The resulting setup, it was declared, `` would be similar to that which is in successful operation in a number of metropolitan counties as large or larger than Rhode Island ''.

For a number of years Kentucky, Louisiana and several other states have been building state-sponsored vocational education schools that serve nearby school districts in several counties.

In 2009, new changes to local government were made whereby a number of new unitary authorities were created in areas which previously had a ' two-tier ' system of counties and districts.

In five shire counties the functions of the county and district councils were combined into a single authority ; and in two counties the powers of the county council were absorbed into a significantly reduced number of districts.

At the same time, the now obsolete concept of county corporate elevated a small number of towns and cities to a status which was deemed to be no less important than the existing counties in which they lay.

With the late addition of County Wicklow, the number of counties ( or ).

This number remained fixed for a little over 200 years until the division of some counties into smaller entities for judicial purposes ( 1836 ), initially, followed by complete division in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Elected county councils took over the powers of the grand juries. The boundaries of the traditional counties changed on a number of occasions.

The counties remain in use for some purposes, including the three-letter coding of vehicle number plates, the Royal Mail postcode address file ( which records counties in all addresses although they are no longer required for postcoded mail ) and Lord Lieutenancies ( for which the former county boroughs are also used ).

Hill forts, which were the key centres of Estonian counties, were besieged and captured a number of times.

Charlemagne established across them the vassal regions of Pamplona, Aragon and Catalonia ( which was itself formed from a number of small counties, Pallars, Gerona, and Urgell being the most prominent ) respectively.

Toruń and Bydgoszcz together make up a bipolar metroplex which, including those cities ' counties and a number of smaller towns, may have a population of as much as 800, 000.

Toruń city county generates by far the highest number of new dwellings built each year among all Kuyavian-Pomeranian counties, both relative to its population as well as in absolute values.

He also extended the franchise to agricultural labourers and others in the 1884 Reform Act, which gave the counties the same franchise as the boroughs — adult male householders and £ 10 lodgers — and added about six million to the total number who could vote in parliamentary elections.

The number of counties has remained more or less constant since the Han Dynasty ( 206 BC – AD 220 ).

The counties were first introduced in 1662, replacing the 49 fiefs ( len ) in Denmark – Norway with the same number of counties.

The number of counties in Denmark ( excluding Norway ) had dropped to c. 20 by 1793.

The number was further decreased by the 1970 Danish municipal reform, leaving 14 counties plus two cities unconnected to the county structure ; Copenhagen and Frederiksberg.

The number and boundaries of administrative counties in the Republic of Ireland were reformed in the 1990s.

The United Kingdom is divided into a number of metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties.

In the mediæval period, a number of important cities were granted the status of counties in their own right, such as London, Bristol and Coventry, and numerous small exclaves such as Islandshire were created.

He did nonetheless agree to some electoral reform ; he disfranchised several small boroughs, granted representation to large towns such as Manchester and Leeds, and increased the number of members elected by populous counties.

The total number of chestnut trees in eastern North America was estimated at over three billion, and 25 % of the trees in the Appalachian Mountains were American chestnut.

Other significant employers include Appalachian Behavioral Healthcare, Hocking College, Diagnostic Hybrids, O ' Bleness Memorial Hospital, Rocky Brands, Wayne National Forest, and a growing number of retail stores and restaurants.

The town's location in the Appalachian Mountains has led to a large number of tourists visiting the area each year, and many out-of-state tourists have begun to build cabins and housing developments around the town.

In only his second game he had managed the second largest drop from the AP ranking narrowly missing the number one spot held by Michigan after losing the season opener to Appalachian State just threes years before.

Dulcimer festivals take place regularly in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ireland, as the Appalachian dulcimer has achieved a following in a number of countries.

During 2006 and 2007, he also competed for a number of independent promotions, including Great Championship Wrestling, BAW Championship Wrestling, and the Appalachian Wrestling Federation.

A number of eastward-flowing creeks and rivers have their headwaters incised into Allegheny Front, displacing the Divide westward from the Front, including the North Branch of the Potomac River west of Cumberland, Maryland, which originates well into the Appalachian Plateau at the Fairfax Stone, just south of Maryland's southwestern tip.

She is considered by many to be Appalachia's first significant female writer and her work a necessity for the study of Appalachian literature, although a number of characters in her work reinforce negative stereotypes about the region.

In 2004, the remnants of Hurricane Frances and then Hurricane Ivan caused a large number of washouts in western North Carolina and other parts of the southern Appalachian Mountains, closing some roads for days, and parts of the Blue Ridge Parkway for months.

In the late 20th century, a number of newer homes were built throughout the region by persons not native to the Appalachian region.

The Appalachian Trail also traverses the gap, as do a small number of other hiking trails.

Protection and research of the hellbender salamander, which is globally recognized as near threatened but is classified as " endangered " in a number of US states including North Carolina, is the target of a project in the Appalachian Mountains.

A number of other hiking trails lead to the summit of Hawksbill, including the Appalachian Trail.

Its distinctive features include phonological idiosyncrasies ( many of which it shares with Appalachian English ); certain syntactic patterns, such as the use of for to, rather than to, before infinitives in some constructions ; and a number of lexical peculiarities.

During the 1910s and 1920s, the Dempster Brothers Construction Company, operated by Dempster and his brothers, built a number of roads and railroads across the Southern Appalachian region.

This scene and the episode as a whole has been used by mathematicians Sarah J. Greenwald of Appalachian State University and Andrew Nestler of Santa Monica College in mathematics classes to teach students about the number pi ().

In 2012, Stadium Journey Magazine named Appalachian Power Park among the ten best minor league baseball parks in the nation, and number 58 in its list of 100 best athletic venues worldwide.

He practiced medicine in America's first gold rush town of Dahlonega, Georgia for a number of years until he tired of the winters in the Appalachian Mountains.

In 2006, Food City purchased in excess of $ 5, 000, 000 in locally grown produce from a number of local farms, including those in Grainger, Blount, Hawkins, Unicoi, Jefferson and Sullivan counties in Tennessee ; Scott and Carroll counties and through Appalachian Harvest co-op for locally grown organics from the growers in Scott County, Virginia.

His numerous accolades include being second all-time in tackles in Southern Conference history and breaking the all-time solo tackles ( 616 ) and sacks records at Appalachian State University, where his jersey number is retired.

Appalachian music has also influenced a number of musicians from outside the region.

In 1957, British skiffle artist Lonnie Donegan reached the top of the U. K. charts with his version of the Appalachian folk song " Cumberland Gap ," and the following year the Kingston Trio had a number one hit on the U. S. charts with their rendition of the North Carolina ballad, " Tom Dooley ".

Bob Dylan, who also performed a number of Appalachian folk songs, considered Roscoe Holcomb to be " one of the best ," and guitarist Eric Clapton considered Holcomb a " favorite " country musician.

* Appalachian Heritage, Fall 2010 issue, in which Still is the featured author ; a number of articles discuss his life and work, and previously unpublished prose and poetry by Still is presented.