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6 unusual facts about prefecture


Darnel Situ

Situ joined the under-18 team in August 2009, as an underage player, playing with his elder peers at the SBS Cup in the Japanese prefecture of Shizuoka.

Edward Thaddeus Lawton

The Prefecture of Sokoto was established on January 15, 1954 and he was appointed its first Prefect Apostolic.

Prefecture

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).

The 2010 Kallikratis plan, which took effect on 1 January 2011, abolished the prefectures as separate administrative units, and transformed them into regional units within the country's thirteen administrative regions.

Prefecture-level city

Shijiazhuang and Zhengzhou are the largest prefectural level cities with populations approaching or exceeding some sub-provincial cities.

Wang Bao

The actual Ganquan palace was located in what is now Chunhua County, of Xianyang region, Shaanxi province, China: the site of its remains are one of the Major National Historical and Cultural Sites of Shaanxi.


Africa Humanitarian Action

The AHA teams targeted returnee populations and the internally displaced as they were deployed at two health centers, one in the northwest region at Tare in the Kigali Prefecture and a second at Kabarondo in Kibungo Prefecture in the southeast.

An Wang

A native of Kunshan County in Suzhou Prefecture, he was born in Shanghai, China, and graduated from Chiao Tung University with a degree in electrical engineering in 1940.

Bairin Station

Umebayashi Station, a station on the Fukuoka City Subway Nanakuma Line in Jōnan-ku, Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan (the name of the station is written with the same kanji, but pronounced differently)

Bian

Kaifeng, a prefecture-level city in eastern Henan province, People's Republic of China

Chuni

Chuni, Sichuan, a town in the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan, China

Chuno

Chūnō, the central portion of Gifu Prefecture in the Chūbu region of Japan

Dazhou

Dazhou, Sichuan (达州市), prefecture-level city in the northeast of Sichuan

Dehong Dai

Tai Nüa language, also Dehong Dai and Chinese Shan, a language of those Dai people living in the Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, and the Shan in Myanmar.

Democratic Republican Movement

Like Parmehutu, the MDR's primary base of political support was in the center of the country, particularly Kayibanda's home prefecture of Gitarama.

Dugu Sun

Zhu agreed, and initially a large number of them were demoted and exiled—in Dugu's case, to be the prefect of Di Prefecture (棣州, in modern Binzhou, Shandong), and then to be the census officer of Qiong Prefecture (瓊州, in modern Ding'an, Hainan).

Fujioka, Gunma

Fujioka has sister cities in Hakui (Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan), Regina (Canada), Jiang Yin (China) and Bend (Oregon, United States).

Futabasaurus

The first fossils of Futabasaurus were found in the Irimazawa Member of the Tamayama Formation, Futaba Group, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, dating to the Inoceramus amakusensis zone of the early Santonian.

Ikawa, Akita

Iikawa is located in the coastal flatlands northeastern Akita Prefecture, bordered by the remnant of Lake Hachirōgata which lies in the west of the town.

Ikitsuki, Nagasaki

Many go to high schools in the surrounding communities (Hirado, Tabira, Shikamachi), while a few venture all the way to more academically rigorous high schools Sasebo and Nagasaki, the two largest cities in Nagasaki Prefecture.

Imazu

Ōmi-Imazu Station, railway station on the Kosei Line of West Japan Railway Company in Takashima, Shiga Prefecture, Japan

Imouzzer

Imouzzer Ida Ou Tanane in Agadir-Ida Ou Tanane Prefecture, Souss-Massa-Drâa, Morocco

Iwama

Iwama, Ibaraki, former town in Nishiibaraki District, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

Jinchuan

Jinchuan County (金川县), in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan

Jinyang

Jinyang County, a county in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China

Juan Antonio Llorente

His 1810 project for a division of Spain in prefectures and subprefectures (under the French revolutionary inspiration) was never brought into practice because of the war.

Kam–Sui languages

Nearly all speakers of Kam–Sui languages originate in the Qiandongnan (Dong) and Qiannan (Sui, Then, Mak, Ai-Cham) Prefectures of Guizhou, as well as the prefecture-level cities of Hechi (Mulam and Maonan) and Guilin (Chadong) in northern Guangxi.

Kaoru Kobayashi

At the time of the murder, he was employed as a newspaper deliveryman for Mainichi Shimbun in the Ikoma district of Nara Prefecture.

Kapodistrias reform

Municipalities and communities varied in land area from 873.552 km² (Kato Nevrokopi in Drama Prefecture) to 0.800 km² (Nea Chalkidona in Athens Prefecture), with an average of 127.618 km² and a median of 105.669 km².

Kira, Aichi

Kira was a coastal settlement in southern Aichi Prefecture, on Mikawa Bay.

