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Adiposis dolorosa Adiposis dolorosa, also known as Dercum's disease, is a rare disease characterized by multiple painful lipomas that arise in adult life. Older medical literature states that "the disease occurs most often in obese postmenopausal women, but can also occur in men.
Adir Hu Adir Hu (English: Mighty is He, Hebrew אדיר הוּא) is a hymm sung by Jews worldwide at the Passover Seder. It switches rapidly between saying the virtues of God in an alphabet format (Aleph, Bet, Gimmel,...
Adirondack (Amtrak) The Adirondack is a passenger train operated daily by Amtrak between New York City and Montreal, Quebec. The trip takes approximately 10 hours to cover a published distance of 381 miles, travelling through the scenic Hudson Valley and the Adirondack Mountains.
Adirondack (Mars) Adirondack is the nickname for Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's first target rock. Scientists chose Adirondack to be Spirit's first target rock rather than another rock, called Sashimi, that would have been a shorter, straight-ahead drive.
Adirondack County, New York Adirondack County is a proposed new county in New York to be formed out of the northern part of what is now Essex County and the southern part of what is now Franklin County. It would tentatively include the Essex County towns of Jay, Keene, North Elba, Wilmington and St.
Adirondack guideboat Adirondack guideboats were built since the early 1800s and evolved from a hunting skiff to today's highly refined design. The Adirondack guideboat was originally designed to benefit the professional guide who carried the boat and provided all the propulsion for his paying passengers.
Adirondack Mountains The Adirondack mountain range is a group of mountains in the northeastern part of New York that runs through Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, St. Lawrence, Saratoga, Warren, and Washington counties.
Adirondack Stakes The Adirondack Stakes is a race for thoroughbred race horses held in the middle of August at Saratoga Race Course. The Adirondack is open to two-year-old fillies willing to race six and a half furlongs on the dirt.
Adirondack State Park The Adirondack State Park, also known as the Adirondack Park, is a large state park in northeast New York. It is the largest state park in the United States, covering a land area about the size of Vermont, although more than half the land within is privately owned, including several villages and hamlets and Adirondack Regional Airport.
Adissage Adissage is a uni-sexual slide-style sandal produced by sporting-good manufacturer adidas. Available in black, navy, light blue, black with pink, and other assorted colors, the sandal has the trademarked three stripes on a velcro strap toward the front of the shoe.
Adit An adit is a type of entrance to an underground mining shaft is horizontal or nearly horizontal. Adits are usually built into the side of a hill or mountain, and often occur when a measure of coal or an ore body is located inside the mountain but above the adjacent valley floor or coastal plain.
Adithada Adithada (Malayalam :അടി തട , Tamil:அடிதட) (Adi means hitting and thada means block) is an ancient martial art originating from erstwhile Travancore regions in the south India comprising of southern kerala and kanyakumari district which was later ceded to Tamil Nadu. It is similar to Kickboxing, Muay Thai, and Karate.
Aditya Hridayam The Aditya Hridayam, is a hymn associated with the Sun or Surya and was recited by the great sage Agastya to Rama on the battlefield before fighting with Ravana. This historic hymn starts at the beginning of the Battle with Ravana, when Lord Rama is fatigued and getting ready to fight.
Aditya Chopra Aditya Yash Chopra or commonly known as Aditya Chopra (* 21 May 1971) is an Indian film director, scriptwriter and producer of the Bollywood genre. He is the son of Yash Chopra and brother of film actor Uday Chopra.
Aditya Mittal Aditya Mittal (born c. [ is a Member of the Board of Directors and President and Chief Financial Officer of the world's largest steel firm Mittal Steel, which is majority owned by his father Lakshmi Mittal, who was ranked the fifth richest person in the world by Forbes in 2006.
Adityawarman Adityawarman was a prince in the Majapahit empire during the 14th century, and a blood relative of Hayam Wuruk. Adityawarman conquered Jambi region in Sumatra, and later the Tanah Datar region in central Sumatra to take control of the gold trade.
Adium Adium is a popular instant messaging client for Mac OS X that supports multiple protocols through the libgaim library. It is written using OS X's Cocoa API, and it is released under the free software GNU General Public License.
Adivasi Ādivāsīs (आदिवासी), literally "original inhabitants", or tribal people comprise a substantial indigenous minority of the population of India. Indian tribals are also called Atavika (forest dwellers, in Sanskrit texts), Vanvasis or Girijans (hill people, e.
