Nations need not be ethnically based few are entirely.

Over the past decade, the European Union has grown more ethnically diverse.

And France, beneath its veneer of republican equality, is culturally and ethnically diverse.

In 1948, more than 50 of the entire Palestinian population was ethnically cleansed.

From a largely ethnically British province, Ontario has rapidly become culturally very diverse.

Iraq and Lebanon are also the Arab world s most ethnically and religiously diverse countries.

It puts at risk only the ethnically narrow and religiously intolerant structure of the regime.

Most notably, they are ethnically homogeneous, so that social divisions are more amenable to compromise.

The division of the country into more ethnically homogeneous federal components might also promote stability.

It puts at risk only the ethnically narrow and religiously intolerant structure of the regime.

The father's side of her family is ethnically Palestinian and settled in Damascus after 1967.

Culturally, ethnically, and linguistically, Afghans are more closely related to Iranians than they are to Arabs.

At the same time, he imposed increasingly strict central control on his ethnically and linguistically diverse country.

Over the last few years Kosovo has been ethnically cleansed of a quarter of a million people.

It is no accident, for example, that Europe s most successful welfare states were created in ethnically homogeneous Scandinavia.

Like the US occupation of Iraq, the NATO war in Afghanistan will leave behind an ethnically fractured country.

The North Caucasus is one of the most ethnically diverse regions of Russia, and Dagestan is no exception.

The country remains impoverished, ethnically divided, and with collapsed social services after years of military led corruption and plunder.

Demographics Ethnically, 88.4 of the town's population are Russians, 0.5 are Ukrainians, 0.3 are Tatars, and 0.3 are Belarusians.

Indonesia, another large, ethnically and to a lesser extent religiously diverse state many thousands of miles away, faces comparable difficulties.

The cave dwellers are all Hazara, who are religiously and ethnically distinct and survivors of intense persecution by the Taliban.

One notebook was brought to the Soviet embassy in Rome by the ethnically Tatar Turkish citizen Kazim Mirşan in 1946.

Like the US occupation of Iraq, the NATO war in Afghanistan will leave behind an ethnically fractured country. Just as Iraq today is, for all intents and purposes, ethnically partitioned, it will be difficult to establish a post 2014 government in Kabul whose writ runs across Afghanistan.

Continental Europe is becoming, and will become, more ethnically mixed as more newcomers from Eastern Europe and the developing world arrive.

Both examples show that Europe, like the US, is vulnerable to the politics of division, as our societies become more ethnically diverse.

But Japan was a totally conquered, ethnically homogeneous country with no insurgency, a large middle class, and previous experience of political openness.

Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov kept silent and out of the public eye during the several months of ethnically charged clashes in Macedonia.

Ethnically homogeneous Japan is an example of how three different religions Shinto, Confucianism, and Buddhism can coexist peacefully and, in many cases, intermingle.

This relatively rich, opposition controlled, ethnically mixed, and more conservative province, blessed with fertile lowlands and hydrocarbons, voted for autonomy by a wide margin.

In fact, despite its politicians anxious rhetoric, the United Kingdom is a more ethnically mixed, and in some ways more open, society than Germany.

This relatively rich, opposition controlled, ethnically mixed, and more conservative province, blessed with fertile lowlands and hydrocarbons, voted for autonomy by a wide margin.

Morales might yet turn more radical, but, for now, he represents a deep, ethnically inspired demand for historic justice, not a hard left ideology.

Vancouver is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada 52 of its residents have a first language other than English.

But New York and Los Angeles, the two most ethnically diverse cities in the US, are also America's leaders in business and in the arts.

Nationalist blogger Egor Prosvirnin pounced on this disconnect, sarcastically writing that any sane nationalist would willingly trade the hostile Chechnya for the ethnically Russian Crimea

The meeting was called in the aftermath of the Mastung bus carnage in Balochistan, where militants killed 22 Pashtun passengers in an ethnically motivated attack.

Tens of thousands have fled from mixed Sunni Shiite cities to safer havens in ethnically homogenous enclaves that are effectively controlled by Sunni and Shiite militias.

The left failed to recognize that Israeli elections are not strictly political affairs they are an expression of an ongoing Kulturkampf in an ethnically kaleidoscopic society.

Armenia's last president, Robert Kocharian, for example, declared that the two were 'ethnically incompatible' while his Azerbaijani counterpart, still incumbent Ilham Aliyev, regularly threatens a new war.

Ethnically motivated murders are less common of late, but this cannot be deemed a success so long as Kosovo's non Albanians remain isolated in enclaves protected by KFOR.

Like most European empires, it was ethnically very diverse, but unlike most European empires, it was more of a system of tribute than a single system of government.

Just as Iraq today is, for all intents and purposes, ethnically partitioned, it will be difficult to establish a post 2014 government in Kabul whose writ runs across Afghanistan.

(a) About the recent reports of ethnically motivated violence directed in particular against certain minority ethnic groups in affected areas that lack the rule of law and its enforcement machinery

That search could lead to the only conflict in the OSCE in which the organization has a direct role the dispute between Armenians and Azerbaijanis over the ethnically Armenian Nagorno Karabakh.

One Russophone group that did seem to mostly support Erdoğan were citizens of the Central Asian republics, most of whom are Turkic peoples, ethnically and linguistically related to the Turks of Anatolia.