The Muslims and Christians were organized into separate communities, each having its own leader ; five leaders represented the village in the mid-16th century, three of whom were Muslims.

Ezra is written to fit a schematic pattern in which the God of Israel inspires a king of Persia to commission a leader from the Jewish community to carry out a mission ; three successive leaders carry out three such missions, the first rebuilding the Temple, the second purifying the Jewish community, and the third sealing of the holy city itself behind a wall.

Under Khrushchev the local party leadership in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( Russian SFSR ) witnessed the largest turnover in provincial leaders since the Great Purge ; two out of three provincial leaders were replaced in 1953 alone.

Otto von Bismark, Albrecht Graf von Roon, Helmut von Moltke, the three leaders of Prussia in the 1860s

After Menzies ' retirement, the party had three leaders in six years -- Holt, Gorton and William McMahon.

According to John L. Allen, Jr., " In addition, three decades of bishops ’ appointments by John Paul II and Benedict XVI, both unambiguously committed to “ Humanae Vitae ,” mean that senior leaders in Catholicism these days are far less inclined than they were in 1968 to distance themselves from the ban on birth control, or to soft-pedal it.

Preliminary talks to set up conditions for official negotiations began between leading negotiators from both parties on July 10, and on July 22, the three party leaders met for the first time in Harare to express their support for a negotiated settlement of disputes arising out of the presidential and parliamentary elections.

* 1945 – World War II: the leaders of the three Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.

During the course of all three periods, Ribbentrop met frequently with leaders and diplomats from Italy, Japan, Romania, Spain, Bulgaria, and Hungary.

3 September 1996, Ruth Perry followed Sankawulo as chairwoman of the Council of State, with the same three militia leaders in it.

Before the First Fleet sailed to found a convict settlement in New South Wales, Governor Arthur Phillip's final instructions, received less than three weeks before sailing, included the requirement to colonise Norfolk Island to prevent it falling into the hands of France, whose naval leaders were also showing interest in the Pacific.

The three leaders of Prussia in the 1860s

The leaders of the three parties, Alfred Deakin, George Reid and Chris Watson each served as prime minister before losing a vote of confidence.

After about three decades of growing discontent, the Prussian leaders ( see Prussian estates ) organized themselves to oppose the rule of the order more effectively.

However, politically separation of powers is usually argued against, with the leaders of the People's Republic of China and supportive politicians publicly requesting for the three branches to cooperate and emphasizing an " executive-led " system.

During the long struggle against Somoza, the FSLN leaders ' internal disagreements over strategy and tactics were reflected in three main factions:

The three other leaders — William Thompson's brother, Corporal Perkins, and John Church — were shot on May 17, 1649.

All three letters of John likely date from the mid-first-century, during a time of intense inter-apostolic rivalry between Paul and the Jerusalem leaders, evidenced most dramatically, for example, in Paul's epistle to the Galatians.

Founded in 1832 by several Dartmouth College graduates and Midwestern leaders, Wabash is one of three remaining traditional all-men's liberal arts colleges in the United States.

The Boston Globe wrote that " if there's one school that can lay claim to educating the nation's top national leaders over the past three decades, it's Yale.

* July 17 – August 2 – WWII – Potsdam Conference: At Potsdam, the three main Allied leaders hold their final summit of the war.

* 1223-The Signoria, of the Republic of Venice is formed and consists of the Doge, the Minor Council and the three leaders of the Quarantia.

In 2011 Laos had three television channels.

*: The war was a small conflict over the territories surrounding three villages between the Sainyabuli Province in Laos and Phitsanulok Province in Thailand.

Of those Hmong who did not flee Laos, somewhere between two and three thousand were sent to re-education camps where political prisoners served terms of 3 – 5 years.

The primary evidence for the domino theory is the spread of communist rule in three Southeast Asian countries in 1975, following the communist takeover of Vietnam: South Vietnam ( by the Viet Cong ), Laos ( by the Pathet Lao ), and Cambodia ( by the Khmer Rouge ).

Religion in Laos is highly syncretic, and has drawn from three primary sources, although most Lao people claim to be Theravada Buddhists, many traditions are derived from Hindu and Buddhist practises.

Inconstant and Comete were attacked in Chao Phraya, and the French sent an ultimatum: an indemnity of three million francs, as well as the cession of and withdrawal from Laos.

In 1946, after the French reasserted their authority in Laos, Phoumi made his way to northern Thailand where for the next three years he was active in the Lao Issara.

These three men founded the military movement that would become the Pathet Lao ( Land of Laos ).

In February, 1951, the Indochinese Communist Party decided to split in three to sponsor war against the French in Cambodia and Laos, along with the war in Vietnam.

Before the Soviets departed Laos, in November and December 1962, the Soviets bequeathed three Li-2s to the Neutralists, and three Li-2s and three Antonov An-2 biplanes to the Pathet Lao air arm.

The area where the borders of the three countries Thailand, Laos and Cambodia meet is promoted as the Emerald Triangle, in contrast to the Golden Triangle in the north of Thailand.

It is considered one of the region ’ s three major gong ensembles, alongside the gamelan of western Indonesia and piphat of Thailand, Burma, Cambodia and Laos, which use gongs and not wind or string instruments to carry the melodic part of the ensemble.

Sihanouk was making a high-stakes gamble, for the French could easily have replaced him with a more pliable monarch ; however, the military situation was deteriorating throughout Indochina, and the French government, on July 3, 1953, declared itself ready to grant full independence to the three states of Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos.

Fifty percent of net proceeds from 2004 to 2006 were used to build libraries in Southeast Asia ; three were built in Cambodia, seven in Laos, and seven in Vietnam.

In addition, three separate ceasefire accords, covering Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, were signed at the conference.

This process was stopped by the battle of Khe Sanh, when an estimated three PAVN divisions approached, and then surrounded the Marine outpost in western Quang Tri Province adjacent to Laos.

Cambodia is the smallest of the three Francophone nations in Asia, the others being Vietnam and Laos and French has declined the most in Cambodia out of all the Asian Francophone nations.

Map reconnaissance and helicopter overflights had not indicated that the initial scheme of maneuver was impractical, but the three contacts indicated that the North Vietnamese strength was greater than originally estimated, had likely received reinforcements from Laos, and were entrenched in well-concealed bunkers.

It also shares borders with Vietnam ( Dien Bien province ), Laos ( Phongsali Province ), and Burma ( Shan State ), being the only prefecture in Yunnan to border all three countries.

He was wounded at Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge, and Heartbreak Ridge in Korea ; served with the Special Forces in Laos ; and received three Purple Hearts, two Silver Stars and one Bronze Star with a " V " for valor, among other awards.

Nevertheless, Cambodia still has the smallest Francophone population of the three French-speaking Asian countries, the others being Vietnam and Laos.

On April 3, 1965, Group 559 acquired the corps-level status of a Military Region reporting directly to the Military Affairs Party Committee and the General Staff, with three subordinate commands for the supply corridors through Laos.