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The ethnic Lithuanian population is estimated to have been 420, 000 out of 1. 4 million in 1375 ( the territory was about 700, 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup >), and 550, 000 out of 3. 8 million in 1490 ( territory: 850, 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup >) Ruthenians were only nowadays Ukrainians and the whole Belarus including Smolensk and Mozhaisk Galindians were of Lithuanian ethnicity ( belonging to the same family as Prussians or Latvians ).
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Haredi applies to a populace that can be roughly divided into three separate groups along both ethnic and ideological lines: ( 1 ) " Lithuanian " ( non-hasidic ) haredim of Ashkenazic origin ; ( 2 ) Hasidic haredim of Ashkenazic origin ; and ( 3 ) Sephardic haredim.
Merging with the indigenous peoples, they gave rise to the Balts, a distinct Indo-European ethnic group whose descendants are the present-day Lithuanian and Latvian nations and the former Old Prussians.
Among its etymologies there are a derivation from the word Lietava, for a small river, a possible derivation from a word leičiai, but most probable is the name for union of Lithuanian ethnic tribes (' susilieti, lietis ' means to unite and the word ' lietuva ' means something which has been united ).
The primary Lithuanian state, the Duchy of Lithuania, emerged in the territory of Lietuva, the ethnic homeland of Lithuanians.
An ethnic Lithuanian proportion being about 1 / 4 in GDL after the Union of Lublin was held till the partitions.
There was much devastation and population loss throughout the GDL in the mid and late 17th century, including the ethnic Lithuanian population in Vilnius voivodeship.
The voivodeships with a majority ethnic Lithuanian population were Vilnius, Trakai and Samogitian voivodeships, and these three voivodeships comprised the political center of the state.
The Ruthenian population formed a majority in GDL from the time of the GDL's expansion in the mid 14th century ; and the adjective " Lithuanian ", besides denoting ethnic Lithuanians, from early times denoted any inhabitant of GDL, including Slavs and Jews.
The Lithuanian National Revival had begun to intensify by the end of the 19th century, and the number of Lithuanian speakers and people identifying themselves as ethnic Lithuanians started to increase ; but at the same time many Polish speaking Lithuanians, especially former szlachta, cut themselves adrift from the Lithuanian nation.
After World War II, the ethnic Lithuanian population remained stable: 79. 3 % in 1959 to 83. 5 % in 2002.
Elsewhere, ethnic Poles constitute large minorities in Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine: Polish is the most widely used minority language in Lithuania's Vilnius County ( 26 % of the population, according to the 2001 census results ) and is found elsewhere in southeastern Lithuania ; in Ukraine it is most common in the Lviv and Lutsk regions, while in Western Belarus it is used by the significant Polish minority especially in the Brest and Grodno regions and in areas along the Lithuanian border.
Though the ethnic Lithuanian nobility were the main converts to Catholicism — both paganism and the Orthodox rite remained strong among the peasants — the king's conversion and its political implications created lasting repercussions for the history of both Lithuania and Poland.
Originating from different ethnic associations, Belarusian ( and also Polish and Lithuanian ) Tatars back in ancient days lost their native language and adopted Belarusian, Polish and Russian.
Several ethnic churches are located in this part of the city, as a result of settlement in the area by a large number of Eastern European immigrants, with Polish, Slovak, Czech, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, and Russian significantly represented.
In 1939 East Prussia had 2. 49 million inhabitants, 85 % of them ethnic Germans, the others Poles in the south who, according to Polish estimates numbered in the interwar period around 300, 000-350, 000, and Lietuvininkai speaking Lithuanian ( Baltic ) in the northeast.
Each of these churches were ethnic, St. Agnes being Irish, St. Anthony's was Lithuanian ; St. Michael's was Slovakian ; St. Joseph's was Slovenian ; and Sacred Heart was Polish.
The Old Prussians were an ethnic group related to the Latvian and Lithuanian Baltic peoples.
