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majority and Kurdish
It is the cultural center of the area's Kurdish majority.
Such a census, according to Kurds would surely have shown a solid Kurdish majority in the city of Kirkuk and the surrounding oilfields, as well as in the secondary oil-bearing Kurdish area of Khanaqin, south of the Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah ( Kurdish: Sîlemanî ).
The majority of Syria's population in the 12th century consisted of Sunni Muslims, typically from Arab or Kurdish backgrounds.
The Shia United Iraqi Alliance obtained a majority, followed by the Kurdish Alliance ; Sunnis largely boycotted.
The absolute majority of the residents in the southern part of the province ( Abdanan, Darreshahr, Badreh, Dehloran and Mehran ) are Kurds and speak Kurdish.
The Kurdish people are the majority population in this province, and they speak Sorani-Kurdish which is a northwestern Iranian language.
The vast majority of Kurdish Jews, who were primarily concentrated in northern Iraq, left Kurdistan in the mass aliyah ( emigration to Israel ) of 1950-51.
The United States supplied the majority of the invading forces, but also received support from Kurdish irregulars in Iraqi Kurdistan.
The agreement included a pledge from the Kurds to stop their rebellion, and in exchange the regime would allow the establishment of a Kurdish autonomous region in areas where the Kurds were a majority.
Despite the differences in grammar and vocabulary between the Gorani language and Kurmanji, a language spoken by the majority of Kurds, Britannica classifies Gorani as a subdialect of Kurdish language.
Aside from its Rhenish-Westphalian majority population, Mettman has substantial Turkish / Kurdish, West / East Prussian, Silesian, Polish, Greek, Croatian, Serbian, Albanian, Bosnian and Lebanese communities.
It is alleged that most guardsmen were drawn from the Shia majority in Southern Iraq or the Kurdish majority in northern Iraq, rather than from the Sunni area which they were ordered to attack.
Two parties supported by the majority Shi ' a ( or Shiite ) Muslim community between them won a majority of seats, while parties representing the Kurdish community will also be strongly represented.
Areas with mixed populations saw the vast majority of voters back Shi ' ite or Kurdish parties.
The ethnic composition of Asadabad, similar to other cities in Hamadan province is of mixed ethnic groups, with Persian majority and Kurdish, Azeri, Lur and Lak minorities.
The majority of Deiries ( from Deir ez-Zor ) are Arabs, most of them are farmers from Jazira and urbanised bedouins of the Syrian Desert, with few Kurdish, Armenian and Assyrian / Syriac families.
The language spoken by the majority of people is Kermanshahi Kurdish and Kermanshahi Persian.
Despite making the vast majority, almost all Sunni Arabs boycotted the election, leading to the Kurdish party winning almost all of the seats.
The overwhelming majority of Jews speak Persian as their mother language, and a tiny minority, Kurdish.

majority and villages
He also says that " Singulary little change followed the 1928 decree ; a fair number of slaves returned to their original homes, but the great majority remained in the villages in which their former masters had placed them or their parents.
Even in the 1980s, the majority of people lived in small villages and worked at agricultural pursuits.
domestic: local-the majority of telephones are in Baku or other industrial centers-about 700 villages still do not have public telephone service ; intercity ; all long distance service must use Azertel's ( Ministry of Communications ) lines ; satellite service connects Baku to a modern switch in its separated enclave of Nakhchivan.
Countless villages were pillaged and tens of thousands of people were massacred, the majority of them in the insurgents towns of Batak, Perushtitsa and Bratsigovo in the area of Plovdiv.
In some villages where tourist shops are in the majority and there are few shops catering for the local people, the local community may feel pushed out by the tourists.
The native settlements consisted of pagi ( cantons ) containing a number of vici ( villages ), the majority of the large towns being of Roman origin.
There is general agreement that the majority of the population living in these villages was of Canaanite origin.
The majority of villages in Lebanon retain their Aramaic names or are derivative of the Aramaic names, and this is because Aramaic was still in use in Mount Lebanon up to the 18th century.
Catholics were also de facto exempt from the corvée labor that the government obliged all citizens to perform ; U. S. aid was disproportionately distributed to Catholic majority villages.
Of the 11 villages included within the city limits, the Slovene speakers had an overwhelming majority in 10, and the German speakers in one ( Miramare ).
Agriculture and forestry is also the life line for multitudes of small villages which support majority of the population.
Thousands of Spanish settlers also immigrated to Puerto Rico from the Canary Islands during the 18th and 19th centuries, so many so that whole Puerto Rican villages and towns were founded by Canarian immigrants, and their descendants would later form a majority of the Spanish population on the island.
The Lake and Peninsula Borough, the governing body for the region, passed a strong resolution in support of the development of the mine, but the majority of the surrounding villages adamantly oppose the development.
After elementary graduation, the majority of students attend River High School ( located in Hannibal, Ohio ), an institution consolidated with other small Ohio-River villages.
The final report of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission, published on 28 August 2003, revealed that while the majority of the atrocities committed between 1980 and 1995 were the work of Shining Path, the Peruvian armed forces were also guilty of having destroyed villages and murdered countryside inhabitants whom they suspected of supporting insurgents.
Since the war is, World War I, Jews have occupied the villages of Maramureş and Bukovina, and gained the absolute majority in the towns and cities in Bessarabia.
The majority of today's residents live in the villages of Heggenes, Rogne, Skammestein, Beito, and Beitostølen.
The majority of the residents live in the villages of Nesbyen, Espeset, Eidal, Sjong, Børtnes, Bromma, Svenkerud, and Liodden.
The majority of the residents live in the villages of Mjøndalen, Krokstadelva, Solbergelva, and Steinberg.
Catholics were also de facto exempt from the corvée labor that the government obliged all citizens to perform ; U. S. aid was disproportionately distributed to Catholic majority villages.
The Town of Monroe contains three villages: Monroe and Kiryas Joel, as well as the majority of the Village of Harriman, which it shares with the Town of Woodbury.
In 1840, when the decade began, railway lines in Britain were few and scattered but, within ten years, a virtually complete network had been laid down and the vast majority of towns and villages had a rail connection and sometimes two or three.
# The dairy cooperatives have been able to maintain democratic structure at least at the grass-root level with the management committee of the village level unit elected from among the members in majority of the villages.
Numbering about 500 people still living in the original villages of Istria ( while the majority left for other countries after World War II ( mainly to Italy, United States, Canada, Germany, France, Sweden, Switzerland, and Australia ), they speak the Istro-Romanian language, the closest living relative of Romanian.

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