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But the costume and physiognomy of the inhabitants, the narrow streets and flatroofed, whitewashed houses, and more than all, the thousands of palm-trees in its gardens and fields, give the place a strikingly Oriental aspect, and render it unique among the cities of Spain.

There are thirty-eight villages, or barrios, of which eight had, in 1903, 1000 inhabitants or more.

Pallas, with several Russian students, laid the first foundation of a thorough exploration of the topography, fauna, flora and inhabitants of the country.

According to their own annals and traditions they once inhabited southern China, a theory which is confirmed by many of their habits and physical characteristics; the race has, however, been modified by crossings with the Chams and other of the previous inhabitants of Indo-China.

The latter, besides its more obvious advantages, speedily freed large tracts of country from stagnant water and their inhabitants from ague, and prepared the way for the underground draining which soon after began to be practised.

St Anthony became a city in 1860, and Minneapolis, which then had only 2 564 inhabitants, soon outstripped its neighbour after the Civil War, and received a city charter in 1867.

The present inhabitants of the oasis are Turkomans of the Tekke tribe.

The inhabitants (33,000), are mostly Little-Russians and Jews; there are also some Greeks, descendants of those who immigrated in the 17th century at the invitation of the Cossack chieftain Bogdan Chmielnicki.

Then Deioces, son of Phraortes, an illustrious man of upright character, was chosen judge in his village, and the justness of his decisions induced the inhabitants of the other villages to throng to him.

The inhabitants are principally engaged in agriculture and the fisheries, and in the preservation of sardines, anchovies, 'c.

The Turkish government also levies taxes on the inhabitants of the river valley, and for this purpose, and to maintain a caravan route from the Mediterranean coast to Bagdad, maintains stations of a few zaptiehs or gens d'armes, at intervals of about 8 hours (caravan time), occupying in general the stations of the old Persian post road.

It is one of a small cluster named by the Portuguese "Ladrones" or Thieves, on account of the notorious habits of their old inhabitants.

Synonyms:

landman, westerner, liver, occupier, indweller, islander, Kiwi, landsman, Alsatian, denizen, someone, tellurian, worldling, mortal, Occidental, cottager, Numidian, dweller, occupant, somebody, cottage dweller, Asian, Philistine, landlubber, Galilean, Hittite, person, easterner, Galilaean, Phrygian, Australian, Aussie, villager, island-dweller, individual, Austronesian, marcher, earthman, borderer, earthling, Nazarene, Northerner, American, resident, plainsman, European, Asiatic, New Zealander, Trinidadian, Latin, soul, inhabitant,

Antonyms:

nonresident, uncolored, civilian, inactivation, fat person,