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 <b>Provinceb>
Kurdistan (<b>provinceb>) Kordestan is one of the 28 Iraq.
Burgos (<b>provinceb>) and a population of 352,273 (2002) of whom nearly half live in the capital.
<b>Provinceb> of Reggio Emilia The <b>Provinceb> of Reggio Emilia is one of the eight provinces of the Italian Region of Emilia-Ro...
http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/topics/province.html   (4723 words)

  
 Tarragona (<b>provinceb>) - encyclopedia article about Tarragona (<b>provinceb>).
It is bordered by the spanish provinces of Huelva, Sevilla, and Málaga, as well as the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, the Strait of Gibraltar and the British possession of Gibraltar.
The <b>provinceb>'s population is 631,156 (2002), of whom about one-fifth live in the capital Tarragona Tarragona is a city located in the south of Catalonia, Spain, by the Mediterranean Sea.
It is bordered by the provinces of Salamanca, Ávila, Toledo, and Badajoz, and by Portugal.
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Tarragona%20(province)   (1784 words)

  
 Najaf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Najaf area was situated near the Sassanid city of Suristan and at the time of the Sassanids was a part of the Middle Bih-Kavad <b>provinceb> of Persia.
Because of the common religious affinities between Iraq's Shi'a majority and the Iranians, Najaf was regarded with suspicion by the Sunni-dominated regime of Saddam Hussein, which severely restricted Shi'a religious activities.
Although the Iraqi government claimed to have caught and executed the supposed killers, all Sh'ia, one of whom was actually in prison at the time, many opposition figures and ordinary Shi'as blamed the killings on Saddam's regime, which was said to be systematically attempting to suppress independent voices in the Shi'a community.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najaf   (1119 words)

  
 Baghdad article - Baghdad capital Iraq Baghdad <b>Provinceb> city Southwest Asia Tehran 2003 - What-Means.com
Baghdad (ب& of Iraq and the Baghdad <b>Provinceb>.
Baghdad's early meteoric growth slowed due to troubles within the Caliphate, including relocations of the capital to Samarra (during 808–819 and 836–892), the loss of the western and easternmost provinces, and periods of political domination by the Iranian Buyids (945–1055) and Seljuk Turks (1055–1135).
Baghdad was one of the largest and most cosmopolitan cities in the world, home to Muslims, Christians, Jews and pagans from across the Middle East and Central Asia.
http://www.what-means.com/encyclopedia/Baghdad   (1601 words)

  
 Gaza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
With the onset of the Palestinian uprising known as the intifada in 1987, Gaza became a center of political unrest and confrontation between Israelis and Palestinians, and economic conditions in the city worsened.
A massive influx of Palestinian refugees swelled Gaza's population after the 1948 Arab Israeli war.
The Jewish community in Gaza was destroyed during the crusades, but returned and was rebuilt with the return of the Mamluk occupation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza   (1280 words)

  
 Guangdong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guangdong is believed to be the source of SARS in 2003.
Because the SAR's are subdivisions of China, it is impossible for a negotiation to occur between the central government and the SAR government since they are of different statuses with the central government the higher power.
However, because Guangdong and the SAR's of equal status with neither having control over the other, negotiation between them is possible and in fact encouraged on issues in which the Central Government has no opinion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong   (1694 words)

  
 Mecca, Makkah
Mecca fell to Ibn Saud in 1924, and in 1932 Hejaz became a <b>provinceb> of Saudi Arabia.
Mecca was a religious center before the time of Muhammad, and several holy sites within the sacred precincts of the great mosque, called al-Haram, had religious significance in pre-Islamic times.
(This is the very same Abraham that Christians and Jews similarly revere as Patriarch.) The fact that Muslims face Mecca is really them facing the Kaaba, in honor to Abraham.
http://mb-soft.com/believe/txh/mecca.htm   (1694 words)

  
 Leon Trotsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kherson <b>Provinceb>, Ukraine, the son of a farmer, David Bronstein, of Jewish background.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky   (1694 words)

