Christianity is predominant among the city's population.

The predominant religion is Roman Catholicism, once the main faith of the population, into which many indigenous Guatemalans have incorporated traditional forms of worship.

For three centuries Mexico was just another kingdom ( the New Spain ) of the Spanish Empire, during which time its indigenous population fell by more than half and was partially replaced by Spaniards and the now predominant Mestizos or mixture of Indigenous and Spanish populations.

Currently, almost all of the population of the Americas resides in independent countries ; however, the legacy of the colonisation and settlement by Europeans is that the Americas share many common cultural traits, most notably the predominant adherence to Christianity and use of Indo-European languages ; primarily Spanish, English, and Portuguese.

In one Hungarian longitudinal study, a district in which home-smoked meat was the predominant protein source consumed showed that the incidence of stomach cancer, relative to all other cancers, was nearly twice as high ( 47 %– 50 %) as that of the general Hungarian population ( 29. 9 %).

While Triestine was spoken by the largest part of the population, German was the language of the Austrian bureaucracy and Slovene was predominant in the surrounding villages.

Christianity is the predominant religion across Vanuatu, followed by more than 90 % of the population.

In the context of Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and CIS states, the term is sometimes used to denote a small semi-urban, sometimes industrial, settlement and used to translate the terms &# 1087 ;&# 1086 ;&# 1089 ;&# 1077 ;&# 1083 ;&# 1086 ;&# 1082 ; &# 1075 ;&# 1086 ;&# 1088 ;&# 1086 ;&# 1076 ;&# 1089 ;&# 1082 ;&# 1086 ;&# 1075 ;&# 1086 ; &# 1090 ;&# 1080 ;&# 1087 ;&# 1072 ; ( townlet ), &# 1087 ;&# 1086 ;&# 1089 ;&# 1072 ;&# 1076 ; ( posad ), &# 1084 ;&# 1077 ;&# 1089 ;&# 1090 ;&# 1077 ;&# 1095 ;&# 1082 ;&# 1086 ; ( mestechko, from Polish " miasteczko ", a small town ; in the cases of predominant Jewish population the latter is sometimes translated as shtetl ).

Italians have so been predominant in most urban settlements and in the coast with strong minorities of Slovenes or Croats, especially in Trieste / Trst district where Slovenes represented a third of the population by the end of World War I.

In 1880, Le Messager, a French language newspaper, began printing in Lewiston to serve its predominant ethnic population.

It was also during this time that German immigrants, who had been settling in town during most of the century, became the predominant population group in the city, at least partially due to its being a major destination port of the Hamburg America Line, though anti-German sentiment during World War I led to a rapid decline in the German community.

Nevertheless, the Frisian element is predominant in the coastal area, while the population of the higher Geest area expresses more Saxon influence.

Soft power is contrasted with hard power, which has historically been the predominant realist measure of national power, through quantitative metrics such as population size, concrete military assets, or a nation's gross domestic product.

Widely seen as a defender of Confucianism and neo-Confucianism among the predominant Han Chinese population in China, Zhu emerged as a leader of the rebels that were struggling to overthrow the Yuan Dynasty.

The Cape Coloureds form a minority group within South Africa, however they are the predominant population group in the Western Cape.

The San include the original inhabitants of Southern Africa before the southward Bantu migrations from Central and East Africa reached their region, which led to Bantu farmers replacing the Khoi and San as the predominant population.

During the Ottoman period the Turkmen were the predominant population of Kirkuk city but Kurds constituted the majority of the rural population of Kirkuk.

Since Tamils from South India are the predominant group among the Indian population in Malaysia, it is the South Indian carnatic music which predominates.

Barre advocated the concept of a Greater Somalia ( Soomaaliweyn ), which refers to those regions in the Horn of Africa in which ethnic Somalis reside and have historically represented the predominant population.

It is the traditional instrument of inland Dalmatia and of Herzegovina, the part of Bosnia and Herzegovina with predominant Croatian population.

West of the Curzon line the Polish population was generally predominant in urban centres, especially the cities but not in the rural districts.

