This region's distinct religion, art, and food are some of the fundamental features that define Arab culture.

This experience, and his study of the region's folk art ( particularly the use of bright colours on a dark background ), was reflected in much of his early work.

Near the center of all this was Seattle artist Paul Horiuchi's massive mosaic mural, the region's largest work of art at the time, which now forms the backdrop of Seattle Center's Mural Amphitheater.

Cultural tourism ( or culture tourism ) is the subset of tourism concerned with a country or region's culture, specifically the lifestyle of the people in those geographical areas, the history of those people, their art, architecture, religion ( s ), and other elements that helped shape their way of life.

The region's rustic beauty helped Lenox develop into an art colony.

During the region's early colonial period ( 1880-1920 ), communities became renowned in Europe for their large-scale longhouses, and their fantastic art works.

According to the website of Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, “ Mount Mary College has expanded its art therapy program to include a professional doctorate degree, announced President Eileen Schwalbach, Ph. D. Approval for the doctorate in art therapy was received April 25, 2011, from the North Central region's Higher Learning Commission ( HLC ).

These paintings played a pivotal role in revealing the region's biodiversity to Western naturalists, and are interesting in their blending of the stylised oriental manner with the realism of western art.

The PAL region's variant cover art features the seven initial chosen Digimon from Digimon Adventure.

The traditional music of Atlantic Canada is heavily influenced by the Irish, Scottish and Acadian ethnic makeup of much of the region's communities.

The most fully developed at this point is the Western Tarim region's 12 muqams, which are now a large canon of music and songs recorded from the traditional performers Turdi Akhun and Omar Akhun among others in the 1950s and edited into a more systematic system.

The music of Badakhshan is an important part of the region's cultural heritage.

With more than 800 artistic groups from dance to music, Clermont-Ferrand and the Auvergne region's cultural life is important in France.

The Country Music Highway runs through Prestonsburg and celebrates the region's rich heritage of music.

Many of these have been influenced by Arabic music and also by the music of India, Indonesia and Polynesia, though the region's indigenous musical traditions are primarily in the mainstream of the sub-Saharan Niger – Congo-speaking peoples.

The region's location, bordered by Texas on the west and the Mississippi Delta on the east has not led to a development of a " local " music.

The term Slovak music is sightly confusing ; many peoples lived over the ages in the territory now represented by the state of Slovakia, and the history of the region's music is therefore not merely the history of music of the Slovaks.

Traditional folk music revolved around holidays like Christmas, New Year's Day, midsummer, and the Feast of St. Lazarus, as well as the Strandzha region's unusual Nestinarstvo rites on May 21.

Foster became a major figure in the region's music history ; there is a museum named after him on the campus of the College of the Ozarks.

Galax and the surrounding area has long been a rich part of American, and Virginian music, and is known for an intricate fiddling style and instrumental and vocal traditions ; music collectors like Peter Seeger and Alan Lomax visited Galax and recorded the region's music.

Most experts agree that yodeling was used in Alpine folk music in the Central Alps as a method of communication between herders and their stock or between Alpine villages, with the multi-pitched " yelling " later becoming part of the region's traditional lore and musical expression.

Known as Australia's Inland Symphony Orchestra, throughout the year the Macquarie Philharmonia invites selected music students from the region's Conservatoriums to perform alongside professionals to audiences throughout the Region.

Folk music revolved around holidays like Christmas, New Year's Day, midsummer, and the Feast of St. Lazarus, as well as the Strandzha region's unusual Nestinarstvo rites, in which villagers fell into a trance and danced on hot coals as part of the joint feast of Sts Konstantin and Elena on May 21.

The Maritime provinces are best known for the strong influence of Scottish and Irish settlers on the sound of the region's traditional music.

Basque traditional music is a product of the region's historic development and its geographical location between the Cantabrian mountain range, the Ebro river and the Pyrenees.

Western swing music is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the West and South among the region's Western string bands.

In the meantime, while the South has been undergoing this phenomenal modernization that is so disappointing to the curious Yankee, Southern writers have certainly done little to reflect and promote their region's progress.

Logging has been an important industry in the past, but has been steadily declining with competition from other areas and the closure of the region's major pulp mills.

A region's climate is generated by the climate system, which has five components: atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, land surface, and biosphere.

Nicknamed " The City of a Thousand Minarets " for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life.

Despite the region's absence of economic growth on the same scale as other parts of the nation, the Maritimes has changed markedly throughout the 20th century, partly as a result of global and national economic trends, and partly as a result of government intervention.

Dances like " Odra Magadhi ", which after decades long debate, has been traced to present day Mithila, Orissa region's dance form of Odissi ( Orissi ), indicate influence of dances in cultural interactions between different regions.

Egypt has long been the cultural and informational centre of the Arab world, and Cairo is the region's largest publishing and broadcasting centre.

Egypt has long been the cultural and informational center of the Arab world, and Cairo is the region's largest publishing and broadcasting center.

Cairo has been a crossroads of Arab commerce and culture for millennia, and its intellectual and Islamic institutions are at the center of the region's social and cultural landmark palace.

The Russian IWC delegation has said that the hunt is justified under the aboriginal / subsistence exemption, since the fur farms provide a necessary economic base for the region's native population.

Since German reunification in 1990, and the accession of some Central European and Baltic States into the European Union in 2004, the Port of Hamburg has restarted ambitions for regaining its position as the region's largest deep-sea port for container shipping and its major commercial and trading centre.

The recent decline of the auto industry in the region has increased the region's awareness of the importance of a strategy to foster the high-technology sector.

Mong Há has long been the center of Chinese life in Macau and the site of what may be the region's oldest temple, a shrine devoted to the Buddhist Guanyin ( Goddess of Mercy ).

Similarly, the autonomous Puntland region's new administration, which took office in early 2009, has also implemented numerous reforms such as the expansion and improvement of its security and judicial sectors.

The region's cuisine has also been the source of several prominent sauces widely used in Chinese cuisine in general today, including yuxiang ( 魚香 ), mala ( 麻辣 ), and guaiwei ( 怪味 ).

The region's coastal location has helped promote the Eastern Seaboard industrial development, a major factor in the economy of the region.

Virginia's economy has many sectors: agriculture in the Shenandoah Valley ; federal agencies in Northern Virginia, including the headquarters of the Department of Defense and CIA ; and military facilities in Hampton Roads, the site of the region's main seaport.

Since the Bronze Age, the region's natural fertility has been greatly extended by irrigation works, upon which much of its agricultural production continues to depend.

In the last 20 years the industrial base of the region's economy has changed radically.

Sulphur mining has been the region's main economic activity for centuries.

The region's ethnic diversity has been affected by repeated waves of immigrant workers from abroad: Belgians before 1910 ; Poles and Italians in the 1920s and 1930s ; Italians and Germans since 1945 and North Africans and Portuguese since 1960 ; and large cities like Lille, Calais, and Boulogne are home to sizable communities of British, Dutch, Scandinavian, Sub-Saharan African, and Latin American immigrants and their descendants.

The French state has sought to boost the region's relatively neglected culture.

In World War II, 18, 000 of the region's French Jews were victims of the Nazi occupation, but a small Jewish community remains active as it has been for hundreds of years.

Rainforest covered most of northern and central Maluku, which, on the smaller islands has been replaced by plantations, including the region's endemic cloves and nutmeg.