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ethnos

(ˈɛθnɒs)

n, pl ethne (ˈɛθneɪ)

(Anthropology & Ethnology) an ethnic group

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Noun

ethnos - people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture

ethnic group

group, grouping - any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

ethnic minority - a group that has different national or cultural traditions from the majority of the population

Azeri - an ethnic group living in Azerbaijan

Bengali - an ethnic group speaking Bengali and living in Bangladesh and eastern India

Flemish - an ethnic group speaking Flemish and living in northern and western Belgium

Hebrews, Israelites - the ethnic group claiming descent from Abraham and Isaac (especially from Isaac's son Jacob); the nation whom God chose to receive his revelation and with whom God chose to make a covenant (Exodus 19)

Mbundu, Ovimbundu - an ethnic group speaking Umbundu and living in western Angola

Tadzhik, Tajik - an ethnic group (mostly Moslem) living in Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China

Walloons - an ethnic group speaking a dialect of French and living in southern and eastern Belgium and neighboring parts of France

Aboriginal, Australian Aborigine, native Australian, Aborigine - a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived

Kurd - a member of a largely pastoral Islamic people who live in Kurdistan; the largest ethnic group without their own state

Igbo - a member of the largest ethnic group in southeastern Nigeria; "most Igbo are farmers"

Nubian - a native or inhabitant of Nubia; "Nubians now form an ethnic minority in Egypt"

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It is pertinent to know that the terms ethnic and ethnicity have their roots in the Greek word ethnos which describes a community of common descent.

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** In an interview with Ethnos, Michael Roth, State Minister for Europe at the German Federal Foreign Office, says he sees no reason why future governments should reopen a dispute that has already been solved.

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"During that time, employees of the Encyclopedia raised such issues as the decisive role of the Turkic ethnos in the formation of the Azerbaijanis, the occupation of Northern Azerbaijan by Tsarist Russia, the progressive role of the public figures of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in Azerbaijan's history, the objective assessment of the work of the public figures of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and occupation in April 1920," he said.

Heydar Aliyev goes down in history as winner in struggle to save Azerbaijanis

"Even after Ithaca we will still be rowing," the daily Ethnos said on its front page.

Tsipras declares "day of liberation" after Greece exits bailout

"The ESM member states and the ESM as an institution take living up to commitments very seriously," said Regling, whose interview with Ethnos newspaper and the News 24/7 portal in Greece was published on the ESM website.

EU bailout fund calls on Greece to adhere to contract terms

We would like to lead this battle with them, but if necessary we will do it without them and we will succeed, with the great support of citizens in the foreseen time", said Osmani in an interview for the Greek newspaper Ethnos. Asked what would happen if the referendum was not successful, Osmani emphasized that he did not expect such a thing to happen, because he believes in the people.

OSMANI: I HOPE THAT THE OPPOSITION WILL UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS NO FUTURE WITHOUT EU AND NATO

Among their topics are Symmachus' version of Joshua, the final verses of the Ammonite War story in 2 Samuel 11:1 and 12:26-31 and in 1 Chronicles 20:1-3, the equivalence of kaige and quinta in the Dodekapropheton, challenges in translating the Book of Job, translating versus teaching: competing agendas in Samson Raphael Hirsch's bible project, and translating poliscentrism: the politics of ethnicity and ethnos related to defining Ioudaios.

Found in Translation: Essays on Jewish Biblical Translation in Honor of Leonard J. Greenspoon

Savvidis controls Thessaloniki's top hotel and recently also bought one of Greece's top newspapers, Ethnos.Last year, he was part of a Franco-German consortium that won a bid for the privatisation of the Thessaloniki port authority.

Greek football club chief apologises after gun incident

In Taipei, the anniversary was marked with solemn events featuring prayers and the laying of flowers, but in Taoyuan City's Cihu, a group calling itself 'From Ethnos to Nation' entered the pavilion where Chiang's body was kept and threw paint on his sarcophagus, the Central News Agency reported.

Chiang Kai-shek grave daubed with red paint by Taiwan Independence activists

Greek newspaper Ethnos says Thursday that Nimetz put forward a set of ideas and suggestions in Macedonian and English in all of which the term "Macedonia" is included.

GOVERNMENT TO ANALYZE NIMETZ'S PROPOSALS, NAUMOVSKI DUBS THEM AS UNDIGNIFIED

For example, in France the Front National - the most efficient European far-right populist party - has created the myth of a people which is simultaneously an ethnos and a demos (Stoica 2017a, 113), i.e.