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Ethnic classifications vary from country to country and are therefore not comparable across countries. While some countries make classifications based on broad ancestry groups or characteristics such as skin color (e.g., the white ethnic category in the United States and some other countries), other countries use various ethnic, cultural ...
The political origin of the Portuguese state is in the founding of County of Portugal in 868 (Portuguese: Condado Portucalense; in period documents the name used was Portugalia [173]). It was the first time that a cohesive nationalism emerged there, as even during the Roman Era, the indigenous populations were from diverse ethnic and cultural ...
The lists are commonly used in economics literature to compare the levels of ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious fractionalization in different countries. [1] [2] Fractionalization is the probability that two individuals drawn randomly from the country's groups are not from the same group (ethnic, religious, or whatever the criterion is).
Landing in the New World and reaching Asia, the expedition connected four continents for the first time in history. [7] In 1501–1502, an expedition led by Gonçalo Coelho (or André Gonçalves and/or Gaspar de Lemos), sailed south along the coast of South America to the bay of present-day Rio de Janeiro.
Gerardus Mercator applied the names North and South America on his influential 1538 world map; by this point, the naming was irrevocable. [20] Acceptance may have been aided by the "natural poetic counterpart" that the name America made with Asia, Africa, and Europa. [13]
Luso-Asians arrived at ports in Europe, North America, Brazil [34] and the Atlantic coasts of Africa. Portuguese ruler and soldiers mounting an Elephant in Myanmar The dispersal of Luso-Asians occurred very early after the contact between Portugal and the late medieval nations of Asia.
Ethnic groups by continent and country ... Ethnic groups in North America (26 C, ... Ethnic groups in South America (32 C, 13 P) This page was ...
People in North Macedonia were enumerated by ethnicity/nationality from at least 1921 all the way up to the present day. [125] In the most recent census in 2002, 64.2% of the population declared themselves to be ethnic Macedonians. The second-largest ethnic group in the country was the ethnic Albanians with 25.2%.