  
 Huambo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The town of Huambo, capital of the old Bailundo empire, was inaugurated in 1912 with the arrival of the Benguela Railway in the Central Plateau.
Huambo is the capital of Huambo <b>Provinceb> in Angola.
Huambo was located on the central Angolan railway which runs from the port of Benguela to the Congo border.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huambo   (1385 words)

  
 Hainan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the official PRC territorial claim, Hainan <b>Provinceb> includes not just one island, but also some 200 South China Sea Islands.
Hainan was historically part of Guangdong <b>Provinceb> and Guangxi <b>Provinceb>, being as such, it was the Qiongya Circuit (瓊崖道) in 1912 (the establishment of the Republic of China).
Because Hainan had been a point in the travel route of missionaries, there are many Christians : 35,000 Protestants and 4,100 Catholics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan   (1385 words)

  
 West <b>Provinceb>, Cameroon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The West <b>Provinceb> is the smallest of Cameroon's ten provinces in area, yet it has the highest population density.
However, Cameroon's government and state-run media, largely run by President Paul Biya's numerically inferior Beti-Pahuin tribal group, are often accused of anti-Bamileke bias.
The Bamun experienced a golden age of sorts under the leadership of Sultan Ibrahim Njoya (r.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Province   (3813 words)

  
 Quebec - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Quebec (pronounced [kwəˈbɛk] or [kəˈbɛk]) (French: Québec, pronounced [kebɛk]) is the largest <b>provinceb> in Canada geographically, and the second most populous, after Ontario, with a population of 7,568,640 (Statistics Canada, January 2005).
Quebec is the only Canadian <b>provinceb> where English is not an official language (at the provincial level), and it is one of only two provinces – in addition to the federal government – where French is an official language (the other, per the Constitution Act, 1982, is New Brunswick; Manitoba enjoys limited official bilingualism).
The second attempt, the Charlottetown Accord of 1992, was rejected by 56.7% of all Canadians and 57% of Quebecers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Quebec   (2651 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: East Prussia
The population of the <b>provinceb> in 1900 was 1,996,626 people, with a religious make up of 1,698,465 Protestants, 269,196 Roman Catholics, and 13,877 Jews.
East Prussia (German: Ostpreußen; Lithuanian: Rytų Prūsija; Polish: Prusy Wschodnie; Russian: Восточная Пруссия — Vostochnaya Prussiya; Dutch: Oost-Pruisen; Spanish: Prusia Oriental;) was a <b>provinceb> of the Kingdom of Prussia and of the German Empire, situated on the territory of former Ducal Prussia.
The <b>Provinceb> of Posen (German: Provinz Posen, Polish: Prowincja Poznańska) was a <b>provinceb> of Prussia (1846- 1918).
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/East-Prussia   (2651 words)

  
 NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Gaza
The oldest attested records naming Gaza are ancient Egyptian, in which it it variously transcribed as q-d-t or g-d-t, in an attempt to render the Canaanite sounds gh and z not found in the Egyptian of that period.
Gaza became a Muslim city in 635, when it was captured by the Arabs.
Gaza has long been sought after by many groups due to its location between Asia and Africa, its fertile land, and its value as a sea port.
http://pedia.nodeworks.com/G/GA/GAZ/Gaza   (459 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Karbala
Abbasid provinces during the caliphate of Harun al-Rashid Abbasid (Arabic: العبّاسدين) was the dynastic name generally given to the caliphs of Baghdad, the second of the two great Sunni dynasties of the Muslim empire, that overthrew the Umayyid caliphs.
Karbala's prominence in Shi'a Islam is the result of the Battle of Karbala, fought on the site of the modern city on the 10th of Muharram in 61 A.H. October 10, 680).
Another focal point of the Shi'a pilgrimage to Karbala is al-Makhayam, traditionally believed to be the location of Husain's camp, where the martyrdom of Husain and his followers is publicly commemorated.
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Karbala   (1901 words)

  
 History of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thousands of Bosnia and Herzegovina's Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies were killed by the Fascist Ustasha regime.
After World War II ended, Bosnia and Herzegovina became one of the six republics of Yugoslavia in 1945, when the country was re-organized as a communist federal state under Josip Broz Tito.
Bosnia and Herzegovina was the only Yugoslav Republic where there was no majority of a single ethnicity, and its capital Sarajevo was the prime example of inter-ethnic mixing and tolerance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_War   (1901 words)

