In his tenth year, upon Bertrand's death ( 1112 ), he succeeded to the county of Toulouse and marquisate of Provence, but Toulouse was taken from him by William IX, count of Poitiers, in 1114, who claimed it by right of his wife Philippa of Toulouse, daughter of William IV of Toulouse.

Historically, the region was called the county of Toulouse, a county independent from the kings of France.

The county of Toulouse was made up of what would later be called Languedoc, but it also included the province of Quercy ( now département of Lot and northern half of the of Tarn-et-Garonne ) and the province of Rouergue ( now of Aveyron ), both to the northwest of Languedoc.

This decision was probably intentional, to avoid reviving the independently-spirited county of Toulouse.

Montpellier was chosen on purpose to diminish the power of Toulouse, whose parlement was very influential, and which symbolized the old spirit of independence of the county of Toulouse.

However, most people consider that Toulouse is the real capital city of the province of Languedoc, due to its old status as center of the county of Toulouse, and due to the mighty power of its parlement.

The remaining 76. 6 % is made of Quercy and Rouergue ( of which was talked above ), as well as the province of County of Foix ( which had been a vassal of the county of Toulouse in the Middle Ages ), several small provinces of the Pyrénées mountains, and a large part of Gascony.

Languedoc was known in the Middle Ages as the county of Toulouse, an independent county which was in theory part of the kingdom of France.

As a consequence, the county of Toulouse was taken by the crown of France in 1271, ( the county of Toulouse was a vassal of the crown of France, but had many connections with the Crown of Aragon, which included Catalonia ) and has been part of France ever since.

Western Mediterranean France itself was at that time divided between the Crown of Aragon and the county of Toulouse.

The county was carved by the Franks out of a former section of the Mark of Toulouse when the Alt Urgell area became part of the Carolingian Empire between 785 and 790.

William was deposed in the same year by Raymond's eldest son Bertrand, and the county remained in the possession of the counts of Toulouse throughout the 12th century.

This historic flag design is itself derived from the coat of arms of the old county of Toulouse.

After the French conquest in the 13th century, the county of Toulouse was dismantled, and eventually Languedoc was born as a remnant of the old county, but quite smaller than it.

Mr. Simpkins is a resident of Somerset county, and he and the Governor, also a Somerset countian, have been friends since Mr. Simpkins was a child.

He returned to his cell in the county jail, where he has been held since his arrest last July, without a word to his court-appointed attorney, Jack Walker, or his guard.

This system had been in use since the Spring and Autumn Period, and parts can still be seen in the modern system of Sheng & Xian ( province and county, 省縣 / 省县 ).

Bucharest has a unique status in Romanian administration, since it is the only municipality that is not part of a county.

The existence of this border, cutting Donegal off from her natural hinterlands in Derry City and West Tyrone, has greatly exacerbated the economic difficulties of the county since partition.

Las Vegas, Nevada's most populous city, has been the county seat since the county was created.

The Flag of Sussex is based on the coat of arms of Sussex | heraldic shield of Sussex which has been used to represent the county since at least as far back as 1622: Azure, six martlet s or

As the seat for an évêché ( bishop ) since the 4th century, the town was the capital of the Poitou county.

There have been few efforts to eliminate the two-seat arrangement, since a county seat is a source of pride ( and jobs ) for the towns involved.

Connecticut ( since 1960 ) and Rhode Island have no county level of government and thus no county seats ; in those states, counties exist today as little more than lines drawn on a map.

Local government in the United States originated in the colonial period and has been modified since then: the highest level of local government is at county level.

Hampton Court Palace is a royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, Greater London, and the historic county of Middlesex ; it has not been inhabited by the British Royal Family since the 18th century.

In 1996 the county voted democratic for the first time since 1964.

The primary geographic feature of the county is Niagara Falls, the riverbed of which has eroded seven miles south over the past 12, 000 years since the last Ice Age.

George W. Bush won the county narrowly in 2004 with 53 % of the vote, while Barack Obama slightly edged out John McCain in 2008, receiving 51 % of the vote countywide becoming the first Democrat to win Saratoga County since 1996.

The Republican candidate has won by more than 13 % in every Presidential election since 1992 and George W. Bush won the county by over 40 % both times he ran.

The United States Census Bureau that the county population was 441, 603 in 2010 census, a 21. 4 % increase since 2000 census.

