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Greater Bridgeport Greater Bridgeport is a region in the state of Connecticut centered on its largest city, Bridgeport. It consists of the city of Bridgeport and five other adjacent towns: Easton, Fairfield, Monroe, Stratford, and Trumbull.
Greater Bristol Greater Bristol is the conurbation surrounding the city of Bristol in the South West of England. There is no official "Greater Bristol", but the term has been used by local, regional and national authorities as a synonym for both the Bristol Urban Area and the former County of Avon, which in turn was based on the Bristol travel-to-work area defined in the 1950s.
Greater Britain Movement The Greater Britain Movement was a political group formed by John Tyndall in 1964 after he split from Colin Jordan's National Socialist Movement. The split was caused by the marriage of Jordan to Françoise Dior who was originally Tyndall's fiancée.
Greater Buckeye Conference The Greater Buckeye Conference is a high school athletic conference with six members, all located in a large area of northern and northwest Ohio. It is affiliated with the Ohio High School Athletic Association.
Greater Budapest Greater Budapest is the name of Budapest in its present, extended size, as it was accepted on December 15, 1949 and it came into force on January 1, 1950. By attaching 7 cities and 16 towns to the former Budapest, its area enlarged from 207 km² to 525 km² (154%), the number of its inhabitants increased from 1.
Greater Buenos Aires Greater Buenos Aires (Spanish: Gran Buenos Aires) is the metropolitan area of the city of Buenos Aires, which consists of the Federal Capital and the following 24 partidos (administrative subdivisions) of the Province of Buenos Aires:
Greater Bulldog Bat The Greater Bulldog Bat or Fisherman Bat (Noctilio leporinus) is a type of fishing bat native to Latin America. The bats use echolocation to detect water ripples made by the fish upon which they prey, then use sharp claws to catch and cling to the fish.
Greater celandine The greater celandine (Chelidonium majus) is a yellow-flowering poppy, native to Europe and the Mediterranean basin. It is also widespread in North America, having been brought there by settlers as a herbal remedy for skin problems such as warts as early as 1672.
Greater Caucasus Greater Caucasus (, Azerbaijani: Böyük Qafqaz Dağları, sometimes translated as "Caucasus Major", "Big Caucasus" or "Large Caucasus") is the major mountain range of Caucasus mountains.
Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (officially the GCRTA, but usually referred to as the RTA) is the public transit agency for Cleveland, Ohio and the surrounding suburbs of Cuyahoga County. RTA is the largest transit agency in the State of Ohio, providing over 57 million trips to residents and visitors of the Cleveland area in 2005.
Greater Cochin Development Authority Greater Cochin Development Authority is the government overseeing agency for the development of the Indian port city of Kochi, Kerala. Greater Cochin area consists of the Cochin Corporation, the commercial capital of Kerala, 6 surrounding municipalities and 25 intervening panchayats covering an area of 632 sq.
Greater Colombia Park The El Parque de la Gran Colombia (spanish for Greater Colombia Park or Park of the Greater Colombia) is an historical and tourist complex located in the locality of Villa del Rosario (CĂşcuta. It is in the 6th Km of International Highway to Venezuela.
Greater Copenhagen Authority The Greater Copenhagen Authority (Danish: Hovedstadens UdviklingsrĂĄd often abbreviated HUR, literally: The Capital's Development Council)) is a politically-governed organisation deciding regional development plans for the Metropolitan Copenhagen area, Denmark. The council started work in July 2000.
Greater Coucal The Greater Coucal, Centropus sinensis, is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the roadrunners, the anis, and the Hoatzin. It is also known as the "Crow pheasant" or simply "Coucal.
Greater Croatia Greater Croatia (Croatian: Velika Hrvatska) is a term applied to the ideology of Croatian irredentism oriented at the expansion of Croatia and inclusion of all lands perceived as "historically or ethnically Croatian" under Croatian state control. Besides territory of present-day Croatia, the advocates of Greater Croatia claim entire Bosnia and Herzegovina, parts of present-day Serbia (Syrmia, BaÄŤka and SandĹľak regions), and parts of present-day Montenegro (Boka Kotorska and SandĹľak regions).
Greater Daemons The Greater Daemons of Chaos are the most powerful daemonic threats seen on the battlefields of the Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 tabletop wargames. Standing much taller than a man, each possesses power far beyond any other Daemon of Chaos.
