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3 unusual facts about Northern Province


Chandrarathna Bandara

It dealt with the complicated issues faced by a politically motivated young man in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka in 1980s.

Mohamed Kakay

Alhaji Mohamed Kakay is a Sierra Leonean politician who is a member of parliament of Sierra Leone representing his hometown of Koinadugu District, one of the five districts that make up the Northern Province.

Nsumbu National Park

Sumbu National Park (also called Nsumbu) lies on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika near its southern extremity, in Zambia's Northern Province.


Anuradhapura Veddas

They are also ethnically related to Tamil speaking Veddas who live in the minority Sri Lankan Tamil dominant Northern Province of Sri Lanka who have adopted Tamil and Hindu cultural norms of their neighbors.

Bai Kelfa Sankoh

Bai Kelfa Sankoh is a Sierra Leonean paramount chief representing Kambia District, one of the five districts that make up the Northern Province.

Catherine Namugala

She was born in Isoka East Constituency, Isoka District in Zambia's Northern Province, on January 2, 1966.

Chama, Zambia

There are no roads west from Chama across the Luangwa Valley, but a little-used dirt track follows the Malawi border further north and crosses into Isoka District of Northern Province west of the Nyika Plateau.

Chilubi

Chilubi is a settlement on an island in Lake Bangweulu and its swamps, and is headquarters of Chilubi District in the Northern Province of Zambia.

Christian Alusine Kamara-Taylor

Christian Alusine Kamara-Taylor was born on June 3, 1917 in the small rural town of Kafanta, Tonko Limba Chiefdom, Kambia District in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone to Limba parents.

Electoral districts of Sri Lanka

The civil war prevented house-to-house enumeration from taking place in most of the Northern Province from the mid-1980s onwards.

Haidara Kontorfilli

Haidara Kontorfilli (born 1890-1931) was a Sierra Leonean charismatic Islamic religious reformer and an anti-colonialist from the Mandingo ethnic group who championed the cause of the rural masses in Kambia in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone.

Joseph Saidu Momoh

Joseph Saidu Momoh was born on January 26, 1937 in Binkolo, Bombali District in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone to Limba Parents.

Lusenga Plain National Park

Lusenga Plain National Park is a national park in the Kawambwa District, Northern Province of Zambia, to the east of Lake Mweru.

Mpumalanga Witchcraft Suppression Bill

In 1995 the Minister of Safety and Security of the Northern Province commissioned the Commission of Enquiry into Witchcraft Violence and Ritual Murder in the Northern Province of the Republic of South Africa chaired by Professor Victor Ralushai.

Nashil Pichen

He spent a long time in Nairobi, Kenya, where he collaborated with fellow Zambia emigre Peter 'Tsotsi' Juma who was from Mbala in Northern Province on the Zambia-Tanzania border and Benson Simbeye.


see also

Armadio della vergogna

The actions described in the records spanned several years and took place in various areas of the country, from the southern city of Acerra to the northern province of Trieste and as far east as the Balkans; it remains unclear, to this day, how the archive remained concealed for so long, and who gave the order to hide the files in the immediate post-war period.

Capricorn FM

Capricorn FM is the first commercial radio station in northern province of Limpopo in South Africa.

Cenderawasih

Cenderawasih Bay, a large bay in northern Province of Papua, Indonesia

Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz y Menduiña

After a brief post at the University of Cuyo in the northern province of Mendoza, Sánchez-Albornoz was offered a position at the University of Buenos Aires where he created a center for Iberian medieval studies and founded a historical journal, the Cuadernos de historia de España.

Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution of South Africa

The Eleventh Amendment of the Constitution of South Africa renamed the Northern Province to Limpopo, altered the procedure for intervention by the national government in a failing provincial government and intervention by a provincial government in a failing municipality, and expanded the powers of the provincial executive when it intervenes in a municipality.

Junta de Administración Portuaria y de Desarrollo Económico de la Vertiente Atlántica de Costa Rica

It was established in 1963 as an autonomous entity of the State in order to ensure the maintenance of the canals of the northern province of Limon (Tortuguero and Barra del Colorado) and monitor government contracts with regard to ports and railway.

Los Fronterizos

The group was established in 1953 in the northern province of Salta -- bordering on Bolivia -- from which "Los Fronterizos" ("men of the frontier") is derived.

Northern Rhodesia

In 1951, Kenneth Kaunda, formerly a teacher, became Organising Secretary for Congress in the Northern Province, and in 1953 he moved to Lusaka as Secretary General of Congress, under Nkumbula's presidency.

Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh, Northern Province, although not the north-most province; it was formerly the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh

Sisavang Vatthana

In March 1977, fearing he may escape house arrest to lead a resistance, he was arrested along with the Queen, Crown Prince Vong Savang, Prince Sisavang, and his brothers Princes Souphantharangsri and Thongsouk and sent them to the northern province of Viengxai.

Teghut Mine

Teghut Mine is a proposed copper and molybdenum open-pit mine in Armenia's northern province of Lori in the village of Teghut.

Tour skating

The Netherlands is home of Elfstedentocht, a 200 km distance skating race of which the tracks leads through the 11 different cities in Friesland which is a northern province of the Netherlands.