Oriya is the predominant language of Orissa, where Oriya speakers comprise around 83. 33 % of the population according to census surveys.

Newington Vestry believed that the borough should bear their name as they were the " predominant partner " in the merger in terms of population, acreage, rateable value and municipal property, and that the council was likely to be based in their district.

He laid down the foundations of a durable Ismaili state in a predominant Sunni population.

Pine forests and mixed pine and oak woodlands and shrublands are predominant.

Conifer forests are predominant, chiefly Anatolian black pine ( Pinus nigra ), Cedar of Lebanon ( Cedrus libani ), Taurus fir ( Abies cilicica ), and juniper ( Juniperus foetidissima and J. excelsa ).

Due to intermarriage with the Japanese and ongoing absorption into the predominant culture, there are no truly Ainu settlements existing in Japan today.

In most areas of the Basque Country, the educational Model D, where all subjects are taught in Basque, except " Spanish language and literature " ( which is taught in Spanish ) is now the predominant model.

As valved instruments are predominant among the brasses today, a more thorough discussion of their workings can be found below.

Whites ( in Spanish blancos ) are estimated at 6 %, and consists largely of those of unmixed or predominant European descent.

They are the predominant race in Barsaive, and the dwarf language is considered the common language.

Greek roots are often used to coin new words for other languages, especially in the sciences and medicine ; Greek and Latin are the predominant sources of the international scientific vocabulary.

The engineering properties of soils are affected by four main factors: the predominant size of the mineral particles, the type of mineral particles, the grain size distribution, and the relative quantities of mineral, water and air present in the soil matrix.

Especially in the southwestern part of the country, the predominant variety of noodles are Spätzle, made with large amounts of egg yolk, and Maultaschen, traditional stuffed noodles reminiscent of ravioli.

The pale lager pilsener, a style developed in the mid-19th century, is predominant in most parts of the country today, whereas wheat beer ( Weißbier / Weizen ) and other types of lager are common, especially in Bavaria.

The family names, the predominant Catholic religion, the prevalence of Irish music – even the accents of the people – are so reminiscent of rural Ireland that Irish author Tim Pat Coogan has described Newfoundland as " the most Irish place in the world outside of Ireland ".

Historically, Jamaica has had close ties with the UK, but trade, financial, and cultural relations with the United States are now predominant.

Endemic tree fern species of southern hemisphere genus Dicksonia ( D. berteriana on Robinson Crusoe and D. externa on Alexander Selkirk ) and the endemic genus Thyrsopteris ( T. elegans ) are the predominant species in the tree-fern forests.

Meher Baba described heaven and hell as transitory and illusory states between incarnations: The states of heaven and hell are nothing but states of intensive experiences of the consciousness of the soul, experiencing either of the predominant counterparts of the opposite impressions while the soul is dissociated from the gross human body or form.

Oxycodone can also be used as an alternative to other opiates to treat severe diarrhea and diarrhea predominant irritable bowel syndrome when drugs such as loperamide and diphenoxylate are ineffective.

Policing has included an array of activities in different situations, but the predominant ones are concerned with the preservation of order.

Hoe-farming is the traditional tillage method in tropical or sub-tropical regions, which are characterized by stony soils, steep slope gradients, predominant root crops, and coarse grains grown at wide distances apart.

Potato chips are a predominant part of the snack food market in English-speaking countries and numerous other Western nations.

As a result, francophone and anglophones now borrow the French terms when discussing issues of francophone linguistic and cultural identity in English, though outside of Quebec terms such as Franco-Ontarian, acadian and Franco-Manitoban are still predominant.

The latter group includes the tintinnids, which produce loricae or shells and are the predominant fossil ciliates.

A major factor is the common use of body armour, where pistol calibers are insufficient for penetration-therefore the SMG is predominant in the civil security sector and is becoming obsolete in military use.

Although Celtic languages are partially spoken in Scotland, Cornwall, and Northern Ireland, the predominant language overall is English.

However, the predominant former names of the city are Erebuni and Erevan.