Greater Danbury Greater Danbury, also known as the Housatonic Valley Region, is a region in the state of Connecticut centered on the city of Danbury. It consists of the city of Danbury and adjacent towns in the areas around the Housatonic River and the Still River.
Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority The Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority, formerly known as the Miami Valley RTA is a public transit service that generally serves the greater Dayton area. The GDRTA serves communities within Montgomery County and parts of Greene County, Ohio, USA.
Greater Dodder The Greater Dodder (Cuscuta europaea) is a parasitic plant native to Europe, which belongs to the family Convolvulaceae, but was formerly classified in the family Cuscutaceae. It is notably a parasite of lucerne.
Greater Dublin Area Greater Dublin Area (GDA), or simply Greater Dublin, is a term which is used to describe the city of Dublin and the counties of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal, Kildare, Meath, South Dublin and Wicklow of the Republic of Ireland.
Greater earless lizard The Greater Earless Lizard (Cophosaurus texanus) is a species of earless lizard found in the southern United States, in the states of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, and in Mexico in the states of Sonora, Chihuahua, Durango, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas, and San Luis Potosi. While C.
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (KyĹ«jitai: 大東亞共榮ĺś, Shinjitai: Dai-tĹŤ-a KyĹŤeiken) was an attempt by Japan to create a self-sufficient "bloc of Asian nations led by the Japanese and free of Western powers". is remembered today largely as a front for the Japanese control of Axis]-occupied countries during [[World War II, in which puppet governments manipulated local populations and economies for the benefit of wartime Japan.
Greater East Asia War The is a translation of one of several terms used in Japan to describe its period of warfare in the 1930s and early 1940s, which includes Japan's part in World War II. During the post-war occupation, the American General Headquarters or Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers banned the use of the term due to its association with Japan's wartime government and policies, namely the notion of a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
Greater East Asia War in the Pacific The Greater East Asia War (大東亜ć¦äş‰) was a term used, at least publicly in December of 1941, by Japan's Imperial General Headquarters (Imperial GHQ) to refer to the conflict that followed (and ultimately reversed) Japan's invasions in the 1930s and early 1940s of other nations in eastern Asia and the Pacific. This war is more commonly known as the Pacific War, or as the Pacific theatres of World War II.
Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District The Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District is a regional public high school district serving approximately 3,700 in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. The district serves students from the constituent municipalities of Egg Harbor City (333 students), Galloway Township (1,853 students), Hamilton Township (1,197 students) and Mullica Township (348 students), together with the districts of the City of Port Republic and Washington Township (in Burlington County) who attend as part of sending/receiving relationships.
Greater Essex County District School Board The Greater Essex County District School Board was created on January 1st, 1998 with the amalgamation of the Windsor Board Of Education and the Essex County Board of Education. The school board services families in both Windsor, Ontario and Essex County, Ontario in Canada.
Greater Finland Greater Finland (Finnish: Suur-Suomi) was an idea which was born in some irredentist movements emphasizing pan-Finnicism and expressed a Finnish version of pre-World War II European nationalism. It was imagined to include Finland as well as territories inhabited by ethnically-related Finnic peoples: Finns, Karelians, Estonians, Ingrians, and Kvens.
Greater Flameback The Greater Flameback, Chrysocolaptes lucidus also known as the Large Golden-backed Woodpecker or Malherbe's Golden-backed Woodpecker, is a woodpecker which is a widespread and common resident breeder from the Indian subcontinent eastwards through tropical southern Asia to the Philippines and Indonesia.
Greater Flamingo The Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) is the most widespread species of the flamingo family. It is found in parts of Africa, southwest Asia (including Turkey), southern Asia (coastal regions of India) and southern Europe (including Spain, Portugal, and the Camargue region of France).
Greater German People's Party The Greater German People's Party (German GroĂźdeutsche Volkspartei) was a political party during the First Republic (1918-1934) of Austria, founded in 1920. It supported unification (Anschluss) with the German Empire.
Greater Grand Forks "Greater Grand Forks" is the name used by some people to designate the twin cities of Grand Forks, North Dakota and East Grand Forks, Minnesota as well as the surrounding area. The two cities lie directly across from each other on both sides of the Red River of the North.
Greater Grison The Greater Grison, Galictis vittata, is an animal belonging to the ferret family Mustelidae from Central and South America, from southern Mexico to Brazil and Bolivia, living in savannas and rainforests, usually seen near rivers and streams.
