Deportation is the expelling of someone from a country. In general it refers to the expulsion of foreigners (the expulsion of natives is usually called banishment, exile, or transportation).
Almost all countries reserve the right of deportation of foreigners, even those who are longtime residents. In general, deportation is reserved for foreigners who have committed serious crimes, or entered the country illegally, or are wanted in another country (see extradition). It can also be used on those considered to be a threat to the ...
1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar.
1983 - Events.
January 2 - The musical Annie is performed for the last time after 2,377 shows (Uris Theatre on Broadway, New York City).
January 8 - Riot in the Sing Sing prison
January 10 - Mafia hitman Roy DeMeo is found dead in a trunk of his own car
January 15 - Mafioso Meyer Lansky dies at Mount Sinai hospital
January 19 - Klaus B ...
Andreas Fritz Hillgruber (January 18, 1925-May 8, 1989) was a conservative West German historian. Hillgruber was born in Angerburg, Germany (modern Wegorzewo, Poland) near the then East Prussian city of Königsberg (modern Kaliningrad, Russia). His father was a school teacher. Hillgruber served in the German Army in the years 1943-1945 and spent the years 1945-1948 as a POW in France. After his release, he studied at the University of Göttingen where he received a PhD in 1952. He spent the decade 1954-1964 working as school teacher. ...
The Armenians are a nation and an ethnic group, originating in the Caucasus and eastern Asia Minor. A large concentration remain there, especially in Armenia, but almost as many are scattered elsewhere throughout the world (see Armenian Diaspora).
Russia: 2–2.5 million 2 est.
Georgia: 248,900–400,0004 est.
United States: 385,488 (2000 census) — 1 million est. 3
France: 250,000 6 est.
Iran: 200,000Including:
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR), is a functional commission within the overall framework of the United Nations. It is a subsidiary body of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), and is also assisted in its work by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UHCHR). It is the UN’s principal mechanism and international forum concerned with the promotion and protection of human rights.
United Nations Commission on Human Rights - History.
The UNCHR was esta ...
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), sometimes called North Atlantic Alliance, Atlantic Alliance or the Western Alliance, is an international organisation1 for defence collaboration established in 1949, in support of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, D.C., on April 4, 1949. Its headquarters are located in Brussels, Belgium. Its other official name is the French equivalent, l'Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique du NordIncluding:
edit
Many Christians have experienced persecution from both non-Christians and from other Christians during the history of Christianity. Persecution may refer to unwarranted arrest, imprisonment, beating, torture, or execution. It also may refer to the confiscation or destruction of property, or incitement to hate Christians.
Persecution of Christians - Jewish persecution of Christians.
The New Testament reports that the earliest Christians suffered persecution at the hands of the Jewish lead ...
Bianca Jagger (born Bianca Moreno de Macias on May 2, 1945, in Managua, Nicaragua) is a social and political activist made famous by having married Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones.
Bianca was born into a well-situated family. Her father was a businessman and her mother a housewife. They divorced when Bianca was ten and she stayed with her mother, who had to take care of four children on a small income. When Bianca was studying political science in Paris, she demonstrated against the Somoza regime after the massacre of ...
A race is a population of humans distinguished from other populations. The most widely used racial categories are based on visible traits (especially skin color and facial features), genes, and self-identification. Conceptions of race, as well as specific racial groupings, vary by culture and time and are often controversial due to their impact on social identity and hence identity politics.
Since the 1940s, evolutionary scientists have rejected the view of race according to which a number of finite lists of essential ch ...
The Great Upheaval (le Grand Dérangement), also known as the Great Expulsion or the Acadian Expulsion, was the forced population transfer or ethnic cleansing of the Acadian population from Nova Scotia between 1755 and 1763, ordered by British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council.
Though the French initially colonised the area, various treaties traded possession of the region between the British and French through the 1600s and beyond. The Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 cemented the Acadians as ...
