cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Torsby Municipality
The present municipality consists o aicht oreeginal local govrenment entities (as o 1863): Dalby, Fryksände, Lekvattnet, Norra Finnskoga, Norra Ny, Nyskoga, Södra Finnskoga, Vitsand an Östmark. In 1952 they wur groupit intae fower lairger units an in 1974 they wur aw unitit.
There are lots of Finnish heritage in Torsby Municipality.
Transportation
Torsby is the end station on the Fryksdal branchline frae Karlstad via Kil. There is a sma airport wi scheduled flichts tae Stockholm, whilst the nearest internaitional airport is Gardermoen in Norawa. The 1,690 km lang road, E45, passes through the municipality.
Sport
Sven-Göran Eriksson an Marcus Berg hae their ruits in Torsby.
The municipality haes a nummer o skiin centres for baith alpine skiin (Hovfjället an Branäs) an cross-kintra skiin (Mattila an Långberget). A cross-kintra ski tunnel, which is the warld's langest an aw, opened on 16 Juin 2006.
Stjerneskolan, a senior heich schuil, specializes in cross-kintra skiin an biathlon. The maist famous umwhile pupil is Gunde Svan. Carl Johan Bergman, who wis born in Ekshärad, studiet thare for a year an aw.
Govrenment an politics
Distribution o the 31 seats in the municipal cooncil efter the 2010 election:
Results o the Swadish general election, 2010 in Torsby:
Freemit airtins
Torsby
Craig Foss
Craig Foss is a New Zealand politeecian, an a member o the kintra’s pairlament in Wellington, representin the Naitional Pairty. He is a consteetuency member unner the proportional representation seestem, representin Tukituki.
Zahlé
Zahlé (Arabic: زحلة; an aa transliterated Zahleh or Zahleh) is the caipital o Beqaa Govrenorate, Lebanon. Wi aroond 140,000 inhabitants (mostly Christian), it is the third lairgest ceety in Lebanon. The ceety is situatit 52 km (32.31 mi) east o the Lebanese caipital Beirut.
Twin toons — Sister ceeties
Zahlé is twinned wi:
Juan Carlos Ferrero
Juan Carlos Ferrero Donat (born 12 Februar 1980) is a retired professional tennis player, an an umwhile warld no. 1 player, frae Spain.
Vaud
Vaud is ane o the 26 cantons o Swisserland an is locatit in Romandy, the French-speakin soothwastren pairt o the kintra. The caipital is Lausanne. The name o the Canton in Swisserland's ither leids are Vaud in Italian, Waadt in German , an Vad in Romansh.
Destricts
The Canton o Vaud is dividit intae 10 destricts:
Municipalities
Thare are 376 municipalities in the canton.
Craig Burley
Craig William Burley (born 24 September 1971) is a telly pundit an Scots umwhile perfaisional fitbawer that played as a midfielder frae 1989 till 2004. He is currently a commentator for ESPN.
Vilanova de l'Aguda
Vilanova de l'Aguda is a municipality in the comarca o Noguera, in the province o Lleida, Catalonie, Spain.
Jo Goodhew
Jo Goodhew is a New Zealand politeecian, an a member o the kintra’s pairlament in Wellington, representin the Naitional Pairty. She is a consteetuency member unner the proportional representation seestem, representin Aoraki.
Henry the Navigator
Henry the Navigator (Henrique o Navegador Porto, 4 Mairch 1394 – 13 November 1460) wis an infante (prince) o the Kinrick o Portugal an an important figure in the early days o the Portuguese Empire. He wis responsible for the early development o European exploration an maritime tred wi ither continents.
It is a common misconception that Henry gathered at his villa on the Sagres peninsula a schuil o navigators an cairt-makers. He did employ some cartographers tae chart the coast o Mauritanie efter the voyages he sent thare, but thare wis nae centre o navigation science or observatory in the modren sense o the wird, nor wis thare an organized navigational center. In "Crónica da Guiné" Henry is describit as haein nae luxuries, no avaricious, speakin wi saft wirds an calm gestures, a man o mony virtues that niver alloued ony poor person leave his presence empty-handit.
Alaküla
Alaküla mey refer tae several places in Estonie:
Richt ascension
Richt ascension (abbreviatit RA; seembol α) is the angular distance measured eastle alang the celestial equator frae the vernal equinox tae the oor circle o the pynt in quaisten. Whan combined wi declination, thir astronomical coordinates specify the direction o a pynt on the celestial sphere in the equatorial coordinate seestem.
An auld term, richt ascension (Laitin, ascensio recta ) refers tae the ascension, or the pynt on the celestial equator that rises wi ony celestial object, as seen frae the Yird's equator, whaur the celestial equator intersects the horizon at a richt angle. It is contrast wi oblique ascension, the pynt on the celestial equator that rises wi a celestial object as seen frae naur ony ither bit on Yird, whaur the celestial equator intersects the horizon at an oblique angle.
Sandra Goudie
Sandra Goudie is a New Zealand politeecian, an a member o the kintra’s pairlament in Wellington, representin the Naitional Pairty. She is a consteetuency member unner the proportional representation seestem, representin Coromandel.
Hiroshima
Hiroshima gained ceety status on 1 Aprile 1889. On 1 Aprile 1980, Hiroshima became a designatit ceety.
Twin touns an sister ceeties
Hiroshima haes sax owerseas sister ceeties:
Athin Japan, Hiroshima haes a seemilar relationship wi Nagasaki.
Viides Luku – Hävitetty
V: Hävitetty (Chapter V - Ravaged) is the fift full-lenth album bi the Finnish fowk metal baund Moonsorrow. It wis released on Januar 10, 2007 throu Spinefarm Records. As a joke bi the baund, the name "Homosika" (gay pig) wis released as the wirkin title for "Viides Luku - Hävitetty".
Hävitetty follaes up on the soond establisht on Moonsorrow's previous studio album, Verisäkeet. The album consists o ae twa sangs, each exceedin 25 minutes in lenth, an act as organic compositions wi recurrin muisical themes which are gradually biggit upon up tae climaxes. While the folk instruments an choirs o prior albums are still present, Hävitetty haes a mair prominent black metal influence; for ensaumple it features tremolo pickin an blast beats. In the New York Times, the album wis cawed "an engrossin hourlon album," an "engrossing, enveloping music."
