Conditions were ripe for twisters, and there were tornado warnings in counties all along the coast, with several reported touchdowns. |
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At provincial level both associations rely on local accommodations to prevent fixture clashes in dual counties. |
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Other counties seem to have got their act together and provide each household with plastic crates. |
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One of the main social events in the hall is the Friday night whist drives which attract whist players from all over Laois and neighbouring counties. |
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Yet over the past decade, hundreds of U.S. cities and counties, including Indianapolis and Milwaukee, have hired private companies to manage their waterworks. |
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Michigan and Wisconsin have the largest population of Belgian Americans, with the above-named Wisconsin counties having the largest rural settlement in the United States. |
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Below the regional level, all of England is divided into 48 ceremonial counties. |
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There are six metropolitan counties based on the most heavily urbanised areas, which do not have county councils. |
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Rugby League is most popular among towns in the northern English counties of Lancashire, Yorkshire and Cumbria. |
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There is a professional league championship in which clubs representing 17 English counties and 1 Welsh county compete. |
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Similarly, Britain, can refer to either all islands in Great Britain, the largest island, or the political grouping of counties. |
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A vote in 2002 nominated various wildflowers to represent specific counties. |
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The area of Greater London has incorporated areas that are part of the historic counties of Middlesex, Kent, Surrey, Essex and Hertfordshire. |
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The South East is also occasionally used as a synonym for the home counties. |
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Under the act, the Ridings lost their lieutenancies, shrievalties, and administrative counties. |
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Because of their differing origins the counties varied considerably in size. |
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It covered east Somerset and parts of the counties of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire and at some periods extended into Oxfordshire and Berkshire. |
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Today we have a dozen chickenless counties, and if fires are not checked in the peat lands, we shall end with a chickenless state. |
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But the comb or half quarter is very general in the Eastern counties, particularly in Norfolk. |
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District number twenty-five shall consist the counties of Tompkins, Seneca and Yates. |
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It was equal to half a quarter, i.e. is identical with the coomb of the eastern counties. |
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The rate in isolated counties was about a third higher than in the greater metropolitan counties. |
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County Wicklow was the last of the traditional counties of Ireland to be shired in 1606 from land previously part of counties Dublin and Carlow. |
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Devon also has its own flag which has been dedicated to Saint Petroc, a local saint with dedications throughout Devon and neighbouring counties. |
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The county is represented in cricket by Devon County Cricket Club, who play at a Minor counties level. |
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Charlemagne organised his empire into 350 counties, each led by an appointed count. |
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California, Ohio and Nevada use postmile systems in which the markers indicate mileage through the state's individual counties. |
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Sweden is a unitary state, currently divided into 21 counties and 290 municipalities. |
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The counties have financing, ticket and marketing responsibility for local trains. |
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It was then divided in two counties and has since then been regarded as fully integrated in Sweden. |
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In 1719 the province was subdivided in two counties and administered in the same way as the rest of Sweden. |
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In England, 307 people were killed in the counties of Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. |
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Through Danish conquest, Old East Norse was once widely spoken in the northeast counties of England. |
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The area where they are spoken often correspond with former mediaeval counties and duchies. |
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Today, not only is Nynorsk the official language of four of the 19 Norwegian counties, but also of many municipalities in five other counties. |
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The Diocese of York encompassed roughly the counties of Yorkshire and Lancashire. |
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John began his reign by reasserting his sovereignty over the disputed northern counties. |
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This land is located in Dunn, McKenzie, McLean, Mercer, Mountrail and Ward counties in North Dakota. |
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Norfolk is one of the few counties in England that does not have a motorway. |
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In Ireland, the red squirrel has been displaced in several eastern counties, though it still remains common in the south and west of the country. |
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The three counties that form the Oklahoma panhandle were originally part of the Cimmaron Strip. |
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The inclusion of 24 secessionist counties in the state and the ensuing guerrilla war engaged about 40,000 Federal troops for much of the war. |
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The Broads are a network of mostly navigable rivers and lakes in the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. |
