Kurdish, with 15 %, constitute a major community in southeastern Anatolia, and are the largest ethnic minority.

* Arab Americans, particularly Lebanese Americans ( the largest ethnic Arab group in the United States )-Arab cuisine, Lebanese cuisine

As of 2011, Canadians who are of Scottish ancestry are the third largest ethnic group in the country and thus Columba's name is to be found attached to Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian parishes.

Only ethnic dominance, the case where the largest ethnic group comprises a majority of the population, increased the risk of civil war.

The two largest ethnic groups are the Somali ( 60 %) and the Afar ( 35 %).

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.

They are the largest ethnic group in the country, constituting about 55 % of the population.

The largest ethnic group of non-German origin are the Turkish.

The two countries are also economically interdependent: 8. 8 % of German exports are U. S .- bound and 6. 6 % of German imports originate from the U. S. Other signs of the close ties include the continuing position of German-Americans as the largest ethnic group in the U. S. and the status of Ramstein Air Base ( near Kaiserslautern ) as the largest U. S. military community outside the U. S.

The largest ethnic group among the Catholic priesthood of Britain remains Irish ( in the United States, the upper ranks of the Church's hierarchy are of predominantly Irish descent.

The 2006 census by Statcan, Canada's Official Statistical office revealed that the Irish were the 4th largest ethnic group with 4, 354, 155 Canadians with full or partial Irish descent or 14 % of the nation's total population.

Irish Americans number over 45 million, making them the second largest reported ethnic group in the country, after German Americans.

This exchange greatly exacerbated tensions between the republic's two largest ethnic groups, who at that point were numerically about equal.

Kenya's diversity is such that its largest ethnic group, the Kikuyu, make up for less than a fifth of total population.

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.

The Pashtuns ( Pakhtuns or Pathans ), originally from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, FATA and northern Balochistan, are now the city's second largest ethnic group in Karachi after Muhajirs.

In 1770 there were about 4. 84 million inhabitants in GDL, of which the largest ethnic group were Ruthenians, about 1. 39 million – Lithuanians.

The largest religious and ethnic group in the Levant is Sunni Muslim Arabs, but there are also many other groups.

The Li ( 黎 ; pinyin: Lí ) or Hlai are a minority ethnic group, the vast majority of whom live off the southern coast of mainland China on Hainan Island, where they are the largest minority ethnic group.

The Malagasy ethnic group is often divided into eighteen or more sub-groups of which the largest are the Merina of the central highlands.

The largest ethnic group in the middle east are Arabs.

The player with the largest number of shares is the " majority " shareholder, and the player with the second-largest number of shares is the " minority " shareholder.

African Americans make up the single largest racial minority in the United States.

In the United States territory of Guam, Asians, mostly Filipinos, with smaller numbers of Koreans, Chinese, and Japanese, are the largest minority group.

In India, where Muslims form a large minority, the largest Islamic seminary ( Darul Uloom Deoband ) has vehemently opposed recent government moves to abrogate and liberalize laws from the British Raj era that banned homosexuality.

The European and Polynesian populations gradually increased in the years leading to the nickel boom of 1969 – 72, and the Melanesians became a minority, though they were still the largest single ethnic group.

Arabs, who make up 20. 4 % of the population, are the largest ethnic minority in Israel.

The Hungarian minority in Romania constitutes the country's largest minority, 6. 5 per cent of the population.

The Sinhalese people form the majority of the population ; Tamils, who are concentrated in the north and east of the island, form the largest ethnic minority.

Equally there is criticism from Austria that Slovenia has not given it ` s German-Austrian minority and heritage, the same recognition that it has given to Italians and Hungarians, although Germans have historically been the largest ethhnic minority of the country.

Since the constitution of 1978 came into effect, there have not been any coalition governments, even if the party with the largest number of seats has failed to obtained absolute majority, though in such cases the party in government has had to rely on the support of minority parties to gain confidence and to approve the State's budgets.

The Sri Lanka Tamils, live predominantly in the northeast of the island forming the largest minority group at 12. 7 % ( according to the 1981 census ) of the population.

In the 2007 Scottish Parliamentary election, the SNP became the largest political party in the Scottish Parliament for the first time, governing as a minority administration, with party leader Alex Salmond as First Minister of Scotland.

