) has resulted in a constant regression, though it is not homogeneous throughout the island ; many Sardinians ( especially those born in the towns, far more populated than the villages ) are raised in families in which bilingual parents spoke to them predominantly Italian, being the children monolingual and with little proficiency in Sardinian.

Trading centres populated predominantly by Chinese men and their native spouses long existed throughout Southeast Asia.

The deeply-rooted belief common in the German aristocracy was that the Eastern territories, populated predominantly by Poles and partly absorbed by Prussia in partitions of Poland, but taken from the German Empire after World War I, should be colonized as the Teutonic Knights had done in the Middle Ages.

Once predominantly populated by low-income to middle-class families, the community is now highly desirable for waterfront living.

This coastal area, however, was already predominantly populated by Tausug and Samal settlers when the Spanish came, and therefore was likewise locally called a " pagpasalan " or " settlement area ".

Kravica ( Serbian Cyrillic: Кравица ) is a predominantly Serb populated village in Bratunac county near Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In addition, it has also reached out to pan-Asian customers, especially Filipino Americans and Japanese Americans, by opening locations in areas predominantly populated by people of these two ethnicities.

He claims to have a strong support in up to eight provinces in the north of the country, including Samangan province, predominantly populated by ethnic Uzbeks.

The two Behsud districts in the western part of Maidan Wardak are predominantly populated by Hazara.

All four share a similar colonial past, having been under both French and English rule at various points in their history, and are populated predominantly by blacks, the descendants of enslaved Africans.

Radio Cumbria claims to be listened to by one third of the county's population despite having to face the challenge of an area which is sparsely populated and predominantly rural, with the biggest urban areas around its perimeter.

Midkemia is a deeply magical place, though predominantly populated by humans.

Although the area has been historically referenced as predominantly Italian, it is no longer populated by any one majority.

It was created in 1926 and populated predominantly by Poles with notable minorities of Belarusians, Jews, and Lithuanians.

The city is predominantly populated by the Meru people, a Bantu ethnic group.

He was born in a large family on February 4, 1872 ( January 23 according to the Julian calendar ) in Kukush, then in the Ottoman Empire ( today in Greece ), which was populated predominantly with Macedonian Bulgarians of the Orthodox and the Uniate faith.

The area was populated post World War II predominantly by immigrant Jews and Italians, then in the 1960s by African Americans, but most recently has seen many West Indian immigrants such as Haitians, Jamaicans, Trinidadians, St. Lucians, Grenadians, Panamanians, Bajans, Dominican, and Guyanese groups coming to the area.

Albedo was started by Steve Gallacci, who produced its main feature, Erma Felna: EDF — a sophisticated science fiction military series set in a sector of space populated by sapient and predominantly humanoid versions of mammal and avian species.

Erma Felna: EDF was set in a futuristic period in a sector of civilized outer space populated by sapient and predominantly humanoid versions of over 150 various mammalian and avian species.

East of this river lay Sarmatia Europaea, a vast region stretching as far as the Crimea, predominantly, but by no means exclusively, populated by Sarmatian tribes.

The word " combe " is derived from cwm meaning " valley " in the Welsh language and this may indicate that the population of Hascombe remained predominantly Brythonic for some time after the surrounding areas had been populated by Anglo-Saxon settlers.

Once predominantly white and ( prior to World War II ) heavily Jewish, it is now primarily populated by first-generation Hispanic immigrants, particularly Mexicans, Guatemalans, Salvadorans, and Hondurans.

Although it is predominantly populated by humans, Spira features a variety of races.

The Guard was responsible to the command of the Territorial Defense, a regular military in charge of the rebel territories of Croatia populated predominantly by Serbs during the first half of the 1990s.

Internet access in Belarus is predominantly urban, with 60 percent of users living in the capital Minsk.

Christians, predominantly Roman Catholics, are largely concentrated among the urban elite.

The River Liffey bends at Leixlip from a predominantly east-west direction to a southwesterly route, and this point also marks the change from urban development to more agricultural land usage.

From a heavily rural nation in 1815, it was now predominantly urban.

Immediately west from Ghana ( in Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso ), Hausa is abruptly replaced by Dioula – Bambara as the main lingua-franca of what become predominantly Manding areas, and native Hausa populations plummet to a very small urban minority.

Newspapers may for this reason tailor their content to attract the profitable predominantly liberal urban audiences.

In the 1930s jazz, and particularly swing, both in urban based dance bands and blues-influenced country swing, was among the first music to present African American sounds for a predominantly white audience.

The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when " urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat " was becoming more popular.

The area north of the Highway # 1 from the South Central Peninsula is called the North End ; both areas being predominantly urban residential older housing which is undergoing gentrification.

Almost one-third of the population lives in England's southeast which is predominantly urban and suburban, with about 8 million in the capital city of London, the population density of which is just under 13, 000 per square mile.

The sport was particularly attractive to predominantly male working-class audiences, for whom the urban locations of the tracks and the evening times of the meetings were accessible, and to patrons and owners from various social backgrounds.

Here was a black woman popularizing urban songs often written by immigrant Jews to a national audience of predominantly white Christians.

Transportation Research Board ( Transportation Systems Center ) defined " light rail " in 1977 as: “ a mode of urban transportation utilizing predominantly reserved but not necessarily grade-separated rights-of-way.

Urbanisation is not merely a modern phenomenon, but a rapid and historic transformation of human social roots on a global scale, whereby predominantly village culture is being rapidly replaced by predominantly urban culture.

Since the early 1990s, cognac consumption has seen a significant transformation in its American consumer base from a predominantly older, affluent white demographic to younger, urban, and black consumers.

Vast majority of child labour is found in rural settings and informal urban economy ; children are predominantly employed by their parents, rather than factories.

* City ( predominantly urban, some larger regional centres )

* Town ( predominantly inner urban and three medium sized rural centres )

The site is bordered by predominantly arable farmland to the north, and industrial and urban environments to the south and west.

Copies of this were sent to the peasantry in the surrounding villages, but support did not materialise, apparently because the article expressed predominantly urban grievances which did not address peasant needs.

Bahia was also the site in 1835 of one of the most important urban slave rebellions in the Americas, of particular note because it was the only predominantly Muslim slave revolt in the history of the New World.

The name " Ambarvalia " appears to be predominantly an urban designation.

While the southern portion of Whitby is predominantly urban, and an economic hub, the northern part of the municipality is more rural and includes the communities of Ashburn, Brooklin, Myrtle and Myrtle Station.