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The extent of the estate has varied as various holdings have been sold and acquired over the years, both within Cornwall and in other counties. |
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The High Sheriff of Cornwall is appointed by the Duke of Cornwall, not the monarch, in contrast to the other counties of England and Wales. |
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It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. |
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Wiltshire is therefore one of the few remaining English counties without a university or university college. |
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They exist primarily in the United Kingdom, but some counties in other countries also have them. |
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These divisions were carried on to the administrative counties that county councils covered. |
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The counties to be used for local government were to be the historic counties of England and Wales. |
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Members of both houses made representations on behalf of counties and boroughs, and this led to an increase in the number of local authorities. |
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Attempts to create administrative counties for the Cinque Ports and Staffordshire Potteries were not successful. |
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A number of smaller counties corporate were also given county borough status. |
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The Act also provided for certain financial adjustments between county boroughs and adjoining counties. |
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The Act did not in terms affect the status of cities and towns which were counties corporate. |
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For local government purposes Scottish counties were replaced in 1975 with a system of regions and island council areas. |
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Elected county councils had been established in England and Wales for the first time in 1888, covering areas known as administrative counties. |
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Some large towns, known as county boroughs, were politically independent from the counties in which they were physically situated. |
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Apart from the new Glamorgan authorities, all the names of the new Welsh counties were in the Welsh language, with no English equivalent. |
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Some of the new counties were designated metropolitan counties, containing metropolitan boroughs instead. |
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The Act specified the composition and names of the English and Welsh counties, and the composition of the metropolitan and Welsh districts. |
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The new English counties were based clearly on the traditional ones, albeit with several substantial changes. |
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The 13 historic counties of Wales, however, were abandoned entirely for administrative purposes, and 8 new ones instituted. |
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In particular, the division of planning between districts and counties was a source of friction between the new councils. |
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Devon and Cornwall are amongst the safest counties in the UK, with the 4th lowest crime rate per 1000 people in England. |
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The counties of England are areas used for the purposes of administrative, geographical, cultural or political demarcation. |
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These counties may consist of a single district or be divided into several districts. |
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As of April 2009, 27 of these counties are divided into districts and have a county council. |
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In these counties most services are provided by the county council and the district councils have a more limited role. |
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In total, there are 39 unitary authorities that do not share the names of any of the ceremonial counties. |
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Bedfordshire and Cheshire are counties that consist of a number of unitary authorities, none of which has the same name as the ceremonial county. |
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Some counties are grouped together for this purpose, such as Northumberland with Tyne and Wear to form the Northumbria Police area. |
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Most ceremonial counties form part of a single region, although Lincolnshire and North Yorkshire are divided between regions. |
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Greater London and the metropolitan counties are all in the 15 largest by population and the 15 smallest by area. |
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Most English counties were established in the Middle Ages sometime between the 7th and 11th centuries. |
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The early divisions form most of the current counties, albeit with adapted boundaries. |
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In 1832 the Great Reform Act divided larger counties for parliamentary purposes. |
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By the late nineteenth century there was increasing pressure to reform the structure of English counties. |
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They were shown on Ordnance Survey maps of the time under both titles, and are equivalent to the modern ceremonial counties. |
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The reform caused the geographic counties to be defined separately once again, and they became known as ceremonial counties. |
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There is no well established series of official symbols or flags covering all the counties. |
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However these armorial bearings belong to the incorporated body of the county council and not to the geographic area of the counties themselves. |
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A recent series of flags, of varying levels of official adoption, have been established in many of the counties by competition or public poll. |
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Some large counties were divided into several administrative counties, each with its own county council. |
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The administrative counties did not exist prior to 1889, see historic counties of England for the history of the English counties before then. |
