Search results for "Ethnic minorities in China" - New World Encyclopedia
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- or descent who live outside the Greater China region, which includes territories ... In each area, overseas Chinese have retained their languages and cultural ...45 KB (6,097 words) - 10:53, 11 March 2023
- after the fall of the Lon Nol regime in 1975. He is considered largely ... After joining the Communist movement while a student in France and ...22 KB (3,417 words) - 08:30, 24 November 2022
- of the People's Republic of China that are administered directly ... the Haihe River, and is the third largest in China, after Shanghai and Beijing ...29 KB (3,826 words) - 23:22, 30 April 2023
- for power within the Communist Party of China, in which at least half a ... The Cultural Revolution was initiated by Party Chairman Mao Zedong ...30 KB (4,513 words) - 06:46, 11 January 2024
- Similar festivals are celebrated as Chuseok in Korea and Tsukimi in Japan ... * Zhōngqiū Jié (中秋节), is the official name in Mandarin. ...32 KB (4,726 words) - 17:31, 9 November 2022
- this nation is the largest in Southeast Asia, and has a population ... It is bordered by the People's Republic of China on the north ...33 KB (4,741 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- coined the term "ethnocentrism" in the nineteenth century, although ... from the perspective of one's own ethnic culture. The concept of ethnocentrism ...38 KB (5,665 words) - 04:36, 22 March 2024
- a society. Thus, civilization is expressed in physical attributes, such as ... or a tribe, or as large as a racial or ethnic group, a nation, or in the ...40 KB (5,823 words) - 13:34, 4 July 2023
- by the Red Armies of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the forerunner of ... came to represent a significant episode in the history of the Communist ...32 KB (4,903 words) - 07:52, 9 March 2023
- of Nigeria, is the most populous country in Africa. Archaeological evidence ... colonial rule. Nigeria re-achieved democracy in 1999 after a sixteen-year interruption; ...37 KB (5,342 words) - 16:58, 5 June 2023
- perspective that takes the nation-state or ethnic groups as the unit of history ... with whom he is sometimes confused. Born in London, Arnold J. was educated ...29 KB (4,250 words) - 03:54, 15 August 2023
- Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname, is a country in northern ... the Dutch East Indies and India, as well as China and the Middle East. Although ...30 KB (4,282 words) - 12:07, 17 April 2024
- Vietnam officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a nation in ... American involvement in the war between the communist North Vietnamese ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 20:16, 3 May 2023
- War, the Indochina War and the Dirty War in France and in contemporary ... Cambodian, Vietnamese, and Vietnamese ethnic minorities) and professional ...58 KB (9,174 words) - 19:56, 4 March 2024
- Улс) is a landlocked country located in East Asia with a population ... Mongolia was the center of the Mongol Empire in the thirteenth century ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 13:11, 10 March 2023
- formalized the armistice signed with Germany in November 1918 in the Compiègne ... Because Germany was not allowed to take part in the negotiations, the German ...20 KB (3,094 words) - 16:26, 2 May 2023
- A ghetto is an area where people from a specific ethnic background ... the city. The continued existence of ghettos in many parts of the world is ...30 KB (4,539 words) - 23:27, 21 October 2023
- Phonetic Alphabet : /ʔáınu/) are an ethnic group indigenous to Hokkaidō ... semicircularly behind. The Ainu lived in reed-thatched huts, without ...21 KB (3,397 words) - 06:59, 16 June 2023
- Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country ... With Mugabe's resignation in November 2017 in the wake of ...26 KB (3,749 words) - 06:06, 13 June 2023
- is an island nation off the coast of Africa in the southwest Indian Ocean ... In addition to the island of Mauritius, the republic includes the ...28 KB (4,021 words) - 00:49, 9 November 2022
- Nehru raised the flag of independent India in Lahore on December 31, 1929 ... of leadership during the Sino-Indian War in 1962. Later after his successor ...41 KB (6,185 words) - 23:02, 3 May 2023
- Malaysia is a federation of 13 states in Southeast Asia. ... The name "Malaysia" was adopted in 1963 when the Federation ...33 KB (4,723 words) - 14:30, 29 March 2024
- and government, but he also wrote much in the field of economics. His ... While the twentieth century in many ways proved him correct, stronger ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 01:03, 9 November 2022
- Vancouver is the largest city in the province of British Columbia ... had the third highest quality of living in the world, after Zürich and Geneva. ...51 KB (7,390 words) - 14:18, 3 May 2023
- is an island nation and the smallest country in Southeast Asia. It is located ... According to folklore, a prince named Sang Nila Utama was caught in ...31 KB (4,282 words) - 00:11, 29 December 2023