Greater Hartford Greater Hartford is a region located in the state of Connecticut, centered around the state's capital of Hartford. It is officially designated by the United States Census Bureau as the Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT Metropolitan NECTA (New England City and Town Area).
Greater Hartford Academy of Mathematics and Science The Greater Hartford Academy of Mathematics and Science or GHAMAS is a regional high school located at The Learning Corridor in Hartford, Connecticut. It is run by the Capital Region Education Council (CREC), one of 6 Regional Educational Service Centers (RESC) in Connecticut.
Greater Helsinki Greater Helsinki (Finnish: Suur-Helsinki or Pääkaupunkiseutu, Swedish: Storhelsingfors), Capital Region (Pääkaupunkiseutu, Huvudstadsregionen), Helsinki Metropolitan Area, and Helsinki Region (Helsingin seutu, Helsingforsregionen) all refer to regions of different size surrounding Helsinki, the capital of Finland. It is located in the south of Finland, on the coast of the Gulf of Finland, which is part of the Baltic Sea.
Greater Hesse Greater Hesse () was a German territory created by the US military administration in at the end of World War II. It was formed from the former Volksstaat Hessen on 19 September 1945 and became the modern German state of Hesse on 1 December 1946, with the part of the state on the left bank of Rhine (Rheinhessen) becoming part of the Rhineland-Palatinate.
Greater Honeyguide The Greater Honeyguide (Indicator indicator) is a bird in the family Indicatoridae, paleotropical near passerine birds related to the woodpeckers. Its English and scientific names refer to its habit of guiding people to bee colonies.
Greater Hoopoe-lark The Greater Hoopoe-lark or Hoopoe Lark (Alaemon alaudipes), is a passerine bird which is a resident breeder in deserts from the Cape Verde Islands across much of north Africa, through the Arabian peninsula to Syria, Afghanistan and western Pakistan.
Greater Hungary (political concept) Greater Hungary (Hungarian: Nagy-Magyarország) is a political goal of Hungarian irredentists, who want to restore the borders of historical Hungary as they were before 1918. Historical revisionism is often used on by both proponents and opponents of Greater Hungary.
Greater Chennai Police The Greater Chennai Police, a division of the Tamil Nadu Police, is the law enforcement agency for the city of Chennai in India and the surrounding area. The city police force is headed by a Commissioner of Police and the administrative control vests with the Tamil Nadu Home ministry.
Greater China Greater China (), or simply 大华/大華, is a term referring collectively to both the territories administered by the People's Republic of China (including Hong Kong and Macau), and territories administered by the Republic of China (Taiwan and some neighbouring islands), roughly similar to the term Sinosphere introduced by the West.
Greater Israel Greater Israel (also Complete Land of Israel, , Eretz Yisrael HashlemahJerusalem Dispatch: Stripped, Yossi Klein Halevi, The New Republic, August 26 2005"Imperial Israel: The Nile-to-Euphrates Calumny", by Daniel Pipes (accessed 12 October, 2005)) is a term that denotes Biblical boundaries of the Land of Israel.
Greater Jacksonville Metropolitan The Jacksonville, Florida, Metropolitan Statistical Area, known colloquially as the Greater Jacksonville Metropolitan, consists of Duval County (Jacksonville and the "independent" cities of Jacksonville Beach, Atlantic Beach, Baldwin and Neptune Beach), Clay County, St. Johns County, Nassau County and Baker County.
Greater Khingan The Greater Khingan Range ( pinyin: DáxÄ«ngÄnlÇng; Manchu: Amba Hinggan), also called the Greater Hing'an Range or Greater Hinggan Range, is a volcanic mountain range in Inner Mongolia in northeastern China. The range extends roughly 1,200 km from north to south, narrowing towards the south.
Greater Kohima Greater Kohima refers to the urban agglomeration area around Nagaland's capital city, Kohima. The agglomeration area includes Kohima Village and Kohima Science College campus area in Jotsoma along with Kohima proper and is the largest urban area of Nagaland after Dimapur-Chumukedima.
Greater Lebanon The State of Greater Lebanon is the name of a territory that was created by France and is the precursor of modern Lebanon. By that time, Lebanon and neighboring Syria were known as the "French Mandate of Syria and Lebanon".
Greater London Council The Greater London Council (GLC) was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater London from 1965 to 1986. It replaced the earlier London County Council (LCC) which had covered a much smaller area.
