It is composed of the modern departments of Doubs, Jura,: Haute-Saône and Territoire de Belfort and has a population of 1, 168, 208 ( 2009 ).

Doubs is part of the current region of Franche-Comté and is surrounded by the French departments of Jura, Haute-Saône, and Territoire de Belfort, and the Swiss cantons of Vaud, Neuchâtel, and Jura.

Jura is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790.

Jura is one of four departments of the Franche-Comté region and is surrounded by the French departments of Doubs, Haute-Saône, Côte-d ' Or, Saône-et-Loire, and Ain, as well as the Swiss canton of Vaud on the east.

Neighbouring departments are Côte-d ' Or to the west, Haute-Marne to the north-west, Vosges to the north, Territoire de Belfort to the east, Doubs to the south and east and Jura to south.

In the Jura mountains in the west, the canton borders the French departments of Ain, Jura, and Doubs.

These areas with different cultures, peoples and traditions would later vanish as separate kingdoms, which would eventually become Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Lorraine, Switzerland, Lombardy and the various departments of France along the Rhone river drainage basin and Jura massif.

Doubs is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790.

This district was passed between various territories and departments in the ensuing administrative reorganisations and wars, but was restored to Doubs in 1816 when the former principality of Montbéliard was also added to the department.

The baseline on this graph is set at 200, 000 people, and the increments represented by the horizontal grid lines are of 10, 000. In common with many rural departments in France, Haute-Saône has experienced a savage reduction in population, from nearly 350, 000 in the middle of the nineteenth century to barely 200, 000 on the eve of the Second World War, as people migrated to newly industrialising population centres, often outside Metropolitan France.

In addition to Vaucluse, she also polled over 25 % in nine other departments: Aisne ( 26. 33 %, 78, 452 votes ), Meuse ( 25. 82 %, 29, 038 votes ), Corse-du-Sud ( 25. 71 %, 19, 081 votes ), Pas-de-Calais ( 25. 53 %, 216, 753 votes ), Gard ( 25. 51 %, 106, 646 votes ), Haute-Marne ( 25. 26 %, 27, 624 votes ), Aube ( 25. 12 %, 40, 740 votes ), Haute-Saône ( 25. 12 %, 36, 807 votes ), Oise ( 25. 08 %, 109, 339 votes ).

In the Caribbean Sea, the islands of Roatán ( Isla de Roatán ), Utila, and Guanaja together form Islas de la Bahía ( Bay Islands ), one of the eighteen departments into which Honduras is divided.

Due to the sudden initiation of the war, working government departments, police units or a system of justice and accountability for the newly-created Islamic State of Afghanistan did not have time to form.

Together with the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code FR, the numbers form the ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes for the metropolitan departments.

In many fire departments, assignment to ambulance duty became an unofficial form of punishment.

The Prime Minister selects ministers to head the various government departments and form a cabinet.

This responsibility is sometimes further delegated to municipalities which can form their own municipal police departments.

By contrast, in other municipalities, the sheriff's office may be merged with most or all city-level police departments within a county to form a consolidated city-county or metropolitan police force responsible for general law enforcement anywhere in the county.

Seine-Saint-Denis and two other small departments, Hauts-de-Seine and Val-de-Marne, form a ring around Paris, known as the Petite Couronne (" little crown ").

They form, together with Paris and four other departments, the region of Île-de-France.

Val-de-Marne is, together with Seine-Saint-Denis and Hauts-de-Seine, one of three small departments in Île-de-France that form a ring around Paris, known as the Petite Couronne ( i. e. " inner ring ").

Ward is governed by a mayor-council form of municipal government, with a mayor, city clerk, and six-member city council, as well as four city departments — fire, police, street maintenance, and utilities ( water and sanitation ).

The St. Louis County Police Chief believes many of the small municipalities should consolidate and pool their money to form County precints rather than operate their own individual departments to provide service at a professional level.

Also in 1993, the law departments broke off from the Faculty of Social Sciences to form a separate Faculty of Law.

Cities started to form their own fire departments as a civil service to the public, forcing private fire companies to shut down, and merging their fire stations into the city's fire department.

The heads of the 15 departments, chosen by the President and approved with the " advice and consent " of the U. S. Senate, form a council of advisers generally known as the President's " Cabinet ".

Hencefore, monarchs could form national armies and deploy a professional bureaucracy and fiscal departments, which enabled them to maintain direct control and supreme authority over their subjects.

It can take the form of an official mail issue produced only for the use of government departments.

Attending to the judicial arrangements of the Treaty of Petrópolis, President Rodrigues Alves sanctioned the law which created the Territory of Acre ( 1904 ), further dividing it into three departments: Alto Acre, Alto Purus, and Alto Juruá, the latter being separated to form Alto Tarauacá ( 1912 ).

However, the merger of the Vauxhall and Opel marketing departments had already resulted in Dealer Team Vauxhall and Dealer Opel Team ( DOT ) joining to form GM Dealer Sport ( GMDS ); with the Chevette soon to be obsolete, Opel were able to force the cancellation of the HSR rally programme in favour of the Manta 400.