The Japanese diaspora is the largest visible minority in the city ; it stems from the management of businesses opened in recent years by Japanese companies such as Sharp.

After the Dutch general election of 2010 the VVD became the largest party with 31 seats and is currently the senior party in a centre-right minority cabinet with the Christian Democratic Appeal supported by the Party for Freedom of Geert Wilders to obtain a majority.

The Bahá ' í Faith, Iran's largest non-Muslim religious minority, is not officially recognized, and has been persecuted during its existence in Iran.

Manchus formed a minority in Manchukuo, whose largest ethnic group were Han Chinese.

The Koryaks are the largest minority group with 8, 743 people among the larger mostly Russian Cossack colonizers.

* In Croatia, Serbs are the largest national minority, scattered across the country.

* In Macedonia, Serbs are a minority present in 16 municipalities, the largest being the Čučer-Sandevo Municipality ( close to 28 %) and Staro Nagoričane Municipality.

Today, the three largest US American Ásatrú organizations have specifically denounced any association with racist groups.

Worldwide the three largest groups of Christianity are the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the various denominations of Protestantism.

Other groups originating in this time period include the Christadelphians and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the largest denomination of the Latter Day Saint movement with over 14 million members.

Increasingly, hydro-power operations are required to meet standards under the U. S. Endangered Species Act and other agreements to manage operations to minimize impacts on salmon and other fish, and some conservation and fishing groups support removing four dams on the lower Snake River, the largest tributary of the Columbia.

Among the separate contra groups, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force ( FDN ) emerged as the largest by far.

Notable student groups include the nation's largest and oldest collegiate outdoors club, the Dartmouth Outing Club, which includes the nationally recognized Big Green Bus, the controversial conservative newspaper The Dartmouth Review, and The Dartmouth, arguably the nation's oldest university newspaper.

He presides over a multi-party chamber, the two largest groups being the Group of the European People's Party ( EPP ) and the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats ( S & D ).

It is the group with the largest numbers of speakers, far out-numbering the Western and Southern Slavic groups.

Galaxy groups and clusters are the largest known gravitationally bound objects to have arisen thus far in the process of cosmic structure formation.

The right-wing groups, the largest of which was CEDA, a right wing Roman Catholic coalition, held opposing views on most issues.

The largest resistance group, the National Liberation Front ( EAM ), was controlled by the Communists, as was ( Elas ) led by Aris Velouchiotis and a civil war soon broke out between it and non-Communist groups such as the National Republican Greek League ( EDES ) in those areas liberated from the Germans.

High-density lipoprotein ( HDL ) is one of the five major groups of lipoproteins, which, in order of sizes, largest to smallest, are chylomicrons, VLDL, IDL, LDL, and HDL, which enable lipids like cholesterol and triglycerides to be transported within the water-based bloodstream.

The largest remaining communities of the Brethren were located in Lissa ( Leszno ) in Poland, which had historically strong ties with the Czechs, and in small, isolated groups in Moravia.

The Islands of the Firth of Clyde are the fifth largest of the major Scottish island groups after the Inner and Outer Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland.

Some member groups have only a few hundred members ; while the largest, the Unitarian Universalist Association, has over 200, 000 members and is larger than all the other member groups put together.

In the United Kingdom, Jardine Motors is one of the country ’ s largest retail dealership groups with a portfolio of specialist franchises that includes Aston Martin, BMW, Ferrari, Lexus, Mercedes Benz, Porsche and, most recently, McLaren.

In 1979, Falwell founded the Moral Majority, which became one of the largest political lobby groups for evangelical Christians in the United States during the 1980s.

The history of Kazakhstan describes the human past in the Eurasia's largest segment of the steppe belt that was the home and crossroads for numerous human groups starting with extinct Pithecanthropus and Sinanthropus 1 mln – 800, 000 in the Karatau Mountains, Caspian and Balkhash areas ; Neanderthals 140 – 40 thousand years ago in the Karatau Mountains and Central Kazakhstan, and the arrival of the modern Homo Sapiens 40 – 12 thousand years ago in the Southern, Central, and Eastern Kazakhstan.