They had divided the Congo into six provinces -- Leopoldville, Kasai, Kivu, Katanga, Equator and Eastern -- unfortunately with little regard for ethnic groupings.

The union was confirmed by Pope Paul V in 1606, at which time the congregation added the name of St. Barnabas to its title, adopted new constitutions, divided its houses into four provinces, two of them, St Clement's and St Pancras's, being in Rome.

In 1957, following the independence of Indonesia, Kalimantan was divided into three provinces: South Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, and West Kalimantan.

The agreement effectively divided the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire outside the Arabian peninsula into areas of future British and French control or influence.

When Quebec was divided into the two provinces of Upper and Lower Canada by the Constitutional Act of 1791, the first Act passed by the Legislature of Upper Canada was to adopt the law of England for all purposes, replacing the civil law.

Frequently referred to as " Canada's birthday ", particularly in the popular press, the occasion marks the joining of the British North American colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Province of Canada into a federation of four provinces ( the Province of Canada being divided, in the process, into Ontario and Quebec ) on July 1, 1867.

Mauretania was annexed by Caligula and subsequently divided into two provinces, Mauritania Tingitana and Mauretania Caesariensis, separated by the river Malua.

# Prohibits provinces from being divided for the purposes of creating another church.

By comparison, the former colony of the United Province of Canada ( divided into the District of Canada East, and the District of Canada West ) and the western provinces were dozens of times larger and in some cases were expanded to take in territory formerly held in British Crown grants to companies such as the Hudson's Bay Company ; in particular the November 19, 1869 sale of Rupert's Land to the Government of Canada under the Rupert's Land Act 1868 was facilitated in part by Maritime taxpayers.

In 1784, the two provinces were divided ; Nova Scotia was split into Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island ( rejoined to Nova Scotia in 1820 ), Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick, while Quebec was split into Lower Canada ( southern Quebec ) and Upper Canada ( southern through lower northern Ontario ).

Egypt is divided into twenty-six governorates ( sometimes called provinces ), which include four city governorates: Alexandria ( Al Iskandariyah ), Cairo ( Al Qahirah ), Port Said ( Bur Said ) and Suez.

The Bengal was divided into two provinces on July 3, 1946 in preparation for the Partition of India, the Hindu majority of West Bengal and the Muslim majority of the East Bengal.

Until 2009, the state organization was divided into six provinces.

The term " federalism " is also used to describe a system of government in which sovereignty is constitutionally divided between a central governing authority and constituent political units ( such as states or provinces ).

For administrative purposes, Gabon is divided into nine provinces, which are further divided into 36 prefectures and eight separate subprefectures.

With the reforms of 1975 this was divided into smaller provinces ( the voivodeships of Kalisz, Konin, Leszno and Piła, and a smaller Poznań Voivodeship ).

Around the year 197, Rome divided Britannia into two provinces, Britannia Superior and Britannia Inferior ; sometime after 305, Britannia was further divided, and made into an imperial diocese.

Under the Ottomans, the Maghreb was divided into three provinces, Algiers, Tripoli and Tunis.

The area was divided into several provinces called satrapies, which were each ruled by a governor, or satrap.

Gaul was divided into several different provinces.

Illyricum was later divided into the provinces of Dalmatia and Pannonia.

The countryside was also divided into new provinces and districts.

Four of the islands are shared with other nations: Borneo is shared with Malaysia and Brunei, Sebatik, located eastern coast of Kalimantan, shared with Malaysia, Timor is shared with East Timor, and the newly divided provinces of Papua and West Papua share the island of New Guinea with Papua New Guinea.

However, it did not emerge as a formidable force until 1991, when the elderly LY members elected from the mainland provinces in 1948 retired.

After World War II, while many European nations were granting independence to their colonies, Portugal's Estado Novo regime headed by António de Oliveira Salazar issued a decree officially renaming Mozambique and other Portuguese possessions as overseas provinces of the mother country, and emigration to the colonies soared ( Mozambique's ethnic Portuguese resident population was about 300, 000 in 1973, which excludes the Portuguese military sent from the mainland and mulatto population ).

Sicilian coin of Charles's, bearing the inscription Karolus Dei gracia Sicilie rex around the king's image and that of Ducatus Apulie / Pricipat Capue around: File: Image-Blason Sicile Péninsulaire. svg | his coat-of-arms, referring to the Duchy of Apulia and the Principality of Capua, the two mainland provinces of the kingdom. From the Cabinet des Médailles

Other donations soon followed, mainly in mainland Italy but also in the provinces, but the Church held all of these lands as a private landowner, not as a sovereign entity.

On June 5, however, Roger disembarked in Salerno, much to the surprise of the whole mainland provinces.

It comprises the mainland of two provinces:

( SARS had also been gaining prominence in the mainland Chinese media ; by late April, it had jumped from virtual invisibility onto the front-page, with daily reports from all provinces on new cases and measures.

However, according to the Kuomintang ( KMT ) leadership, the fall of the Mainland made it impossible to hold new elections in the mainland, as all Mainland provinces were undergoing " Communist rebellion ".

Starting from Fujian, worship of Mazu spread to the neighboring coastal provinces of Zhejiang and Guangdong, and thence to all coastal areas of mainland China.

It serves Halifax and mainland Nova Scotia as well as adjacent areas in the neighbouring Maritime provinces.

The provinces were abolished in the mainland ( but retained for the islands ), in the wide-ranging administrative reform implemented in 1997 ( the " Kapodistrias Project ") and replaced by enlarged municipalities ( demoi ).

In South Africa, the Batlokwa are found in significant numbers in the four of the mainland provinces, namely North West, Gauteng, Limpopo and the Free State.

The eastern mainland part of Tokyo occupies land in the Kantō region that, together with the modern-day Saitama Prefecture, the city of Kawasaki and the eastern part of Yokohama, made up Musashi, one of the provinces under the ritsuryō system.

Constructed of wood, similar to fishing dories built in Atlantic Canada and New England, the iceboats were operated in the Northumberland Strait during the 19th century and early 20th century, running between Prince Edward Island and the mainland provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia during the winter months between December and April when sea ice made passage by non-icebreaking steam ships impossible.

The Audiencia of Guadalajara had oversight of all the northern mainland provinces of the Viceroyalty.

Towards the end of the 3rd century, a Roman naval commander named Carausius was given the task of clearing pirates from the sea between the Roman provinces in Britain, or " Britannia ", and on the European mainland.

In 1224 crusaders retook all provinces in mainland Estonia.

In 1224 crusaders retook all provinces in mainland Estonia.

# The Benshengren, who are early Hakka and Hoklo migrants from Fujian and Guangdong provinces of mainland China.

To the south of Arkanar is the Strait between the northern provinces of the Empire and its mainland.

The municipality of Mamburao can be connected in the mainland like Manila and other of Luzon provinces by air and water transportation.

Most Hainanese Han people were originally fishermen from the Fujian and Guangdong provinces who later settled in Hainan, while the Li natives came to the island earlier from the mainland.

In similar form it organized other fortified districts inside mainland Japan ( coastal and inner mountainous areas ) and overseas provinces ( Formosa, Ryukyu, South Pacific Mandate, etc.