Greater London Council election, 1967 The second election to the Greater London Council was held on April 13, 1967, and saw the first Conservative victory for a London-wide authority since 1931. In addition to the 100 councillors, there were sixteen Aldermen who divided 10 Conservative and 6 Labour, so that the Conservatives actually had 92 seats to 24 for Labour following the election.
Greater London Council election, 1970 The third election to the Greater London Council was held on April 9, 1970, and saw a Conservative victory with a reduced majority. In addition to the 100 councillors, there were sixteen Aldermen who divided 11 Conservative and 5 Labour, so that the Conservatives actually had 76 seats to 40 for Labour following the election.
Greater London Council election, 1973 The fourth election to the Greater London Council was held on April 12, 1973. Labour, benefiting both from the unpopularity of the Conservative GLC's transport policy and from the difficulties of the national Conservative government, won a very large majority of 58 seats to 32 for the Conservatives; the Liberals also won their first two seats on the council.
Greater London Fund for the Blind The Greater London Fund for the Blind is a British charity. It was formed in 1921 by Sir Arthur Pearson to co-ordinate the raising of funds to improve the lives of blind and visually impaired people in London.
Greater London Leopards The Greater London Leopards, or just Leopards as they were more commonly known, was a British basketball team competing in the British Basketball League. Established in 1994, the Leopards franchise wa one of the most successful teams of the 1990s dominating the domestic scene with local rivals London Towers.
Greater London Urban Area The Greater London Urban Area is the conurbation or continuous urban area based around London, in south east England. As defined by the Office for National Statistics at the time of the 2001 census it had a population of 8,278,251, making it the second largest urban area in the European Union, after Paris.
Greater Long-tailed Hamster The Greater Long-tailed Hamster (Tscherskia triton) is a major crop-eating rodent that resides in Northern China. Some authorities maintain that the 15th gua of the Yi Jing (I Ching) refers repeatedly to this animal.
Greater Los Angeles Area The Greater Los Angeles Area, or the Southland, is the agglomeration of urbanized area around the city of Los Angeles, California. There are two "official" definitions — the Los Angeles metropolitan area consisting only of Los Angeles and Orange County, and the Combined Statistical Area (a group of interacting metropolitan areas) sprawled over five counties in the southern part of California, namely Los Angeles County, Orange County, San Bernardino County, Riverside County and Ventura County.
Greater Lowell Greater Lowell is the name given to the city of Lowell, Massachusetts and its suburbs, mostly in Northern Middlesex County, Massachusetts and the Merrimack Valley. The towns of Dracut, Tewksbury, Billerica, Chelmsford, and Tyngsborough, Massachusetts are usually included.
Greater Manchester County Records Office Greater Manchester County Records Office, is located in Manchester, England. Opened in 1976, its main function is to collect, store, and make available for research the written heritage of the Greater Manchester county, including census and General register office index material.
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service The Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service is the county-wide, statutory emergency fire and rescue service for the Metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, England. It is administered by a joint authority of the ten Metropolitan Boroughs of Greater Manchester, known as the "Fire and Rescue Authority".
Greater Manchester Open The Greater Manchester Open was a European Tour golf tournament which was played annually from 1976 to 1981. It was held at Wilmslow Golf Club in Wilmslow, Cheshire, just to the South of Manchester, one of the main cities of the North of England.
Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority The Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority (GMWDA) is a waste disposal authority created under the Local Government Act 1985 to carry out the waste management functions and duties of the Greater Manchester County Council after its abolition in 1986.
Greater Mekong Sub-region Academic and Research Network Greater Mekong Sub-region Academic and Research Network (GMSARN) is a network of academic and research institutions in a Greater Mekong sub-region. Its mission is to carries out activities in human resources development, joint research, and dissemination of information and intellectual assets generated in the region.
Greater Merseyside Greater Merseyside is a term for the sub-region of North West England that includes Merseyside County and Halton. This corresponds, in part, to the original proposal for Merseyside and the River Mersey or Liverpool's hinterland.
Greater Metro Junior A Hockey League The Greater Metro Junior A Hockey League (GMHL) is a Canadian Tier II Junior "A" ice hockey league. The GMHL is sanctioned by the National Junior Hockey Alliance but is not affiliated with the Canadian Junior A Hockey League or Hockey Canada.
Greater Metropolitan Area of Aveiro The Greater Metropolitan Area of Aveiro (Portuguese: Grande Ărea Metropolitana de Aveiro) in Portugal consists of 13 municipalities that makes the fourth most populous metropolitan area in the country. They spread over two subregions: Baixo Vouga (population: 364,975) and Entre Douro e Vouga (95,520).