Sutherland
Sutherland is a registration coonty, lieutenancy area an historic admeenistrative coonty o Scotland. It is nou athin the Hieland local govrenment area. In Gaelic the area is referred tae accordin tae its traditional areas: Dùthaich 'IcAoidh (NW), Asainte (Assynt), an Cataibh (East). Housomeivver, Cataibh will aften be heard uised as referrin tae the area as a whole.
The coonty toun, an anerlie burgh o the coonty, is Dornoch. Ither settlements include Bonar Bridge, Lairg, Brora, Durness, Embo, Tongue, Golspie, Helmsdale, Lochinver, Scourie an Kinlochbervie. The population of the coonty as at the 2001 Census wis 13,466.
Bill English
Simon William English (born 30 December 1961), kent as Bill English, is a New Zealand politeecian, an a member o the kintra’s pairlament in Wellington, representin the Naitional Pairty. He is a consteetuency member unner the proportional representation seestem, representin Clutha-Southland. He succeedit John Key ad Prime meenister o New Zealand on 12 December 2016; His Naitional Pairty retained its status as the lairgest pairty in the 2017 election, though Labour an New Zealand First formed a coaleetion on 26 October, wi Jacinda Ardern succeedin English. He wis Deputy Prime Meenister frae 2008 tae 2016.
Amadeo I o Spain
Amadeo I (Italian Amedeo, whiles anglicised as Amadeus) (30 Mey 1845 – 18 Januar 1890) wis the anly Keeng o Spain frae the Hoose o Savoy.
First mairiage
He mairit Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo on 30 Mey 1867. Thay haed three childer.
Seicont mairiage
He mairit Marie Laetitia Bonaparte on 11 September 1888. Thay haed ane son.
Hell Within
Hell Within wis a metalcore baund foondit in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1998. Efter recordin twa albums as Twytch, the baund chyngit their name tae Hell Within an released Asylum of the Human Predator through Lifeforce Records in 2005. Efter extensive tourin athort the Unitit States an lineup chynges, the baund released Shadows of Vanity in 2007. Hell Within recently signed wi Thorp Records.
Ringuta
Ringuta is a veelage in Märjamaa Pairish, Rapla Coonty in wastren Estonie.
Nanjing
Nanjing (Romanizations: Nánjīng (Pinyin), Nan-ching (Wade-Giles) , Nanking (Postal cairt spellin) ) is the caipital o Jiangsu province, Cheenae, an haes a prominent place in Cheenese history an cultur. The ceety's name (南京) means "Soothren Caipital", an wis widely romanisit as 'Nanking' till the Pinyin leid reform, efter which 'Nanjing' became the internaitional staundart spellin o the ceety's name.
Tula, Iran
Tula (, Romanisit as Ţūlā an Ţowlā; kent as Shahrak-e Ţūlā an Tāola an aw) is a veelage in Howmeh Landwart Destrict, in the Central Destrict o Qeshm Coonty, Hormozgan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population wis 1,742, in 457 faimilies.
Nanjing
Locatit in the lawer Yangtze River drainage basin an Yangtze River Delta economic zone, Nanjing haes aye been ane o Cheenae's maist important ceeties. It servit as the caipital o Cheenae durin several historical periods an is recognised as ane o the Fower Great Auncient Caipitals o Cheenae. Nanjing wis the caipital o the Republic o Cheenae afore the Cheenese Ceevil War in 1949. Nanjing is ane o the fifteen sub-provincial ceeties in the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae's admeenistrative structur an aw, enjoyin jurisdictional an economic autonomy anerlie slichtly less nor that o a province. Nanjing haes lang been a naitional centre o eddication, research, transport netwirks, an tourism.
Fox Stevenson
Stanley Stevenson Byrne (stage nam: Fox Stevenson, formerly Stan SB) is a sangster-songwriter an' producer ay indie electronic jink graphite loons. He haes released fower EPs an' haes bin featurt oan thee compilations unner th' nam ay Fox Stevenson.
Nanjing
Wi an urban population o ower five million (2006), Nanjing is the seicont lairgest commercial centre in the East Cheenae region, efter Shanghai. It haes been ranked fowert bi Forbes magazine in its leetin o "2008 Top 100 Business Ceeties in Mainland Cheenae", seivent in the evaluation o "Ceeties wi Strangest Comprehensive Strength" issued bi the Naitional Statistics Bureau, an seicont in the evaluation o ceeties wi maist sustainable development potential in the Yangtze River Delta. It haes an aa been awardit the title o 2008 Habitat Scroll o Honour o Cheenae, Special Awaird o UN Habitat Scroll o Honour an Naitional Ceevilized Ceety.
Fox Stevenson
Career
Stevenson's interest in electronic graphite loons production began in th' early 2000s, when he gart his first release oan th' social media wabsteid Newgrounds. He wis 15–16 year auld when he creatit his first vocal track. He later rose tae prominence ben th' YouTube-based graphite loons community Liquicity, whaur Cloudhead, a body ay his earliest tracks as stan sb, wis featurt. which haes syne gained ower 300,000 plays oan SoundCloud.
Nanjing
Sister ceeties an friendship ceeties
Nanjing currently haes 18 sister ceeties (auries):
Fox Stevenson
Career
His works ur an aa published tae th' audio distribution platf'rm SoundCloud, whaur he haes accumulated ower 1.5 million plays syne 2012. In 2013, he released an EP titled Endless, which haes syne gained ower 300,000 plays oan SoundCloud.
Rottweiler
The Rottweiler is a breed o domestic dug, regairdit as medium-tae-lairge or lairge. The dogs war kent in German as Rottweiler Metzgerhund, meanin Rottweil butchers' dugs, acause ane o thair uises wis tae herd fermstockin an pull cairts laden wi butchered meat tae mercat. This continued till the mid-19t century whan railweys replaced droving for herdin. Rottweilers are nou uised as rake an rescue dugs, as guide dugs for the blind, as guard dugs an polis dugs.
Ōita, Ōita
Ōita (大分市) is the caipital ceety o Ōita Prefectur, locatit on the iland o Kyushu, Japan.