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Monmouthshire, not shown on the map, was reckoned for some legal purposes among the English counties for most of this period. |
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Unlike the 1888 Act, the 1933 Act did not include county boroughs as administrative counties. |
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The boundaries of the administrative counties changed considerably over time. |
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During the 1890s most of these were eliminated, with parishes being exchanged between counties. |
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The term 'shire' is not used in the names of the six traditional counties of Northern Ireland. |
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These counties, on their historical boundaries, cover a little more than half the area of England. |
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The counties of Dorset, Rutland and Somerset were likewise formerly Dorsetshire, Rutlandshire and Somersetshire. |
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The honour of Christchurch consisted of many widely scattered manors in several counties. |
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Boroughs and cities were collectively known as municipalities, and were enclaves separate from their surrounding counties. |
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The 18 counties are divided randomly into two groups of nine with each team playing each other once. |
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The competitions of minor counties cricket are the Minor Counties Cricket Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy. |
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A large number of counties are involved, and feature in a divisional structure. |
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By 1634, the entire Colony consisted of eight shires or counties with a total population of approximately 5,000 inhabitants. |
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Historically, counties in this region have served mainly as dividing lines for the states' judicial systems. |
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In Louisiana, which is divided into parishes rather than counties, county seats are referred to as parish seats. |
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In 1878, as a result of the Treaty of Berlin, Romania was forced to cede the three counties back to the Russian Empire. |
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Bavaria was subdivided into Frankish counties, as had been done with Saxony. |
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The Low Countries, which until the late sixteenth century consisted of several counties, prince bishoprics, duchies etc. |
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In the Tang census of the year 754, there were 1,859 cities, 321 prefectures, and 1,538 counties throughout the empire. |
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Choropleth maps portray data collection areas, such as counties or census tracts, with color. |
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Sobrarbe and Ribagorza were small counties and had little significance to the progress of the Reconquista. |
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But by the 1080s, the situation had calmed, and the dominion of Barcelona over the smaller counties was restored. |
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In 2014, Luogang merged into Huangpu and both Conghua and Zengcheng counties were upgraded to districts. |
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They established public education, welfare institutions, and home rule for counties, expanding democracy. |
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Grant suspended habeas corpus in nine South Carolina counties under the authority of the Ku Klux Klan Act. |
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This status continued until 1973, when the state constitution was amended to provide for home rule for the counties. |
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The Home Rule Act of 1975 implemented the amendment giving more power to the counties. |
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Within a few years, the shires were renamed counties, a system which has remained to the present day. |
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The river serves as a political boundary between the states of New Jersey and New York, and further north between New York counties. |
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After its confluence with the Indian River, the Hudson forms the boundary between Essex and Hamilton counties. |
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The river then forms the boundary between Saratoga and Rensselaer counties. |
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Smith lost his bid for a third term even though he carried all but eight counties. |
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This issue dominates the future revenue of rural counties, which have come to rely on the payments in providing essential services. |
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A dialect known as Jersey Dutch was spoken in and around rural Bergen and Passaic counties in New Jersey until the early 20th century. |
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Since the 1980s, thirteen Manchu autonomous counties have been created in Liaoning, Jilin, Hebei and Heilongjiang. |
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The language is spoken throughout the nine counties of Ulster, and in some northern areas of bordering counties such as Louth and Leitrim. |
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Jamaica is divided into 14 parishes, which are grouped into three historic counties that have no administrative relevance. |
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It is the largest of Leinster's 12 counties in size, and fourth largest in terms of population. |
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The diocese was further reduced in 1846, when the counties of Essex and Hertfordshire were ceded to the Diocese of Rochester. |
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States have delegated lawmaking powers to thousands of agencies, townships, counties, cities, and special districts. |
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Most counties have their own circuit court, but sparsely populated counties often share them. |
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The laws published in the Code of Virginia are supreme over local ordinances passed by the counties and independent cities of Virginia. |
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In some areas of England and Wales, counties still perform the functions of modern local government. |
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The whole of England is divided into 48 ceremonial counties, which are also known as geographic counties. |