Greater Metropolitan Area of Coimbra The Grande Ărea Metropolitana de Coimbra (or in English Greater Metropolitan Area of Coimbra) has 16 municipalities (largest to smallest in number of inhabitants): Coimbra, Figueira da Foz, Cantanhede, Montemor-o-Velho, Soure, Mealhada, Penacova, LousĂŁ, Condeixa-a-Nova, Miranda do Corvo, Mira, Tábua, Mortágua, Vila Nova de Poiares, Penela and GĂłis.
Greater Metropolitan Area of Minho Greater Metropolitan Area of Minho (Grande Ărea Metropolitana do Minho) in Portugal consists of 13 municipalities that makes the third most populous metropolitan area in the country. They spread over three subregions: Ave (population: 377,086), Cávado (359,739) and Tâmega (38,312).
Greater Metropolitan Area of Porto Greater Metropolitan Area of Porto, in Portuguese Grande Ărea Metropolitana do Porto, is a metropolitan area composed of several municipalities centered in the city of Porto, in northern Portugal. In total it has 14 municipalities that make up the second biggest urban area in the country, after Greater Metropolitan Area of Lisbon.
Greater Metropolitan Area of the Algarve The Greater Metropolitan Area of the Algarve (Grande Ărea Metropolitana do Algarve) has 16 municipalities (largest to smallest in number of inhabitants): LoulĂ©, Faro, PortimĂŁo, OlhĂŁo, Silves, Albufeira, Lagos, Tavira, Lagoa, Vila Real de Santo AntĂłnio, SĂŁo Brás de Alportel, Monchique, Castro Marim, Aljezur, Vila do Bispo and Alcoutim. Faro is the capital.
Greater Metropolitan Area of Viseu The Greater Metropolitan Area of Viseu (Grande Ărea Metropolitana de Viseu) has 21 municipalities (largest to smallest in number of inhabitants): Viseu, Tondela, Seia, Mangualde, SĂŁo Pedro do Sul, Castro Daire, Gouveia, Nelas, SátĂŁo, Santa Comba DĂŁo, Vouzela, Moimenta da Beira, Oliveira de Frades, Carregal do Sal, Penalva do Castelo, Tarouca, Aguiar da Beira, Sernancelhe, Vila Nova de Paiva, Fornos de Algodres and Penedono. Viseu is the capital.
Greater Mexico City Greater Mexico City refers to the conurbation around Mexico City, officially called Zona Metropolitana de la Ciudad de MĂ©xico or ZMCM (Metropolitan Zone of Mexico City) in Mexico. In 2005 it had a population of 18.
Greater Middlesbrough Greater Middlesbrough is an informal term for the collective urban areas south of the Tees, centred on Middlesbrough, that include areas immediately surrounding the official boundaries of Middlesbrough not included within its council area. These areas include all the townships and settlements that have a Middlesbrough Postal address such as the greater Eston area, Port Clarence & parts of the Hambleton district of North Yorskshire (Great Ayton, Maltby, Newby, Stokesley).
Greater Middlesex Conference The Greater Middlesex Conference, is an athletic conference comprised of 33 public and private high schools located in the greater Middlesex County, New Jersey area. The league operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association.
Greater Mongolia Greater Mongolia, as a geographical region, is the contiguous territories primarily inhabited by ethnic Mongols. It approximately includes the modern state of Mongolia (without the Bayan-Ă–lgiy Province), the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China (PRC), and the Buryat Republic as well as a few smaller territories in Russia.
Greater Montreal Area The Greater Montreal Area is a term used to describe either the Montreal, Quebec, Canada Census Metropolitan Area or the Montreal Metropolitan Community (French: Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal). The CMA is defined by Statistics Canada while the Montreal Metropolitan Community is a level of government in Quebec, and is led by a president, who is currently Gérald Tremblay, mayor of Montreal.
Greater Morocco Greater Morocco is a name used to describe areas believed by many Moroccan nationalists to have historically formed a part of the country. The belief that Morocco had lost territories had important consequences for the country's early foreign policy and relations to neighboring countries and territories.
Greater Mummy The Greater Mummy of the Dungeons and Dragons game is a priest of a god (usually an Ancient Egyptian one) who, through enduring mummification and being imbued with dark magic, becomes a creature of the undead much like a mummy. This transformation enables them to continue devoutly serving their deity beyond the veil of death.
