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In addition, mixed race ( European and African ) people amount to about 2 %, with a small ( 1 %) population of whites, mainly ethnically Portuguese ( as a former overseas territory of Portugal until 1975, the Portuguese make up currently the largest non-African population, with certainly more than 100, 000, a number that has been constantly increasing from the 2000s, because of Angola's growing demand for qualified human resources.
Similarly, the language spread to numerous other parts of the world as a result of British trade and colonization elsewhere and the spread of the former British Empire, which, by 1921, held sway over a population of 470 – 570 million people, approximately a quarter of the world's population at that time.
An alternate explanation of the red fox's gains involves the gray wolf: Historically, it has kept red fox numbers down, but as the wolf has been hunted to near extinction in much of its former range, the red fox population has grown larger, and it has taken over the niche of top predator.
Ottoman tax records suggest that the Christian population was slightly more prosperous or grew more grain than grapes ( the former being a more valuable commodity ).
Unconnected with inter-human wars, humans have deliberately introduced the rabbit disease Myxomatosis, originating in South America, to Australia and Europe, with the intention of reducing the rabbit populationwhich had devastating but temporary results, with wild rabbit populations reduced to a fraction of their former size but survivors developing immunity and increasing again.
The population of the Cayman Islands reflects its status as a British overseas territory, its history as a former dependency of Jamaica, and its present financial partnerships with the United States and other countries.
The organization is active in integrating olim from South America and the former Soviet Union into Israeli society -- native Israelis and olim from non-English speaking countries now make up about 60 % of the Israeli Masorti population, the remaining 40 % are North American olim.
However, the large population of weak states after 1945 allowed intervention by former colonial powers, regional powers and neighboring states who themselves often had scarce resources.
The population of Ecuador was divided during these years among three segments: those favoring the status quo, those supporting union with Peru, and those advocating independence for the former audiencia.
These former speakers of Sirenik Eskimo language inhabited settlements Sireniki, Imtuk was already a settlement with mixed population, Sirenik Eskimos and Ungazigmit ( the latter belonging to Siberian Yupik ).
The essential distinction between the frequentists and the non-frequentists is, I think, that the former, in an effort to avoid anything savouring of matters of opinion, seek to define probability in terms of the objective properties of a population, real or hypothetical, whereas the latter do not.
With the former SPD chairman, Oskar Lafontaine for the WASG and Gregor Gysi for the PDS as prominent figures, this alliance soon found interest in the media and in the population.
The demographic situation in Georgia, like that of some other former Soviet republics ( especially Estonia and Latvia ), has been characterized by two prominent features since independence: decline in total population and significant " Georgianization " of the ethnic composition.
The Polish population was oppressed, with many former officials and others considered potential enemies by the Nazis being imprisoned or executed, including at the notorious Fort VII concentration camp in Poznań.
He did not, however, proclaim full independence for the country, nor did he seek reprisals against the country's former white slaveholders, convinced that the French would not restore slavery and " that a population of slaves recently landed from Africa could not attain to civilization by ' going it alone.
Both the biblical and Assyrian sources speak of a massive deportation of people from Israel and their replacement with settlers from other parts of the empire – such population exchanges were an established part of Assyrian imperial policy, a means of breaking the old power structure-and the former Israel never again became an independent political entity.
Italian communities once thrived in the former African colonies of Eritrea ( nearly 100, 000 at the beginning of World War II ), Somalia and Libya ( 150, 000 Italians settled in Libya, constituting about 18 % of the total population ).
The percentage of world Jewry living in area of the former Palestinian Mandate has steadily grown from around 78, 000 in 1900 ( 12 % of the population of the Ottoman Palestine ) to nearly 6 million in 2005 ( 76 % of the population of Israel ).
The largest Muslim group, situated in the Valley of Kashmir and estimated to number more than half the population of the entire region, lay in Indian-administered territory, with its former outlets via the Jhelum valley route blocked.
On Padar, a former population of the Komodo Dragon became extinct, of which the last individuals were seen in 1975.
Lübeck's population grew considerably from about 150, 000 in 1939 to more than 220, 000 after the war, owing to an influx of refugees expelled from the former Eastern provinces of Germany.