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As of April 2009, 27 such counties are divided into districts and have a county council. |
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From 1889 to 1974 areas with county councils were known as administrative counties and ceremonial counties were defined separately. |
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The six historic counties of Northern Ireland are no longer in use for administrative purposes. |
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The jurisdictions are not defined by the administrative divisions of Iceland but are mainly a mixture of counties and municipalities. |
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The appointed jurymen are divided into two groups, in most counties the first with sixteen members and the second with eight. |
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Delaware is divided into three counties, the lowest number of counties of any state. |
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While the southern two counties have historically been predominantly agricultural, New Castle County has been more industrialized. |
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Coverage of the system is broad within northern New Castle County with close association to major highways in Kent and Sussex counties. |
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In 1877, the state created the Mississippi Levee District for southern counties. |
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The most damage occurred in the lower Delta, including Washington and Bolivar counties. |
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Today approximately 9,500 Choctaw live in Neshoba, Newton, Leake, and Jones counties. |
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It also required both houses of state legislatures to be based on population for representation and not geographic districts such as counties. |
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In 94 of the 95 counties the Sheriff is the chief law enforcement officer in the county and has jurisdiction over the county as a whole. |
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Aside from the five counties of New York City, each of these counties is subdivided into towns and cities, incorporated under state law. |
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The land was organized as different counties and towns in New York's Capital District. |
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They were in effect the government of rural England and Wales until the reforms of the late 1800s creating counties and district councils. |
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Owen further suggested that these socialistic communities might be established by individuals, parishes, counties, or other governmental units. |
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Early cotton mills powered by water were built in Lancashire and its neighbouring counties. |
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Parliament then gave similar powers to the justices in other counties in England and Wales. |
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The use of brasses as emblems was particularly prevalent in Somerset and the surrounding counties. |
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The CKP was built to enable ore and coal to be brought together at steel foundries in both counties. |
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For much of its length Ullswater forms the border between the historic counties of Cumberland and Westmorland. |
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Similar towers occur elsewhere in Cumbria and other northern English and southern Scottish counties. |
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These circles are found in the counties of Cork and Kerry in the southwest of Ireland. |
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Unlike the other counties created by the Act, Greater Manchester was never adopted as a postal county by the Royal Mail. |
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Cheshire County Cricket Club are a minor counties club who sometimes play in the south of the county. |
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In cricket, Staffordshire is one of the nineteen Minor counties of English and Welsh cricket. |
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Cheshire County Cricket Club is one of the clubs that make up the Minor counties of English and Welsh cricket. |
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Here it forms the boundary between the counties of Cumbria and North Yorkshire. |
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Northumberland has a relatively weak economy amongst the counties and other local government areas of the United Kingdom. |
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Between the county boroughs, various other settlements also formed part of the administrative counties of Durham and of Northumberland. |
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Before the reorganisation of the historic English counties, the river formed the boundary between County Durham and Yorkshire. |
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Other counties, apart from Dorset, did not display a grid reference and did not have a horizontal bar through the roundel. |
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First also run services into other counties, Rochdale in Greater Manchester and Burnley in Lancashire. |
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Southern England, or the South of England, also known as the South, refers roughly to the southern counties of England. |
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They are subdivisions of shire counties and the most common type of district. |
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In addition, some of the smaller counties such as Rutland, Herefordshire and the Isle of Wight are unitary authorities. |
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Black dogs have been reported from almost all the counties of England, the exceptions being Middlesex and Rutland. |
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In Wexford, the beam is shorter than in any of the other counties, and the sock in general is of cast iron. |
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The prejudices of the home counties squirearchy had clearly taken root among the Australian squattocracy. |
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Participants, starting at Balbriggan in North Dublin, swam in each of Ireland's 17 coastal counties. |
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Arnold Schwarzenegger remains committed to the federal waivers for Los Angeles and Alameda counties. |
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Three Trident warheads a year are being moved from the Clyde to the home counties to be taken to pieces. |