Adivasi Democratic Front The Adivasi Democratic Front was formed as a mass organization of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Flag in Madhya Pradesh. The ADF was formed in the Sidhi district in 2004, and works for the betterment of the adivasi population.
Adjacency matrix In mathematics and computer science, the adjacency matrix of a finite directed or undirected graph G on n vertices is the n Ă— n matrix where the nondiagonal entry a_{ij} is the number of edges from vertex i to vertex j, and the diagonal entry a_{ii} is either twice the number of loops at vertex i or just the number of loops (usages differ, depending on the mathematical needs; this article follows the former convention for undirected graphs, though directed graphs always follow the latter). There exists a unique adjacency matrix for each graph (up to permuting rows and columns), and it is not the adjacency matrix of any other graph.
Adjala-Tosorontio, Ontario Adjala-Tosorontio, township in south-central Ontario, in the County of Simcoe is north of the Greater Toronto Area. It was created in 1993 when the County of Simcoe Act merged the townships of Adjala and Tosorontio.
Adjar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic The Adjar ASSR, Adzhar ASSR or Adjarian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was an autonomous republic of the Soviet Union within the Georgian SSR, established on 16 July, 1921. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 it constitutes the Autonomous Republic of Adjara of Georgia.
Adjectival noun An adjectival noun (Japanese: 形容動詞, keiyō-dōshi, "adjectival verb") is a noun that functions as an adjective. This term is often used in analyses of the Japanese language to refer to members of the word class commonly known as "na-adjectives".
Adjika Adjika is a hot, spicy but subtly-flavoured paste often used to flavour food in the country of Georgia and elsewhere in the Caucasus. It is based on a boiled preparation of hot red peppers, garlic, and herbs and spices such as coriander, dill, and blue fenugreek (which is only found in mountain regions such as the Alps or the Caucasus).
Adjoint representation In mathematics, the adjoint representation (or adjoint action) of a Lie group G is the natural representation of G on its own Lie algebra. This representation is the linearized version of the action of G on itself by conjugation.
Adjourn for more than 3 days Under the United States Constitution, neither chamber of the United States Congress may adjourn for more than three days without the approval of the other. Such approval is obtained in a concurrent resolution approved by both chambers.
Adjournment debate In the Westminster System, an adjournment debate is a debate on the motion, "That this House do now adjourn." In practice, this is a way of enabling the House to have a debate on a subject without considering a substantive motion.
Adjournment in contemplation of dismissal An Adjournment in Contemplation of Dismissal (or ACD) is a procedure in Criminal Law whereby a judge or other judicial official halts proceedings in a matter (most often a misdemeanor or traffic infraction) on the understanding it will be dismissed in a certain amount of time.
Adjudicated Referring to a minor, the term adjudicated refers to children that are under a court's jurisdiction usually as a result of having engaged in delinquent behavior and not having a legal guardian that could be entrusted with being responsible for him or her.
Adjudication Adjudication is the legal process by which an arbiter or judge reviews evidence and argumentation including legal reasoning set forth by opposing parties or litigants to come to a decision which determines rights and obligations between the parties involved. Three types of disputes are resolved through adjudication: disputes between private parties, such as individuals or corporations; disputes between private parties and public officials; and disputes between public officials or public bodies.
Adjudication Panel for England The Adjudication Panel for England is an independent judicial tribunal set up under the Local Government Act 2000. It is a Non-departmental public body which rules on complaints referred to it by the Standards Board for England regarding alleged breaches of English local authorities' codes of conduct by elected members of those authorities.
Adjugate matrix In linear algebra, the adjugate or classical adjoint of a square matrix is a matrix which plays a role similar to the inverse of a matrix; it can however be defined for any square matrix without the need to perform any divisions.
Adjunction formula (algebraic geometry) In mathematics, the adjunction formula of algebraic geometry and complex manifold theory relates, for a hypersurface, its normal bundle, its canonical bundle, and the canonical bundle of the ambient variety or manifold.
Adjunction space In mathematics, an adjunction space is a common construction in topology where one topological space is attached or "glued" onto another. Specifically, let X and Y be a topological spaces with A a subspace of Y.
Adjuntas, Puerto Rico Adjuntas (ahd-HOON-tahs), is a small mountainside town in Puerto Rico located central midwest of the island on the Central Mountain range (La Cordillera Central), north of Yauco, Guayanilla and Peñuelas; southeast of Utuado; east of Lares and Yauco; and west of Ponce. Adjuntas is spread over 16 wards and Adjuntas Pueblo (the downtown area and the administrative center of the city).
