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when the term "minority" was applied to ethnic, national, linguistic and religious groups who made up less than half of the population of a state, "groups ofpersons who differ in race, religion or language from the majority of the inhabitants of the country." The Paris Conference has been attributed with coining the concept of minority rights and bringing prominence to it. The League of Nations Minorities Commission in 1919 defined members of a minority as "nationals belonging to racial, religious, or linguistic minorities". Protection of minority

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