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• History
of Christianization of Europe
• Soviet
Union, Communist influence
• Map
of European ethnic groups
• Map of Fascism
in Europe (1922-75)
• History
of Islamic conquest in Europe
• Religions
& ethnic groups in Russia
• Detailed
map of French colonization
• Detailed
map of British colonization
• Napoleon's
conquests & legacy
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NON-ENGLISH--

• Muhammad cartoon crisis in pictures
• Stalin's private summer home
• Ravenna: capital of Gothic empire
• Czar Nicholas II's Ukrainian palace
• European traditional costumes/dress
• Inside the Vatican, house of all wealth
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& NON-ENGLISH--

• Islamic Mujahidin
vs. Spain & El Cid
• Poland-Lithuania vs. Teutonic Order
• Nevskiy's Russia vs. German Crusaders
• Mussolini vs. Libyan Islamic fighters
• Qadafi: Europe will soon be Islamic
• Ivan the Terrible vs. Muslim Tatars
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& NON-ENGLISH--

• The Gypsies in history and today,
Europe's public enemy
• History of Jihad in Chechnya & Caucasus vs. Russians
• History of the Muslim Tatars in Russia
• Ethnic & religious history of Serbs, Croats, & Bosnians
• Breakaway
states and independence movements in Europe
• The ancient Germanic Runic alphabet and
Runestones
• Inside Bulgaria, 1st Slavic nation, land of Thracian masters of gold
• Visual history of Yugoslavia
• 4,000-year-old white mummies of China,
bringers of Buddhism
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Map of world ethnic
groups & families
by James Mayfield (Chairman, European Heritage Library)
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this Article • About
the Author • Bibliography/Sources
Below is a map the EHL has
published charting the major dispersal of dominant ethnic
and cultural groups in the world. As with religion, ethnic
heritage is the keystone which symbolizes the heritage and
identities of all cultures of the world. As in studying our
other ethno-cartographic maps, studying the below map will
gain a better understanding of European cultural heritage
and the impact they have upon the world. With the exclusive
EHL cultural cartography, one can find a country on the map
layer and thus determine its religious composition or ethnic
heritage by looking at our colour indications! If you have
any questions, please feel free to notify us.
Mapping Information &
Extra Notes:
The field of ethnocartography
is difficult and often controversial. Many communities and
cultures claim falsely to be be completely independent ethnic
or racial groups because of independence movements and nationalism,
like the Catalans of Spain. Other communities include other
unrelated groups as their relatives for the same reason. Romanians
and Bulgarians often link themselves to the original inhabitants
of the region, the ethnically-Iranian Thracians, out of national
pride and distinction, though there often is little evidence
or even common agreement. Many Europeans dismiss the Albanians
as Slavic tribes who mixed in with the hated Muslim enemy
(i.e. with the Turkish race), though Albanians claim descent
from an ancient Roman era culture (the Illyrians) despite
having almost no factual basis for it. This makes ethnic cartography
difficult. Places like Africa have historically had such little
ethnocultural and nationalist development that it is impossible
to know whether or not there are 500 completely unrelated
races in Africa or 5. This all compounds the difficulty of
charting the ethnic groups and races of the world. The fact
that on this map Africa is charted as "African",
and the Americas are charted as "Native American"
is not Eurocentric, but a legitimate reflection of these region's
lack of specific development on ethnic or racial grounds.
Further, the growth of modern multicultural and liberal characteristics,
primarily derived from American academia, have worked to transfer
the meaning of "ethnicity" from racial heritage
to language use, largely for sociopolitical means. This error
dismisses the blatant reality of the unique and independent
histories, customs, cultures, and genetics of the many different
peoples of the world. On this map, each color represents a
different ethnic family in the world. Further, scholars disagree
on different terminology and classifications. America lumps
the many different ethnicities of Europe under the banner
of "Caucasian" for social and political reasons,
despite the fact that Caucasians (Georgians, Armenians, Azeris)
are not European at all, and the languages are unrelated.
For example, modern academia especially in America links the
Mongols and Turks -- two very different racial groups -- together
because of a similar language family, despite the historic
evidence that the incredibly different Mongol race adopted
a Turkic language for functions of its massive empire. This
map addresses blatant ethnic and racial characteristics of
the world's many cultures, not linguistic ones.
The United States, Canada,
Australia, and New Zealand have been excluded, even though
the latter three typically consist of French, British (Germanic),
or Celtic ethnic heritage. Due to immigration and large indigenous
populations, no clear majority exists in the case of the United
States, or that the majority may be called "European"
or white, and no single European ethnicity is clearly dominant.
Each group term refers to the main ethnic origin of each nation,
not solely language nor cultural heritage as in common academia
of today. The Uzbeks for example are culturally, linguistically,
and religiously (meaning Islamic) Turkic, but they have no
ethnic nor racial relation to the Turks, but rather to the
Mongols. Smaller communities, like the Basques of Spain, are
not shown due to their small size and relatively unimportant
status in history. Large ethnic groups without their own states
are shown where they most intensely populate, such as the
Kurdi (ethnic Iranian) Sunnis in eastern Turkey, northwest
Iran, and Iraq. Note that some colors are used repeatedly
on the entire global map because there are too few colors
to appropriately chart the wide variety of races and ethnic
groups in the world. The fact that the Native American "Indians"
are charted in red just like the Greeks is, obviously, not
an implication of their common origin, but a deficiency in
color variety. They are far apart enough to make this blatantly
obvious intentionally.
The many diverse Native American
tribes and peoples in the Americas are treated differently
by different sources. Most academics classify the majority
of the American nations as "white" or "mixed
Hispanic", and treats "indigenous" tribes like
the Guarani and Nahuatl as a peripheral minority population.
Other sources classify Hispanic/mixed as native people who
have adopted Spanish cultural, religious, and especially linguistic
imports, and does not imply that the majority of the Americas
have genetically mixed blood. This map only reflects the genetic
aspect.
The Indian subcontinent is
divided in two based upon linguistic, anatomic, cultural,
and ethnic markers. There is no "Indian" race nor
ethnicity, as India prior to foreign conquest (by the British)
was a collection of a variety of warring nations and tribes
south of the Islamic empires to the north. The south have
been marked as Dravidian, and the north that of the Indic
Indo-Aryans; they are unrelated. The Sinhala of Sri Lanka
and the Divehi of the Maldives have embraced historical political
ties with the north, thus they have embraced Indo-Aryan languages
but may have no relation to them. So too, the Mongol race
is charted as independent from their Chinese neighbors to
the south as announced by their distinct history, culture,
language, anatomy, and a much later civilization than the
Chinese to the south. The Malays of Indonesia, the Philippines,
Borneo, etc., and the Asians of Indochina all bear common
descent via what are today referred to as the Chinese or the
related earlier Austronesian group.
Colors which extend beyond
nations (like the Asiatic Malay Indonesian color extending
into western Papua) is intentional, included to show that
these portions are dominant Asiatic in a black ethnic territory.
Click the below map
for the full-size version! Click on the map to zoom.

If an error has been made,
or you think some important information has been omitted and
needs inclusion for clarity, please notify the EHL Staff.
________________________________________
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR:
James Mayfield is the owner
and Chairman of the European Heritage Library. I am working
for a doctorate in history, with a specific emphasis on Islamic
and European histories. I am well versed in all world cultures,
ethnicities, religions, languages, politics, and historical
evolution in relation to and against each other.
BIBLIOGRAPHY/SOURCES
USED:
The image used as the basis
for the map is widely redistributed and is not protected.
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