More recently, the county is noted for its practice of organizing segregated proms, a practice that has continued since integration of its schools in the 1970s.

Lying within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire since the High Middle Ages, Bacup was a chapelry linked with the parishes of Whalley and Rochdale, and divided between the townships of Newchurch and Spotland in the hundred of Blackburn.

Under the Local Government Act 1972, the Municipal Borough of Bacup was abolished, and since 1 April 1974 Bacup has formed an unparished area of Rossendale, a local government district of the non-metropolitan county of Lancashire.

The city was destroyed again by the Teutonic Knights ' invasion in 1331, and after an administrative reform became a county within the Kalisz Voivodeship ( since the 14th century till 1768 ).

The city's boundaries have changed at various times since 1835 the final time being in 1974 when under the Local Government Act 1972 the city and county borough merged with the Border Rural District to become the new enlarged City of Carlisle, a non-metropolitan district of Cumbria.

Sir -- Permit me to commend your editorial in which you stress the fact that a program of county colleges will substantially increase local tax burdens and that taxpayers have a right to a clear idea of what such a program would commit them to.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

The following towns / cities had charters specifically granting them the status of a county corporate:

On April 5, 1925, George Rappleyea, who worked as a local manager for the Cumberland Coal and Iron Company, happened to meet county superintendent of schools Walter White and local attorney Sue K. Hicks at Robinson's Drug Store and convinced them that the controversy of such a trial would give Dayton much needed publicity.

One day in 1965, later called the Great Lesson of Yamoussoukro, he visited the plantations with the leaders of the county, inviting them to transpose to their own villages the efforts and agricultural achievements of the region.

Some people, and parties, such as the Conservative and Progress Party, call for the abolishment of the county municipalities once and for all, while others, including the Labour Party, merely want to merge some of them into larger regions.

Some of the Obotrites also migrated to the south and settled in the Pannonian Plain, where the Bodrogiensis county of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary was named after them.

Corrupt county commissioner Boss Jefferson Davis Hogg, who either runs or has fingers in just about everything in Hazzard County ( and whose exact powers, much like the terms of the Duke boys ' probation, often vary between episodes ) is forever angry with the Dukes, in particular Bo and Luke, for eternally foiling his crooked scams and is always looking for ways to get them out of the picture so that his plots have a chance of succeeding.

The unit of inquiry was the Hundred ( a subdivision of the county, which then was an administrative entity ), and the return for each Hundred was sworn to by twelve local jurors, half of them English and half of them Normans.

The chief's coat of arms and the clan crest allude to this legend, as is the name of the village of Swinewood in the county of Berwick which was granted to them in the 11th century.

Following them came a flood of settlers who, in 1808, petitioned the State Legislature for county status.

Surveying was done by Mounce Gore, also of Jackson County, and the Assembly instructed them to locate the county seat, to be called " Monticello ," near the center of the county.

Behind them, the third battle consisted of about 700 men from the county of Flanders under Gilles II de Trasignies, Constable of France, and Robert III of Flanders.

This section of the county is heavily permeated by small creeks and rivers, which bring with them low, poorly drained soils.

Eight interchanges exist within the county, three of them in Daytona Beach.

While the law was chasing down the fictitious killer during the late hours, the group of Bay Minette men stealthily traveled the seventeen miles ( 27 km ) to Daphne, stole the Baldwin County Courthouse records, and delivered them to the city of Bay Minette, where Baldwin County's county seat remains.

Residents of the county petitioned the Alabama legislature for the renaming of their county, it was not something forced upon them.

The metropolitan county councils were abolished in 1986 with most of their functions being devolved to the individual boroughs, making them de facto unitary authorities.

However, except in major emergencies where clear chains of command are essential, the county sheriff normally does not directly control the police departments of city governments, but merely cooperates with them ( e. g., under mutual aid pacts ).

On June 29, 1875, Col. William R. Shafter, accompanied by eighty-one men and officers, tracked the Comanche Indians into county lands, when Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie conducted a campaign to drive them from the area.

In the southern and western parts of the county, the volcanic cliffs of the Candelaria Rimrock ( also called the Sierra Vieja ) rise perpendicular and run parallel to the river, separating the highland prairies from the desert floor hundreds of feet below them.