Adjustable bed An adjustable bed (also called a Semi-Fowler bed) can be adjusted to a number of different positions. For individuals with certain types of back problems, sleeping on an adjustable bed that is at a slight incline ("semi-Fowler position", e.
Adjustable bend The adjustable bend is a bend knot (knot that joins two ends of rope/string/cordage together) that has the unique feature of that you are able to tighten it so that the single rope the two ropes make together is shorter, or longer as needed. It was developed by renowned climber Robert Chisnall.
Adjustable gastric band Adjustable gastric banding is a form of restrictive weight loss surgery (bariatrics) designed for obesity patients with a body mass index (BMI) of 40 or greater - or between 35 – 40 with those who have co-morbidities that are known to improve with weight loss. The gastric band is an inflatable silicone prosthetic device which is placed around the top portion of the stomach via keyhole surgery laparoscopic surgery.
Adjustable rate mortgage An adjustable rate mortgage (ARM), variable rate mortgage or floating rate mortgage is a mortgage loan where the interest rate on the note is periodically adjusted based on an index. This is done to ensure a steady margin for the lender, whose own cost of funding will usually be related to the index.
Adjustable Ranging Telescope Developed and patented by James M. Leatherwood, the Adjustable Ranging Telescope (ART) system combines a rangefinding scale inside the telescopic sight (scope) with an adjustable cam built into the scope's mount that raises or lowers the rear of the sight to compensate for the trajectory of the bullet.
Adjustable spanner An adjustable spanner, shifting spanner, shifter, crescent wrench or adjustable-end wrench (American English) is a tool which can be used to loosen or tighten a nut or bolt. It has a "jaw" (the part into which the nut or bolt goes) which is of adjustable size, which allows for different size nuts and bolts to be handled by the same spanner.
Adjusted calculation date In astrology, the adjusted calculation date, or artificial birthday is the day on which the planetary position shown in an Ephemeris coincides with the progressed positions of the planets and other bodies in the heavens. The adjusted calculation date remains the same from year to year and is used by astrologers when they want to cast a progressed horoscope for a person.
Adjusted ERA+ Adjusted ERA+, often simply abbreviated to ERA+, is a statistic in baseball. It adjusts a pitcher's ERA according to the pitcher's ballpark (does it favor batters or pitchers) and the ERA of the pitcher's league.
Adjusted Gross Income Adjusted gross income (AGI) is a United States tax term for an amount used in the calculation of an individual's income tax liability. It includes all gross income adjusted by certain allowed deductions, and is an important benchmark determining certain other allowed benefits.
Adjusted Service Certificate Law The Adjusted Service Certificate Law is a United States federal law passed in 1924 that granted veterans of World War I "bonus" certificates the following year that would be redeemable for cash after a maturation period of 20 years.
Adjusted Winner procedure In problems of fair division, the adjusted winner procedure is used to partition a bundle of goods between two players in such a way as to minimize envy and maximize efficiency and equitability. The procedure is used in divorce settlements and illustrates the concept of Nash equilibria.
Adjusting entries Adjusting entries are journal entries usually made at the end of an accounting period to allocate income and expenditure to the period in which they actually occurred. The revenue recognition principle is the basis of making adjusting entries that pertain to unearned and accrued revenues under accrual accounting system.
Adjustment Adjustment (from late Latin ad-juxtare, derived from juxta, near, but early confounded with a supposed derivation from Justus, right), regulating, adapting or settling; in commercial law, the settlement of a loss incurred at sea on insured goods.
Adjustment disorder In psychology, adjustment disorder refers to a psychological disturbance that develops in response to a stressor. Adjustment disorders are caused by specific sources of stress, such as severe personal crisis (divorce, death of loved one, recent abuse, recent job changes) or major unexpected negative events (tornado or fire destroys a person's home).
Adjutant (bird) An adjutant is a very large species of stork (Ciconia argala, after the native name "argala"), a native of India, also called the gigantic crane. It feeds on carrion and offal, and is also known for killing snakes.
Adjutant General of Oklahoma The Adjutant General of Oklahoma is the highest ranking military official in the state of Oklahoma, subordinate only to the Governor of Oklahoma. The Adjutant General is the principle advisor to the Governor on military affairs and the head of the Oklahoma Department of the Military as the Secretary of the Military.