Bogorodsky Destrict, Kirov Oblast
Bogorodsky Destrict (Богоро́дский райо́н) is a admeenistrative an municipal destrict (raion), ane o the thirty-nine in Kirov Oblast, Roushie. It is locatit in the sootheastren central pairt o the oblast. The aurie o the destrict is 1443 km2. Its admeenistrative centre is the urban locality (an urban-teep dounset) o Bogorodskoye. Population: 6,805 (2002 Census);  The population o Bogorodskoye accoonts for 57.3% o the destrict's total population.
Kolomna Municipal Okrug
Scope
The okrug borders the Neva River, New Admiralty Canal, an the Moyka River in the northwast, the Fontanka River in the sooth, an Kryukov Canal in the east.
Oreegin
The dounset auries o futur Kolomna (the name is believit tae hae oreeginatit frae Roushifee'd names o survey pillars - columns) wis carriet oot efter the fires in 1736 an 1737 devastatit the Maritime an Admiralty settlement. Redounset o people from these settlements gave rise tae anither version o the name. Aiblins, in the reign o Anna o RoushieAnna Ioannovna the formation o the names coud influence the German leid, in translation, frae which the settler wur cried colonists, an the place they inhabitit - a colony that Roushie remade in its awn wey - Kolomna.
Occupation
The first inhabitants o Kolomna wur mariners - artisans, pilots. Later thare settled merchants, sodgers, tradesmen an, wi few exceptions-poor gentry. The nummer o inhabitants in Kolomna continuously increased. In the middle o the 19t century, thare livit aboot 50 thoosan fowk in the mid 1890's - mair nor 70 thoosand, an the census o 1910 indicates the nummer o inhabitants o Kolomna - mair nor 85 thoosan.
Teepical biggins
The teepical hoose o the Auld Kolomna wad be a moderate firthen hoose wi a carvit ridge unner the ruif an firth carvins unner the windaes ,the perron wi steps an the stairs wi twa flicht o steps leadin tae the seicont floor.
Freemit airtins
Kolomna (Pietari)
East Dunbartonshire
East Dunbartonshire is ane o the 32 cooncil areas o Scotland. It borders ontil the north-wast o the Ceitie o Glesga. It inhauds monie o the suburbs o Glesga as weil as monie o the ceitie's commuter touns an veilages (Bearsden, Milngavie, Bishopbriggs, Kirkintilloch an Lenzie bein the mukkilest). East Dunbartonshire skares a mairch wi Wast Dunbartonshire, Stirlin, an North Lanrikshire anaw. The cooncil area kivers pairt o the umwhyl coontie o Stirlinshire as weil as pairts o the umwhyl coonties o Dunbartonshire an Lanrikshire.
Uddevalla Municipality
Uddevalla Municipality (Uddevalla kommun) is a municipality in Västra Götaland Coonty in wastren Swaden. Its seat is locatit in the ceety o Uddevalla.
The present municipality wis creatit in 1971 when the Ceety o Uddevalla (which haed absorbit the rural municipality Bäve in 1945) wis amalgamatit wi the surroondin municipalities Forshälla, Lane-Ryr, Ljungskile, Skredsvik an pairts o Skaftö.
Burghs o Mexico Ceety
Mexico Ceety — poleetically an admeenistratively constitutit as the Federal Destrict — is dividit intae saxteen burghs (delegaciones) for admeenistrative purposes. They constitute seicont-level admeenistrative diveeisions, on par wi the municipalities o Mexico. Housomeivver, unlike municipalities, they dae no hae regulatory pouers an are no fully autonomous in their internal admeenistration. As o 2000, the citizens athin a burgh elect bi plurality a heid o govrenment, kent simply as "burgh heid" (Spainyie: jefe delegacional). The DF recordit an offeecial 2010 census tally o 8,851,080 indwallers.
Borderin municipalities
The Distrito Federal (Mexico Ceety) as a whole is bordered directly bi the follaein municipalities, goin clockwise, stairtin frae the wast-soothwast.
Freemit airtins
Meksyk (miasto)
Vietnamese draigon
Vietnamese draigons (rồng or long 龍) are seembolic creaturs in the fowklear an meethologie o Vietnam. Accordin tae an auncient creation meeth, the Vietnamese fowk are descendit frae a draigon an a fairy.
Tae Vietnamese fowk, the draigon brings rain, essential for agricultur. It represents the emperor, the prosperity an pouer o the naition. Like the Cheenese draigon, the Vietnamese draigon is the seembol o yang, representin the universe, life, existence, an growthe.
Extant references tae the Vietnamese Draigon are rare nou, due tae the fierce chynges in history that accompaniet the sinicization o the Nguyễn Dynasty.
Eda Municipality
Eda Municipality (Eda kommun) is a municipality in Värmland Coonty in wast central Swaden, on the Norse border. Its seat is locatit in the toun o Charlottenberg.
Vietnamese draigon
The legend
The 5t-generation grandson o Shennong, Lạc Long Quân- king o the draigonkynd livin near the Đông sea, marriet a goddess, Âu Cơ who wis the dochter o the birdkynd king Đế Lai. Âu Cơ bore 100 eggs, which hatched intae 100 sons. The first-born son became the king o Lạc Việt, the first dynasty o Vietnam, an proclaimit hissel Emperor Hùng Vương. The First wis follaeed bi Hùng Vương The Seicont, Hùng Vương The Third an so on, throu 18 reigns. This is the oreegin o the Vietnamese proverb: "Con Rồng, cháu Tiên" ("Childer o Draigon, Grandchilder o Gods").
Eda Municipality
The municipal reform o 1971 saw the formin o the present municipality through the amalgamation o "auld" Eda wi Köla an Järnskog.
Vietnamese draigon
References
Vietnamese leid:
Eda Municipality
Govrenment an politics
Distribution o the 35 seats in the municipal cooncil efter the 2010 election:
Results o the Swadish general election, 2010 in Eda:
Sichts
The aiblins maist notable sicht is the Eda Fortlet, which wis in uise frae 1650 tae 1814. It wis the lairgest fortress in the province o Värmland, wi the purpose o defendin against Norse troops. It wis made obsolete wi the Union atween Swaden an Norawa in 1814.
Philip Heatley
Philip Heatley (born 1967) is a New Zealand politeecian, an a member o the kintra’s pairlament in Wellington, representin the Naitional Pairty. He is a consteetuency member unner the proportional representation seestem, representin Whangarei.
