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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.
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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 cuisine of Xinjiang reflects the region's many ethnic groups and refers particularly to Uyghur cuisine.
Consequently, Bulgaria has become a Balkan region's example of multiculturalism-not only in religious but also in artistic terms and ethnic means.
On October 31, 1918, local military and political elites establish the " Banat National Council ", together with representatives of the region's main ethnic groups: Hungarians, Romanians, Serbs and Germans.
On Sunday 12 November 2006, South Ossetians ( mostly ethnic Ossetians ) went to the polls to vote in a referendum regarding the region's independence from Georgia.
In demographic terms, these war-time and post-war-time factors changed the region's ethnic composition.
According to Thomas de Waal, the dispute over Syunik resulted in the ethnic cleansing of region's local Azeri minority through direct military action by Armenian guerilla commanders Andranik Ozanian, Rouben Ter Minassian and later Garegin Nzhdeh.
However, most of these racial, religious ( i. e. Jews and Mormons ), and ethnic groups moved to segregated suburbs after World War II, and Mexicans who had been forced into squalid slums such as Boyle Heights ' infamous " The Flats " ( later the site of the infamous Aliso Village housing project ) seized the opportunity to move into the region's housing at low prices.
According to a theory developed by Pavle Ingorokva in 1950s and some other Georgian scholars, at that time a number of the North Caucasian pagan Abaza tribes migrated from the North Caucasus mountains and blended with the local ethnic elements, significantly changing the region's demographic situation.
Many of the region's inhabitants were of Native American ethnic groups closely related to those of the American Southwest.
Through the past decade, number of ethnic Serb refugees have returned and gradually reverted demographic results of war in certain areas, although it is very unlikely that their proportion in region's population will ever reach pre-war levels.
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Edison hosts one of the region's main centers of Asian American cultural diversity.
Hampton Roads is notable for its year-round ice-free harbor, for United States Navy, Coast Guard, Air Force, NASA, Marine Corps, and Army facilities, shipyards, coal piers, and hundreds of miles of waterfront property and beaches, all of which contribute to the diversity and stability of the region's economy.
In general, most of the toponyms for places in Central Asia — although its boundaries and Xinjiang's inclusion in it are disputed — do not reflect the region's diversity.
Further south near Esperance, the economy is based on agriculture and fishing, with wheat and barley widely grown ; however, this requires huge inputs in fertilisers because of the sandy nature of the soils and is a major threat to the region's great plant diversity.
The region has a high degree of geographic, political, social, economic and cultural diversity which influences the region's cuisine and the culinary style.
* Outdoors Maryland: outdoors show highlighting the Mid-Atlantic region's diversity and beauty
The archipelago's virtual isolation from most of mankind's influence on the natural environment has given the islands and the surrounding waters of the Andaman Sea a great diversity of flora and fauna, contributing to the region's growing popularity as a diving destination.
The Arboretum honors L. O. Crosby, Jr. ( 1907-1978 ) by conserving the region's biological diversity and showcasing plants native to the Pearl River drainage basin.
The region's full diversity of species is today only extant in the handful of protected areas.
The cultural diversity of the region is the result of a large influx of migrants from the north over a long period of the region's history.
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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 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.
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