Kōchi Station

Kōchi-Ekimae Station (高知駅前駅), a tram station in Kōchi, Kōchi Prefecture located in front of Kōchi Station

Kusano

Kusano, Fukushima, village located in Iwaki District, Fukushima Prefecture

Les Brigades du Tigre

Gathering a talented pan-European cast, the film is set in a very rich and interesting Belle Époque, it deals with a lot of real historical plots and characters like the scandal of the Russian Loan, the Triple Entente, the birth of modern profiling and crime-fighting police techniques, the rivalry between the PP (Parisian Prefecture Police Units) and the Brigades of Clemenceau, the birth of Socialism and famous Anarchist Movements.

Li Guochang

Zhuye Zhiyi was able to make it through to Tang's Ling Prefecture (靈州, in modern Yinchuan, Ningxia), where the Tang military governor (Jiedushi) of Shuofang Circuit (朔方, headquartered at Ling Prefecture), Fan Xichao (范希朝), welcomed the Shatuo under Zhuye Zhiyi.

Li Jingxuan

His father Li Xiaojie (李孝節) served as the secretary general of Gu Prefecture (穀州, part of modern Luoyang, Henan) during Sui's succeeding dynasty Tang Dynasty.

Lille Airport

Lille is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the capital of the Nord-Pas de Calais region and the prefecture of the Nord department.

Military history of Chad

Consequently, southern troops stationed in Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti Prefecture were looked upon as an army of occupation.

Mirei Shigemori

Shigemori was born in Kayō, Jōbō District, Okayama Prefecture, and in his youth was exposed to lessons in traditional tea ceremony and flower arrangement, as well as landscape ink and wash painting.

Miya River

Agano River, a river which flows from Fukushima Prefecture to Niigata Prefecture that is often called the "Miya River"

No Leprosy Patients in Our Prefecture Movement

Its mission was to systematically eliminate leprosy, (Hansen's disease), a readily transmissable, previously incurable, chronic infectious disease caused by M. leprae, from each prefecture in Japan.

Pala, Chad

The Roman Catholic bishopric of Pala served Mayo-Kebbi Prefecture, in 1970, Pala included 116,000 of Chad's 160,000 Catholics.

Phosphofructokinase deficiency

It was named after the Japanese Physician, Seiichiro Tarui (1927- ), who was a native of Hyōgo Prefecture in Japan.

Piraeus Prefecture

The prefecture covered the south-western part of the agglomeration of Athens, several islands in the Saronic Gulf (Salamis, Aegina, Agkistri, Poros, Hydra, Dokos, Spetses, Spetsopoula), Methana and Troizina on the Peloponnese peninsula, and the islands of Kythira and Antikythera south of the Peloponnese.

Sakanoue no Tamuramaro

It is said that the famous Tanabata festivals and parades of Aomori prefecture (also celebrated in the city of Sendai in Miyagi prefecture), which draw over 3 million people to the prefecture a year, were popularized in remembrance of Sakanoue no Tamuramaro's campaign to subdue the tribal societies then living in Tōhoku.

Sanjō Station

Sanjō Station (Fukuoka) (山上駅) - Hobashira Cable in Yahatahigashi-ku, Kitakyushu, FUkuoka Prefecture

Semisulcospira

"野尻湖層産カワニナ胎児殼化石について : 現生カワニナとの比較研究 "On the fossil embryonic shell of Semisulcospira libertina (GOULD) (Mesogastropoda: Pleuroceridae) from the latest Pleistocene Nojiri-ko Formation, Nagano Prefecture, Central Japan: A comparative study of recent and fossil Semisulcospira".

Shigeno

Shigeno Station, railway station of Shinano Railway Line in Tōmi City, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Shuifu County

Shuifu County (Chinese: 水富县; Pinyin: Shuǐfù Xiàn) is a county under the jurisdiction of Zhaotong Prefecture-level City located on the boundary of Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, and it is on the side of Jinsha River.

Tadrart, Morocco

Tadrart is a village in Agadir Ida-Outanane Prefecture in Souss-Massa-Drâa region of Morocco.

Tamakasuga Ryōji

Known as 8432 Tamakasuga, it was named by astronomers at an observatory in his home prefecture.

United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda

The first plans for mass murder of Tutsi were also developed toward the end of 1990, mostly in a series of secret meetings in Gisenyi prefecture of the Akazu, a network of associates based around Agathe Habyarimana, the First Lady.

Yichang

Besides the new Yichang East Railway Station serving Yichang's main urban area, some the high-speed trains will stop elsewhere in the prefecture, namely at Zhijiang Railway Station on the Hanyi line (in Zhijiang City), and at some stations on the Yiwan line.

Yoshihiro Murai

A native of Toyonaka, Osaka and former serviceman of Japan Self-Defense Forces, he was first elected governor in 2005 after serving in the assembly of the prefecture since 1995.

Yoshikazu Yahiro

His stage name was comes from the place he was born, Mie Prefecture where the Suzuka racing circuit is, his favorite guitarist, Steve Vai from which he adopted the letter V, and his look, many people think he looks like a panther, especially when he had pink-dyed hair.

Zhaotong

The prefecture, almost exclusively agricultural, is one of the poorest in China, which led the authorities to encourage young people to migrate to eastern and southern parts of China to find work.


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