Greater Need There were three Billboard charting singles on Greater Need: "By My Side," a duet with Jon Randall at #18, "I Just Might Be" at #45, and the highest ranking "Good as I Was to You" at #4. The album itself topped out at #8 on the album charts.
Greater Netherlands The Greater Netherlands (Dutch Groot-Nederland) is an irredentist ideal, at present usually referring to a union of the Netherlands and Flanders, and implying the break-up of Belgium. In older versions the claimed Greater Netherlands was larger, and included formerly Flemish-speaking parts of northern France around Dunkirk and Lille, and sometimes all of Belgium including French-speaking Wallonia.
Greater New Haven Greater New Haven is the metropolitan area whose extent includes those towns in Connecticut that share an economic, social, political, and historical focus on New Haven, Connecticut. It occupies the south-central portion of the state in a radius around New Haven.
Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company The Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company (GNPOC), incorporated June 18, 1997, is the largest petroleum exploration, refinement and distribution company operating in Sudan. GNPOC is a joint operating company owned by CNPC of China (40%), PETRONAS of Malaysia (30%), ONGC of India (25%) and SUDAPET of Sudan (5%).
Greater Noida Greater Noida (GN) is a planned township close to Delhi, India, situated in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Greater Noida falls within the NCR of India’s capital, New Delhi and is adjacent to Noida, one of the largest industrial townships in Asia.
Greater Nottingham Partnership The Greater Nottingham Partnership (GNP) was formed in 1994 by Nottingham City Council and Nottinghamshire County Council with the aim of improving partnership working across the Greater Nottingham conurbation and attracting more government regeneration funding into the area.
Greater Orlando Aviation Authority Greater Orlando Aviation Authority, which manages Orlando International Airport and Orlando Executive Airport, is governed by a seven-member board: the mayor of the City of Orlando, Florida; the Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners; and five other members who are appointed by the Governor of the State of Florida, subject to confirmation of the Florida Senate.
Greater Oslo Region Greater Oslo Region ("Stor-Oslo-regionen" in Norwegian) is a statistical metropolitan region surrounding the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The region includes the city of Oslo (population: 521,886), the entire county of Akershus (population: 488,618) and several municipalities in the counties of Buskerud (140,934), Oppland (8,463), Vestfold (26,582) and Ăstfold (65,531).
Greater Pittston Greater Pittston is a reference to the area in and around Pittston, Pennsylvania including Avoca, Pennsylvania, Dupont, Pennsylvania, Duryea, Pennsylvania, Exeter Boro, Pennsylvania, Exeter Township, Pennsylvania. Hughestown, Pennsylvania, Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania, Laflin, Pennsylvania, Pittston, Pennsylvania, Pittston Township, Pennsylvania, West Pittston, Pennsylvania, West Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Wyoming, Pennsylvania and Yatesville, Pennsylvania.
Greater Poland Uprising (1794) The 1794 Greater Poland Uprising (Polish: powstanie wielkopolskie 1794 roku) was a military insurrection by Poles in Wielkopolska (Greater Poland) against the occupying Prussian forces after the 1793 Second Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Together with the assault by General Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, the 1794 Wielkopolska Uprising prevented the Prussians from intervening against Polish forces in the Kościuszko Uprising in central Poland against Tsarist Russia.
Greater Poland Uprising (1806) The 1806 Greater Poland Uprising (Polish: powstanie wielkopolskie 1806 roku) was a military insurrection by Poles in Wielkopolska (Greater Poland) against the occupying Prussian forces after the Partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1772–1793).
Greater Poland Uprising (1846) The 1846 Wielkopolska Uprising () was a planned military insurrection by Poles in the land of Greater Poland against the occupying Prussian forces, designed to be part of a general Polish uprising in all three partitions of Poland, against the Russians, Austrians and Prussians.
Greater Poland Uprising (1848) Greater Poland Uprising of 1848 () was a military insurrection of the Polish people in the Grand Duchy of Poznań (or the Greater Poland region) against the occupying Prussian forces, during the Spring of Nations period.
Greater Poland Uprising (1918–1919) The Greater Poland Uprising of 1918–1919, or Wielkopolska Uprising of 1918–1919 (Polish: powstanie wielkopolskie 1918–19 roku; German: Großpolnischer Aufstand) or Posnanian War was a military insurrection of Poles in the Greater Poland (also called the Grand Duchy of Poznań or Provinz Posen region) against Germany and Prussia.
