In the kingdom of England, the medieval Latin word baro, baronis was used originally to denote a tenant-in-chief of the early Norman kings who held his lands by the feudal tenure of " barony " ( in Latin per baroniam ), and who was entitled to attend the Great Council which by the 13th century had developed into the Parliament of England.

Bernicia ( Old English: Bernice, Beornice ; Latin: Bernicia ) was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom established by Anglian settlers of the 6th century in what is now southeastern Scotland and North East England.

The name of the kingdom is of Brythonic origin, perhaps from Deifr, meaning " waters ", or from Daru, meaning " oak ", in which case it would mean " the people of the Derwent ", a derivation also found in the Latin name for Malton, Derventio.

As a result, war broke out between Saladin and the Latin kingdom in 1182.

Unable to revive the African dominion, William directed his attack on Egypt, from which Saladin threatened the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem.

The Kingdom of Kent ( Cent in Old English, Cantia regnum in Latin ) was a Jutish colony and later independent kingdom in what is now south east England.