The Romani are widely dispersed, with their largest concentrated populations in Europe.

" Antioch, a coastal city in northern Syria and the third largest in the Roman world, is often mentioned as this later home of the Matthean community, but it could have been any large city in the eastern Mediterranean with large Jewish and Christian populations, and recent research points towards a location near Galilee or Judea.

Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Gujarat have the largest Jain populations among Indian states.

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.

Pakistan has a multicultural and multi-ethnic society and hosts one of the largest refugee populations in the world as well as a young population.

Additionally, tourism is drawn to central Africa's largest protected wetland Akagera National Park, with its populations of hippopotami, cape buffalo, zebras, elephants, elands, and other big game animals.

Romani are widely dispersed, with their largest concentrated populations in Europe, especially the Roma of Central and Eastern Europe and Anatolia, followed by the Kale of Iberia and Southern France.

This districts with the largest sinhalese populations in Sri Lanka (> 90 %) are Hambantota, Galle, Gampaha, Kurunegala, Moneragala and Polonnaruwa.

The largest areas of wilderness are along the Atlantic coast and in the western mountains, where the largest populations of trillium wildflowers in North America are found.

The influence of China and India was also rising, as the world's largest populations, long marginalized by the West and by their own rulers, were rapidly integrating with the world economy.

Zambia ( 40, 000 ) and Tanzania ( 20, 000 – 30, 000 ) possess the largest populations.

* Romani people, an ethnic group with origins in northern India who are widely dispersed with their largest concentrated populations in Europe, especially Central and Eastern Europe, with more recent diaspora populations in the Americas and, to a lesser extent, in North Africa and the Middle East

Leopards have the largest distribution of any wild cat, occurring widely in eastern and central Africa, although populations have shown a declining trend and are fragmented outside of sub-Saharan Africa.

France, with one of the largest populations in Europe by the end of the 18th century ( 27 million, as compared to the United Kingdom's 12 million and Russia's 35 to 40 million ), seemed well poised to take advantage of the levée en masse.

In 1840 and 1850, the city ranked among the 100 largest urban populations.

Although the earliest organized group of Japanese emigrants settled in Mexico in 1897, the four largest populations of Japanese and descendants of Japanese immigrants live in Brazil, the United States, Canada and Peru.

Although the earliest organized group of Japanese emigrants settled in Mexico in 1897, the four largest populations of Japanese and descendants of Japanese immigrants live in Brazil, the United States, Canada and Peru.

One of the largest breeding areas is the Chesapeake Bay, where populations from Chesapeake and Delaware bays have intermingled.

According to the ONS urban area populations for continuous built-up areas, these are the 5 largest conurbations ( population figures from the 2001 census ):

Falun Gong is practiced by tens, and possibly hundreds of thousands outside China, with the largest communities found in Taiwan and North American cities with large Chinese populations, such as New York and Toronto.

Some of the largest cities in the world were found in China during this period ( Kaifeng and Hangzhou had populations of over a million ).

London, Brighton, Liverpool, and Manchester being the largest and the cities with the biggest gay populations ( Liverpool's LGBT population being 94, 000 by mid-2009 according to the North West Regional Development Agency.

The largest burro populations in the hemisphere are found primarily in Latin America.

The diversity of systems and phenomena available for study makes condensed matter physics the most active field of contemporary physics: one third of all American physicists identify themselves as condensed matter physicists, and The Division of Condensed Matter Physics ( DCMP ) is the largest division of the American Physical Society.

The River North neighborhood features the nation's largest concentration of contemporary art galleries outside of New York City.

" Thus, Poole's critique might better be understood as aimed at Calef, Mather's contemporary, who saw fit to ascribe to him, and his influence, the largest portion of blame.

1913 advertisement for Encyclopædia Britannica, the oldest and one of the largest contemporary English encyclopedias.

The contemporary Indo-Iranian languages form the largest sub-branch of Indo-European, with more than one billion speakers in total, stretching from Europe ( Romani ) and the Caucasus ( Ossetian ) eastward to Xinjiang ( Sarikoli ) and Assam ( Assamese ) and south to Sri Lanka ( Sinhalese ).

Since that time, ADF has developed into one of the world's largest forms of contemporary Druidism practiced as a religion.

The Malmö Konsthall is one of the largest exhibition halls in Europe for contemporary art, opened in 1975.

Pagan Witchcraft is the largest contemporary pagan religion, having originally developed in the United Kingdom and since spread across the world.

Neopaganism in the United States accounts for roughly a third of all contemporary Pagans worldwide, and for some 0. 2 % of US population, figuring as the sixth largest non-Christian denomination in the US, after Judaism ( 1. 4 %), Islam ( 0. 6 %), Buddhism ( 0. 5 %), Hinduism ( 0. 3 %) and Unitarian Universalism ( 0. 3 %).

By 1870, The Joseph Dixon Crucible Company was the world ’ s largest dealer and consumer of graphite and later became the contemporary Dixon Ticonderoga pencil and art supplies company.

Congress passed and President Bush signed the Homeland Security Act of 2002, creating the Department of Homeland Security, representing the largest restructuring of the U. S. government in contemporary history.

One of his pupils was Lodewijk Elzevir ( 1547 – 1617 ), who established the largest bookshop and printing works in Leiden, a business continued by his descendants through 1712 and the name subsequently adopted ( in a variant spelling ) by contemporary publisher Elsevier.

The ' Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt ', harboring one of the world's largest collections of post-war sheet music, also hosts the biennial Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, a summer school in contemporary classical music founded by Wolfgang Steinecke.

The contemporary Parthenon, the largest temple in classical Athens, is also in the Doric order, although the sculptural enrichment is more familiar in the Ionic order: the Greeks were never as doctrinaire in the use of the Classical vocabulary as Renaissance theorists or neoclassical architects.

It is widely described as the largest contemporary Trotskyist organisation with sections and sympathizing organizations in over 50 countries.

Local businesses include a number of furniture shops including Chaplins, which holds the largest selection of contemporary designer furniture in Europe, plus numerous restaurants including Italian ( for example, there is a branch of ASK on the Uxbridge Road ), Greek, Chinese, American and Indian.

The largest galleries will offer a grand scale for the display of large contemporary art installations.

Until 2003, Tate Liverpool was the largest gallery of modern and contemporary art in the UK outside of London.

This was not the end of the dispute, however ; in his Institutes of the Lawes of England, Coke suggested that the Monarch's decree was unlawful, and his contemporary David Jenkins wrote in Eight Centuries of Reports that " the excess of Jurisdiction in Chancery, in examining Judgments at Common Law " was one of the largest abuses of the law.

A 1999 study found that " the figures have grown much more muscular over time, with many contemporary figures far exceeding the muscularity of even the largest human bodybuilders " and that the changing cultural expectations reflected by those changes may contribute to body image disorders in both sexes.

The largest are Art Basel, an art show for Modern and contemporary works ; and BaselWorld, a major watch and jewellery show.

St Paul's was the largest school in England at its foundation, and its High Master had a salary of 13 shillings and sixpence weekly, which was double that of the contemporary Head Master of Eton College.

# the Musée d ' Art Moderne has one of the largest collections of modern and contemporary art in France

Moss Empires, the largest British Music Hall chain, closed the majority of its theatres in 1960, closely followed by the death of music hall stalwart Max Miller in 1963, prompting one contemporary to write that: " Music-halls ... died this afternoon when they buried Max Miller ".

The Canada Council supervises the Art Bank, which has the largest collection of contemporary Canadian art in the world, including some 18, 000 artworks, 6, 400 of which are currently rented to more than 200 government and corporate clients.