Thus far the only people who have been attested with a high level of genetic, historical, linguistic and cultural research to be the descendants of the ancient Mesopotamians are the Assyrian Christians of Iraq and its surrounding areas in north west Iran, north east Syria and south eastern Turkey.

By 1000AD the Bantu colonization of the eastern half of South Africa had been completed ( but not Western Cape and Northern Cape, which are believed to have been inhabited by Khoisan people until Dutch colonisation ).

If so, they may have originally comprised residual Celtic elements in central eastern Europe such as the Cotini, who formed a Celtic enclave in the Germanic-speaking zone and are described by Tacitus as iron-ore miners working as tributaries of the powerful Quadi Germanic people.

The osu class systems of eastern Nigeria and southern Cameroon are derived from indigenous religious beliefs and discriminate against the " Osus " people as " owned by deities " and outcasts.

Alaina Lemon writes that in parts of Europe, Roma people have been called children of India ; or worse, in eastern Europe as Asian parasites.

While Maritimers are predominantly of west European heritage ( Scottish, Irish, English, and Acadian ), immigration to Industrial Cape Breton during the heyday of coal mining and steel manufacturing brought people from eastern Europe as well as from Newfoundland.

In ancient times, the trading and colonising activities of the Greek tribes from the Balkans and Asia Minor spread people of Greek culture, religion and language around the Mediterranean and Black Sea basins, establishing Greek city states in Sicily, southern Italy, northern Libya, eastern Spain, the south of France, and the Black Sea coasts.

Francis Xavier's work initiated permanent change in eastern Indonesia, and he was known as the ' Apostle of the Indies ' where in 1546-1547 he worked in the Maluku Islands among the people of Ambon, Ternate, and Morotai ( or Moro ), and laid the foundations for a permanent mission.

If the German people has again now sacrificed around 160, 000 dead in the eastern campaign, the originators of this bloody conflict will have to pay for it with their lives.

* 2012 – A derecho strikes the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power.

The Khazars ( Old Turkic: 10px10px10px10px10px ) were semi-nomadic Turkic people who established one of the largest polities of medieval Eurasia, with the capital of Atil and territory comprising much of modern-day European Russia, western Kazakhstan, eastern Ukraine, Azerbaijan, large portions of the northern Caucasus ( Circassia, Dagestan ), parts of Georgia, the Crimea, and northeastern Turkey.

The proto-Baltic forefathers of the Latvian people have lived on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea since the third millennium BCE .< ref >

Between 3000 – 2000 BC, the cord-ware culture people spread over a vast region of eastern Europe, between the Baltic Sea and the Vistula River in the West and the Moscow-Kursk line in the East.

According to Laurence Rees, " Curt von Gottberg, the SS-Obergruppenfuhrer who, during 1943, conducted another huge anti-partisan action called Operation Kottbus on the eastern border of Belorussia, reported that ' approximately two to three thousand local people were blown up in the clearing of the minefields '.

In a wider sense, the Mongol people includes all people who speak a Mongolic language, such as the Kalmyks of eastern Europe.

In the snowstorms between the 8 and 28 May 2008, 21 people were killed and 100 others went missing in seven provinces in eastern Mongolia.

So Moses lead his people carefully along the eastern border of Edom, the southernmost of these territories.

* Republic of Lakotah, a proposed republic for the American Indian Lakota people of North and South Dakota, eastern Montana and eastern Wyoming, and northern Nebraska.

Some historians believe Assyrian texts called this Midas king of the " Mushki " because he had subjected the eastern Anatolian people of that name and incorporated them into his army.

In the meantime, the History of Kirat covers much of the history and achievements of the Kirant people of Eastern Nepal / Kiratdesh from ancient period until the Gorkha conquest in the eastern Nepal.

The people of eastern Nicaragua appear to have traded with and been influenced by the native peoples of the Caribbean, as round thatched huts and canoes, both typical of the Caribbean, were common in eastern Nicaragua.