Ryal airms o Cambodie
The ryal coat o airms o the Kinrick o Cambodie is the seembol o the Cambodian monarchy. Thay hae existit in some form close tae the ane depictit syne the establishment o the independent Kinrick o Cambodie in 1953. It is the seembol on the Ryal Staundart o the monarch o Cambodie.
Description
Depicted on the coat o airms are twa ainimals which are a gajasingha (a lion wi an elephant trunk) on the left, an a singha, or a lion, on the richt. Supportit bi the ainimals are twa ryal five-tiered umbrellas. In atween is a ryal croun wi a ray o licht at its tap. Beneath the croun are an Unalome sign, twa pedestaled platters layered on tap o ilk ither wi a sacred swuird an a Khmer version o the seembol for Aum sittin on tap. The Khmer leid phrase on the bottom the ryal coat o airms translates tae: Preah Chao (ryal or auspicious ruler) - Krung (aurie, or in this case, kinrick) - Kampuchea (Cambodie), sicweys, Keeng o the Kinrick o Cambodie.
History
The airms wur discontinued wi the owerthow o the constitutional monarchy durin the Khmer Republic era (1970–1975) an remained in disuise during Democratic Kampuchea (i.e., Khmer Rouge era: 1975-1979), the Fowkrepublic o Kampuchea (1979–1989), an the State o Cambodie (1989–1993). Thay hae syne been resurrectit for officeeal uise wi the restoration o the monarchy unner Norodom Sihanouk in Cambodie syne 1993.
John Hayes
John Hayes is a New Zealand politeecian, an a member o the kintra’s pairlament in Wellington, representin the Naitional Pairty. He is a consteetuency member unner the proportional representation seestem, representin Wairarapa.
Hieland (cooncil area)
Hieland (A' Ghàidhealtachd) is a cooncil area in the Scots Hielands an is the mukkilest cooncil area in baith Scotland an the Unitit Kinrick as a hail. It skares mairches wi the cooncil areas o Moray, Aiberdeenshire, Perth an Kinross, an Argyll an Bute. Thair cooncils, an thae o Angus an Stirlin, hae bits o the Scots Hielands athin thair mairches anaw. The Hieland area kivers maist o the mainland an Inner-Hebridean pairts o the umwhyl coonties o Innerness-shire an Ross an Cromarty, aw o Sutherland, Caithness an Nairnshire, an wee bits o Argyll an Moray.
Alaküla, Lääne Coonty
Alaküla is a veelage in Lihula Pairish, Lääne Coonty, in wastren Estonie.
Billdal
Billdal is a bimunicipal locality situatit in Kungsbacka Municipality, Halland Coonty, an Gothenburg Municipality, Västra Götaland Coonty, in Swaden. It haed 9,609 inhabitants in 2005. It mainly consists o villas an terraced hooses, groupit alang a windlin coastline wi mony islands.
Hyssna
Hyssna is a locality situatit in Mark Municipality, Västra Götaland Coonty, Swaden. It haed 638 inhabitants in 2010.
Sports
The follaein sports clubs are locatit in Hyssna:
Tiurana
Tiurana is a municipality in the comarca o Noguera, in the province o Lleida, Catalonie, Spain.
It is hame tae a late-Gothic pairish kirk, biggit in 1545. Ootside the hamlet is a Romanesque hermitage dedicatit tae St. Ermengol.
The economy is based on agricultur (wheat, potatoes, alfalfa, an vegetables).
Lochmaben
Lochmaben (Gaelic: Loch Mhabain) is a smaw veelage and ceevil pairish in Scotland, an steid o a ance-important castle, Lochmaben Castle. It lies fower mile wast o Lockerbie, in Dumfries an Gallowa. The veelage is aside Castle Loch.
Animal Ferm
Baist Ferm (Animal Farm) is an allegorical an dystopian novella bi George Orwell, first published in Ingland on 17 August 1945. Accordin tae Orwell, the beuk reflecks events leadin up tae the Roushie Revolution o 1917 an then on intae the Stalinist era o the Soviet Union. Orwell, a democratic socialist, wis a creetic o Joseph Stalin an ill-kindit taewart Moscow-directit Stalinism, a souch that wis creetically collt bi his experiences durin the Spaingie Ceevil War. The Soviet Union, he believed, haed acome a brutal dictatorship, biggit upon a cult o personality an enforced bi a reign o terrificàtion. In a letter tae Yvonne Davet, Orwell describit Animal Ferm as a satirical tale agin Stalin ("un conte satirique contre Staline"), an in his essay "Why I Write" (1946), writ that Animal Ferm wis the first beuk in whilk he tried, wi fou consciousness o whit he wis daein, "tae fuse poleetical an airteestic ettle intae ane hail".
Oliola
Oliola is a veelage in the province o Lleida an autonomous commonty o Catalonie, Spain.
Sohag
Subdiveesions
The ceety o Sohag is informally dividit intae twa diveesions: the East Destrict (Arabic: حى شرق) an the Wast Destrict (Arabic: حي غرب). Amang the maist notable regions o the Wast Destrict are:
The East Destrict is considered a mair upscale destrict that includes some o the maist affluent neighborhoods o the ceety includin 15t Street, Al Kashef Street, Jumhuriya Street, The Courts Compound, an The Technical an Agricultural Schools. Some o the maist notable locales o the East Destrict include:
Transport
Sohag is linked tae Giza an Northren ceeties throu three main roads: road o Asyut Wastren Desert, Eastren Desert Road, Rural Road forby connectit tae it throu the train.
In Februar 2010 a new heich-gate linkin the ceety tae the Red Sea ceety o Hurghada wis opened facilitatin the ease the muivement atween Upper Egyp an the Red Sea coastal region.
In Meey 2010, the Egyptian Preses Hosni Mubarak inauguratit a brand new airport tae serve the ceety cried Sohag Internaitional Airport.
Education
Sohag is characterized bi vera lairge nummers o graduates in aw fields.
Eyvanki
Eyvanki (, Romanisit as Eyvānkī, Eyvānekey, Aivaneki, Aivan-e Ki, Aivān-i-Kaif, an Eyvānakī an aw) is a ceety in an caipital o Eyvanki Destrict, Garmsar Coonty, Semnan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population wis 10,396, in 2,760 faimilies.