- The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, or Pakistan, is a country located ... Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world. It also ...40 KB (5,985 words) - 19:54, 7 March 2024
- that lasted for roughly nine months in 1971. The war resulted in Bangladesh ... Pakistan's partition from India in 1947 had arisen from the ...42 KB (6,477 words) - 03:31, 17 September 2023
- a united nation for the first time in centuries from a plethora of ... When the Indian independence movement succeeded in ending the British ...40 KB (5,861 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- For the Republic of China see Taiwan. For the civilization of China and its history see China. ...89 KB (11,967 words) - 17:55, 26 March 2023
- Republic of Timor-L'este, is a country in Southeast Asia comprising the ... East Timor has the lowest per capita income in the world (US$400 per annum ...25 KB (3,519 words) - 16:40, 26 March 2024
- In addition to the threat of tsunamis and earthquakes, natural hazards ... for Isle of Gold), apparently because mines in the Sumatran highlands were ...19 KB (2,798 words) - 07:32, 14 June 2023
- Asia to an area around the Volga River in the seventeenth century. After ... religion is Buddhism, which they embraced in the early part of the seventeenth ...59 KB (8,959 words) - 02:32, 5 October 2022
- ; a metropolis in northern China, is the capital of the People's ... Since its establishment in 723 B.C.E., Beijing has served as the capital ...59 KB (8,054 words) - 10:27, 26 September 2023
- one at a time on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, during most of the ... (SFRY)" (1963). It disintegrated in the Yugoslav Wars, which followed ...62 KB (9,032 words) - 21:37, 4 June 2023
- Republic, is a landlocked socialist republic in Southeast Asia. Laos traces ... than stimulated, growth and development, in 1986 the government announced ...33 KB (5,048 words) - 06:54, 4 March 2023
- The Ottoman Empire represents one of the largest imperial projects ... the decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire in terms of wrong choices, pride ...38 KB (5,718 words) - 05:55, 18 November 2022
- [[Image:Japanese internment camp in British Columbia.jpg|thumb|250px ... created for political opponents, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians ...40 KB (5,981 words) - 02:41, 8 January 2024
- is a landlocked and mountainous country in Central Asia. It borders Kazakhstan ... arbitrarily drawn borders intended to play ethnic groups off against each other ...39 KB (5,879 words) - 16:28, 21 March 2024
- Urban renewal (similar to Urban regeneration in British English) is ... eminent domain (known as Compulsory Purchase in the UK) as a legal instrument ...41 KB (6,131 words) - 00:41, 13 January 2024
- no access at all. It includes the imbalances in physical access to technology ... close the gap. These groups offer assistance in various forms, which range ...29 KB (4,205 words) - 14:35, 29 January 2024
- Latvija or Latvijas Republika), is a country in Northern Europe. to the east. It is separated from Sweden in the west by the Baltic Sea. ...34 KB (4,920 words) - 17:49, 25 October 2022
- War (1877–78), he had risen to a position in which he controlled all the ... Following months of civil unrest and outbreaks of violence in what ...50 KB (7,301 words) - 10:01, 26 January 2023
- ) refers to a town in the Indian state of West Bengal, the headquarters ... town with the plains, a World Heritage Site in 1999 and constitutes one of ...33 KB (4,712 words) - 06:27, 15 January 2023
- The Axis Powers is a term for those participants in World War II opposed ... Italy, facing opposition to its war in Abyssinia from the League of ...31 KB (4,510 words) - 07:22, 23 August 2023
- Polish: Białoruś) is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe that borders ... lands within its modern borders took place in 1939, when the ethnically Belarusian ...48 KB (6,863 words) - 08:51, 27 September 2023
- the United Kingdom, and the United States in 1947 to promote economic and ... Located in Melanesia in the southwest Pacific Ocean, approximately ...22 KB (3,230 words) - 04:37, 11 March 2023
- Uzbekistan, is a doubly-landlocked country in Central Asia, formerly of the ... Located in the heart of Central Asia between the Amu Darya (Oxus) ...41 KB (5,990 words) - 14:07, 3 May 2023
- exacerbated by the disastrous Russian defeat in the Russo-Japanese war (1904–1905 ... By the end of 1905, the revolution resulted in a number of reforms ...57 KB (8,235 words) - 06:28, 13 June 2023
- from 1945 until gaining independence in 1991. of its exports. It thus gained independence in 1991 with an already relatively ...45 KB (6,521 words) - 14:59, 27 April 2023
- jpg|thumb|right|400px|Refugees arrive in Travnik, central [[Bosnia and ... Refugee was defined as a legal group in response to the large numbers ...35 KB (5,240 words) - 19:39, 16 April 2023