Human migration denotes any movement by humans from one locality to another, often over long distances or in large groups. Humans are known to have extensively migrated throughout history. This can be compared with the periodic migratory behaviour of groups of animals such as some birds and fishes (see migration). This article concentrates on the historical human migrations.
Migration and population isolation is one of the four evolutionary forces (along with natural selection, genetic drift, and mutation). The study of the distribution of and change in allele (gene variations) frequencies under suc ...
total
density
urban
2,000,192
77/km
62.8%
The Crimea /kraɪˈmia/ is a peninsula and an autonomous republic of Ukraine on the northern coast of the Black Sea. It is home to the Crimean Tatars, who comprise thirteen percent of the population.
The official name is Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukrainian: Автономна Республіка Крим, Avtonomna Respublika Krym; Russian: Including:
Ward LeRoy Churchill (born October 2, 1947) is an American writer, activist, and academic. He is a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and author of over a dozen books and many essays. Churchill was widely discussed and criticized in the mass media during 2005, stimulated by publicity given to a 2001 essay in which Churchill questioned the innocence of the those people killed in the World Trade Center attacks, labeling them as "technocrats" and "little Eichmanns."
Ward Churchill - Backgr ...
White supremacy is a racist ideology which holds that the white race is superior to other races. White supremacy is most often thought of in connection with anti-black racism and anti-Semitism, though it has also been used to justify discrimination against Native Americans, Chinese, Irish, Roman Catholics, Southeast Asians, Arabs and others.
For example, politically, socially and economically, white supremacy was by and large the law of the land in the United States before and for decades after Reconstruction; the same is true ...
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a widespread tick-borne viral disease, a zoonosis of domestic animals and wild animals, that may affect humans. The pathogenic virus, especially common in East and West Africa, is a member of the Bunyaviridae family of RNA viruses. Clinical disease is rare in infected mammals, but commonly severe in infected humans, with a 30% mortality rate. Outbreaks of illness are usually attributable to handling infected animals or people.
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever - Ep ...
Nazi organizations
National Socialist German Workers Party
Sturmabteilung
Schutzstaffel
Hitler Youth
Lebensborn
National Socialist Motor Corps
Nazism in history
Early Nazi Timeline
Beer Hall Putsch
Nuremberg rally
Third Reich
Night of the Long Knives
Nur für Deutsche
Nazi concepts
Glossary of the Third Reich
National Socialist Program
Racial policy of Nazi Germany
Führerprinzip
Lebensraum
V ...
Zionism maintains that the Jewish people constitute a nation and are entitled to a national homeland. Its focus is on governing the Land of Israel or Zion (a synecdoche for the Land of Israel). Jewish people have historically understood themselves to be part of a nation distinct from the non-Jewish nations. Like most nations, offspring of members are likewise considered members. However, common ancestry is not required and new members are admitted based upon prescribed criteria. None of the criteria incl ...
- total
- % water
- 15,500 km²
- negligible
- Total
- Density
- est. 1,103,686 (2002)
- est. 71.2/km²
The Chechen Republic (Russian: Чече́нская Респу́блика); Chechen: Нохчийн Республика/Noxçiyn [Nokhchiyn] Respublika), or, informally, Chechnya (Russian: Чечня́ Chechen: Нохчичьо/Noxçiyçö/Nokhchiycho), sometimes incorrectly refered to as Ichkeria, Chechnia ...
This article details the atrocities and crimes against humanity committed in Poland during the World War II. Over 6 million Polish citizens perished during the course of the war, most of them civilians, killed by the actions of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
World War II atrocities in Poland - Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany.
The war against Poland was from the start intended as a fulfillment of the plan described by Adolf Hitler in his book Mein Kampf. The main axis of the plan was that all of Eas ...
Adnan Terzic
Bosnia and Herzegovina (locally: Bosna i Hercegovina/Босна и Херцеговина, most commonly abbreviated as BiH) is a country in south-east Europe with an estimated population of between three and four million people. The country is the homeland of its three ethnic constituent peoples: Bosniaks, Serbs, and Croats. Other communities that live there are not given the status of being "constituent"[1]. A citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ...