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There are also six gay adopters on the register from Liverpool, ranking it mid level out of the North West counties. |
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The New River trail offers over 57 miles of walking trails stretching through Grayson, Carroll, Wythe and Pulaski counties. |
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Jaysus, a man with his talents is wasted in a game that only has half a dozen counties that can play it. |
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Northern Ireland, which comprised the remaining six counties, exercised its right under the Treaty to opt out of the new state. |
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In 782, Charlemagne abolished the system of Gaue and replaced it with the Grafschaftsverfassung, the system of counties typical of Francia. |
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Large wind farms are being constructed in coastal counties such as Cork, Donegal, Mayo and Antrim. |
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In a system that developed between the 13th and 17th centuries, Ireland has 32 traditional counties. |
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In the Republic of Ireland, counties form the basis of the system of local government. |
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However, in contrast the counties of Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire are relative rich in early settlements. |
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The counties are administrated through directly elected county assemblies who elect the County Governor. |
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England was divided into shires or counties, which were further divided into either hundreds or wapentakes. |
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An alliance with these two counties was then logically sealed by this wedding and the concessions of manors. |
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Some counties were created by shiring, while walled towns and castles became a feature of the landscape. |
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It is unique in how it treats cities and counties equally, manages local roads, and prohibits its governors from serving consecutive terms. |
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Finally there are hundreds of unincorporated communities within the counties. |
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Alterations have been made on Shropshire's border with all neighbouring English counties over the centuries. |
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Douglas set about introducing more squadrons and dispersing the few GL sets to create a carpet effect in the southern counties. |
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The Chief Executive Officer position is weak compared to the council manager system seen in other counties. |
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Each constituency was entirely within a county or a grouping of two or three counties. |
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These four counties, as well as County Fermanagh and County Tyrone, would later constitute Northern Ireland. |
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Although counties are no longer used for local governmental purposes, they remain a popular means of describing where places are. |
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The Gaelic Athletic Association still uses the counties as its primary means of organisation and fields representative teams of each GAA county. |
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The original system of car registration numbers largely based on counties still remains in use. |
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London is divided into London boroughs while the other regions are divided into metropolitan counties, shire counties and unitary authorities. |
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The areas over which the councils had authority were designated as administrative counties. |
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Overall, England is divided into nine regions and 48 ceremonial counties, although these have only a limited role in public policy. |
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For the purposes of local government, the country is divided into counties, districts and parishes. |
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At the highest level, all of England is divided into nine regions that are each made up of a number of counties and districts. |
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These counties are used for the purposes of appointing Lords Lieutenant who are historically the Crown's representatives in those areas. |
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Despite no longer having county councils the metropolitan counties still legally exist, and are each a ceremonial county. |
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Many sister cities share a water boundary which quite often serves as a border of both cities and counties. |
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It includes the ceremonial counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. |
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Cornwall has become reliant on tourism, more so than the other counties of the South West. |
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The ceremonial counties, also referred to as the lieutenancy areas of England, are areas of England to which a Lord Lieutenant is appointed. |
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The Local Government Act 1888 established county councils to assume the administrative functions of Quarter Sessions in the counties. |
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Apart from Yorkshire, counties that were subdivided nevertheless continued to exist as ceremonial counties. |
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In 1974, administrative counties and county boroughs were abolished, and a major reform was instituted. |
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Hereford and Worcester was divided into the restored counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire. |
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It restated the combination of counties and counties corporate as lieutenancy counties. |
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Existing lords lieutenant were assigned to one of the corresponding new counties wherever possible. |
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In 1975 counties ceased to be used for local government purposes in Scotland. |
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Ceremonial counties may comprise combinations of county council areas and unitary authorities. |
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In terms of ceremonial counties, London is divided into the small City of London and the much wider Greater London. |