After World War II it was again annexed by the Soviet Union and made part of the Lithuanian SSR in the Soviet Union ; subsequently many of the city's and area's ethnic Polish inhabitants left for the recovered Territories of the People's Republic of Poland.
The available options include the above subjects at " extended level " ( poziom rozszerzony ), as well as exams at either level in biology, chemistry, knowledge of dance, geography, history, history of art, history of music, information technology, physics and astronomy, Latin and Ancient History, philosophy, another modern language, languages of ethnic groups in Poland ( Belarusian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian ), and the Kashubian language.
In the meantime, Polish – Lithuanian relations worsened as Polish politicians found it hard to accept the Lithuanians ' demands for certain territories, especially the city of Vilnius which had a Polish ethnic majority but was regarded by Lithuanians as their historical capital.
Romuva is a Baltic ethnic religious organization, reviving the religious practices of the Lithuanian people before their Christianization.
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The diverse ethnic communities – the Ovimbundu, Ambundu, Bakongo, Chokwe, and other peoples – maintain to varying degrees their own cultural traits, traditions and languages, but in the cities, where slightly more than half of the population now lives, a mixed culture has been emerging since colonial times – in Luanda since its foundation in the 16th century.
During World War I, the Armenian Genocide, the Greek genocide ( especially in Pontus ), and the Assyrian Genocide almost entirely removed the ancient communities of Armenian and Assyrian populations in Anatolia, as well as a large part of its ethnic Greek population.
Following the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922, all remaining ethnic Anatolian Greeks were forced out during the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey.
Most of Armenia's ethnic Azeri population was deported in 1988 – 1989 and remain refugees, largely in Azerbaijan.
Minorities in the U. S. spend a combined $ 142 billion on food and by 2010, America's ethnic population is expected to grow by 40 percent.
* 1992 – The Maraghar Massacre, killing of ethnic Armenian civil population of the village Maraghar by Azerbaijani troops during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
Bahamian tastes in consumer products roughly parallel those in the U. S. With approximately 85 % of the population of primarily African descent, there is a large and growing market in the Bahamas for " ethnic " personal care products.
The population is made up of three major ethnic groups – Hutu ( Bahutu ), Tutsi ( Batutsi or Watusi ), and Twa ( Batwa ).
The population mainly consists of Malays, Banjar, Chinese and Dayak ethnic groups.
The Bambara language is the language of people of the Bambara ethnic group, numbering about 4, 000, 000 people, but serves also as a lingua franca in Mali ( it is estimated that about 80 percent of the population speak it as a first or second language ).
Boer is the specific ethnic group within the larger Afrikaans speaking population.
Only ethnic dominance, the case where the largest ethnic group comprises a majority of the population, increased the risk of civil war.
According to Ethnologue, the majority of the population speaks Somali ( 297, 000 speakers ) or Afar ( 99, 200 speakers ) as a first language, which are the mother tongues of the Somali and Afar ethnic groups, respectively.
It subsequently came to be used to refer to the historical movements of the dispersed ethnic population of Israel, to the cultural development of that population or to the population itself.
Mestizos, the multiracial group of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry, are by far the largest of all the ethnic groups, and comprise around 72 % of the current population.
Demographic topics include basic education, health and population statistics, as well as identified ethnic and religious affiliations.
They are the largest ethnic group in the country, constituting about 55 % of the population.
Eritrea's population comprises nine ethnic groups, most of whom speak languages from the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family.
The country's population is highly diverse, containing over 80 different ethnic groups.
The following is a list of most of the ethnic groups of Ethiopia, taken from the 2007 Ethiopian National Census: ( Population size and percentage of Ethiopia's total population follows each entry.
The vast majority of the population are ethnic Faroese, of Norse descent.
Italian authorities committed ethnic cleansing by forcibly expelling 100, 000 Bedouin Cyrenaicans, half the population of Cyrenaica in Libya, from their settlements that was slated to be given to Italian settlers.
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