Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "History of modern Greece" ¶ 26
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

majority and Greeks
The new government would have a majority of 58, with SYRIZA, Independent Greeks ( ANEL ), Golden Dawn ( XA ) and the Communist Party ( KKE ) comprising the opposition.
For instance, in a 1942 lecture, published posthumously, Heidegger said of recent German classics scholarship: " In the majority of ' research results ,' the Greeks appear as pure National Socialists.
The majority of Greeks, and later Romans, did not accept Hermes Trismegistos in the place of Hermes.
It is thought the majority of Valparaíso's people have non-Spanish European background, such as: British and Irish, Australians and New Zealanders, North Americans ( U. S. or Canadian ), Croats and Bosnians, Dutch and Belgians, French, Germans, Greeks, Italians, Portuguese and Scandinavians.
At the first census after liberation from Ottoman rule in 1884, from population of 33, 442 inhabitants the majority were 16, 752 Bulgarians ( 50 %), followed by 7, 144 Turks ( 21 %), 5, 497 Greeks ( 16 %), 2, 168 Jews ( 6 %), 1, 061 Armenians ( 3 %), 151 Italians, 112 Germans, 112 Roma, 80 Frenchs, 61 Russians and 304 people of other nationalities.
The majority of Greeks were called rayas by the Turks, a name that referred to the large mass of non-Muslim subjects in the Ottoman ruling class.
Nikon at once ( 1654 ) summoned a synod to re-examine the service-books revised by the Patriarch Joasaf, and the majority of the synod decided that " the Greeks should be followed rather than our own ancients.
The overwhelming majority of modern Greeks are followers of Greek Orthodox Christianity.
The majority of those refugees later returned to Greece, but a part remains to this day ( see Greeks in Poland ).
In Northern Levant, the mixed pagan population of Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans formed the majority, along Ismaelite Arab societies of Itureans and later also Qahtanite Ghassanids ( Arab Christians ), who migrated to the area of Golantis in 4th century from Yemen.
This treaty made the island part of Turkey ; but it guaranteed a special autonomous administrative status for Imbros and Tenedos to accommodate the Greeks, and excluded them from the population exchange that took place between Greece and Turkey, due to their presence there as a majority.
Bozcaada remained majority Greek till the late 1960s and early 1970s, when many Greeks emigrated because of systemic discrimination and better opportunities elsewhere.
This title had two implications: first, that Otto was the king only of the small Kingdom of Greece, and not of all Greeks, whose majority still remained under the rule of the Ottoman Empire.
All three churches had common origins in terms of membership, where the majority of adherents was a mix of Greeks and Hellenized Jews and Syrians from Antioch and the rest of Syria who adopted the new faith.
From 1669 until the Greek War of Independence in 1821, Phanariotes formed the majority of the dragomans to the Ottoman government ( the Porte ) and to foreign embassies-due to the higher level of education of Greeks compared to the general Ottoman population.
Until the early 1920s, the majority of its inhabitants were Greeks.
The new government would have a majority of 28, with SYRIZA, Independent Greeks ( ANEL ), Golden Dawn ( XA ) and the Communist Party ( KKE ) comprising the opposition.
The socialist movement in Thessaloniki ( present Northern Greece ) during the last decade of the Ottoman Empire was divided across ethnic lines between the Sephardi Jews ( who formed the majority of the population ), the Bulgarian and Macedonian Slavs and the Greeks, but all groups united when it came to election time.
Unlike the majority of Greeks, many Agrafiotes can trace their family histories back for generations since they were free to read, write, and record births, baptisms, and deaths.
In fact, the overwhelming majority of the " Byzantines " themselves were very conscious of their uninterrupted continuity with the ancient Greeks.
By a majority of 69. 18 %, the Greeks decided against a constitutional monarchy and for a parliamentary republic.

majority and continued
At the Fifth Congress held in London in May 1907, the Bolsheviks were in the majority, but the two factions continued functioning mostly independently of each other.
Grenada continued to practise a modified Westminster parliamentary system based on the British model with a governor general appointed by and representing the British monarch ( head of state ) and a prime minister who is both leader of the majority party and the head of government.
The NNP continued in power until 1989 but with a reduced majority.
After leaving TSR in 1985 over issues with its new majority owner, Gygax continued to create role-playing game titles independently, beginning with the multi-genre Dangerous Journeys in 1992.
On 22 June 1995, tired of continual threats of leadership challenges that never arose, Major resigned as Leader of the Conservative Party and announced he would contest the resulting leadership election – he continued to serve as Prime Minister while the leadership was vacant, but would have resigned had he not been re-elected by a large enough majority.
It's the period that contains the majority of his most highly respected works, and continued through to 1965 with Tokyo Olympiad.
Fraser won the seat with a majority of more than five thousand on a swing of 8. 5 percent, and continued to represent Wannon until his retirement.
With the continued support of the CDS, the MNSD maintained a working majority of 67 seats in the 113 seat National Assembly.
However, with the exception of a few of the southern city-states, the majority of the Roman allies remained loyal and continued to fight alongside Rome, despite Hannibal's near-invincible army devastating the Italian countryside.
In the aftermath of the Ogaden war, although Barre stated at the March 1983 Nonaligned Movement summit in New Delhi that Somalia had no designs on the Ogaden and was willing to negotiate with Ethiopia, the government of Somalia continued to call for self-determination for the ethnic Somali majority living in the Ogaden.
The result was that Karimov's solid majority continued after the new parliament went into office.
On that occasion the party won 48. 5 % of the vote, but, despite its absolute majority in the Italian Parliament, De Gasperi continued to govern at the head of a centrist coalition that included the Italian Workers ' Socialist Party ( PSLI-a 1947 break-away from the PSI ), the Liberals and the Republicans.
Representatives of Kosovo's ethnic-Albanian majority asserted that Kosovo must become independent, arguing that the violence of the Milošević years made continued union between Kosovo and Serbia impossible.
Groups that began with majority rule continued to use the rule.
By the end of the colonial administration in 1974, 30 percent of Timorese were practicing Roman Catholics while the majority continued to worship spirits of the land and sky.
The vast majority of CA supporters in most provinces supported, and continued to support their provincial Progressive Conservative parties, while most supporters in Saskatchewan remained loyal to the Saskatchewan Party.
While official ideology was de-emphasized, the PDPA did not lose its monopoly on power, and the Revolutionary Council, the equivalent to the rubber-stamp Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, continued to be ruled through its Presidium, the majority of Presidium members were from the PDPA Politburo.
The government continued to struggle both with the economy and with the slender majority which, by 1966, had been reduced to one.
The majority of SI continued to refuse such offers and any involvement on the conventional avant-garde artistic plane.
Moreover, the vast majority of the Koevoet personnel were quite unsuited for continued employment in the South-West African Police ( SWAPOL ).
The majority of these projects were continued after the Islamic revolution of 1979 when Tehran's urbanization had reached its peak, and the new government started many other new projects, such as Milad Tower.
Recruits to the fast stream self-selected, with the universities of Oxford and Cambridge still producing a large majority of successful candidates, since the system continued to favour the tutorial system at Oxbridge.
The UBP continued to maintain control of the government, although by decreasing margins in the Assembly, until 1998 when the PLP won the general election for the first time with 54 % of the popular vote and a 24-seat majority in the 40-member Assembly.
These territories were fairly arbitrary in their geographic extent as the vast majority of the Vietnamese regarded their country as a single land and minor resistance to French rule continued over the next 70 years to achieve an independent state.

0.862 seconds.