Adjutant-General to the Forces The Adjutant-General to the Forces, commonly just referred to as the Adjutant-General (AG), is one of the most senior officers in the British Army. He is in charge of administration, personnel and organisational matters.
Adjutative voice The adjutative voice is a grammatical voice carrying the meaning "to help to". The subject of a verb in the adjutative voice is not an agent of the action denoted by the verb, but is assisting an (unstated) agent in performing the action.
Adjuvant In medicine, adjuvants are agents which modify the effect of other agents while having few if any direct effects when given by themselves. In this sense, they are very roughly analogous with chemical catalysts.
Adkins catalyst The Adkins catalyst is a copper chromite or copper chromium oxide catalyst used in the hydrogenation of ester compounds to the corresponding alcohols. For example, sebacion derived from an intramolecular acyloin condensation of dimethyl sebacate is hydrogenated to 1,2-cyclodecanediol by this catalyst at high hydrogen gas pressure (135 atm) and 150 °C in a so-called hydrogenation bomb.
Adkins v. Children's Hospital Adkins v. Children's Hospital, , is a Supreme Court opinion holding that federal minimum wage legislation for women was an unconstitutional infringement of liberty of contract, as protected by the Fifth Amendment.
Adlai E. Stevenson High School (Lincolnshire, Illinois) Adlai E. Stevenson High School, Stevenson High School, or SHS, is a public four-year high school located near the corner of Milwaukee Avenue and Half Day Road in Lincolnshire, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago.
Adlai Stevenson Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American politician, noted for intellectual demeanor and advocacy of liberal causes in the Democratic party. He served one term as governor of Illinois and lost, by landslides, in two races for president against Dwight D.
Adler The term Adler, the German word for the bird of prey "eagle", is both the last name of many people and an emblematic bird (notably in heraldry, bannistics, numismatics etc.) featured on many blazons since the feudal age, including the Nazi flag and the present German Bundeswappen and at times on the flags of Austria and Germany.
Adler Graduate School Adler Graduate School is an educational institution located in Richfield, Minnesota that offers graduate degrees in counseling psychology with emphases in Marriage and Family Therapy, Licensed Professional Counseling, School Counseling and Management Consulting and Organizational Leadership. The school also offers certificate programs in Professional Life Coaching and Coaching and Consulting in Organizations.
Adler Planetarium The Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum in Chicago, Illinois was the first planetarium built in the Western Hemisphere and is the oldest in existence today. The Adler was founded and built in 1930 by the philanthropist Max Adler, with the assistance of the first director of the planetarium, Philip Fox.
Adler-32 Adler-32 is a checksum algorithm which was invented by Mark Adler. It is almost as reliable as a 32-bit cyclic redundancy check for protecting against accidental modification of data, such as distortions occurring during a transmission, but is significantly faster to calculate in software.
Adlerwerke vorm. Heinrich Kleyer Adler (Adlerwerke vormals Heinrich Kleyer) - Adler works or Adler crafts formerly (known as) Heinrich Kleyer - was a German aircraft manufacturer established by Heinrich Kleyer in Frankfurt-am-Main in 1934 by buying out Gerner. Adler made no original designs, only continuing production of Gerner designs that were included in the acquisition.
Adli Yakan Pasha Adli Yakan Pasha (January 18 1864–October 22 1933) (Arabic: عدلي يكن باشا), sometimes referred to as Adly Pasha, was an Egyptian political figure. He served as Prime Minister of Egypt between 1921 and 1922, again between 1926 and 1927, and finally in 1929.
Adlington, Lancashire Adlington is a town in Lancashire, England near the West Pennine Moors and the larger town of Chorley. It became a separate parish in 1842 then grew into a town around the textile and coal mining industries until these closed in the 1960s.
Adliswil Adliswil is a city in the district of Horgen, in the Canton of ZĂĽrich, Switzerland. It is located in the region of Zimmerberg, within the valley of the Sihl river to the south of the city of ZĂĽrich, next to the localities of Kilchberg, RĂĽschlikon, Langnau am Albis and on the other hand Stallikon pertaining this to the district of Affoltern.
Adlivun In Inuit mythology, Adlivun (those beneath us; also known as Idliragijenget) refers to both the spirits of the departed who reside in the underworld, and that underworld itself, located beneath the land and the sea. The souls are purified there, in preparation for the travel to the Land of the Moon (Quidlivun), where they find eternal rest and peace.
