Conversely the use of true brass seems to have declined in Western Europe during this period in favour of gunmetals and other mixed alloys but by the end of the first Millennium AD brass artefacts are found in Scandinavian graves in Scotland, brass was being used in the manufacture of coins in Northumbria and there is archaeological and historical evidence for the production of brass in Germany and The Low Countries areas rich in calamine ore which would remain important centres of brass making throughout the medieval period, especially Dinant – brass objects are still collectively known as dinanterie in French.

Countries participating in the SAP have been offered the possibility to become, once they fulfill the necessary conditions, member states of the EU.

Countries that have ratified the Charter, and languages for which the ratification was made:

However, this power can be lost under certain circumstances: some Countries have been forced to disarm by other Countries, upon losing a war, or by having arms embargos or sanctions placed on them.

Countries below have officially listed Hezbollah in at least some part as a terrorist organization.

Some micro-nationalists call their countries Nomadic Countries, especially ones that have no land and are based on the Internet.

Countries that have signed, but not yet ratified: Poland

Countries usually have different styles of stamps for entries and exits, to make it easier to identify the movements of people.

Countries that have adopted rugby union as their de facto national sport include Fiji, Georgia, New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga and Wales.

Countries such as Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa have produced numerous professional world champions such as Dick Tiger, Hogan Bassey, Samuel Peter, Azumah Nelson and Jake Matlala.

Today there are movements supporting the independence of the Catalan Countries in both Spain and France, but they only have significant support in Catalonia.

Over the last few decades, the term ' Third World ' has been used interchangeably with the Global South and Developing Countries to describe poorer countries that have struggled to attain steady economic development.

Countries that have signed, but not yet ratified-( 6 ) Canada, European Union, Greece, Portugal, Ukraine, United States

Countries opposed to whaling have passed non-binding resolutions in the IWC urging Japan to stop the program.

Countries can have more than one threshold.

Countries with conservative attitudes towards sex education ( including the UK and the U. S .) have a higher incidence of STIs and teenage pregnancy.

Countries party to the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic have uniform rules about overtaking and lane designation.

Countries outside of Europe were by default allocated to the Trans-Atlantic zone but could choose to have their messages stored in the European zone.

Countries that do not have national systems include Ireland and Panama.

Countries, for example India, which " were far behind in the population-food game that there is no hope that our food aid will see them through to self-sufficiency " would have their food aid eliminated.

Countries that have acceded to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness will grant nationality to otherwise stateless persons who were born on their territory, or on a ship or plane flagged by that country.

Countries that sign the convention are required to adopt national laws, and remove old ones, so that persons with disabilities will, for example, have equal rights to education, employment, and cultural life ; to the right to own and inherit property ; to not be discriminated against in marriage, etc.

Countries like Argentina that have abundant beef resources see a structural underpricing in the Big Mac.

The shield had six sections, each representing " the Countries from which these States have been peopled " ( England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, and Holland ), surrounded by the initials of all thirteen states.

Bad relations between England and Flanders brought hard times to the shepherds scattered over the dales and downs as well as to the crowded Flemish cities, and while the English, so far, had done no more than grumble, Othon had seen what the discontent might lead to, for before he left the Low Countries the citizens of Ghent had risen in protest against the expense of supporting Edward and his troops, and the regular soldiers had found it unexpectedly difficult to put down the nasty little riot that ensued.

He had no amorous feelings toward Mary and sought the marriage for its political and strategic gains ; Philip's aide Ruy Gómez de Silva wrote to a correspondent in Brussels, " the marriage was concluded for no fleshly consideration, but in order to remedy the disorders of this kingdom and to preserve the Low Countries.

* Socialist republic — Countries like China and Vietnam are meant to be governed for and by the people, but with no direct elections.

The German and Low Countries movement, the Brothers of the Cross, is particularly well documented-they wore white robes and marched across Germany in 33. 5 day campaigns ( each day referred to a year of Jesus's earthly life ) of penance, only stopping in any one place for no more than a day.

: Therefore for Spirits I am so farre from denying their existence, that I could easily believe, that not only whole Countries, but particular persons have their Tutelary, and Guardian Angels: It is not a new opinion of the Church of Rome, but an old one of Pythagoras and Plato ; there is no heresay in it, and if not manifestly defined in Scripiture, yet is it an opinion of a good and wholesome use in the course and actions of a man's life, and would serve as an Hypothesis to salve many doubts, whereof common philosophy affordeth no solution.

The Nazis had no intentions of allowing the creation of an independent Flemish state or of a Greater Netherlands, and instead desired the complete annexation of not only Flanders ( which they did de jure during the war through the establishment of a " Reichsgau Flandern " in late 1944 ), but all of the Low Countries as " racially Germanic " components of a Greater Germanic Reich.

In contrast Walter Evans-Wentz in The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries argued that in the mythology of Morbihan there is no clear distinction between korrigans and nains, " Very often corrigans regarded as nains, equally with all kinds of lutins, are believed to be evil spirits or demons condemned to live here on earth in a penitential state for an indefinite time.

Countries coloured white have no information available.

In early missions over France and the Low Countries there was no clear outcome on the success of the bomber's guns, as lacking radar, Luftwaffe interception efforts were disorganized.

The trade groups had sotnyas ( сотни, or hundredmen ) ( see also Ivan ’ s Hundred, though to have been the first Russian guild although there is no evidence of guilds existing in Rus ' such as they were in, say, the Low Countries, Germany, France, or England ).

The position of Catalans regarding the independence of either Catalonia or of the Catalan Countries must be studied taking into account an important fact, namely, that a huge number of Catalan citizens are of immigrant origin and that many of them feel little or no connection to the Catalan language or culture.

Countries will continue paying loans on the same level as in the origin country, no matter of inflation rate in study-country.

Pleeth, chemist for the Cleveland Discol company in Great Britain, writes: " The bias aroused by the use of alcohol as a motor fuel has produced results that are incompatible with each other ... Countries with considerable oil deposits -- such as the US -- or which control oil deposits of other lands -- such as Holland -- tend to produce reports antithetical to the use of fuels alternative to petrol ; countries with little or no indigenous oil tend to produce favorable reports.

Countries adopting interest free financing have no problems interacting with the International Monetary Fund or other international financial institutions.

The French had no strategic reserve at all ; let alone a highly mobile reserve as their three Cavalry armoured divisions ( Divisions Légères Mécaniques or Mechanised Light Divisions ), the only armoured units organised on the lines of the German armoured divisions, had already been committed in the Low Countries, which was crucial in the French failure to counteract the German penetration, as the four French Infantry armoured divisions, the Divisions cuirassées, lacked sufficient strategic mobility and squandered their power in actions of limited scope such as the Battle of Montcornet and the Battle of Abbeville, in which the 4th DCr, under Colonel De Gaulle, obtained some success against the German 57th Infantry Division.

Countries in which Tele2 operates are in red, countries in which Tele2 no longer operates are in green.

There is no direct evidence linking Darwin to Benjamin Franklin's treatise " Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc .." However, Franklin was a friend and colleague of both Erasmus and Robert Darwin, and it has been suggested that this work may have influenced Darwin's study of Malthus ' belief on the relationship between population and subsistence.

In some Countries ( as, for example, those I read about during the spiritual exercises ), the Church finds herself in a period of persecution no less evil than the persecutions of the early centuries, indeed worse, because of the degree of ruthlessness and hatred.

Countries with no standing army include Costa Rica, Mauritius and Iceland.

Barbour claimed he had no proven military service-which is nonsense, since his long service in the military in Ireland and up to fifteen years in the Low Countries is listed in the Calendar of State Papers.