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  • noun Plural form of homeland.

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Examples

  • Chaldeans are Persian members of the Roman Catholic faith; they are ethnic and religious minorities in homelands of Iran and Iraq, two states not known for their tolerance.

    Behind The Lens 2006

  • Chaldeans are Persian members of the Roman Catholic faith; they are ethnic and religious minorities in homelands of Iran and Iraq, two states not known for their tolerance.

    Talkin' Shop 2006

  • Chaldeans are Persian members of the Roman Catholic faith; they are ethnic and religious minorities in homelands of Iran and Iraq, two states not known for their tolerance.

    Essays 2006

  • Chaldeans are Persian members of the Roman Catholic faith; they are ethnic and religious minorities in homelands of Iran and Iraq, two states not known for their tolerance.

    unbillable hours: 2005

  • The multiparty process and the Transitional Executive Council should take over administration of homelands from the Nationalist government's successive disgraced "native affairs" departments, he said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • As far as the agricultural development of the homelands is concerned, great and rapid strides are being made to improve the Bantu's primitive farming methods.

    South Africa After Fifty Years of Union 1960

  • But those who excel in exaggerating the significance of the most insignificant of "homelands"--if that what Lebanon can be called--can also easily exaggerate their own significance.

    Friday, March 31, 2006 As'ad 2006

  • During apartheid, much population-related data in South Africa did not include the 'homelands' - areas designated for Black occupation.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • By the end of the year a second cholera epidemic was spreading in the 'homelands' - this time in

    Triumphs' Part 2 - Health, Welfare and the Family 1985

  • In 1959 prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd's government divided black South Africans into eight ethnic groups and allocated them "homelands" - nations within the nation.

    Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com 2010

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