A common way to express a claim to adjacent territories on the grounds of historical or ethnic association is by using the epithet "Greater" before the country name.
The Crimean Tatar diaspora in Turkey established several ethnic associations.
And traditional Catholic social and ethnic associations have steadily lost members.
To improve the festival's appeal, the organizers also enlisted ethnic associations and other community groups to pick films that their members wanted to see.
At the same convention, representatives of the major ethnic associations within the Police Department were announced at the dais and cheered by the crowd.
Its founding meeting was attended by representatives of 47 different organizations and groups, including women's, youth and church groups, trade unions, and ethnic associations.
But they cannot form ethnic associations or use their language in schools, on radio or on television - something that is classified as "separatist propaganda."
Operating as a federation of ethnic German associations, by 1914 the Alliance claimed more than two million members.
In the 1980s the process of uniting groups into ethnic associations was allowed.
It is an ethnic association.