Greater Poland Voivodeship Greater Poland Voivodeship (Polish: województwo wielkopolskie) is an administrative region or voivodeship of western-central Poland. It was created January 1, 1999, out of the former Poznań, Kalisz, Konin, Piła and Leszno voivodeships pursuant to the Local Government Reorganization Act of 1998.
Greater Prairie Chicken The Greater Prairie-Chicken, Tympanuchus cupido, is a large bird in the grouse family. This North American species was once abundant, but has become extremely rare or extinct over much of its range due to habitat loss.
Greater redhorse The greater redhorse, Moxostoma valenciennesi, is a species of freshwater fish endemic to states in the northcentral and northeastern United States as well as Ontario and Quebec in Canada. It is typically found in clear, relatively fast-moving rivers and in both shallow and deep waters in some lakes.
Greater Ranges The Greater Ranges comprise the high mountain ranges of Asia: the Himalaya, the Karakoram, the Hindu Kush and Hindu Raj, the Pamir Mountains, the Tien Shan, and various smaller mountain ranges of China, especially in Tibet. All of these ranges have peaks over 6000 m (19,695 ft), and most have peaks over 7,000 m (22,966 ft).
Greater Region The Greater Region of Saarland-Lorraine-Luxembourg -Rhineland-Palatinate-Walloon Region-French Community of Belgium- and German-speaking Community of Belgium has not found a specific shortcut yet. Download of the charter 9 October 1998 It is not identical with the Euregio, being in the same territory.
Greater Ridgeway The Greater Ridgeway is a 583 kilometre long distance footpath crossing England from Lyme Regis to Hunstanton. It is a combined route which is made from the joining of four other long distance footpaths - the Wessex Ridgeway, The Ridgeway National Trail, the Icknield Way and the Peddars Way National Trail.
Greater Richmond Transit Company The Greater Richmond Transit Company, known locally as GRTC, is a local government-owned urban-suburban bus line based in Richmond, Virginia, USA. It serves the independent city of Richmond and the adjacent counties of Henrico and Chesterfield with a fleet of over 200 diesel-powered transit buses purchased with Federal Transit Administration (FTA) grants operating approximately 70 routes.
Greater Romania Greater Romania (România Mare) generally refers to the territory of Romania in the years between the First and Second World Wars, the largest geographical extent of Romania up to that time and its largest peacetime extent ever.
Greater San Luis PotosĂ Greater San Luis PotosĂ is the urban conglomerated which results of the fusion of the cities of San Luis PotosĂ and Soledad with other communities around the zone. This metropolitan area is the 5th bigger in Mexico and has a population of 1.
Greater Sand Plover The Greater Sand Plover, Charadrius leschenaultii, is a small wader in the plover family of birds. The spelling is commonly given as greater sandplover, but the official British Ornithologists' Union spelling is greater sand plover.
Greater Bristol Greater Bristol is the conurbation surrounding the city of Bristol in the South West of England. There is no official "Greater Bristol", but the term has been used by local, regional and national authorities as a synonym for both the Bristol Urban Area and the former County of Avon, which in turn was based on the Bristol travel-to-work area defined in the 1950s.
Greater Britain Movement The Greater Britain Movement was a political group formed by John Tyndall in 1964 after he split from Colin Jordan's National Socialist Movement. The split was caused by the marriage of Jordan to Françoise Dior who was originally Tyndall's fiancée.
Greater Buckeye Conference The Greater Buckeye Conference is a high school athletic conference with six members, all located in a large area of northern and northwest Ohio. It is affiliated with the Ohio High School Athletic Association.
Greater Budapest Greater Budapest is the name of Budapest in its present, extended size, as it was accepted on December 15, 1949 and it came into force on January 1, 1950. By attaching 7 cities and 16 towns to the former Budapest, its area enlarged from 207 km² to 525 km² (154%), the number of its inhabitants increased from 1.
Greater Buenos Aires Greater Buenos Aires (Spanish: Gran Buenos Aires) is the metropolitan area of the city of Buenos Aires, which consists of the Federal Capital and the following 24 partidos (administrative subdivisions) of the Province of Buenos Aires:
Greater Bulldog Bat The Greater Bulldog Bat or Fisherman Bat (Noctilio leporinus) is a type of fishing bat native to Latin America. The bats use echolocation to detect water ripples made by the fish upon which they prey, then use sharp claws to catch and cling to the fish.
