Finalists from the county's east end failed to place.

Thus the possibility of re-incorporating Portugal ( up to then Southern Galicia ) into a Kingdom of Portugal and Galicia as before was eliminated and Afonso became sole ruler ( Duke of Portugal ) after demands for independence from the county's church and nobles.

Thus the possibility of incorporating Portugal into the Kingdom of Galicia was eliminated and Afonso become sole ruler ( Duke of Portugal ) after demands for independence from the county's people, church and nobles.

Partition cut the county off, economically and administratively, from Derry, which had acted for centuries as the county's main port, transport hub and financial centre.

The graduation rate from this school district is an above-average 92 %, and the county's schools are ranked among the best in the state.

The county's name is derived from the family name of the Barons of Baltimore, the proprietors of the English Colony of Maryland.

The county's name originates from an Oneida word meaning " large bull-thistle.

The county's name comes from Lake Erie, which in turn comes from the Erie tribe of American Indians who lived south and east of the lake before 1654.

The county's northern half, including Buffalo and its suburbs, is relatively flat and rises gently up from the lake.

Representative of the work are one county's accomplishments in less than five months, from November 1933 to March 1934.

The county's population flourished, from 89, 276 in 1950 to 265, 475 in 1990.

In honor of Mr. Hayes, the then new county's seat was appointed Hayesville and the newly formed county was named in honor Henry Clay, famous American statesman, member of the United States Senate from Kentucky.

15 % of Millard county's economy is from farming.

Runoff from the western slopes of these mountains provides water to the county's cities and agricultural areas.

The county's geography ranges from high mountain terrain ( Uinta Mountains ) to the fertile Ashley Valley ( site of the county seat ), to a rugged and desolate canyonland which includes the Dinosaur National Monument, to desolate and largely uninhabited hills in the south (" The Bookcliffs " to locals ; officially Roan Plateau ).

The official county seat has been located in Titusville since 1894, although most of the county's administration is performed from Viera.

The county's population reached its peak in the 1920s, due in part from jobs created by a sawmill boom with companies as the E. E. Jackson Lumber Company and Choctaw Lumber Company.

Six of the county's nine cities, from Healdsburg south through Santa Rosa to Rohnert Park and Cotati, are in the Santa Rosa Plain.

The county's topography makes a dramatic transition from the lower Sonoran Desert to the south to the heights of the Coconino Plateau to the north, and the Mogollon Rim to the east.

A typical criminal defendant will be arraigned and subsequently indicted or held over for trial before a trial court in and for a particular county where the crime occurred, kept in the county jail ( if he is not granted bail or cannot make bail ), prosecuted by the county's district attorney, and tried before a jury selected from that county.

Maximum extent of the Laurentide ice sheet, from John W. Attig. Taylor county's terrain was shaped chiefly by glaciers.

The county's name originated from the word calumet, which was a ceremonial pipe used by Native Americans in councils on the east shore of Lake Winnebago.

The town served as the county seat of government from the county's founding in 1844 until a county election in 1878 moved that honor to Grafton, West Virginia.

Most of the county's residents live in unincorporated locales, the most populous of which are Silver Spring, Germantown and Bethesda, though the incorporated cities of Rockville and Gaithersburg are also large population centers.

Coconino County has a relatively large Native American population at nearly 30 % of the county's total population, being mostly Navajo with smaller numbers of Havasupai, Hopi, and others.

The large plantations that were part of the economic foundation of the county were ravaged, and many of the county's youth were killed during the war.

In November 2009, a large rockslide closed U. S. Highway 64 through the Ocoee River Gorge, the county's main road connecting populated areas near Ducktown with the county seat in Benton.

The pioneers who composed the large majority of county residents in the early 19th century were generally very poor, meaning that there was no need for a bank in the county's early years.

Agriculture makes up a large portion of the county's economy.

Also, tourism is a large and growing component of the county's economy.

Motorists have to share the roads with Horses and Buggies used by the county's large Amish population.

Adding to the county's problems, machines made the labor – intensive method originally used for producing window glass obsolete, causing many of the county's skilled glass workers at the large American Window Glass plant to lose their jobs.

Typically, the county's climate reflects most Midwest areas, located in the transitional zone between the humid continental climate type and the humid subtropical climate type ( Köppen Dfa and Cfa, respectively ), with neither large mountains nor large bodies of water to moderate its temperature.

The lake is fed by the Etowah and Little rivers ( the county's primary waterways ), and other large streams such as Noonday Creek.

Located within the New Jersey Meadowlands, it is the most suburban of the county's municipalities, though large parts of the town are dedicated to light manufacturing, retail, and transportation uses, as well as protected areas.

There is also a boat parade in the harbor, where locals decorate their yachts with Christmas lights ; the Croaker Festival, an arts and vendor event ( benefiting the county's nonprofits ), is the second large town festival and culminates in a fireworks display held during the first weekend each July.

In the years after World War II, timber became an increasingly large part of the county's finances.

Because this decreased the county's potential tax base, the government shared money earned from timber sales with the county, and payments in lieu of taxes from the federal government became a large part of its tax base.

The county's recycling depot is close by, encouraging further business from a large area.

For a large part of the county's history, the powers held by the Bishop of Durham meant that the county virtually operated as an independent state from the rest of England.

Despite the opposition of a large section of the population of Herefordshire, neither of the county's two Conservative MPs opposed the merger.

The Longford Gaelic football team has been relatively unsuccessful at national level, in large part reflecting the county's small population size-although it succeeded in winning a Leinster title at Senior level in 1968 and a National League title in 1966.

It is known for its large stadium ( known as Gregson Stadium and Catapano Field ), and for being located inside Raleigh's Greenway Trail System, near the North Hills neighborhood in the county's House Creek Township outside Interstate 440.

The low population density of the county means that the number of railway stations and train services is rather low considering the county's large physical size.