These groups were usually based on existing societal structures like villages, towns, parishes, and guilds.

These disputes were not finally settled until 1882, when the two parishes joined together to form Gernika-Lumo.

These churches, whose buildings may still be seen today in many New England town squares, trace their roots to the division of the Puritan colonies into parishes for the administration of their religious needs.

These districts consist of parishes – initially seventy in 1033, but reduced under Napoleon and now numbering just thirty-eight.

These comprised one public territory ( today known as St. George's ) and eight " tribes " ( today known as " parishes ").

These are often supplemented in Anglo-Catholic parishes by books specifying ceremonial actions, such as A Priest's Handbook by Dennis G. Michno, Ceremonies of the Eucharist, by Howard E. Galley, and Ritual Notes by E. C. R.

These parishes are already in communion with Rome and use modified Anglican liturgies approved by the Holy See.

These men from Madison, Carroll, and Tensas parishes were to cooperate with Confederate authorities to help repel Federal attacks in the area.

These cases included anal sex, and oral penetration, and there have been criminal prosecutions of the abusers and civil lawsuits against the church's dioceses and parishes.

These are similar to rural districts in Great Britain, or counties or parishes in the USA.

These prohibitions led many, such as the Covenanters, to vacate their parishes rather than submit to the new Episcopal authorities.

These parishes have been the centre of demographic and economic growth during the late 20th century, primarily influenced by the influx of tourism into the region.

These still continued a corporate existence, charged with the celebration of the Divine offices and the care of the church building: they had separate lands and sometimes charge of parishes.

These relative simplicity became one of the reasons for the experimental introduction of Valaam chanting in various parishes across Russia by the end of 20th century.

These were coming to a head over the imposition of the Church rates, a local tax levied on parishes where the majority of the population were dissenters.

These are called counties in 48 of the 50 states, and they are called boroughs in Alaska and parishes in Louisiana.

These once separated the land between Hughenden and West Wycombe parishes.

These urban parishes were wound up in 1927 and both added to the parish of Wolverton.

These 2 parishes plus the 8 rural parishes had a total of 25, 608 inhabitants.

These became separate civil parishes in their own right in 1866.

These branches of Christianity have since spread beyond the boundaries of ethnic immigrant communities and now include multi-ethnic membership and parishes.

These judges were assisted in their duties by various assistant judges, called alcaldes, whose number depended on the number of parishes the town had.

These parishes were permitted to practice the New Calendar, even though the rest of ROCOR was on the Old Calendar.

These permanent villages and towns predate those of southern Eritrea and northern Ethiopia suggesting, according to Peter Schmidt, "... it is they, not sites in Arabia that were the vital precursors to urban developments ... likewise students of evolution and distribution of languages now believe that Semitic and Cushitic languages are of African origin.

These Midrashim often predate the Mishnah.

These Midrashim often predate the Mishnah.

These include several other communities which predate Columbia, including Simpsonville, Atholton, and in the case of the census, Clarksville.

These passages lead in erratic directions, some leading beyond the southern edge of the Temple Mount ( they are at a depth below the base of the walls ); their purpose is currently unknown – as is whether they predate the Temple Mount – a situation not helped by the fact that apart from Warren's expedition no one else is known to have visited them.

These works are significant as they are the most informative illustrations of a Native American society of the Eastern seaboard, and predate the first body of " discovery voyage art " created in the late 18th century by the artists who sailed with Captain James Cook.

These figurines predate, by many thousands of years, the available records of the goddesses listed below as examples of mother goddesses, so although they seem to conform to the same generic type, it is not clear whether they, indeed, were representations of a goddess or whether, if they are, there was any continuity of religion that connects them with Middle Eastern and Classical deities.

Museo Topografico, Florence. These first examples of Renaissance villa predate the age of Lorenzo de ' Medici, who added the Villa di Poggio a Caiano by Giuliano da Sangallo, begun in 1470, in Poggio a Caiano, Province of Prato, Tuscany.

These spirits are said to be the original deities of life and predate the sky gods.

These islands are free of feral non-native animals which might predate the threatened species, and so provide a safe haven of pristine environment on which to restore species that are threatened on the mainland.

These predate the earliest extant Mother and Child virginal by 30 years ( the 1581 Hans Ruckers ), and the earliest known double manual harpsichords by about 60 years.

These games predate the commercial gaming industry and the Internet, but still featured persistent worlds and other elements of MMOGs still used today.

These are known as Galla graves ( Taalla Galla ), and are thought to predate the settlement of the area by Somali people.

These predate the crater collapse and formation of the lava dome known as White Rock, which could have occurred in the last 2000 years.

These predate the oldest grains in China, which were dated to 10, 000 BC, and potentially challenge the mainstream explanation that domesticated rice originated in China.

These texts are believed to date from the late Warring States period, around 300 BC, and thus predate the burning of the books during the Qin dynasty.

These footprints date from the Ladinian ( Middle Triassic ) of the Los Rastros Formation in Argentina and predate Herrerasaurus by 3 to 5 million years.

These people are in fact indigenous to India and actually predate what we usually think of " Indians ".

These halls predate those from Persia, and it has been proposed that Urartu could be the stylistic origin of the later Persian hypostyle audience halls.

These creation myths predate history, and Hancock suggests that in 10, 450 BC, a major pole shift took place, before which Antarctica was further from the South Pole than it is today, and after which it was moved to its present location.