AdLogger AdLogger is an open source program written in Javascript, PHP, and MySQL that records clicks on advertisements on web pages. It compiles the data for later review by the website owner to check for any fraudulent clicks.
Admin Control Panel Administrator Control Panels (abbreviated AdminCP or ACP) are mostly used on Database Driven sites, a good example would be Internet forum software (e.g Invision Power Board, vBulletin, phpBB, and so on) and contain features that only Administrators are permitted to use, such as the management of forums and categories, the creation and editing of the forum's styles (HTML Templates and CSS), and "settings", such as the amount of posts shown on each page of a thread, or the length that signatures are allowed to be.
Admin Panel An Admin Panel usually refers to a "Control Panel" only accessible to users with given access. It is designed to disallow any users that do not have permission to access the panel, usually requiring a password, username, or email for verification.
Administered territories Administered territories is the term of art used, in the discourse under the Law of nations, or International law, to designate the territories under Israeli control, but within which Israel has not declared itself to be soverign.
AdministraciĂłn de Servicios de Salud Mental y Contra la AdicciĂłn The AdministraciĂłn de Servicios de Salud Mental y Contra la AdicciĂłn (ASSMCA) is a Puerto Rico-based organization associated with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
Administration & Society Administration & Society is the name of a social science journal noted for combining the study of public administration, government and civil society from a sociological perspective. The editor is Gary Wamsley, professor emeritus of the Center for Public Administration and Policy at Virginia Tech.
Administration for Children and Families The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is a division of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It is headed by the Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, which since 2001 has been Dr.
Administration for the Development of Weapons and the Technological Industry The Administration for the Development of Weapons and the Technological Industry (Hebrew: מינהל למחקר ,פיתוח אמצעי לחימה ותשתית טכנולוגית), abbreviated Maf'at (מפא"ת), is a joint Israeli Ministry of Defense and Defense Forces body, responsible for ensuring the State's ability to develop the material military basis for the IDF. The Administration centralizes and helps to coordinate the cooperation between the various security bodies, including the Ministry of Defense, the IDF, the military industries and development bodies (Israel Military Industries, Israel Aircraft Industries, RAFAEL Armament Development Authority, etc.
Administration of Justice Act 1774 The Administration of Justice Act, or Act for the Impartial Administration of Justice, also popularly called the Murdering Act or Murder Act, an Act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain (citation 14 Geo III c. 39) and becoming law on 20 May 1774, is one of the measures (variously called the Intolerable Acts, the Punitive Acts or the Coercive Acts) that were designed to secure Britain's jurisdiction over her American dominions.
Administration of the Assets of the Holy See Administration of the Assets of the Holy See (Italian: Amministrazione per i Beni della Santa Sede, abbreviated ABSS) was the main agency responsible for the management of Vatican property, including Palaces and gardens, and capital assets resulting from the investment of surpluses from Peter's Pence.Pollard, 2005, p.
Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See The Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See is part of the Roman Curia that deals with the "properties owned by the Holy See in order to provide the funds necessary for the Roman Curia to function". (Pastor Bonus, 172).
Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See (Italian: Amministrazione per il Patrimonio della Santa Sede, abbreviated APSA) is a sub-office of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See, created in 1967 by the merger of the Administration of the Assets of the Holy See and the Special Administration of the Holy See by Pope Paul VI.Phillipe Levillain.
Administration on Aging The Administration on Aging (AoA) is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. AoA awards annual grants (computed by formulas) to State government agencies on aging and Native American tribal organizations to support programs mandated by the Congress in the Older Americans Act.
Administration Order In English and Welsh insolvency law, an Administration Order is a method used to protect a company experiencing short or medium term financial problems from its creditors. A court order is issued that forbids any form of legal or insolvency action without the court's permission.
Administrative Appeals Tribunal The Administrative Appeals Tribunal or "AAT" is an Australian tribunal which undertakes merits review of decisions by the Australian federal government. It is not part of the Australian court hierarchy and its decisions are subject to review by the Federal Court of Australia.
Administrative detention Administrative detention (Hebrew: ma`atzar minhali), (Arabic: egg'te'al Edari) is a procedure under Israeli law under which a person, deemed by the law enforcement authorities to be a threat to the public, is placed in temporary detention without trial. Its legal basis is a 1945 Emergency Decree of the British Mandate, as amended by the 1979 Law on Authority in States of Emergency.
