Two decades later, the old, multi-ethnic character of Salonika took a final, devastating blow.
"Let's have a multi-ethnic Britain, but let's make it work for all, " he said.
Yet even the casual visitor notices how multi-ethnic France is and how few non-whites have top jobs.
Today, its streets are still lined with multi-ethnic vendors hawking fresh produce beside Italian cheesemongers and butchers.
With strong multi-ethnic origins, Mr Davis has spoken out in the past against "the extremes of xenophobia".
With around 29 million inhabitants, Peru is one of the most populous and multi-ethnic states in South America.
In Kosovo, in particular, the international protectorate's claim to be fashioning a law-governed, multi-ethnic state is wearing thin.
The idea of partition is intolerable to the UN administration in Kosovo, committed to a single multi-ethnic state.
Promoting democracy and a fixation on multi-ethnic states can undermine more pressing priorities, such as avoiding unnecessary wars.
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By setting a precedent of legitimizing the secession of disaffected minorities, it weakens the long-term viability of multi-ethnic states.
"This was necessary because the multi-ethnic army became undependable, " Landis said of the huge army with a strong Sunni presence.
But it demonstrates the strength of Russia's multi-ethnic empire and the depth of its integration in European affairs and security.
For next year's polls, Mr Westendorp is considering reform of the electoral system to boost the strength of multi-ethnic parties.
Malaysia can and should serve as the model of a truly multi-ethnic democracy that fosters political competition without fear of unrest.
The last thing this steaming multiracial, multi-ethnic, multi-everything cauldron of 260 million souls requires is yet more rawness in our national life.
There are some Kosovar Albanians who do genuinely want to have a multi-ethnic society but I think they are in the minority.
In the meantime, he is also hoping that the multi-ethnic successes of the basketball team will rub off in ways well beyond sport.
Instead, in Soviet times it was promoted as one of the festivals that would unite the multi-ethnic and multi-religious peoples of the "red empire".
Also interwoven, for historical context, is a biography of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the mono-ethnic Turkish republic which replaced the multi-ethnic Ottoman world.
The constitutional changes have been proposed by the government of President Chandrika Kumaratunga, who wants to build a broad multi-ethnic consensus behind the new bill.
California and the Pacific coast have become more multi-ethnic and Democrat-controlled.
Western diplomats fear a break will lead to fissures both in multi- ethnic Bosnia and in Macedonia, where about a third of the population is Albanian.
Since Italy is already multi-ethnic at least 6.5% of the population is thought to be made up of legal and illegal immigrants Mr Berlusconi presumably meant multi-religious and multicultural.
Only one of them may actually join it: Zlatko Lagumdzija, head of the Social Democratic Party, which is nominally multi-ethnic but gets most of its support from Bosniaks.
Now if they went into it saying, as you suggest, that they were going to have a multi-ethnic society at least that would have been a political objective.
"We had originally agreed to invite the camps to use our facility, knowing full well that the children from the camps were from multi-ethnic backgrounds, " the statement said.
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Former presidents Sukarno and Suharto were wary of promoting Islamic law in a multi-religious and multi-ethnic country, even though Muslims make up the majority of Indonesia's 209.4 million citizens.
Much of the latest violence has taken place in the multi-ethnic east of the island, a region claimed by the Tigers but dominated by the mainly Buddhist Sinhalese majority.
Apart from populist pledges similar to the ruling coalition's, it is promising to make government more accountable and to end some advantages for ethnic Malays in this multi-ethnic, Muslim-majority country.
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