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Administrative divisions of Vologda Oblast

Roslyatinsky District (the selo of Roslyatino), Northern Dvina Governorate, then Northern Krai, then Vologda Oblast, established in 1924, abolished in 1931; re-established in 1935, abolished in 1960, split between Babushkinsky and Nikolsky Districts;

Ain Dara

Ain Dara, Lebanon, a town in the Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon

Al Asimah

Al Asimah Governorate (Jordan), also known as Capital Governorate, or Amman Governorate.

Al Farwaniyah Governorate

Al Tadamon Sports Club is located in Al Farwaniyah Governorate, won the Kuwaiti Division One three times.

Al Jahra Governorate

It includes Bubiyan Island and is by far the largest governorate in Kuwait.

Al Mahwit

The area and surrounding governorate depends on agriculture, mainly the production of coffee, tobacco, corn, sorghum and qat.

Arbin

Arbin, Syria, a town in the Rif Dimashq Governorate(*) in southern Syria

Attilio Nicora

The new agency, by mandate of an Apostolic Letter, is charged with monitoring the monetary and commercial activities of Vatican agencies, such as the Governorate of Vatican City State, the Vatican Bank, the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See, the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, and smaller agencies such as the Vatican Pharmacy, the Vatican Supermarket, and the Vatican Museums.

Baku Governorate

Initially Baku Governorate included Karabakh and Zangezur, which were separated in 1868 to create Elisabethpol Governorate.

Baran, Belarus

In 1920, Orshansky Uyezd with Baran was transferred to Vitebsk Governorate, and in 1924, the governorate was abolished.

Beita

Beita, Nablus, Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate, West Bank

Capital Governorate, Bahrain

The present governorate incorporates the municipalities of Al Manamah, Ras Rumman and parts of Jidd Haffs.

Death of Ahmed Jaber al-Qattan

On 8 October, two days after Ahmed's death, Nawaf Al-Awadi, the attorney general of the northern governorate stated that police did not use bird pellet gunshots while depressing protesters in Abu Saiba that night and that the gunshots found in Ahmed's body do not match those used by Ministry of Interior.

Delga

Dalga a town of about 120,000 people in Minya Governorate in Egypt

Domyat

Damietta, a port and the capital of the Damietta Governorate in Egypt

Ekostrovsky

Ekostrovskoye Rural Community (1861–1866), a rural community of Kemsky Uyezd of Arkhangelsk Governorate, Russian Empire

Ekostrovskaya Volost (1866–1868), a volost of Kemsky Uyezd of Arkhangelsk Governorate, Russian Empire

Gonzalo de Mendoza

This city received the settlers of Ontiveros when it was abandoned and later grew large enough to briefly become the namesake for the governorate of Paraguay.

Ilya Ulyanov

Ilya Ulyanov was born in Astrakhan, to Nikolai Vasilievich Ulyanov (1765—1838) (sometimes as Ulyanin), a port-city tailor and a former serf who came from Sergachsky District, Nizhegorod Governorate and received his freedom from an landowner Stepan Mikhailovich Brekhov; and Anna Alekseyevna Smirnova (1793—1871), a daughter of a rich city-dweller Aleksei Lukianovich Smirnov (a son of Lukian Smirnov who hailed from rich Oirats of Middle Asia).

Independent Movement of Absolute Renovation

In the regional elections of October 2011, the MIRA party obtained the governorate of the Caquetá department, the mayorship of the El Paujil municipality, seven deputies, 47 councillors and over 300 other curule seats.

Iraqi Kurdistan parliamentary election, 1992

Only two areas in the Diyala Governorate were under Kurdish control: Darbandikhan and Khanaqin.

Krasnoufimsky

Krasnoufimsky Uyezd (1781–1923), an administrative division of Perm Governorate, Russian Empire (and later the Russian SFSR)

Ksour

Ksour Essef, a town and commune in the Mahdia Governorate, Tunisia

Ma'an Governorate

In Autumn 1996 and Spring 1997 the Al-Jafr-desert, located near Al-Jafr in the eastern part of the governorate, was the location of extensive tests of the ThrustSSC, the British-built currently fastest land vehicle in the world, which was the first land vehicle to break the sound barrier in October 1997 in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA.