Administrative distance Administrative distance is the feature used by routers to select the best path when there are two or more different routes to the same destination from two different routing protocols. Administrative distance defines the reliability of a routing protocol.
Administrative division Administrative division is a generic term for an administrative region within a country — on an arbitrary level below that of the sovereign state — typically with a local government encompassing multiple municipalities, counties, or provinces with a certain degree of autonomy.
Administrative divisions of Adygea This is a list of units of administrative and territorial division of the Republic of Adygea, a federal subject of Russia. Adygea, located on the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains, was established as an autonomy of the Adyghe people (Circassians) in Russia, although in practice Adyghe only account for 24.
Administrative divisions of Bashkortostan Administrative and territorial division of the Republic of Bashkortostan is regulated by the Law #178-z of the Republic of Bashkortostan, passed by the State Assembly—Kurultai on April 20, 2005. The Law established the following classification:
Administrative divisions of Connecticut The primary political subdivisions of the state of Connecticut are its towns. New England towns are conceptually similar to civil townships in that the entire territory of the state is completely covered by them.
Administrative divisions of Evenk Autonomous Okrug Evenk Autonomous Okrug was a federal subject of Russia until December 31, 2006. On January 1, 2007, it was merged into Krasnoyarsk Krai along with Taymyr Autonomous Okrug During the transitional period it retains a special status within Krasnoyarsk Krai.
Administrative divisions of French Polynesia There are two levels of administrative divisions of French Polynesia, five administrative subdivisions (French: subdivisions administratives) each of which is further divided into a total of 48 communes, plus Clipperton Island which is administratively attached to French Polynesia. The breakdown into administrative subdivisions was as a result of decree #72-408 of May 17, 1972, and the communes were thereafter established as a result of law #71-1028, dated December 24, 1971.
Administrative divisions of Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug was a federal subject of Russia until November 30, 2005. On December 1, 2005 it was merged with Perm Oblast to form Perm Krai During the transitional period of 2006–2008, it retains a special status within Perm Krai.
Administrative divisions of Massachusetts Administrative divisions of Massachusetts have a distinct local government organization from much of the rest of the nation. As a New England commonwealth, Massachusetts shares with the six New England states, plus New York and New Jersey, a governmental structure known as the "New England town.
Administrative divisions of Moscow The federal city of Moscow, Russia is divided into ten administrative okrugs, which are in turn subdivided into districts (raions). The city does not have a downtown area; the urban core is scattered across the city.
Administrative divisions of Myanmar Myanmar (Burma) is divided into 14 administrative subdivisions, which include 7 states (pyi-neh) and 7 divisions (taing). The names of divisions (except for Ayeyarwady Division and Tanintharyi Division) are also the names of the capital cities.
Administrative divisions of Nepal Nepal is divided into 5 development regions, which are divided into 14 zones, and these in turn are divided into 75 districts. Each district is divided into municipalities and Village Development Committees that are further divided into wards.
Administrative divisions of New Caledonia New Caledonia is divided into three provinces: Islands Province (Province des ĂŽles = Loyalty Islands), North Province (Province Nord = the northern mainland) and South Province (Province Sud = the southern mainland).
Administrative divisions of South Korea South Korea is divided into 8 provinces (do), 1 special autonomous province (teukbyeol jachido), 6 metropolitan cities (gwangyeoksi), and 1 special city (teukbyeolsi). These are further subdivided into a variety of smaller entities, including cities (si), counties (gun), districts (gu), towns (eup), townships (myeon), neighborhoods (dong) and villages (ri), as explained below.
Administrative divisions of the Altai Republic Administrative, territorial, and municipal division of the Altai Republic is regulated by the Law #12-15 of the Altai Republic, passed by the State Assembly—El Kurultai on June 2, 1999, with subsequent amendments. The Law established the following classification:
Administrative divisions of the Kingdom of Hungary The following lists show the administrative divisions of the lands belonging to the Hungarian crown (1000 -1918) at selected points of time. The names are given in the main official language used in the Kingdom at the times in question.
Administrative divisions of Taymyr Autonomous Okrug Taymyr Autonomous Okrug was a federal subject of Russia until December 31, 2006. On January 1, 2007, it was merged into Krasnoyarsk Krai along with Evenk Autonomous Okrug During the transitional period it retains a special status within Krasnoyarsk Krai.

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