* Poland: After World War II, with the extermination of the Jews by the invading German Nazis during the Holocaust, the Expulsion of Germans after World War II and the loss of eastern territories ( Kresy ), 96. 7 % of the people of Poland claim Polish nationality, and 97. 8 % declare that they speak Polish at home ( Census 2002 ).

Aeschylus travelled to Sicily once or twice in the 470s BC, having been invited by Hiero I of Syracuse, a major Greek city on the eastern side of the island ; and during one of these trips he produced The Women of Aetna ( in honor of the city founded by Hieron ) and restaged his Persians.

* 1782 – The city of Rattanakosin, now known internationally as Bangkok, is founded on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River by King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.

A series of religiously-motivated military expeditions originally intended to liberate the Levant from Muslims, several Crusader States were founded in the eastern Mediterranean.

The Kazakh Khanate was founded in 1465 on the banks of Zhetysu ( literally means seven rivers ) in the south eastern part of present Republic of Kazakhstan by Janybek Khan and Kerey Khan.

The Khitan fled west after their defeat by the Tungusic Jurchens ( later known as Manchus ) and founded the Kara-Khitan or Western Liao dynasty ( 1125 – 1218 ) in eastern Kazakhstan.

In the course of these expeditions, in 1879 a station was founded in Kigoma on the eastern bank of Lake Tanganyika, soon to be followed by the station of Mpala on the opposite western bank.

The river has achieved lasting fame as the main watercourse of the city of Rome, founded on its eastern banks.

The great town Nishapur in Khorasan ( eastern Parthia ) is also founded by him.

He then withdrew to one of the cloisters that he had founded on the eastern shore of the Bosporus, until he was appointed director of the largest home for the destitute in Constantinople c. 802.

Though King Wu died just a few years after the Battle of Muye, the Duke of Zhou assisted the young and inexperienced King Cheng in consolidating power for the Ji line: he managed a war against rebellious Zhou princes in the eastern lowlands ( allied with feudal rulers and Shang remnants ); formulated the Mandate of Heaven doctrine to counter Shang claims to a divine right of rule ; founded Chengzhou as an eastern capital ; and set up the fengjian " feudal " system designed to maintain Zhou authority as it expanded its rule over a larger amount of territory.

France founded colonies in much of eastern North America, on a number of Caribbean islands, and in South America.

France founded colonies in much of eastern North America, on a number of Caribbean islands, and in South America.

Hetao ( along with the rest of what now consists Inner Mongolia ) was then taken over by the Khitan Empire ( Liao Dynasty ), founded by the Khitans, a nomadic people originally from what is now the southern part of Manchuria and eastern Inner Mongolia.

Two eastern valleys of the Cottian Alps ( Pellice and Germanasca ) have been for centuries a kind of sanctuary for the Waldensians, a Christian movement founded by Peter Waldo and which was persecuted as heretical from the 12th century onwards.

Soon after, Andrew Dexter founded New Philadelphia, the present-day eastern part of downtown.

* San Antonio de Pala Asistencia ( Pala Mission ), founded in 1816 in eastern San Diego County

The city was founded in the eastern region of the two major Native American mound-building groups, the Adena culture, c. 1000 B. C.

The Khmer Republic ( 1970 – 1975 ) was founded in order to do away with Cambodia's widespread corruption and to restore Cambodia's sovereignty in its eastern regions, occupied by Vietnamese communist insurgents as a result of Sihanouk's " neutrality " policies.

* The Argo Bookshop, founded in 1966 and located in Montreal, is the oldest retail anglo bookstore in eastern Canada.

He founded about ten Italian cities ( in the eastern part of Italy ) including Argyrippa ( Arpi / Arpus Hippium / Argos Hippion ), Aequum Tuticum, Beneventum and Brundusium.

It was initially founded for eastern European countries participating in the Warsaw Pact, under the Soviet bloc of influence, but eventually other countries participated as well.

The Congregational Church stands on the eastern edge of the old town green on Pomfret Hill, across from the Pomfret School, founded in 1894.

The Lincolnshire Community Nursery School, which was founded in 1973, accepts preschoolers who live in the eastern reaches of the village of Lincolnshire.