Sohag
Education
Illiteracy haes continued tae drop due tae schuils (literacy) for aw ages free o chairge.
Thare are mony schuils an colleges in Sohag maist famous:
High schuils:
Paul Hutchison
Paul Hutchison is a New Zealand politeecian, an a member o the kintra’s pairlament in Wellington, representin the Naitional Pairty. He is a consteetuency member unner the proportional representation seestem, representin Port Waikato.
Sohag
Sports
The maist favourite an popular sport in Sohag is fitbaa. Sohag haes mony fitbaa clubs, amang which anerlie Sohag Fitbaa Club an Sohag Railways FC, Which played in the Egyptian Premier League EPL for a few saisons ago. EPL club El Gouna FC uised the Sohag Stadium as a hame grund at times.
Here is a leet o the major sport clubs in the ceety o Sohag:
Nearbi attractions
Abydos ane o the maist auncient ceeties o Upper Egyp, an an' a' o the aicht Upper Nome o which it wis the caipital ceety. It is forby considered ane o the maist important airchaeological steids o Auncient Egyp, the sacred ceety o Abydos wis the steid o mony auncient temples, includin a Umm el-Qa'ab, a ryal necropolis whaur early pharaohs wur entombed.
Akhmim haes several mosques an twa Coptic kirks, maintains a weekly mercat, an manufactures cotton guids, notably the blue shirts an check shawls wi silk fringes worn bi the poorer classes o Egyp.
El-Hawawish the auncient necropolis (cemetery) for the ceety o Akhmim.
El-Salamuni comprises a rock-cut chapel dedicatit tae the god Min.
The Meritamen statue in east Akhmim.
Beit Khallaf Ootside the veelage are twa vera lairge brick mastabas frae the Third Dynasty.
Athribis The ceety is the steid o a temple biggit for the goddess Repyt (Triphis) bi Ptolemy XV Caesarion an subsequent Roman Emperors.
Alaküla, Rapla Coonty
Alaküla is a veelage in Märjamaa Pairish, Rapla Coonty in wastren Estonie.
Kastelorizo
Kastelorizo (Καστελόριζο - Kastelorizo, offeecially Μεγίστη - Megisti) is a Greek island an municipality locatit in the sootheastren Mediterranean. It lees roughly 2 km aff the sooth coast o Turkey, aboot 570 km sootheast o Athens an 125 km east o Rhodes, amaist hawfwey atween Rhodes an Antalya an 280 km tae Cyprus. Kastelorizo is pairt o the Rhodes regional unit.
The meanin o its current offeecial name Megisti (Μεγίστη) is "biggest" or "greatest", but at anerlie 11.987 km2 in aurie, it is the smawest o the Dodecanese. The name, housomeivver, refers tae the fact that it is the lairgest o the sma airchipelago.
Name an Etymology
The island's offeecial name, Megisti (Μέγιστη), is rarely uised in Greek, the traditional name Kastelorizo (Καστελόριζο) bein common. Thare are several hypotheses aboot the oreegin o the name Kastelorizo, which is thocht tae date frae Byzantine era. Thare is wide consensus that "Kastello" is derivit frae the Laitin wird "castellum", meanin "castle", as this wird (in the Greek form), wis uised frequently bi Byzantine Greeks. Thare is some argument on the seicont pairt o the name. The arguments are centred on the follaein possible oreegins o the wird 'rizo':
It haes gane bi several different names in its history, includin Kastellorizo (Greek), Castellorizo (Greek name wi Italian spellin), Castelrosso (Italian, meanin "Red Castle"), Chateau Rouge (French translation o Italian name) an Meis, or Kızılhisar, the umwhile derivin frae the island's offeecial name in Greek, the latter meanin Reid Castle, a translation o the Italian name.
Öxabäck
Öxabäck is a locality situatit in Mark Municipality, Västra Götaland Coonty, Swaden. It haed 300 inhabitants in 2010.
Alfonso XII o Spain
Alfonso XII (Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo; 28 November 1857 – 25 November 1885) wis Keeng o Spain, reignin frae 1874 tae 1885, efter a coup d'état restored the monarchy an endit the ephemeral First Spainyie Republic.
Stranrawer
Stranraer (, ; An t-Sròn Reamhar) in Scotland, cryed locally as "The Toon", is a toon in the pairish o Inch, Dumfries an Gallowa, Scotland. Stranrawer is in the historical coonty o Wigtounshire. It lies on the shores o Loch Ryan, on the northren side o the isthmus jynin the Rhins o Gallowa til the mainland. Stranrawer is Dumfries an Gallowa's seicont-lairgest toon, wi a population includin the surroondin aurie o awmaist 13,000.
Stranrawer is the admeenistrative centre for the Wast Gallowa Wigtounshire aurie o Dumfries an Gallowa. It wis umwhile a ferry port, connectin Scotland wi Belfast an Lairne in Northren Ireland; the service wis relocatit tae nearby The Cairn in November 2011. It lies bi road 87.4 mile southwast o Glesga an 72.8 mile til the wast o Dumfries.
The name comes fae the Scots Gaelic An t-Sròn Reamhar meanin "the braid heidland".
Transport
The A77 road rins north taewart Ayr, Preswick, an Glesga. The A75 road rins fae Stranrawer tae Gretna, wi links til the M6 motorwey gaun tae Cairl. The A75 is pairt o European route E18, bit, like aw European routes, it isna signpostit as sic in the Unitit Kinrick.
The main national coach providers operate services fae Stranrawer. National Express offer a service tae Lunnon, an Scottish Citylink (in associe wi Ulsterbus operate services til Edinburgh. Local transport in an aroond the toon is providit bi Stagecoach West Scotland, an local companys, includin McCulloch's Coaches.
Stranraer railwey station is the soothren stance for ane o the brainch lines o the Glasgow South Western Line Trains is providit bi Abellio ScotRail daily til Ayr, Glesga Central, an tae Kilmarnock. Fae Stranraer connections til the West Coast Main Line can be made at Glesga Central, or traivelin via Ayr, Kilmarnock, Dumfries tae Cairl. Onwart trains fae baith Glesga Central or Cairl connect direct tae London Euston an ither destinations sic as Manchester Picadilly, Crewe, and Birmingham New Street.
