In premodern Muslim countries, Jews rarely faced martyrdom, exile or forcible conversion, and were mostly free in their choice of residence and profession.

Drafted by a treaty and a bill of sale, and constituted between 1820 and 1858, the Princely State of Kashmir and Jammu ( as it was first called ) combined disparate regions, religions, and ethnicities: to the east, Ladakh was ethnically and culturally Tibetan and its inhabitants practised Buddhism ; to the south, Jammu had a mixed population of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs ; in the heavily populated central Kashmir valley, the population was overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, however, there was also a small but influential Hindu minority, the Kashmiri brahmins or pandits ; to the northeast, sparsely populated Baltistan had a population ethnically related to Ladakh, but which practised Shi ' a Islam ; to the north, also sparsely populated, Gilgit Agency, was an area of diverse, mostly Shi ' a groups ; and, to the west, Punch was Muslim, but of different ethnicity than the Kashmir valley.

The population is mostly Muslim, with a Hindu population of two percent.

In addition, significant numbers of the Tongas live in the north ; Ngonis -- an offshoot of the Zulus who came from South Africa in the early 19th century — live in the lower northern and lower central regions ; and the Yao, who are mostly Muslim, predominate in the Southern Region of the country and live in a wide band from Blantyre and Zomba north to Lake Malawi and east to the border with Mozambique.

Muslim 97 %, Christian ( mostly Roman Catholic )

Her medal also meant the breakthrough for sporting women in Morocco and other mostly Muslim countries.

An opposing statement put forward by Muslim nations was signed by 57 member states, mostly in Africa and Asia.

The mostly Hindu and Muslim labourers were compelled to work 7 and a half hours a day, six days a week for 3 years, receiving about 13 cents a day for their work.

Uyghurs in China, unlike the Salar and Hui who are also mostly Muslim, generally do not oppose coeducation ( grouping male and female students together ).

The nation is 88 % Muslim ( mostly Sunni, with a 5 % Shi ' a minority ), 9 % Eastern Orthodox and 3 % other faiths ( which include small communities of Korean Christians, other Christian denominations, Buddhists, Baha ' is, and more ).

The slaves were mostly captured by Venice from Dalmatia, the Holy Roman Empire from what is now Prussia and Poland, and the Byzantines from elsewhere in the Balkans, and were generally destined for other parts of the Byzantine Empire and ( most frequently ) the Muslim states surrounding the Mediterranean: the Abbasid Caliphate, the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba, the Emirate of Sicily, and the Fatimid Caliphate ( which relied on Slavs purchased at the Bari market for its legions of Sakalaba Mamluks ).

As the Muslim traders, mostly Swahili, were displaced from their coastal centers and routes to the interior by the Portuguese, migrations of Bantu peoples continued and tribal federations formed and reformed as the relative power of local chiefs changed.

In 1960, the mostly Muslim Turkish Cypriots were only 18 % of the Cypriot population.

By the 1560s there were 10, 000 Catholics in the area, mostly on Ambon, and by the 1590s there were 50, 000 to 60, 000, although most of the region surrounding Ambon remained Muslim.

In the 1950 parliamentary elections, the Wafd Party of el-Nahhas gained a victory — mostly due to the absence of the Muslim Brotherhood, who boycotted the elections — and was perceived as a threat by the Free Officers as they had campaigned on demands similar to theirs.

Afghan refugees are mostly Persian-speaking Hazara or Tajiks, speaking a dialect of Persian, and Iraqi refugees, who are mainly Shia Muslim Mesopotamian Arabic-speakers of Iranian origin.

Low-lying and largely flat, the region has Fula, Serer-Ndut people ( the original founders of Biffeche, the Mt Rolland etc., thousands of years ago, and strong adherents to Serer religion, even after the French and the Muslim communities of Senegal tried to kill them off ), Wolof and Moor ethnic groups engaged in pasturing animals ( mainly the Fulas ) and irrigation-based agriculture ( mostly the Serer-Ndut who are usually mixed-farmers ).

Gbagbo is mainly supported by the largely Christian south ; his opponents are mostly concentrated in the Muslim north.

* Moro people, the mostly Muslim indigenous people of Southern Philippines

The appointment was perceived as a demotion because the division was mostly formed from new Muslim recruits rather than the elite troops that Michael had commanded previously.

After this period, volunteers were enrolled, mostly of Muslim origin.

The Greek spirit of rationalism survived in medieval Islam and, in regard to the insane, Muslim physicians and psychologists relied mostly upon clinical observation, not demonological explanation.

In terms of religion, the majority of Kurds, Arabs are Sunni Muslim while Turkmen are mostly Shi ' ite, Assyrians and Armenians are exclusively Christian, and Yazidis, Shabaks and Mandeans following their own religious beliefs.

The Sahara was traversed by mostly Muslim traders, natives and pilgrims, of which the best known is Ibn Battuta.

Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated, and became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator during the 1830s, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives during the 1840s.

The western or lowland bongo, Tragelaphus eurycerus eurycerus, is a herbivorous, mostly nocturnal forest ungulate and among the largest of the African forest antelope species.

This name was used in Turkish side by side with Kostantiniyye, the more formal adaptation of the original Constantinople, during the period of Ottoman rule, while western languages mostly continued to refer to the city as Constantinople until the early 20th century.

In Libya, it is mostly served with meat, specifically beef, lamb, or camel, in Tripoli and the western parts of Libya, but not during official ceremonies or weddings.

Chipmunks may be classified either as a single genus, Tamias, or as three genera: Tamias, which includes the eastern chipmunk ; Eutamias, which includes the Siberian chipmunk ; and Neotamias, which includes the 23 remaining, mostly western, species.

Image: Glaciers Flow into a Greenland Valley. jpg | Image showing small glaciers spilling into a mostly dry valley in western Greenland.

Gaddafi stopped endorsing terrorist attacks on western countries, and while his behaviour remained extremely erratic, occasionally provoking international incidents such as the HIV trial in Libya and the Swiss-Libyan diplomatic crisis, Gaddafi managed to improve his image in the west and by the early 2000s had mostly benign relations with western democracies.

The Indus Valley Civilization ( IVC ) was a Bronze Age civilization ( 3300 – 1300 BCE ; mature period 2600 – 1900 BCE ) which was centred mostly in the western part of the Indian Subcontinent, considered as early form of Hinduism performed during this civilization.

Located northwest of central Stockholm, it is divided by the Stockholm Metro blue line into a western part which is primarily a working class and middle class residential area, and an eastern part occupied by commercial ventures, mostly in the telecommunication and information technology industry.

* Terrain: mostly mountainous ( Alps ) with Rhine Valley in western third

Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy ; other major industries are transportation, manufacturing, mining, forestry, energy, and tourism.

Here the approximate extent of the thema of Macedonia is presented, located mostly in western Thrace

An old Latin version of the name Rus ' was Ruthenia, mostly applied to the western and southern regions of Rus ' that were adjacent to Catholic Europe.

In 1919, after World War I, the eastern part ( with a majority of ethnic Poles ) came under Polish rule as the Silesian Voivodeship, while the mostly German-speaking western part remained part of the German Reich as the Province of Upper Silesia.

The western mountain forests are very diverse, with several endemic species such as Formosan Cypress ( Chamaecyparis formosensis ) and Taiwan Fir ( Abies kawakamii ), while the Camphor Laurel ( Cinnamomum camphora ) was once also widespread at lower levels ( now mostly cleared for agricultural land ).

The Presocratics were mostly from the eastern or western fringes of the Greek world.

Nevertheless, most books of Ketuvim ( with the exceptions of Daniel and Ezra-Nehemiah, which both contain Aramaic portions ) have targumim, whose origin is mostly western ( Land of Israel ) rather than eastern ( Babylonia ).

Centum languages are mostly found in western and southern Europe ( Greek, Italic, Celtic, Germanic ) and the number of isoglosses between Tocharian and several Western European languages is stunning, considering the geographical separation and total lack of cultural contact.

As naturalization laws were created to deal with the rare case of people separated from their nation state because they lived abroad ( expatriates ), western democracies were not ready to naturalize the massive influx of stateless people which followed massive denationalizations and the expulsion of ethnic minorities from newly created nation states in the first part of the 20th century, but they also counted the ( mostly aristocratic ) Russians who had escaped the 1917 October Revolution and the war communism period, and then the Spanish refugees.

Bulgarian nationalism emerged in the early 19th century under the influence of western ideas such as liberalism and nationalism, which trickled into the country after the French Revolution, mostly via Greece.

This effect occurs in many locations throughout the world but is best known in the populated areas of the Great Lakes of North America, and especially Western New York, northwestern Pennsylvania, northeastern Ohio, southwestern and central Ontario, northwestern and northcentral Indiana ( mostly between Gary, IN and Elkhart, IN ), and western Michigan.

The band initially formed as Bill Haley and the Saddlemen c. 1949 – 1952, and performed mostly country and western songs, though occasionally with a bluesy feel.

Today, the Lakota are found mostly in the five reservations of western South Dakota: Rosebud Indian Reservation ( home of the Upper Sičangu or Brulé ), Pine Ridge Indian Reservation ( home of the Oglala ), Lower Brule Indian Reservation ( home of the Lower Sicangu ), Cheyenne River Indian Reservation ( home of several other of the seven Lakota bands, including the Mnikoju, Itazipco, Sihasapa and Oohenumpa ), and Standing Rock Indian Reservation ( home of the Hunkpapa ), also home to people from many bands.

Republican strength is concentrated in the western part of the county, which is mostly rural or exurban.