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It is beyond the province of this epilogue to cover policy questions of such depth and range.
The Court limited its decision to the tax issue involved, commenting: `` It is not our province to pass judgment on the morality of the transaction ''.
Beginning in the west of Antalya province, the south-facing Mediterranean coast of Turkey is separated from the interior by steep ranges, known as the Taurus mountains, that run along the entire length of the coast.
Therefore, pure antimony is not used to make hard objects: coins made of antimony were issued in China's Guizhou province in 1931, but because of their rapid wear, their minting was discontinued.
They have not been expelled or suspended, since there is no mechanism in this voluntary association to suspend or expel an independent province of the Communion.
The type species, A. sarcophagus, was apparently restricted in range to the modern-day Canadian province of Alberta, after which the genus is named.
Although Dio is the earliest writer to mention them, Ammianus Marcellinus used the name to refer to Germans on the Limes Germanicus in the time of Trajan's governorship of the province shortly after it was formed, circa 98 / 99.
* 1896 – Officially recognised date of the Cry of Pugad Lawin, the start of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin ( Quezon City ), in the province of Manila ( actual date and location is disputed ).
The Calgary-Edmonton Corridor is the most urbanized region in the province and one of the densest in Canada.
Antwerp is the name of a city, a district and a province in Flanders, Belgium:
This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
King Alfred the Great and the chronicler Æthelweard identified this place with the district that is now called Angeln, in the province of Schleswig ( Slesvig ) ( though it may then have been of greater extent ), and this identification agrees with the indications given by Bede.
* Champ is the name given to a reputed lake monster living in Lake Champlain, a natural freshwater lake in North America, partially situated across the U. S .- Canada border in the Canadian province of Quebec and partially situated across the Vermont-New York border.
Abu Sayyaf (;, ASG, ) also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya is one of several military Islamist separatist groups based in and around the southern Philippines, in Bangsamoro ( Jolo and Basilan ), where for almost 30 years various Muslim groups have been engaged in an insurgency for an independent province in the country.
It is quite common to eat and enjoy a dish known as cabrito al asador ( roast kid or goat ) in the province of Córdoba.
As regards products made with sugar, Papaya ( mamón in Argentine Spanish ) jam is typical of the province of Corrientes.
The Annapolis Valley is a valley and region in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
Alicante () or Alacant () is a city in Spain, the capital of the province of Alicante and of the comarca of Alacantí, in the south of the Valencian Community.
Abano Terme ( known as Abano Bagni until 1930 ) is a town and comune in the province of Padua, in the Veneto region, Italy, on the eastern slope of the Colli Euganei ; it is 10 kilometers southwest by rail from Padua.
Ajmer-Merwara ( also Ajmere-Merwara ) is a former province of British India in the historical Ajmer region.
The province is on the border of what may be called the arid zone ; it is the debatable land between the north-eastern and south-western monsoons, and beyond the influence of either.
Nowadays Afyon is known for its marble ( in 2005 there were 355 marble quarries in the province of Afyon producing high quality white stone ), its sucuk ( spiced sausages ), its kaymak ( meaning either cream or a white Turkish Delight ) and various handmade weavings.

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* In the year 1000, the Icelander Leif Ericson was the first European to set foot on North American soil, corresponding to today's Eastern coast of Canada, i. e. the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, including the area of land named " Vinland " by Ericson.
In the 19th century there was a province in Afghanistan named Turkestan Province until abolished by Abdur Rahman, and was centred on Mazari Sharif and included territory in the modern provinces of Balkh, Jowzjan, Faryab and Sar-e Pol.
To stop the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Albanians by nationalist Serbs in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's province of Kosovo, Clinton authorized the use of American troops in a NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999, named Operation Allied Force.
Cottius, king of the Alpine Salassi tribe and friend of Augustus, after whom were named the Alpes Cottiae Roman province and the Cotini Celtic tribe of the northern Carpathians.
Unhappy with Marcellus ' strictness, they tried to elect a legate named Priscus as usurper governor ; he refused, but Marcellus was lucky to leave the province alive.
Many stores have a play area, named Småland ( Swedish for small land ; it is also the name of the province of Sweden where Ingvar Kamprad was born ).
Jericho, by then named " Ariha " in Arabic variation, became part Jund Filastin (" Military District of Palestine "), part of the larger province of Bilad al-Sham.
Ontario, Canada's most populous province, was named for the lake.
Lake Manitoba was named long before the province of Manitoba.
The province was named by Sir William Alexander in 1632.
Born at Baflo, in the Dutch province of Groningen, Agricola was originally named Roelof Huusman.
Bede says that Ninian was a Briton who had been instructed in Rome ; that he made his church of stone, which was unusual among the Britons ; that his episcopal see was named after Saint Martin of Tours ; that he preached to and converted the southern Picts ; that his base was at " hwit ærn ", which was in the province of the Bernicians ; and that he was buried there, along with many other saints.
After this invasion, the region, which had been known as the Xiyu special administrative area, was reorganized into a province named " Xinjiang ", which when literally translated means " New Territory ".
The twelve divisions of West Pakistan province were Bahawalpur, Dera Ismail Khan, Hyderabad, Kalat, Khairpur, Lahore, Malakand, Multan, Peshawar, Quetta, Rawalpindi, and Sargodha ; all named after their capitals except the capital of Malakand was Saidu, and Rawalpindi was administered from Islamabad.
* Tacitus is named proconsul of the province of Asia ( 110 – 113 ).
The province is named after the region called Greater Poland or Wielkopolska.
After the Battle of Philippi ( 42 BC ), which ended the Roman Civil War, the lands of the Veneti, together with the rest of Cisalpine Gaul, ceased to be a province and the territory of the Veneti, which included Istria, modern Friuli and Trentino-Alto Adige became region X ( Venetia et Histria ) of a new entity named Italia ( Italy ).
Prussia named its newly gained province South Prussia, with Posen ( and later Warsaw ) as the capital of the new province.
Northern Schleswig was, after the 1920 plebiscites, officially named The Southern Jutland districts ( de sønderjyske landsdele ), while Southern Schleswig became a part of the German province Schleswig-Holstein.
The town of Saint-Télesphore, in the southwestern part of Canada's Quebec province, is named after him.
The Iga and Kōga clans have come to describe families living in the province of Iga ( modern Mie Prefecture ) and the adjacent region of Kōka ( later written as Kōga ), named after a village in what is now Shiga Prefecture.
Thus, the Dukedom of Strathearn ( named after a place in Scotland ) has been held with the Dukedoms of Connaught ( named after an Irish province ), Kent and Cumberland ( both named after English places ).

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