Baith Campbelltown Airport an Glesga Prestwick Airport, at aroond 45 mile, is the closest airports in Scotland tae Stranraer. George Best Belfast City Airport in Northren Ireland is 39 mile awa.
Economy
The main industries in the aurie is the ferry port, wi associatit industries; tourism; an mair tradeetional, fermin.
Climate
Like maist o the Unitit Kinrick, Stranrawer his an oceanic climate (Köppen: Cfb). The nearest wather station tae Stranraer is locatit at RAF West Freugh, aroond 5 mile sooth o Stranrawer.
Redevelopment
The European Union is pairtly financin The Stranraer and Loch Ryan Waterfront Project tae regenerate the aurie.
At an estimatit cost o £1.29 million, the Castle Square development will be the first phase o the redevelopment o Stranrawer toon centre an signeeficant chainge the flowe o traffeck, wi Castle Street an George Street baith bein nairit in a bit tae be mair ganger-freendly. Bi Januar 2010, wirk on the streets wis complete, wi the streets aroond the Castle o St John re-paved and re-profile't. The Castle Square wis formal unveilt in Mairch 2011 an his sae faur hostit a range o acteevitys, includin muisic an faimily events.
Historic an namely biggins
The Castle o St John is a medieval tour hoose, built aroond 1500 bi the Adairs o Kilhilt. It his been uised as a hame, a coort, a preeson, an a militar gairison - the last durin The Killin Times in the 1680s. The Auld Toon Hoose, built in 1776, noo hooses the Stranrawer Museum wi tis shawins o Victorian Wigtounshire an the toon's polar explorers, Sir John Ross an his neffae James Clark Ross. The toon is hame an aw tae North West Castle, built in 1820 an the first hottle in the warld wi its ain inby curlin sheet.
Laundmerks
Local tourist attractions include:
Eddication
Stranrawer his five primary schuils:
The seicontary schuil, Stranraer Academy, is a comprehensive schuil conseestin o ane modren biggin (New Building Phase 2 completit in 2010). The schuil his aroond 1,200 scholarts, 90 members o staff an serves the aurie o Stranraer, the Rhins, an pairts o the Machars in Wigtounshire. Stranraer Academy his anither seiven associatit primary schuils fae auries ootby Stranraer: Glenluce, Castle Kennedy, Drummore, Kirkcolm, Leswalt, Saundheid, an Portpaitrick. The oreeginal Stranraer Academy wis appent in 1845 on the site o the praisent Stranraer Campus o Dumfries and Galloway College. In 1965, a new Academy (B Block) wis built alangside a new Heich Schuil (A Block) an in 1970 the schuils gaed thegither. Dumfries and Galloway College his a campus in the toon. In 1990, the John Niven Education College wis built on Academy Street in the toon; it his been syne absorbit intil the Dumfries and Galloway College.
Sport
The rugby team Wigtownshire RFC is sted in the toon, playkkn at London Road Playing Fields, opposite Stair Park, an is praisently in West League Division 2.
At Stair Park the're BMX an skeitchbuirdin ledges an aw, an aw-wather tennis coorts an netbaw coorts. The toon his a soumin-puil an aw (wi a fluim), fitness suites, gymnasium, an a lairge sports haw at the cooncil-run Ryan Centre, as weel as ither fitbaw fields, pairks, an aw-wather multi-purpose pitches.
Ootthrou the years, Stranrawer his been an aw a centre o excellence for Scots curlin. The toon blowsts the first hottle in the warld wi an inby curlin sheet (North West Castle), an wis the birthplace o Hammy McMillan, a Warld Kemp curler that conteenas tae bide in the toon nouadays. The toon is host til a nummer o annual curlin kemps, includin the Scots Leddys Curlin Kemp and the Warld Junior Curlin Kemp.
The're twa lawn-bouls clubs an aw in Stranrawer. Baith clubs hae wun major national an international honours in recent years.
A smaw leisur-boat marina wis biggit in Stranrawer Herbour in 2008.
Public services
NHS Dumfries and Galloway provides healcare services in the toon. The Galloway Community Hospital appent in 2006 an replace't the Garrick an Dalrymple infirmarys in the toon. Geneneral Practeesoner (GP) services is sted in the Waverly Medical Centre, aside the new infirmary.
The toon haes a nummer o care hames for the elderin, the mucklemaist bein Thorneycroft on the edges o the toon, run bi the CIC company.
Media
The local newspaper, ''Stranraer and Wigtownshire Free Press"" is sted an printit in the toon's St Andrews Street. The ''Galloway Gazeette kivers the toon an aw, an the surroondin aurie. Stranrawer faws in the ITV Border televeesion aurie. The nearest radio station is sted in Belfast; houiver the nearest local station is sted in Dumfries. West Sound FM braidcasts on 96.5 FM in the toon. In Juin 2009, Stranrawer stairtit the transition fae analogue tae digital televeesion, makkin it ane o the first auries in the kintra tae dae sae, ahint Workington an The Mairches. This appent up a number o digital services for the toon an the surroondin auries, that afore struggle't tae get even the likes o Chainel Five on thair televeesion sets.
History
The Battle o Loch Ryan wis fochten near Stranrawer on 9/10 Februar 1307 durin the Wars o Scots Unthirldom. Keeng Robert I o Scotland's invasion o his ancestoral launds in Annandale an Carrick begoud in 1307. The Annandale an Gallowa invasion force wis led bi his brithers Alexander de Brus an Tammas de Brus; Malcolm McQuillan, Laird o Kintyre; an Irish sub-keeng, an Sir Reginal Crawford. The force consistit o 1,000 men an 18 gaileys. Thay sailt intae Loch Ryan an laundit near Stranrawer. The invasion force wis quickly owerwhalmt bi local forces, led bi Dungal MacDouall that wis an uphauder o the Balliols, Comyns, an Keeng Edward I o England, an anely twa gaileys escapit. Aw the leaders wis capturt. Dungal MacDouall short an lang executit the Irish sub-keeng an Malcolm McQuillan, Laird o Kintyre. Alexander, Tammas, and Reginald wis sent tae Cairl, whaur thay wis executit. The heids o McQuillan an twa Irish chiefs wis sent tae Keeng Edward I.
