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  • by a set of customary laws legislated by elected councils of elders. An Ottoman invading force under Suleiman I conquered Massawa in 1557, building ...
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  • Orléans ducal family, excluded her from war councils and failed to inform her when the army engaged the enemy. She burst into the meetings where she ...
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  • At the local level there are 11 district councils, created in 2015 ... by Protestant-dominated local councils led to protests during the ...
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  • quot;|Chronological list of Ecumenical councils |} The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican (popularly known as Vatican II) was the twenty ...
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  • were many disturbances and in most cities the councils turned orangist. On July 4 the States of Holland appointed William stadtholder; on July 9 he ...
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  • govern the larger suburbs, while town councils called panchayats govern the smaller ones. While the city covers an area of 174 km_ (67 mi_ ...
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  • AMIEU established closed shops and workers councils and effectively regulated management behavior towards the end of the 1910s. [[Image:IWW anti ...
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  • In the first of a string of rather poorly reported Councils at Carthage a few years later, no fewer than seventy bishops attended. Tertullian ...
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  • city and district courts, and conciliation councils. Judges attached to regular courts are appointed by the King in council. In order to form ...
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  • #039;s Education Act which provided that County Councils would fund church schools helped reunite the Liberals, his successful amendment that the County ...
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  • saw a net gain of 536 councillors and 22 councils, becoming the largest party ... 2023-tories-lose-control-of-three-councils-as-labour-gains-key-authority ...
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  • as James was in Scotland at the time. Accession Councils, rather than new Sovereigns, continue to issue proclamations in modern practice. ...
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  • of a senate of 100 seats. Regional governing councils elect 84 members to serve five-year terms, and the president appoints 16. The legislative ...
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  • The General meets more regularly with smaller councils composed of just the provincials. == Habit and Dress == Jesuits do not have an official ...
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  • deprived her of the lead in the councils of Europe which she had hitherto arrogated to herself, and so affected the whole course of continental ...
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  • Palike, with the neighboring seven City Municipal Councils (CMC), one Town Municipal Council and 110 villages around Bangalore. A city council ...
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  • City and village councils are elected by public vote to four-year terms. Councils elect mayors, supervise municipalities, and implement social ...
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  • of these regional relations. Joint Ministerial Councils have been set up between Sudan and Ethiopia and Sudan and Egypt. Relations with Uganda are generally ...
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  • of the Scouting movement, such that local Scout councils in Arizona and New York have been named for him. On January 6, 1919, at the age of 60 ...
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  • in spite of his efforts, Pompey found their inner councils were closed to him. His settlements in the East were not promptly confirmed. The public lands ...
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