Their impolitic occupation of Columbus, Kentucky on September 3, 1861, two days before Johnston arrived in the Confederacy's capital, Richmond, Virginia, after his cross – country journey, drove Kentucky from its stated neutrality and the majority of Kentuckians into the Union camp.

The majority of Greeks continued to live under Ottoman rule, and Greeks dreamed of liberating them all and reconstituting a state embracing all the Greek lands, with Constantinople as its capital.

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This agreement gave Lithuanians control of the city of Vilnius (, ), the old Lithuanian capital, but a city with a majority Polish population.

The vast majority of the people live in the eastern region, most within of Asunción, the capital and largest city faces Argentina to the south and west.

Qatar has over 1. 5 million people, the majority of whom ( about 90 %) live in Doha, the capital.

The majority of its people reside in the state capital, Adelaide, with most of the remainder settled in fertile areas along the south-eastern coast and River Murray.

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In 2001, the left, represented by Bertrand Delanoë ( PS ), won over the majority in the town council of the capital.

The majority of such firms are financed by local capital.

Trade credit is the largest use of capital for a majority of business to business ( B2B ) sellers in the United States and is a critical source of capital for a majority of all businesses.

The majority of " paved " roads outside the capital can no longer be considered so due to heavy use, erosion, and lack of maintenance.

The majority of mining societies operating in Sardinia depended on non-Sardinian capital money.

The KMT retained a clear majority in the capital, while the DPP and the KMT obtained very close results in the southern city of Kaohsiung.

He obtained 15 billion of debt adjustment that needed to be borne by banks and investors, another 15 billion of capital increase claimed to the State since it was still the majority shareholder, and an additional 15 billion of cash to be found from internal savings.

Today, the majority of Buryats live in and around Ulan-Ude, the capital of the republic, although many live more traditionally in the countryside.

As the majority of the populous live in capital cities relatively close to the sea, the cuisine of these regions has been influenced by involving quality fresh seafood.

The vast majority of the population clusters in the capital city of Álava, Vitoria-Gasteiz, which also serves as the capital of the Autonomous Community, but the remainder of the territory is sparsely inhabited with population nuclei distributed into seven counties ( cuadrillas ): Añana ; Ayala ; Campezo ; Laguardia ; Salvatierra ; Vitoria-Gasteiz ; Zuya.

A majority of Danes saw this image of their king riding in the streets of the capital as heroic and a symbol of national independence and resistance.

With the rural population moving in the capital city, in the 19th century slowly Hungarians became the majority in Buda too.

The border city of Vukovar underwent a three month siege – the Battle of Vukovar — during which most of the city was destroyed and a majority of the population was forced to flee.

As Elbing became an industrial city, the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ) frequently received the majority of votes ; in the 1912 Reichstag elections the SPD received 51 % of the vote.

The other was an FCC rulemaking in 1966 that required broadcasters who owned both full-time AM stations and FM properties in the same city to program each of them with separate programming during a majority of the day.

In 1844, Jews constituted the largest population group in Jerusalem and by 1890 an absolute majority in the city, but as a whole the Jewish population made up far less than 10 % of the country.

The majority of common wet-cured ham available in U. S. supermarkets is of the " city ham " or " sweet cure " variety, in which brine is injected into the meat for a very rapid curing suitable for mass market.

The vast majority of IKEA stores are located outside of city centres, primarily because of land cost and traffic access.

At the time of his birth the city had a German-speaking majority, and this was the language of his parents.

By the fifth to 4th centuries BC, the island had grown to an estimated population of over 120, 000 ( two to three times the estimated population in 2005 ), and based on the huge necropoli at the main city of Chios, the asty, it is thought the majority lived in that area.

The city was, and still is home to a large community of Gujarati Muslims, who were one of the earliest settlers in the city, and still form the majority in Saddar Town.

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.

Compared to the Harrien-Wierland gentry, the Reval city council, and hence probably the majority of citizens, demonstrated a much more reserved attitude towards Denmark and King Magnus of Livonia.

The majority of smaller or urban roads are managed by city or district councils, although some are fall under the control of other authorities, such as the New Zealand Department of Conservation or port and airport authorities.

The Socialist Party, the Green Party and Labour have a solid two-thirds majority in City Council, making Nijmegen the only major city in the Netherlands with a solely Left-wing government.

The Germans in Czechoslovakia, known as Sudeten Germans but also Carpathian Germans, were expelled according to the Beneš decrees — from the Sudetenland region, where they formed a majority, from linguistic enclaves in central Bohemia and Moravia, as well as from the city of Prague.

