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Melanesia is the great arc of islands located north and east of Australia and south of the Equator. The name derives the Greek words melas ('black') and nēsos ('island') for the predominantly dark-skinned peoples of New Guinea island, the Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides), New Caledonia, and Fiji.
This is a list of ethnic enclaves in various countries of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds to the native population. An ethnic enclave in this context denotes an area primarily populated by a population with similar ethnic or racial background. This list also includes concentrations rather than enclaves, and historic examples which may ...
The islands of Anchor Cay, Aubusi Island, Black Rocks, Boigu Island (89.6 km 2), Bramble Cay (0.036 km 2), Dauan Island (4 km 2), Deliverance Island, East Cay, Kaumag Island, Kerr Islet, Moimi Island, Saibai Island (107.9 km 2), Turnagain Island (12 km 2) and Turu Cay, along with their territorial seas, form seven enclaves within the maritime ...
Oceania is generally considered the least decolonized region in the world. In his 1993 book France and the South Pacific since 1940, Robert Aldrich commented: . With the ending of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands became a 'commonwealth' of the United States, and the new republics of the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia signed ...
Painting of Bimbache of El Hierro by Leonardo Torriani, 1592 The San are the oldest inhabitants of Southern Africa. Indigenous communities, peoples, and nations are those which have a historical continuity with pre-invasion and pre-colonial societies that developed on their territories, and may consider themselves distinct from other sectors of the societies now prevailing on those territories ...
Ethnic groups in the Solomon Islands (1 C, 4 P) Ethnic groups in the Spanish Virgin Islands (1 C, 1 P) Ethnic groups in Sri Lanka (16 C, 9 P)
The following islands and island groups are either nations or overseas territories of former colonial powers. The residents are native Polynesians or contain archaeological evidence indicating Polynesian settlement in the past. [b] Some islands of Polynesian origin are outside the general triangle that geographically defines the region.
Ethnic enclaves have been prominent urban features for centuries. Examples include a new Armenian one near Beirut, an old one in Bucharest, [16] and an even older Armenian Quarter in Jerusalem. [17] Urban quarters have often belonged mainly to residents having a particular sectarian or ethnic origin.