Mass media is distinguished from local media by the notion that whilst the former aims to reach a very large market such as the entire population of a country, the latter broadcasts to a much smaller population and area, and generally focuses on regional news rather than global events.

population and province
Outpacing that of wine since 2001, the growing production and consumption of beer has supported the existence of related events, for example the so-called Oktoberfests ( sic ) or " Fiestas de la Cerveza " in locations that have a significant German population ( Villa General Belgrano in Córdoba, San Carlos and Esperanza in the province of Santa Fe, etc .).
A kingdom of Domnonee ( and of Cornouaille alongside ) was established in the province of Armorica directly across the English Channel, and has apparent links with the British population, suggesting an ancient connection of peoples along the western Atlantic seaboard.
The classicist Roger Bagnall estimated that there was one bureaucrat for every 5 – 10, 000 people in Egypt based on 400 or 800 bureaucrats for 4 million inhabitants ( no one knows the population of the province in 300 AD ; Strabo 300 years earlier put it at 7. 5 million, excluding Alexandria ).
It has 39. 1 % of the provincial population as of 2010, and the most Indonesians of all islands in the province.
Artefacts found in Kalanti and the province of Satakunta, for long monolingually Finnish, and their place-names have made several scholars argue for an existence of a proto-Germanic speaking population component a little later, during the Early and Middle Iron Age.
The wider Kabul province, which also includes rural areas, has a population of around 3. 7 million people.
But in the larger Kabul province overall, Pashto speakers are in majority, making up 60 % of the population.
Among the Hindus of Jammu province, who numbered 626, 177 ( or 90. 87 % of the Hindu population of the princely state ), the most important castes recorded in the census were " Brahmans ( 186, 000 ), the Rajputs ( 167, 000 ), the Khattris ( 48, 000 ) and the Thakkars ( 93, 000 ).
DNA analysis carried out amongst the modern Li population indicate a close relationship with populations in mainland southern China and in particular Guangxi province.
With high density of population, fertile soils and rich deposits of minerals ( especially salt in Bochnia and Wieliczka, as well as lead in Olkusz ), the province was the richest part of Poland.
Manitoba's capital and largest city, Winnipeg, is Canada's eighth-largest Census Metropolitan Area, and home to 60 percent of the population of the province.
Malmö (), in the southernmost province of Scania, is Sweden's third largest city by population after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and is one of the largest cities in Scandinavia.
The province till the census of 1871 appears comprised in region “ Emilia ”, but with the census of the population of 1881 in Tuscany.
The province covers has an area of 1, 157 km², and a total population of 200, 695 ( 2005 ).
As of 2011, the population was 921, 727, making Nova Scotia the second-most-densely populated province in Canada.
The principal cities ( population at the 1999 census ) are Rouen ( 518, 316 inhabitants in the metropolitan area ), the capital of Upper Normandy and formerly of the whole province ; Caen ( 420, 000 inhabitants in the metropolitan area ), the capital of Lower Normandy ; Le Havre ( 296, 773 inhabitants in the metropolitan area ); and Cherbourg ( 117, 855 inhabitants in the metropolitan area ).
Northern Ontario occupies roughly 87 % of the surface area of the province ; conversely Southern Ontario contains 94 % of the population.
However, population increase slowed after a large recession hit the province in 1893, thus slowing growth drastically but only for a few years.
Ontario is the second most diverse province in terms of visible minorities after British Columbia, with 22. 8 % of the population consisting of visible minorities.
The maritime province is the smallest in the nation in both land area and population.
Initially, the majority of the province was French, which demanded " rep-by-pop " ( representation by population ), which the Anglophones opposed.
For instance, Amr ibn al-As, after conquering Egypt, set up a census to measure the population for the jizya, and thus the total expected jizya revenue for the whole province, but organized the actual collection by partitioning the population into wealth classes, so that the rich paid more and the poor less jizya of that total sum.
Rosmalen ( population 35, 000 ) is a city in the province of North Brabant, in the south of the Netherlands.
The overwhelming majority of Saskatchewan's population is located in the southern third of the province, south of the 53rd parallel.

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