On 12 November 1595, the "Clashant o Stranrawer" is name't pairt o Ninian Adair's launds o Barony an in 1596 wis upset intil a burgh o barony, the Barony o Kinhilt. This is recordit in the Register o the Great Seal o Scotland. Pairt o the record translates:
"At Lithgae, 12 November 1595, the Keeng confirms an for faithfu service again dedicates tae Ninian Adair o Kinhilt, an the richtous male heirs o his body, that failin his nearest richtous male heirs whasaeiver beir the name an inseegnie o Adair [various launds]... In addeetion, the Keeng creauts the veelage at Clachan o Stranrawer as a free burgh an Port o Stranrawer; and the said Ninian etc sall hae the authority tae appynt a bailie, thesaurer, Dean o Guild, judge, burgesses, offeecials, etc; an the burgesses sal hae the authority an leave tae pack an unpack [meanin the sellin o bouk guids (halesale tred) alloud bi law anely in a free burgh], tae buy an tae sell [alloued anely in a free burgh an aw] etc; [...] an the said Ninian etc sall hae authority tae haud the poseetion o governor o the said burgh, [...] tae haud weekly mercats on Seturday, wi free (no taxt) mercat days twice a year, viz St Barnabas Day the 11th o June, an at Peter's Impreesonment cried Lammas Day on the 1t o August, [...] an the said Ninian etc sall hae authority ower aw the port customs o the said burgh raised bi sea or laund amang the laund tenants o the said burgh an uphaudin o the said port; an the said Ninian etc sall hae authority tae receive resignations o launds o the said burgh etc [that is, rekiver his launds fae townsfowk that chuise tae sell thaim or gie thaim up]; fae thae persons whatsaeiver that chose tae pit by thaim; the townsfowk can meet three times a week on Monanday, Wadensday, an Friday"
Al-Mukharram
Al-Mukharram (المخرم), kent as Mukharram al-Foqani an aw, is a Sirie ceety admeenistratively belangin tae Homs Governorate in the Al-Mukharram Destrict. Al-Mukharram haes an altitude o 845m. It haes a population o 9,640.
Stranrawer
History
Bi 1600, Stranrawer hid become the mercat toon for wastren Wigtounshire. At aboot this time, Stranrawer wis reakit bi a militar road built fae Dumfries tae allou easier aiccess tae Portpaitrick for transportation o people til Ireland for the Plantation o Ulster. Stranrawer becam a ryal burgh in 1617.
The first herbor in Stranrawer wis built in the mid-18t century, wi forder port development in teh 1820s. The arrival o the railwey fae Dumfries in 1861 (closed 1965), giein the shortest jurney tae/fae Lunnon, estaiblisht final Stranraer as the aurie's main port. In 1862 the line wis stendit tae serve the herbour direct, an a link tae Portpaitrick wis apptent an aw. In 1877, a rail connection north tae Girvan an Glesga wis estaiblisht an aw. Stranrawer remeent the main Scots port for the Irish ferrys for the neist 150 year o sae. On 31 Januar 1953, 133 people dee'd whan the MV Princess Victoria sank near Belfast Loch efter its caur deck wis owersumpit bi hivy seas.
Stranrawer an its surroondin aurie saw a signeeficant amoont o acteevity durin Warld War II, as it becam a focus for anti-U-boat wirk. Fleein boats operatit fae the aurie in an attempt tae siccar the watters o the North Chainel an the soothwastren coast o Scotland. Awmaist aw o Breetain's shippin imports passt throu thae twa sea auries en route til the Clyde or the Mersey. The fleein boat Supermarine Stranraer is name't efter the toon. Winston Churchill himsel depairtit fae Stranraer in a Boeing Flying boat on the nicht o 25 Juin 1942, whan makkin his seicont veesit o the war til the USA. Churchill spent time an aw at nearby Knockinaam Lodge durin the war years.
Stranrawer his an active local history trust that publishes wirk on the aurie's history, commissiont fae local scrievers.
San Francisco, El Petén
San Francisco is a municipality in the El Petén depairtment o Guatemala. The municipality haes a population o 8,066 fowk.
The San Francisco municipal govrenment is led bi alcalde Simon Vinicio Penados Gomez, o the Naitional Unity o Howp (UNE). The poleetical pairty UNE haulds aw but twa offices in the govrenment; those twa are held bi Grand Naitional Alliance (GANA) memmers.
The municipality includes 11 commonties:
Freemit airtins
San Francisco, El Petén Offeecial Steid (Spainyie)
Anneli Hulthén
Anneli Maria Hulthén (born 27 Julie 1960) is a Swadish Social Democratic Pairty politeecian. She is currently the chairman o the Gothenburg Municipality executive board.
Hultén wan the Politician Award at the 2011 World Entrepreneurship Forum in Singapore, for her wirk wi Business Region Göteborg an their programmes "Expedition Forward", "Business Emergency Programme" an "Brew House Incubator".
Nizhny
Nizhny (Ни́жний; masculine), Nizhnyaya (Ни́жняя; feminine), or Nizhneye (Ни́жнее; neuter), literally meanin "lawer", is the name o several rural localities in Roushie:
Pontypridd
Pontypridd is baith a commonty an a principal toun o Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales an is situatit 12 mile/19 km north o the Welsh caipital ceety o Cardiff. Pontypridd is aften abbreviatit "Ponty" bi local residents.
Geografie
Pontypridd comprises the electoral wairds o Cilfynydd, Glyncoch, Graig, Graigwen, Hawthorn, Pontypridd Town, 'Rhondda', Rhydyfelin Central/Ilan (Rhydfelen), Trallwng (Trallwn) an Treforest (Trefforest).
The toun sits at the junction o the Rhondda an Taff / Cynon glens, whaur the River Rhondda flows intae the Taff immediately sooth o the toun at Ynysangharad War Memorial Park. Pontypridd commonty haed a population o 29,781 accordin tae census figurs gathered in 2001. while Pontypridd toun itsel wis recordit as haein a population o 2,919 an aw as o 2001.
The toun lees alangside the dual carriagewey north-sooth A470, atween Cairdiff an Merthyr Tydfil. The A4054, runnin north an sooth o the toun, wis the umwhile main road, an lik the A470, follaes the Taff Valley. Sooth o the toun is the A473, for Llantrisant an Pencoed. Tae the wast is the A4058, which follaes the River Rhondda tae Porth an the Rhondda ayont.
