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Bamar
Bamar Bamar Total population: c. 30,000,000 Significant ... a lesser extent Bodo and Karen The Bamar (Burmese: ; IPA: ), sometimes called Burman, are the ... government has slightly inflated this figure. The Bamar usually have straight black hair, and a ... although intermixing makes skin tone vary). The Bamar are frequently called simply Burmese, but ...
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Bamar   (translated from Dutch)
Bamar Bamar is historical Duits mark of motorfietsen . Bamar: Fahrzeugwerke Barth & co., Marburg an of the Lahn ( 1923 - 1925 ). Bamar made engine bicycles with 149 and 198 ...
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Myanmar
... more specifically, a person from the majority Bamar ethnic group. In 1989, the military junta ... into states and divisions. Divisions are predominantly Bamar. States, in essence, are divisions in which ... lower. The dominant ethnic group are the Bamar who form what is guessed to be ... the population, are ethnically related to the Bamar, but are culturally different. Overseas Chinese (mainly ... detain and relocate minority groups further from Bamar-dominant areas. In addition, massive refugee ...
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Anglo-Burmese
... refers to persons of mixed ancestry with Bamar blood. The most famous Anglo-Burmans today ... the early 1600s, as the Portuguese and Bamar intermixed, and this hybrid community was collectively ... in Burma, intermixing with the local Burmans (Bamar), and other local ethnic groups, and a ... The issue of mixed marriages, particularly between Bamar women and British males, was to become ... suffered horrendously. However, Anglo-Burmans who resembled Bamar were incognito, and managed to pass, ...
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Burmese Chinese
... is underestimated because of intermarriages between ethnic Bamar, and because of widespread discrimination against minorities ... compels many to refer to themselves as Bamar). Traditionally, the Chinese have dominated Burmese economy ... in modern times). The kabya are of Bamar and Chinese heritage. Kabya are often children of Chinese fathers and a Bamar (Burman) mothers. They have a tendency to ... of Chinese have some kabya blood, both Bamar, because Burmese citizenship can only be ...
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Rakhine people
... are a sub-ethnic group of the Bamar. They are considered a national race by ... The Rakhine are culturally different from the Bamar. They speak an archaic dialect of Burmese ... of the cultural differences between the dominant Bamar and the Rakhine is geographical isolation, due ... invaded many times, by the Mongols, Mon, Bamar and Portuguese. In 1785, the Bamar kingdom annexed Arakan. In 1826, the ...
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Culture of Myanmar
... first millennium were Buddhist, but the early Bamar peoples were animists. According to traditional history ... are ethnic tensions, particularly between the dominant Bamar and the descendants of Indian migrants, which ... worn by both women and men. Traditionally, Bamar men wear mandarin collared jackets, while Bamar women wore a blouse and a shawl ...
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Myanmar   (translated from German)
... Climatic diagram Lashio Population Inhabitant: 70 % Birmanen (Bamar), 8.5 % Shan, 6.2 % Karen (Christian ... largest group of peoples of Myanmars, that Bamar , are called division, the ranges, which are ... for the largest subpopulation are that since Bamar in their own language and for their ...
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Kachin State
... km Population: 1 200 000 Ethnicities: Kachin, Bamar, Shan, Chin, Naga, Indians Religions: Buddhism, Christianity ... home to another 13 ethnic groups, including Bamar, Rawang, Lisu, Zaiwa , Maru, Yaywin , Lawngwaw , Lachyit ... and southern valleys are mostly Shan and Bamar. The northern frontier was not demarcated until ...
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Yangon
... Mayor Brigadier General Aung Thein Lynn Ethnicities: Bamar, Chinese, Indians Religions: Buddhism, Islam, Christianity Districts ... however, after independence, the population became more Bamar. Because the colonial policies that encouraged Indian ... well as Caucasian intermixing with the local Bamar were dismantled, their presence has dwindled significantly ...
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