Macedonia is simply a geographical term and has never constituted an ethnic or historical entity.

They noted the creation of a countrywide customs service that is now working, and the financial police and prosecutors who are starting to work with their counterparts in other ethnic entities.

Several of these have even been taken for separate ethnic entities.

The travelers, sponsored by the Writers Union of Iraq, represented all of the ethnic entities of Iraq.

We welcome the conclusion of a similar treaty between Hungary and Romania, which in addition rules out the creation of autonomous ethnic entities and recognition of collective rights.

The Kisra legend is a migration tale that is shared by a number of different political and ethnic entities in Northern Nigeria.

He argued that the nation is a powerful metaphor which two forms of social groupings - polity and ethnic entity - are fighting to have as their exclusive property.

Every decision requires protracted negotiations among ethnic entities with conflicting aspirations.

If the ethnic entities remain separate, they will have a difficult time resurrecting their gutted economies, and each entity will have to turn increasingly to outside supporters.

It has divided the country into two ethnic entities, a mono-ethnic Serb entity, and a Muslim-Croat entity.