East Renfrewshire
East Renfrewshire (spelt Eist Renfrewshire or Aest Renfrewshire anaw) is ane o the 32 cooncil areas o Scotland. It is 174 square kilometer in area an haes 89,500 indwallers as o 2005.
Pontypridd
History
The name Pontypridd is frae "Pont-y-tŷ-pridd" the Welsh for "brig bi the yirden hoose", a reference tae a succession o firthen brigs that umwhile spanned the River Taff at this pynt.
Old Bridge
Pontypridd is notit for its Old Bridge, a stane construction athort the River Taff biggit in 1756 bi William Edwards. This wis Edward's third attempt an at the time o construction wis the langest single-span stane airch brig in the warld. Risin 35 ft abuin the level o the river, the brig forms a perfect segment o a circle, the chord o which is 140 ft. Notable featurs are the three holes o differin diameters throu each end o the brig, the purpose o which is tae reduce wicht. On completion, questions wur suin raised as tae the utility o the brig, the steepness o the design makkin it difficult tae get horse an cairts athort. As a result a new brig, the Victoria Bridge paid for bi public subscription, wis biggit adjacent tae the ald ane in 1857. Pontypridd wis kent as Newbridge frae shortly efter the construction o the Old Bridge till the 1860s.
East Renfrewshire
The cooncil area wis shapit in 1996, as an eftirganger til the Eistwid destrik, alang wi Barrheid, whilk cam frae Renfrew destrik. It haes mairches wi North Ayrshire, East Ayrshire, Renfrewshire, Sooth Lanrikshire an the Ceitie o Glesga.
Pontypridd
Coal
The history o Pontypridd is closely tee'd tae the coal an airn industries, prior tae the developments o thir Pontypridd wis lairgely a landwart backwater comprisin a few fermsteids, wi Treforest initially becomin the main urban dounset in the aurie. Sited as it is at the junction o the three glens, it became an important location for the transportation o coal frae the Rhondda an airn frae Merthyr Tydfil, first via the Glamorganshire Canal an later via the Taff Vale Railway, tae the ports at Cairdiff, Barry an tae Newport. Acause o its role in transportin coal cargo, its railwey platform is thocht tae hae ance been the langest in the warld durin its heyday. Pontypridd wis in the seicont hauf o the 19t century a hive o industrie, an wis ance elk-namit the ‘Wild West’. Thare wur several collieries athin the Pontypridd aurie itsel, includin:
East Renfrewshire
Sattilments
Thar is a nummer o veilages in Eist Renfreshire anaw, thay'r cried Busby, Eaglesham (3,127 fowk), Neilston (5,168 fowk), Uplawmuir (590 fowk) an Watterfit (1,279 fowk). Ither sattilments ar Cauldwall, pairts o Muirend, Netherlee (4,741 fowk), Stamperland an Thornliebank.
Piera
Piera is a municipality that covers a muckle portion o the sootheastren corner o the comarca o Anoia in Catalonie, Spain, on the left bank o the Anoia river. The agricultural laund, maistly nan-irrigatit, is uised for the cultivation o cereals, grapes, olives an awmonds. The toun itsel hosts a nummer o licht industries: textiles, plastics an construction materials. Tourism durin the simmer months is relatively important for the local economy an aw.
The FGC railwey line R6 frae Martorell an Barcelona tae Igualada runs throu the toun, while local roads lead tae Capellades an Sant Sadurní d'Anoia.
Notable monuments include the castle o Fontanet. The castle which wis restored in 1916 bi Ramon de Viala d'Aiguavives, Baron o Almenar is documentit in 955 a.c. an nou uised for private functions.
The sister o the Baron o Almenar, Isabel de Viala d'Aiguavives financit an patroned the modrenist kirk o Ca n'Aguilera an aw which wis donatit tae Barcelona's Bishop bi Zaragoza de Viala faimily on 1921. The airchitect o Ca N'Aguilera modrenist kirk is Francesc Berenguer i Mestres, who wis Antoni Gaudi's disciple an personal friend.
Anither Piera relevant monument is the kirk o Santa Maria, wi both gothic an roman elements
Subdiveesions
The municipality o Piera includes several ootlyin veelages (barris): these are uisually distinguished intae the aulder, tradeetional dounsets (barris antics) an the newer urbanisations which hae been developit tae cope wi the expansion o the municipality (barris nous). Populations are gien for 1999, frae the Ajuntament de Piera an citit in Història de Piera: the toun o Piera (nucli urbà) haed a population o 5036 at that date, whauras the total population o the municipality wis 8551.
Pontypridd
Airn an Steel
Ither instrumental industries in Pontypridd wur the - Brown Lenox/Newbridge Chain & Anchor Works sooth east o the toun, an Crawshay’s Forest Iron, Steel & Tin Plate Works an the Taff Vale Iron Works, baith in Treforest near the nou Varsity o Sooth Wales.
Biggins
The toun is hame tae a lairge hospital, Dewi Sant Hospital.
Pontypridd commonty
Pontypridd commonty is made up o the toun o Pontypridd an its immediate suburbs, dounsets an veelages.
Lomé
Lomé, wi an estimatit population o 737,751, is the caipital an lairgest ceety o Togo. Locatit on the Gulf o Guinea, Lomé is the kintra's admeenistrative an industrial centre an its chief port. The ceety exports coffee, cocoa, copra, an palm kernels. It an aa haes an oil refinery.
Pontypridd
Transport links
Pontypridd came intae bein acause o transport, as it wis on the drovers route frae the sooth Wales coast an the Bristol Channel, tae Merthyr an onwairds intae the hills o Brecon. Awtho initial expansion in the glens occurred at Treforest due tae the slower speed o the River Taff at that pynt, the establishment o better brig biggin meant a naitural flow o pouer tae Pontypridd.
Lomé
History
The ceety's population grew rapidly in the seciont hauf o the 20t century. The ceety haed approximately 30,000 indwallers in 1950: bi 1960 (the year Togo gained its unthirldom frae Fraunce) the population haed reached 80,000, increasin tae 200,000 bi 1970.