The majority of Kurdish villages, however, remained intact in early 1988.

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.

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.

At the end of the 17th century ( 1697 ) the Shihabs succeeded the Ma ' ans in the feudal leadership of Druze southern Lebanon, although they reportedly professed Sunni Islam, they showed sympathy with Druzism, the religion of the majority of their subjects.

Lebanon ’ s majority Shi ' a Islam in Lebanon | Shi ’ a areas as of July 2006, where Hezbollah is most prominent.

A Lebanese public opinion poll taken in August 2006 shows that most of the Shia did not believe that Hezbollah should disarm after the 2006 Lebanon war, while the majority of Sunni, Druze and Christians believed that they should.

Of the nations with a majority of Muslim inhabitants, Lebanon has an internal effort to legalize homosexuality.

In Lebanon, Kuwait, Jordan, and Morocco, the majority used the term to mean " duty toward God ", a " divine duty ", or a " worship of God ", with no militaristic connotations.

The mountainous territory of Mount Lebanon has long been a shelter for minority and persecuted groups, including its historic Maronite Christian majority along with Druze, and local Shi ' a Muslims.

The majority of the Lebanese Armed Forces remained a part of the French Army in Lebanon.

The central claim of Kahanism is that the vast majority of the Arabs of Israel are now, and will continue to be, enemies of Jews and Israel itself, and that a Jewish theocratic state, governed by Halakha, absent of a voting non-Jewish population and including Israel, the West Bank, Gaza Strip, areas of modern-day Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and even Iraq should be created.

One thousand years ago Christians were the majority population in today's Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine and Egypt.

Besides the culinary heritage of the Anglo-Celtic majority, the cuisines of China, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam are not only popular, but have also left the greatest impact on Modern Australian cuisine.

The majority of Arab Americans, around 62 %, originate from the region of the Levant, which includes Syria, Lebanon, Palestine / Israel and Jordan, although overwhelmingly from Lebanon.

* The Lebanese constitution states that the President of Lebanon is elected by a simple majority of the Parliament of Lebanon.

Some went to Lebanon and the Israeli Army trucked the majority to Rame, a town between Acre and Safad.

Lebanese Muslims pushed the government to join the newly created United Arab Republic, a country formed out of the unification of Syria and Egypt, while the majority of Lebanese and especially the Christians wanted to keep Lebanon as an independent nation with its own independent parliament.

After news of Nazareth's fall, the majority of non-combatant village residents fled north towards Lebanon or to nearby Arab towns.

After 1948, the majority of refugees lived at the Wavel refugee camp in Lebanon and other places in Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.

The majority of them are either descendants of traders from the maritime Republics of the Mediterranean ( such as Venice, Genoa and Ragusa ) or of European inhabitants of the Crusader states ( especially the French Levantines in Lebanon, Israel and Turkey ).

The Chipmunk was the first Canadian-designed aircraft to be made abroad under licence, with the majority of the home-grown production destined for the RCAF, but Canadian Chipmunks were also sent to Egypt, Lebanon, and Thailand.

Christians formed the majority of the population of Mount Lebanon, with a significant number of Druze.