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The LCC proposed a vast new area for Greater London, with a boundary somewhere between the Metropolitan Police District and the home counties. |
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The metropolitan counties are Greater Manchester, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, West Midlands and West Yorkshire. |
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The county councils of these were abolished in 1986, but the counties themselves still exist legally. |
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They are used for some administrative and geographic purposes, and are still ceremonial counties. |
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Under local government reforms coming into effect in 2009, the number of such counties was reduced. |
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On 1 April 1996, the unpopular counties of Avon, Humberside and Cleveland were abolished and their former area divided into unitary districts. |
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The structure of Greater London is similar to the metropolitan counties, but it is not one. |
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Since 2000, the metropolitan counties have been used as the areas of joint Local Transport Plans. |
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Some counties were based on areas surrounding large county boroughs or were formed by the mergers of smaller counties. |
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For the purposes of lieutenancy the counties constituted in 1974 were preserved. |
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From 1 April 1974 the number of counties and county councils was reduced to eight in number. |
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Following partition, six administrative counties remained within the United Kingdom as part of Northern Ireland. |
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In other cases, counties themselves could have an exclave made up of a parish. |
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There were also a few examples of parishes split between two or more counties, such as Todmorden, split between Lancashire and Yorkshire. |
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The remaining exclaves of counties were transferred in the 1890s and in 1931, with one exception. |
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The powers of the marcher lordships were abolished, and their areas formed into new counties, or amalgamated into existing ones. |
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However, several of the marcher lordships were incorporated in whole or in part into English counties. |
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Thames Valley Police is a formal body that takes its name from the river, covering three counties. |
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When English counties were established their boundaries were partly determined by the Thames. |
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On the northern bank were the ancient counties of Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Middlesex and Essex. |
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On the southern bank were the counties of Wiltshire, Berkshire, Surrey and Kent. |
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The two road bridges of the Severn crossing link Wales with the southern counties of England. |
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The wars also saw thousands of Scots settle south of the border, chiefly in the border counties and Yorkshire. |
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By the late 19th century, emigration was heaviest from Ireland's most rural southern and western counties. |
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However, the county was dissolved in 1998, resulting in the return of Herefordshire and Worcestershire as counties. |
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The Scots invaded and on 3 September 1513, she ordered Thomas Lovell to raise an army in the midland counties. |
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The urbanised southern part largely became part of two metropolitan counties, Merseyside and Greater Manchester. |
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As part of its industrial past, Lancashire gave rise to an extensive network of canals, which extend into neighbouring counties. |
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In England, implementation was less even, with some counties and individual schools successfully resisting conversion or closure. |
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While recruiting retainers for himself in various counties, he prosecuted local men who had been loyal to the appellants. |
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It had retained a strong tradition of wassailing, and seafaring songs were important in the coastal counties of Kent and Hampshire. |
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There are around 65 roads in the UK named after Elgar, including six in the counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire. |
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Cricket entered a new era in 1963 when English counties introduced the limited overs variant. |
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Tottenham have a large fanbase in the United Kingdom, drawn largely from north London and the Home counties. |
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The 1899 Ashes series was the first tour where the MCC and the counties appointed a selection committee. |
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The first official Twenty20 matches were played on 13 June 2003 between the English counties in the Twenty20 Cup. |
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While early matches were often between teams named after counties, they were not the club teams the usage would imply today. |
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Before this, it was quite common for a player to play for both counties during the course of a single season. |
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From 1960 to 1962 inclusive, counties could choose whether to play 28 or 32 matches. |
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The derby is also sometimes considered a contest in terms of pride between the two counties. |
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National Hunt racing originated in Ireland, particularly in the southern counties. |
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The BDO comprises 66 member counties in Britain and organises tournaments for amateurs. |
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The regions were created on 1 January 2007 to replace the sixteen former counties. |
