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People; families, cultures, tribes, nations, individuals etc.

Tribes, peoples

  1. Bakalai - a Bantu negroid tribe inhabiting a wide tract of French Congo
  2. Ba-Luba - African people
  3. Battakhin - African Arabs of Semitic stock
  4. Beni-Amer - a tribe of African Arabs of Hamitic stock, ethnologically intermediate between Abyssinians and Nubians
  5. Bertat - African negroes of the Shangalla group of tribes
  6. Bozdar - a Baluch tribe of Rind (Arab) extraction
  7. Battanni or Bhitani - a small tribe on the Waziri border of the North-West Frontier Province of India
  8. Chamkanni - a small Pathan tribe on the Kohat border of India
  9. Catauxi - a numerous cannibal tribe of South American Indians of the Purus river district, Brazil
  10. Cholones - tribe of South American Indians
  11. Chuncho - a tribe of South American Indians, living in the forests east of Cuzco, central Peru.
  12. Conibos or Manoas - a tribe of South American Indians inhabiting the Pampa del Sacramento and the banks of the Ucayali, Peru
  13. Cunas - a tribe of Central American Indians
  14. Fengu; Fingo - Fingo (Mfengu), a Bantu-Negro people, allied to the Zulu family
  15. Galchas - the name given to the highland tribes of Ferghana, Kohistan and Wakhan See Wakhi (ethnic group) -- these are Afganistan; Ferghana is in Uzbekistan.
  16. Gararish - "semi-nomadic tribe of Semitic origin, dwelling along the right bank of the Nile"
  17. Gonaguas - descendants of a cross between the Hottentots and the Kaffirs
  18. Irulas - a semi-Hinduized forest-tribe of southern India
  19. Ja'Alin - an African tribe of Semitic stock
  20. Jeveros, Jeberos - a tribe of South American Indians
  21. Jibitos - a tribe of South American Indians
  22. Kavirondo - people of East Africa, who dwell in the valley of the Nzoia River
  23. Khond or Kandh - aboriginal tribe of India, inhabiting the tributary states of Orissa and the Ganjam district of Madras
  24. Kizilbashes - the nickname given by the Orthodox Turks to the Shiitic Turkish immigrants from Persia
  25. Kols - generic name applied by Hindus to the Munda, Ho and Oraon tribes of Bengal
  26. Korkus - an aboriginal tribe of India
  27. Kotas - an aboriginal tribe of the Nilgiri hills, India
  28. Krumen - a negro people of the West Coast of Africa
  29. Kubus - a tribe inhabiting the central parts of Sumatra
  30. Kurumbas and Kurubas - tribes of S. India
  31. Latuka - a tribe of negroid stock inhabiting the mountainous country E. of Gondokoro on the upper Nile
  32. Legas - one of the Shangalla group of tribes, regarded as among the purest of the Galla race
  33. Makaraka - people of Central Africa, closely related to the powerful Azandeh or NiamNiam race, occupying the Bahr-el-Ghazal west of Lado
  34. Maneteneris - a tribe of South American Indians of the upper Purus river
  35. Manyema - Una-Ma-Nyema, "eaters of flesh", a powerful and warlike Bantu-Negroid people in the south-east of the Congo basin
  36. Marghelan or Marghilan, a town of Asiatic Russia
  37. Mariposan - a linguistic stock of North American Indians (also called Yokuts); brief article; I added it to the Talk:Yokut page --FeanorStar7 01:28, 23 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  38. Mayoruna - a tribe of South American Indians of Panoan stock. Their country is between the Ucayali and Javari rivers, north-eastern Peru; see also Mayoruna Indians at Catholic Ency.
  39. Menangkabos - the most civilized of all the true Malay of Sumatra
  40. Monassir - an African tribe of Semitic stock
  41. Muras - tribe of South-American Indians living on the Amazon
  42. Musa Khel - a Pathan tribe on the Dera Ghazi Khan border of the Punjab
  43. Muskhogean Stock - a North American Indian stock; Muskogean languages
  44. Namasudra - name adopted by the great caste or tribe who inhabit the swamps of Eastern Bengal, India

Families, noble houses

  1. Durfort (family)
  2. Ferrers - the name of a great Norman-English feudal house (noble family); see Earl Ferrers article and talk page
  3. Godefroy - French noble family
  4. De la Rochejacquelein - the name of an ancient French family of La Vendee
  5. La Trémoille - an old French family which derives its name from a village (the modern La Trimouille) in the department of Vienne
  6. L'Aubespine - a French family which sprang from Claude de l'Aubespine

Individuals

  1. Cassell = John Cassell
  2. Cazembe - the hereditary name of an African chief, whose territory was situated south of Lake Mweru and north of Bangweulu
  3. Flacius = Matthias Flacius
  4. Flacourt = Etienne de Flacourt
  5. Foucher - Simon Foucher, Alfred A. Foucher
  6. Frederick-Lemaitre = Antoine Louis Prosper Frederick-Lemaitre
  7. Gabel - Kristoffer Gabel and Tom Gabel
  8. Gachard = Louis Prosper Gachard
  9. Galluppi = Pasquale Galluppi
  10. Gindely = Anton Gindely
  11. Giolitti = Giovanni Giolitti
  12. Girtin = Thomas Girtin
  13. Marc Charles Gabriel Gleyre = Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre
  14. Gliddon - George Robins Gliddon (1809-1857), British Egyptologist
  15. Luqman - the name of two, if not of three persons famous in Arabian tradition

Titles, positions

  1. Earls and Dukes of Gloucester - Earl of Gloucester, Duke of Gloucester
  2. Kavass - Turkish name for an armed police-officer
  3. Illustres - Latin name given to the highest magistrates of the later Roman Empire
  4. Earls and Dukes of Kent - Earl of Kent, Duke of Kent
  5. Libellatici - name given to a class of persons who, during the persecution of Decius, AD 250, evaded the consequences of their Christian belief by procuring documents