Federal executive departments are analogous to ministries common in parliamentary or semi-presidential systems but, with the United States being a presidential system, their heads otherwise equivalent to ministers, do not form a government ( in a parliamentary sense ) nor are they led by a head of government separate from the head of state.

The heads of the federal executive departments, known as secretaries of their respective department, form the traditional Cabinet, an executive organ that serves at the disposal of the president and normally act as an advisory body to the presidency.

* 01 – 89 except 20: departments created before the 20th century, assigned in alphabetical order ( prefixes in the form of " Bas -" and " Haute -" are ignored ), except Paris and Yvelines, which replaced the former departments Seine and Seine-et-Oise respectively after the reorganization of the Paris region in 1968

The Commission, which concluded that 1, 000 Arab rebels had been killed during the strike, later described the disturbances as " an open rebellion of the Palestinian Arabs, assisted by fellow-Arabs from other countries, against Mandatory rule " and noted two unprecedented features of the revolt: the support of all senior Arab officials in the political and technical departments in the Palestine administration ( including all of the Arab judges ) and the " interest and sympathy of the neighbouring Arab peoples ", which had resulted in support for the rebellion in the form of volunteers from Syria and Iraq.

Their territory thus included the greater part of the modern departments of Saône-et-Loire, Côte-d ' Or and Nièvre.

This time the two departments were called " Maasland " ( corresponding to the modern province of South Holland ) and " Amstelland " ( corresponding to the modern province of North Holland ).

The modern departments, as all-purpose units of the government, were created on 4 March 1790 by the National Constituent Assembly to replace the provinces with what the Assembly deemed a more rational structure.

In some departments they are used, but in others a more modern emblem is used.

At the same time, the jurisdiction of some border departments of modern Shanxi province also belonged to this region.

New government buildings were constructed at Waigani to house government departments, including a National Parliament Building, which was opened in 1984 by Prince Charles and blends traditional design with modern building technology.

The established NSC process was used when the question involved a policy debate between departments with strongly held, contending positions, as it did in the case of the debate between the Departments of State and Defense in 1956 / 1957 over whether to introduce a more modern generation of weapons into Korea, where it focused debate and produced the necessary agreed-upon decision after discussion of three draft policy papers.

Today, the modern region of Picardy no longer includes the coastline from Berck to Calais, via Boulogne ( Boulonais ), that is now in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, but does incorporate the pays of Beauvaisis, Valois, Noyonnais, Laonnois, Soissonnais, Omois, among other departments of France.

The Barbara Deer Kuss Science Center, likely the most modern building on campus, is home to all of the different Science and Mathematics departments.

The first exhibition will focus on art from South and Southeast Asia and is to be curated by Singaporean June Yap, who has worked for six years in the curatorial departments of modern and contemporary art museums, including the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore and the Singapore Art Museum.

His life was one of incessant eager questioning of nature on all sides, and his many and varied works all bear the stamp of a fresh and original genius, capable of stating and solving problems in all departments of science — at one time finding the true explanation of stone skipping ( formerly attributed to the elasticity of water ) and at another helping to lay the foundations of our modern vulcanology and meteorology.

The purpose of this has been to gather the university's many departments and faculties on three larger campuses in order to create a bigger, more concentrated and modern student environment with better teaching facilities, as well as to save money on rent and maintenance of the old buildings.

He published manuals in various departments of knowledge, dictionaries of modern and ancient languages, educational journals, and French, Latin and Greek classics annotated with great care by the most eminent authorities.

However, most students and staff spend relatively little time in these historic buildings, with a large number of modern ones housing most facilities and academic departments.

When modern Romania was formed in 1859 through the union of Wallachia and rump Moldavia, and then extended in 1918 through the union of Transylvania, as well as Bukovina and Bessarabia ( parts of Moldavia temporarily acquired by the Habsburgs, 1775 – 1918, respectively the Russian Tsars, 1812 – 1917 ), the administrative division was modernized using the French departments system as model.

Anne Fadiman notes regretfully that Lamb is not widely read in modern times: " I do not understand why so few other readers are clamoring for his company ... is kept alive largely through the tenuous resuscitations of university English departments.

As a result, Augsburg added departments essential to a liberal arts college, offering a modern college program based on general education requirements and elective majors.

The Duchy lost control of Mont Saint-Michel to Normandy during border wars with that French vassal province ; and in modern France, Nantes has been separated from the other four Breton departments that make up modern Brittany.

Underlying this successful trend were fundamental reforms such as the introduction of modern management systems in the administration, a reorganization of the departments, and an efficient utilization of resources.

East of Quad, the buildings historically housed the natural science and math departments, before more modern facilities opened in the northeast of the campus.

While traditionally the Finance department compiles the company's budget, modern software allows hundreds or even thousands of people in various departments ( operations, human resources, IT, etc.