Two decades later, the old, multi-ethnic character of Salonika took a final, devastating blow.
"Let's have a multi-ethnic Britain, but let's make it work for all, " he said.
Today, its streets are still lined with multi-ethnic vendors hawking fresh produce beside Italian cheesemongers and butchers.
With strong multi-ethnic origins, Mr Davis has spoken out in the past against "the extremes of xenophobia".
With around 29 million inhabitants, Peru is one of the most populous and multi-ethnic states in South America.
The idea of partition is intolerable to the UN administration in Kosovo, committed to a single multi-ethnic state.
But it demonstrates the strength of Russia's multi-ethnic empire and the depth of its integration in European affairs and security.
For next year's polls, Mr Westendorp is considering reform of the electoral system to boost the strength of multi-ethnic parties.
Malaysia can and should serve as the model of a truly multi-ethnic democracy that fosters political competition without fear of unrest.
In the meantime, he is also hoping that the multi-ethnic successes of the basketball team will rub off in ways well beyond sport.
Also interwoven, for historical context, is a biography of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the mono-ethnic Turkish republic which replaced the multi-ethnic Ottoman world.
The constitutional changes have been proposed by the government of President Chandrika Kumaratunga, who wants to build a broad multi-ethnic consensus behind the new bill.
California and the Pacific coast have become more multi-ethnic and Democrat-controlled.
Western diplomats fear a break will lead to fissures both in multi- ethnic Bosnia and in Macedonia, where about a third of the population is Albanian.
Only one of them may actually join it: Zlatko Lagumdzija, head of the Social Democratic Party, which is nominally multi-ethnic but gets most of its support from Bosniaks.
Now if they went into it saying, as you suggest, that they were going to have a multi-ethnic society at least that would have been a political objective.
"We had originally agreed to invite the camps to use our facility, knowing full well that the children from the camps were from multi-ethnic backgrounds, " the statement said.
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Former presidents Sukarno and Suharto were wary of promoting Islamic law in a multi-religious and multi-ethnic country, even though Muslims make up the majority of Indonesia's 209.4 million citizens.
While the renewed fighting is troubling for a fragile, multi-ethnic country that has just begun to open up after decades of isolation, the unrest spells particular risk for Asian energy firms.
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Historically, multi-ethnic societies have worked in many different ways.
The assemblage looks multi-ethnic and, at a pinch, broad-based.
But even if they got all they wanted, they would still have to agree how to use it and, in particular, how to create a tolerant multi-ethnic society where none existed before.
What emerges is a picture of a multi-national, multi-ethnic, multi-generational team effort in which consensus is difficult, but does emerge, albeit with new views, new members, and new disputes occurring over time.
The Croat vote was still too close to call, with incumbent Ivo Miro Jovic of the Croatian Democratic Union only marginally ahead of Zeljko Komsic of the opposition multi-ethnic Social Democratic Party.
Graeme Reid, the council's inner-city manager, argues that it is neither feasible nor desirable for the area to go back to what it was, but that a new, vibrant, multi-ethnic city is evolving.
It is also worth pointing out that Australia is successfully multi-ethnic and, considering the massive population changes that have overtaken the country over the past 60 years, the backlash has been relatively mild.
Syria is a multi-ethnic and religiously plural society.
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This should be enough to attract good young European players to sign on, and could even persuade some to stay on in a multi-ethnic city with a growing middle class whose lingua franca is English.
The study involved 5, 362 people between the ages of 45 and 84 living in six different cities that are part of the MESA AIR (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution) research project, led by Joel Kaufman.
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