  
 Roman Britain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
These four provinces were part of Diocletian's Tetrarchy reform in 293, Britannia became one of the four dioceses—governed by a vicarius—of the prætorian prefecture Galliae ('the Gauls', also comprising the provices of Gaul, Germania and Hispania), after the abolition of the imperial tetrarchs under the Western Emperor (in Rome itself, later Ravenna).
Caracella left with a punitive expedition but by the next year his ailing father had died and he and his brother left the <b>provinceb> to press their claim for the throne.
This crisis, sometimes called the Great Conspiracy, was settled by Count Theodosius with a string of military and civil reforms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Britain   (5072 words)

  
 Iraq militia cell uncovered - theage.com.au
Tamimi, who was handed over to British forces after his interrogation, said that "the Baath and Saddam's Fedayeen have a large network of activists in (Basra) <b>provinceb> as well as a cache of arms, including heavy weapons, in one of the villages of the area," according to Jaburi.
British forces occupying Basra were not immediately available for comment on the claims, which would confirm that the Baath still has underground structures in various parts of Iraq.
Jaburi said the suspect revealed he had been sent "on a mission to Basra" by Kassem Swidan, a Fedayeen activist who is the brother of the ex-Baath chief in the Basra village of Mussaieb.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/08/1055010863805.html   (494 words)

  
 Corruption pervades government in Basra - The Boston Globe
Debate in Basra takes a very different form than it does in Baghdad, where secular and religious politicians are fighting over the role of Islam in a new constitution, while Kurds, Shi'ites, and Sunnis are jockeying to maximize their share of power in the new Iraq.
The <b>provinceb>'s Sunni minority (estimated at 25 percent of the 2 million population) has kept a low profile since leading Sunni academics and former Ba'ath Party officials began to fall in an assassination campaign last year.
According to Basra politicians, many of the homicides are tit-for-tat killings of Islamist party officials; some hit squads target Ba'athists, and another fraction of the killings seem to be part of continuing tribal feuds that predate the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/08/08/corruption_pervades_government_in_basra?mode=PF   (1519 words)

  
 Philologos The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia Chapter 10
He speaks of the <b>Provinceb> as "the nation of Asia": i.e., the Roman <b>Provinceb> took the place of any national divisions: loyalty considered that there was only one nation in Asia, that the <b>Provinceb> was the nation.
The relation of the Christian organisation in Asia to the Commune, or rather to the tendency towards consolidation which took an Imperial form in the Commune, is brought out in striking relief by several facts.
Asia was divided into districts, apparently, and a certain number of cities had the title of metropolis; but the details regarding the representation of the districts or the metropoles in the Commune are unknown.
http://philologos.org/__eb-lttsc/chap10.htm   (3362 words)

  
 Basra, Iraq
Basra is the capital of the Basra <b>provinceb>.
However Basra did support the rebellion of Yazid ibn al-Muhallab against Yazid II during the 720s.
Qadarism in Islam corresponds to the doctine of human free will in Christianity, as opposed to such doctrines of predestination as later proposed by, e.g., John Calvin.
http://creekin.net/c4439-n88-basra-iraq.html   (1895 words)

  
 <b>Provinceb> of Asia Minor
Scholars believe there were 80,000 or more followers of Jesus by the year 100 and by the year 200 the <b>provinceb> of Asia Minor was largely Christian.
The ruins of the cities of the Roman <b>provinceb> of Asia Minor from the same period are stunning in contrast.
This amazing accomplishment was possible in large part because Asia Minor was the crossroads of the Roman world.
http://community.gospelcom.net/Brix?pageID=3110   (1671 words)

  
 U.S.-appointed governor and aides arrested in Iraq
BAGHDAD - American troops yesterday arrested the U.S.-appointed governor of the southern <b>provinceb> of Najaf on corruption charges, along with 62 of his associates, including some of his security guards.
Residents of Najaf, a key religious center for the Shiite branch of Islam, have held at least three demonstrations demanding the governor's ouster in recent weeks amid widespread rumors that he was closely associated with Hussein's regime.
Najaf Gov. Abu Haydar Abdul Mun'im was arrested on charges of kidnapping and holding hostages, attacking a bank official, stealing money, and pressuring other interim government employees to embezzle funds.
http://www.warblogging.com/warfarking/mirror/1057077842.html   (655 words)