The other major sticking point, which is reportedly causing concern at government level, is that the majority of people going to Potsdamer Platz are visitors to the city, implying that the original vision of the development as a linking element attracting Berliners themselves, and Berliners from both sides of the former divide, has not really materialised.

Those of them not killed took to the woods, a majority of them finding refuge in this city.

Sidon is a conservative city with a Sunni Muslim majority: Sunnis make up approximately ( 80 %) of the local population, Shiites and Christians combined make up ( 20 %).

Despite objections from shareholders such as Joan Whitney Payson, majority owner Horace Stoneham entered into negotiations with San Francisco officials at around the same time that the Dodgers ' owner Walter O ' Malley was courting the city of Los Angeles.

During the Revolution of 1789, city officials had proposed to the Convention to rename Versailles Berceau-de-la-Liberté (" Cradle of Liberty "), but they had to retract their proposal when confronted with the objections of the majority of the population.

Accounts have been published of Northern liberals in the South up against segregationist prejudice, especially in state-supported universities where pressure may be strong to uphold the majority view.

The majority of abalone species are found in cold waters, off the Southern Hemisphere coasts of New Zealand, South Africa and Australia, and Western North America and Japan in the Northern Hemisphere.

It is the majority language of the western half of South Africa — the provinces of the Northern Cape and Western Cape — and the primary language of the coloured and white communities.

It is one of four counties of Northern Ireland presently to have a majority of the population from a Catholic background, according to the 2001 census.

The majority of islands are low coral atolls in the Northern Group, with Rarotonga, a volcanic island in the Southern Group, as the main administration and government centre.

The Chief Minister of the Northern Territory is appointed by the Administrator, who in normal circumstances will appoint the head of whatever party holds the majority of seats in the legislature of the territory ( in the Northern Territory, the Legislative Assembly ).

Most of the region was a part of the Kingdom of Sweden from the 13th century to 1809, when the vast majority of the Finnish-speaking areas of Sweden were ceded to the Russian Empire ( excluding the Finnish-speaking areas of the modern-day Northern Sweden ), making this area the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland.

In Australia majority verdicts are allowed in South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia, Tasmania, the Northern Territory, New South Wales and Queensland, while the ACT require unanimous verdicts.

The Northern Territory has allowed majority verdicts of 10: 2, 10: 1 and 9: 1 since 1963 and does not discriminate between cases whether the charge is murder or not.

Napoleon's campaigns acquired Italian pieces by treaties, as war reparations, and Northern European pieces as spoils as well as some antiquities excavated in Egypt, though the vast majority of the latter were seized as war reparations by the British army and are now part of collections of the British Museum.

The PCUS had to agree to this limit on eligibility as a condition of union, due to the so-called " Northern Presbyterians " being by far the majority numerically.

Despite the political climate in which the band had lived, the vast majority ( though not all ) of the material the band released focused not upon the Northern Irish Troubles, but upon issues such as adolescence, teenage angst and heartbreak.

The area of Northern Ireland was seen as the maximum area within which Unionists could be expected to have a safe majority.

This worked against Clay, who had solid majority support in almost all of the Southern delegations ( with little potential for opponents to capitalize on a proportional distribution of delegates ), and a large minority support in Northern delegations ( with the potential for substantial proportional distributions in his favor eliminated ).

Northern Schleswig joined Denmark, whereas Central Schleswig voted, by an 80 % majority, to remain part of Germany.

A minority of vendors in the north of England and Scotland and the majority of vendors in Northern Ireland still use dripping or lard, as it imparts a different flavour to the dish, but it has the side effect of making the fried chips unsuitable for vegetarians and for adherents of certain faiths.

However, in a shock result, the ALP achieved majority government by one seat, and Martin became the first ALP and first female Chief Minister in the history of the Northern Territory.

Calhoun's constitutional ideas acted as a viable conservative alternative to Northern appeals to democracy, majority rule and natural rights.

It is one of four counties in Northern Ireland which presently has a majority of the population from a Catholic community background, according to the 2001 census.

It is believed that they evolved first in the Southern Hemisphere, even though the majority of the fossils have been found in the Northern Hemisphere.

As the Northern Xiongnu declined under internal and external conflicts, the Southern Xiongnu received waves of new migrants, and by the end of the 1st c. CE a majority of the Xiongnu resided in China proper and along its northern borders.

A majority of Northern Whigs joined the opposition.

Today, the Northern Cheyenne Nation is one of the few American Indian nations to have control over the majority of its land base, currently 98 %.