* The oldest and largest is the Brahmic family of India and Southeast Asia, in which vowels are marked with diacritics and syllable-final consonants, when they occur, are indicated with ligatures, diacritics, or with a special vowel-canceling mark.

* The Gillamoos, the oldest and largest funfair in the Hallertau opens on the Thursday before the first Sunday in September and runs until the Monday thereafter.

The oldest and largest regular military parade in Europe is held on the morning of 14 July, on the Champs-Élysées avenue in Paris in front of the President of the Republic, French officials and foreign guests.

This is a popular event in France, broadcast on French TV, and is the oldest and largest regular military parade in Europe.

The oldest and largest is the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization ( BFRO ).

The Capetian dynasty (), also known as the House of France, is the largest and oldest European royal house, consisting of the descendants of King Hugh Capet of France in the male line.

Cairo has the oldest and largest film and music industries in the Arab World, as well as the world's second-oldest institution of higher learning, al-Azhar University.

Many towns center around a " green ", such as the Litchfield Green, Lebanon Green ( the largest in the state ), and Wethersfield Green ( the oldest in the state ).

One of the largest and oldest summer leagues in the United States is found in the Northern Virginia area where teams from 47 pools compete against each other every summer.

Notable student groups include the nation's largest and oldest collegiate outdoors club, the Dartmouth Outing Club, which includes the nationally recognized Big Green Bus, the controversial conservative newspaper The Dartmouth Review, and The Dartmouth, arguably the nation's oldest university newspaper.

* The University of Dar es Salaam is the oldest and largest public university in Tanzania.

1913 advertisement for Encyclopædia Britannica, the oldest and one of the largest contemporary English encyclopedias.

Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world – as of 2010 the fourth largest by number of feature films produced.

* 1852 – The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.

The largest and most frequently published newspaper is the Gibraltar Chronicle, Gibraltar ’ s oldest established daily newspaper and the world ’ s second oldest English language newspaper to have been in print continuously with daily editions six days a week.

The Great Pyramid of Giza ( also known as the Pyramid of Khufu or the Pyramid of Cheops ) is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt.

Hedeby was the largest Nordic city during the Viking Age and used to be the oldest city in Denmark until the site became part of Germany.

* Hyperion sewage treatment plant, Los Angeles ' oldest and largest wastewater treatment facility, located in Playa del Rey, California.

The Ithaca HOUR is a local currency used in Ithaca, New York and is the oldest and largest local currency system in the United States that is still operating.

In Aleppo, for example, the largest and probably the oldest mosque library, the Sufiya, located at the city's Grand Umayyad Mosque, contained a large book collection of which 10, 000 volumes were reportedly bequeathed by the city's most famous ruler, Prince Sayf al-Dawla.

Lund University library was established in 1666 at the same time as the university and is one of Sweden's oldest and largest.

It produces very accurate results within these domains, and is one of the oldest and largest subjects in science, engineering, and technology.

The dome of the church is, outside of St. Peter's, one of the largest in Rome.

Today, the largest church within the movement is the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

A town that only became notable in the 12th century when it became the site for the construction of Portugal's largest church.

The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod ( LCMS ) and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod ( WELS ), the second and third largest Lutheran bodies in the United States and the two largest Confessional Lutheran bodies in North America, do not have a bishop as the head of the church or middle jurisdiction, practicing a form of congregationalism similar to the United Church of Christ.

In the United Methodist Church ( the largest branch of Methodism in the United States ) bishops serve as administrative and pastoral superintendents of the church.

In the 15th century the Norman church of St Petroc was largely rebuilt and stands as one of the largest churches in Cornwall ( the largest after the cathedral at Truro ).

The existing church building is dated 1469-72 and was until the building of Truro Cathedral the largest church in Cornwall.

With more than 1. 1 billion baptized members, the Catholic Church is the largest church representing over half of all Christians and one sixth of the world's population.

With over 55, 000 missionaries worldwide, the church currently has a membership of over 14. 4 million and is ranked by the National Council of Churches as the fourth largest Christian denomination in the United States.

It is the largest church originating on American soil, and it is the largest denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement started by Joseph Smith during the period of religious revival known as the Second Great Awakening.

The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is the official name for the largest Christian church in Egypt and the Middle East.

With 2, 000 congregations and a membership of some 1. 8 million ( or 10. 8 % of the Dutch population, 2009 ), it is the second largest church in the Netherlands after the Roman Catholic Church.

This congress did not have representatives from the remaining Orthodox members of the original Pentarchy ( the Patriarchates of Jerusalem, Antioch, and Alexandria ) or from the largest Orthodox church, the Russian Orthodox Church, then under persecution from the Bolsheviks, but only effective representation from the Patriarch of Constantinople and the Patriarch of Serbia.

The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially called the Orthodox Catholic Church and commonly referred to as the Orthodox Church, is the second largest Christian church in the world, with an estimated 300 million adherents, primarily in Eastern and Southeastern Europe.

With Vignola, he designed the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Assisi, the seventh largest Christian church at the time.

Having discovered that most young soldiers in the city seemed to be called Demetrios, he gave up and went to the largest church in the city, to find his rescuer on the wall.

Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles originally planned on a main hall of the Hagia Sophia that measured 230 feet by 250 feet, making it the largest church in Constantinople, but the original dome was nearly 20 feet lower than it was constructed, “ Justinian suppressed these riots and took the opportunity of marking his victory by erecting in 532-7 the new Hagia Sophia, one of the largest, most lavish, and most expensive buildings of all time .” Although Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles were not formally educated in architecture, they were scientists that could organize the logistics of drawing thousands of laborers and unprecedented loads of rare raw materials from around the Roman Empire to create the Hagia Sophia for Emperor Justinian I.

United Methodism's Church of the Resurrection is the largest church in the metro area, consisting of 15, 000 + members and is the largest United Methodist Church in the United States.

In the late 15th century Munich underwent a revival of gothic arts — the Old Town Hall was enlarged, and Munich's largest gothic church, now a cathedral — the Frauenkirche — constructed in only twenty years, starting in 1468.