Field operations were transferred from administrative personnel primarily engaged in other tasks to specially trained teams of full-time African investigators ( three teams, each working in two provinces ).

The Belgian Congo was granted its independence with what seemed a workable Western-style form of government: there were to be a president and a premier, and a bicameral legislature elected by universal suffrage in the provinces.

Governors of the 18 provinces were appointed by and served at the pleasure of the president.

The provinces of Turkey are organized into 7 census-defined regions (), which were originally defined at the First Geography Congress in 1941.

From the outset, these were not intended to displace the autonomy of the emerging provinces of the Communion, but to " discuss matters of practical interest, and pronounce what we deem expedient in resolutions which may serve as safe guides to future action.

The most notable example has been the objection of many provinces of the Communion ( particularly in Africa and Asia ) to the changing role of homosexuals in the North American churches ( e. g., by blessing same-sex unions and ordaining and consecrating gays and lesbians in same-sex relationships ), and to the process by which changes were undertaken.

During this persecution many bishops were exiled to the other ends of the Empire, ( e. g., St Hilary of Poitiers to the Eastern provinces ).

In the provinces of the Empire, in Illyricum, in Mauritania, in Armenia, in Mesopotamia and in Germania, fresh mutinies perpetually broke out, as his officers were murdered and his authority was disregarded.

His troops were able to recover the coras ( provinces ) of Jaén and Elvira, while a cavalry detachment was sent to free Málaga from ibn Hafsun's siege.

From the end of 1888, the Amir spent eighteen months in his northern provinces bordering upon the Oxus, where he was engaged in pacifying the country that had been disturbed by revolts, and in punishing with a heavy hand all who were known or suspected to have taken any part in rebellion.

This incident, coupled with Stalin's demands for the restitution of the Turkish provinces of Kars, Artvin and Ardahan to the Soviet Union ( which were lost by Turkey with the Russo – Turkish War of 1877 – 1878, but were regained with the Treaty of Kars in 1921 ) was one of the main reasons why Turkey decided to give up its general principle of neutrality in foreign affairs.

In southwestern France, the ancient Basque-populated provinces were Labourd, Lower Navarre, and Soule.

In autumn 2008, several cases were reported in the southern Swedish provinces of Småland, Halland, and Skåne,

However, there are detailed records of various fist-fighting sports that were maintained in different cities and provinces of Italy between the 12th and 17th centuries.

In the mid 3rd century, the Bastarnae were part of a Gothic-led grand coalition of lower Danube tribes which inflicted immense damage on the Balkan provinces of the Roman empire in a series of massive invasions.

It was normal Roman practice to allow allied kingdoms their independence only for the lifetime of their client king, who would agree to leave his kingdom to Rome in his will — the provinces of Bithynia and Galatia, for example, were incorporated into the Empire in just this way.

That provision was carried forward in the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, when they were created by the Alberta Act and the Saskatchewan Act.

By the mid-1960s, parts of Cambodia's eastern provinces were serving as bases for North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong ( NVA / VC ) forces operating against South Vietnam, and the port of Sihanoukville was being used to supply them.

In February, the people rose again: Alexius IV was imprisoned and executed, and Murzuphlus took the purple as Alexius V. He made some attempt to repair the walls and organise the citizenry, but there had been no opportunity to bring in troops from the provinces and the guards were demoralised by the revolution.

The 18-meter-tall walls built by Theodosius II were, in essence, impregnable to the barbarians coming from south of the Danube river, who found easier targets to the west rather than the richer provinces to the east in Asia.

There were two fruitless attempts at establishing a congress of provinces in the subsequent months.

Consuls were responsible for the city's political agenda, commanded large-scale armies and controlled important provinces.

The provinces of Thrace, Noricum, Pamphylia, Lycia, and Judea were annexed under various circumstances during his term.

Several colonies were placed in new provinces or on the border of the Empire in order to secure Roman holdings as quickly as possible.

There are 264 municipalities grouped in 28 oblasts ( provinces ) in Bulgaria.

All provinces are grouped into 17 regions for administrative convenience.

Prefecture most commonly refers to a self-governing body or area since the tetrarchy when Emperor Diocletian divided the Roman Empire into four districts ( each divided into dioceses, grouped under a Vicarius ( a number of Roman provinces, listed under that article ), although he maintained two pretorian prefectures as an administrative level above the also surviving dioceses ( a few of which were split ).

Belgium comprises 589 municipalities ( Dutch: gemeenten, French: communes, German: Gemeinde ) grouped into five provinces in each of two regions and into a third region, the Brussels-Capital Region, comprising 19 municipalities that do not belong to a province.

Districts were generally grouped into administrative divisions, which in turn formed provinces.

In addition, the cities were grouped into different Roman provinces: Syria, Palestina Secunda, and Arabia.

The provinces are grouped into 17 regions based on geographical, cultural, and ethnological characteristics.

The provinces are officially grouped into seven geographical units.

Thailand is divided into 76 provinces (, jangwat, singular and plural, ), which are geographically grouped into 6 regions.

The prefectures were the second-degree organization of local government, grouped into 13 regions or ( before 1987 ) 10 geographical departments, and in turn divided into provinces and comprising a number of communities and municipalities.

Note: Some independent cities are grouped with provinces for purposes of representation to the House of Representatives.

Senators then were elected via senatorial districts via plurality-at-large voting ; each district grouped several provinces and each elected two senators except for " non-Christian " provinces where the Governor-General of the Philippines appointed the senators for the district.

Notwithstanding the primacies of the Apostolic Sees of Rome, Alexandria and Antioch, the bishoprics of one civil province were grouped together in church provinces, also called eparchies, under the supervision of the metropolitan, usually the bishop of the provincial capital.

Kannada speaking areas now got grouped under five administrative units of the Bombay and Madras provinces, Kodagu, and the princely states of Mysore and Hyderabad.

The provinces were grouped into imperial and senatorial provinces shortly after the accession of Augustus.

The provinces were grouped into imperial provinces and senatorial provinces shortly after the accession of Augustus.

* In geographically large nations with a sizeable Catholic population, such as the United States, ecclesiastical provinces typically follow state lines, with less populous states being grouped into provinces.

The North African provinces, together with the Roman possessions in Spain, were grouped into the Exarchate of Africa by Emperor Maurice.

Chapters are grouped geographically into regions, formerly known as provinces, to facilitate national organization and administration.