  
 A Book of Five Rings - Concerning the life of Miyamoto Musashi
Musashi waited concealed in the shadows, and just as they were thinking that he had thought better of it and had decided to leave Kyoto, he suddenly appeared in the midst of them, and cut the boy down.
Iori found employment under Ogasawara Tadazane, and as a captain in Tadazane's army fought against the Christians in the Shimawara uprising of 1638, when Musashi was about fifty-five.
It is said he never entered a bathtub lest he was caught unawares without a weapon, and that his appearance was uncouth and wretched.
http://www.samurai.com/5rings/transintro/life.html   (655 words)

  
 Kabul <b>Provinceb> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kabul is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan.
Kabul city was in the hands of many political groups who fought for power until it was taken over by the Talibans in 1996 and its politics was changed.
Kabul has been long known for its politics and different warlords.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabul_province   (2092 words)

  
 Gaza Strip - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Gaza Strip
The Strip came into existence as a consequence of the armistice agreement between Israel and Egypt of 1949, representing the area of Palestine left in Egyptian hands after the fighting of 1948.
The Egyptian government had at first hoped to make Gaza the centre of a Palestine Arab state.
In April 1992, the United Nations Security Council condemned Israel for allowing the continued deterioration of the situation in the Gaza Strip, after clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian demonstrators left five Palestinians dead and more than 60 wounded.
http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Gaza+Strip   (757 words)

  
 Niebuhr, Travels through Arabia and Other Countries in the East. Volume I. Section XVII.
There is therefore ground for the presumption, that all the Christians of Europe, who describe Mecca as eye-witnesses, have been renegadoes who have escaped from Turkey.
The tomb of Mahomet at Medina is held in respect by the Mussulmans; but they are not obliged to visit it in order to the performance of any devotional exercises; only, as the caravans from Syria necessarily pass near by Medina, in their return from Mecca, they turn aside to behold the Prophet’s tomb.
He sends a Pacha to Jidda, who shares the government of this city with the Sherriffe, but who dares neither go to the seat of his government, nor return from it, unless when he can be protected by the great caravan.
http://www.dinsdoc.com/niebuhr-1-17.htm   (757 words)

  
 British troops seize 12 in Basra raids - Boston.com
BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - British troops seized 12 men, including members of the Iraqi police, during overnight raids in Basra on suspicion of involvement in deadly attacks on foreign troops, the British military said on Friday.
British troops seized 12 men, including members of the Iraqi police, during overnight raids in Basra on suspicion of involvement in deadly attacks on foreign troops, the British military said on Friday.
Sources in Sadr's office in Basra said those detained included several lieutenants in Basra's interior affairs department, which is part of the Interior Ministry, and an official with the local electricity authority.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/10/07/british_troops_seize_12_suspects_in_basra_raids   (711 words)

  
 Emin Pasha Relief Expedition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emin was primarily interested in ammunition and other supplies, and a communications route, all of which would assist him in remaining in Equatoria, while Stanley's main goal was to bring Emin out.
In addition to transporting stores, the carriers were now also expected to bring out some 75 tons of ivory stored in Equatoria.
Zanzibar, had been informed in February 1886 that the Egyptian government that Equatoria was to be abandoned, and in July, encouraged by the missionary
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emin_Pasha_Relief_Expedition   (711 words)

  
 JewishEncyclopedia.com - TARRAGONA
Capital of the <b>provinceb> of Tarragona, Spain; the ancient Tarraco.
In 1322 the Archbishop of Tarragona confiscated the property of the Jews of the city, and in 1348 almost 300 Jews were killed at Tarragona and the neighboring Solsona, while in 1391 the community suffered the same fate as that of Barcelona, many of its members being slain.
Even after this Tarragona was the residence of a number of Jews, who were noted for their piety.
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=70&letter=T&search=tarragona   (329 words)

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