Marda

Marda, Salfit, Palestinian town located in the Salfit Governorate

Mit Ghamr

Mit Ghamr is located on Damietta branch of the Nile, and just on the opposite side of the Nile located another city called Zifta which belongs to the governorate Al Gharbia.

Nestor von Henko

In the arid steppes of the Samara, Volgograd and Voronezh governorate, some 13 thousands hectares of protective forest belts II-7 had been planted by 1902.

Novgorod Province

Novgorod Province, Novgorod Governorate, a subdivision of Saint Petersburg Governorate and, after 1727, of Novgorod Governorate

Odessa Russian Theatre

In 1927, the Executive Political Committee of the Odessa Governorate (Gubispolkom) appointed opera singer Andrei Alekseyevich Ivanov as director of the theatre.

Olonetsky

Olonets Governorate (Olonetskaya guberniya), a governorate of the Russian Empire

Osinsky

Osinsky Uyezd, a historical administrative division of Perm Governorate, Russian Empire

Pechengsky

Pechengskoye Rural Community (1861–1866), a rural community of Kemsky Uyezd of Arkhangelsk Governorate, Russian Empire

Pechengskaya Volost (1866–1868, 1871–1921), a volost of Kemsky Uyezd of Arkhangelsk Governorate, Russian Empire

Qarah

Qarah, Syria, a town in the Qalamoun District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate of Syria

Royal Guard of Oman Technical College

Royal Guard Of Oman Technical College and commonly known as RGOTC and it's a public and military college in al Seeb on the governorate of Muscat at the Sultanate of Oman, owned by the Royal Guard of Oman and founded by Sultan Qaboos Al Saeed in order to improve technical and vocational education in the country.

Royal Oman Police

The Ambulance Unit, which has a fleet of modern ambulances with modern high – tech medical equipment, covers the Governorate of Muscat up to Batinah Region, as well as the main road from the wilayat of Barka to Khatmat Malahah on the UAE border.

Sharab

Jewish Sharab, an ancient Jewish quarter in Ta'izz Governorate, Yemen

Shuyskoye, Vologda Oblast

On July 15, 1929, several governorates, including Vologda Governorate, were merged into Northern Krai, and the uyezds were abolished.

Strümpell

Adolph Strümpell (1853–1925), German neurologist who was born at Neu-Autz Estate, Courland Governorate

Ta'izz Governorate

The western half of the governorate is part of the Tihamah coastal plain and has an exceedingly hot, humid and arid climate.

Taxicabs by country

Drivers must obtain a taxi license from the government, generally through the offices of the Governorate in which they are based; however, taxis are permitted to operate between cities.

Teribersky

Teriberskaya Volost (1912–1927), an administrative division of Alexandrovsky Uyezd of Arkhangelsk Governorate, Russian Empire, and later of Murmansk Governorate of the Russian SFSR

Verkhotursky

Verkhotursky Uyezd, an administrative division (an uyezd) of Perm Governorate, Russian Empire and later Russian SFSR

Vitebsk Governorate

Vitebsk Governorate (Витебская губерния, Vitebskaya guberniya) was an administrative unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire, with the seat of governorship in Vitebsk.

Volodymyr Oskilko

After the February Revolution in 1917 Oskilko was appointed a Governorate Commissar of the Russian Provisional Government in Tula.

Voronyinsky

Voronyinskaya Volost (1866–1868), a volost of Kemsky Uyezd, Arkhangelsk Governorate, Russian Empire

Wadi Dhaiqah

As many as 120 other wadis lead to this valley, which contains a natural park extending from Wilayat Dima W'attayyeen in the Sharqiyah region to the Wilayat of Qurayyat in the Governorate of Muscat.

Yaroslavl Oblast

Yaroslavl Oblast was created on March 11, 1936, it included most of the former Yaroslavl Governorate added with a big part of the foremer Kostroma Governorate, along with the City of Kostroma itself, and Pereslavl-Zalessky of the Vladimir Governorate.


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