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The Faroe Islands gained home rule in 1948 and Greenland in 1979, having previously had the status of counties. |
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The Northern Party seeks to establish a Regional Government for the North of England covering the six historic counties of the region. |
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In addition, the Protestant population was more prominent in Ulster, with a majority in four counties. |
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The 26 southern counties of Ireland left the Union in 1922, which became known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. |
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He had raised funds in counties Tipperary and Waterford to travel independently and compete for Ireland. |
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Most counties have clubs which are members of either the County Championship or the Minor Counties Cricket Championship. |
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It has been asserted in some quarters that the Parliamentary counties only extend to low water mark. |
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However, this interpretation that the territorial waters went with the counties was later disputed by Irish Governments. |
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Scottish and English Protestants were sent as colonists to the provinces of Munster, Ulster, and the counties of Laois and Offaly. |
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Unionists, however, won a majority of seats in four of the nine counties of Ulster and affirmed their continuing loyalty to the United Kingdom. |
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In 1921, with the formation of the Irish Free State, six counties in the northeast remained in the United Kingdom as Northern Ireland. |
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They are concentrated in counties Limerick and Clare but are lacking in Ulster, except the area around Strangford Lough. |
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The Statute of Rhuddlan divided the territory under royal control into six shire counties on the English model, administered by royal officials. |
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By now, much of Scotland was under English occupation, with eight of the Scottish lowland counties being ceded to England by Edward Balliol. |
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The members of Parliament chosen by the counties were known as Knights of the Shire. |
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This was particularly true in rural counties, and in small boroughs situated near a large landed estate. |
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Between 1889 and 1975 Scotland was divided into burghs and counties, which were replaced by regions and districts. |
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The southernmost counties of Scotland, nearest the border with England, are also known as the Borders. |
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The English counties of Cheshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire lie to the east. |
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The Queen appoints Lords Lieutenant to represent her in the eight preserved counties of Wales. |
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These seven southern counties were thus differentiated from the six counties of north Wales. |
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On exceptionally clear days, Ireland, Scotland, England, and the Isle of Man are all visible, as well as 24 counties, 29 lakes and 17 islands. |
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Climate statistics based on the counties of Northern Ireland vary slightly but are not significantly different. |
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Ireland is divided into four provinces, Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster, and 32 counties. |
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Six of the nine Ulster counties form Northern Ireland and the other 26 form the state, Ireland. |
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From an administrative viewpoint, 21 of the counties in the republic are units of local government. |
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The cities of Dublin, Cork and Galway have city councils and are administered separately from the counties bearing those names. |
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The British counties have no directly corresponding counterpart in Germany. |
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The history of Scottish local government mainly surrounds involves the counties of Scotland. |
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Three of the older management areas, Caithness, Nairn and Sutherland, were very similar to earlier local government counties. |
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Two others, Inverness and Ross and Cromarty, had the names of earlier counties but have very different boundaries. |
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The historic counties of Wales are ancient subdivisions of Wales, used for various functions for several hundred years. |
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By 1066 the whole of England had been divided into counties, but Wales had no official counties until the 13th century. |
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The counties and county boroughs continue to exist for the purposes of lieutenancy and shrievalty. |
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Losses in Dublin and urban areas were balanced by gains in areas such as Limerick, Wicklow, Cork, Tipperary and Kilkenny and the border counties. |
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In the metropolitan counties local services were managed by the Passenger Transport Executives. |
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The Highlands comprise the northern portions of Inverness and Victoria counties. |
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In Wales the councils of the counties and county boroughs are responsible for education. |
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The laws also finished the partitioning of Wales into counties that was begun in 1282 and established local government on the English model. |
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Interventions by FIFA gave the FAI de jure organising rights over the 26 counties of the Republic, with the IFA restricted to Northern Ireland. |
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The clubs and counties represented were Kent, Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex, Middlesex and London. |
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The National Football League is held every spring and groups counties in four divisions according to their relative strength. |
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