Greater celandine The greater celandine (Chelidonium majus) is a yellow-flowering poppy, native to Europe and the Mediterranean basin. It is also widespread in North America, having been brought there by settlers as a herbal remedy for skin problems such as warts as early as 1672.
Greater Caucasus Greater Caucasus (, Azerbaijani: Böyük Qafqaz Dağları, sometimes translated as "Caucasus Major", "Big Caucasus" or "Large Caucasus") is the major mountain range of Caucasus mountains.
Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (officially the GCRTA, but usually referred to as the RTA) is the public transit agency for Cleveland, Ohio and the surrounding suburbs of Cuyahoga County. RTA is the largest transit agency in the State of Ohio, providing over 57 million trips to residents and visitors of the Cleveland area in 2005.
Greater Cochin Development Authority Greater Cochin Development Authority is the government overseeing agency for the development of the Indian port city of Kochi, Kerala. Greater Cochin area consists of the Cochin Corporation, the commercial capital of Kerala, 6 surrounding municipalities and 25 intervening panchayats covering an area of 632 sq.
Greater Colombia Park The El Parque de la Gran Colombia (spanish for Greater Colombia Park or Park of the Greater Colombia) is an historical and tourist complex located in the locality of Villa del Rosario (CĂşcuta. It is in the 6th Km of International Highway to Venezuela.
Greater Copenhagen Authority The Greater Copenhagen Authority (Danish: Hovedstadens UdviklingsrĂĄd often abbreviated HUR, literally: The Capital's Development Council)) is a politically-governed organisation deciding regional development plans for the Metropolitan Copenhagen area, Denmark. The council started work in July 2000.
Greater Coucal The Greater Coucal, Centropus sinensis, is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the roadrunners, the anis, and the Hoatzin. It is also known as the "Crow pheasant" or simply "Coucal.
Greater Croatia Greater Croatia (Croatian: Velika Hrvatska) is a term applied to the ideology of Croatian irredentism oriented at the expansion of Croatia and inclusion of all lands perceived as "historically or ethnically Croatian" under Croatian state control. Besides territory of present-day Croatia, the advocates of Greater Croatia claim entire Bosnia and Herzegovina, parts of present-day Serbia (Syrmia, BaÄŤka and SandĹľak regions), and parts of present-day Montenegro (Boka Kotorska and SandĹľak regions).
Greater Daemons The Greater Daemons of Chaos are the most powerful daemonic threats seen on the battlefields of the Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 tabletop wargames. Standing much taller than a man, each possesses power far beyond any other Daemon of Chaos.
Greater Danbury Greater Danbury, also known as the Housatonic Valley Region, is a region in the state of Connecticut centered on the city of Danbury. It consists of the city of Danbury and adjacent towns in the areas around the Housatonic River and the Still River.
Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority The Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority, formerly known as the Miami Valley RTA is a public transit service that generally serves the greater Dayton area. The GDRTA serves communities within Montgomery County and parts of Greene County, Ohio, USA.
Greater Dodder The Greater Dodder (Cuscuta europaea) is a parasitic plant native to Europe, which belongs to the family Convolvulaceae, but was formerly classified in the family Cuscutaceae. It is notably a parasite of lucerne.
Greater Dublin Area Greater Dublin Area (GDA), or simply Greater Dublin, is a term which is used to describe the city of Dublin and the counties of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal, Kildare, Meath, South Dublin and Wicklow of the Republic of Ireland.
Greater earless lizard The Greater Earless Lizard (Cophosaurus texanus) is a species of earless lizard found in the southern United States, in the states of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, and in Mexico in the states of Sonora, Chihuahua, Durango, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas, and San Luis Potosi. While C.
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (KyĹ«jitai: 大東亞共榮ĺś, Shinjitai: Dai-tĹŤ-a KyĹŤeiken) was an attempt by Japan to create a self-sufficient "bloc of Asian nations led by the Japanese and free of Western powers". is remembered today largely as a front for the Japanese control of Axis]-occupied countries during [[World War II, in which puppet governments manipulated local populations and economies for the benefit of wartime Japan.
Greater East Asia War The is a translation of one of several terms used in Japan to describe its period of warfare in the 1930s and early 1940s, which includes Japan's part in World War II. During the post-war occupation, the American General Headquarters or Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers banned the use of the term due to its association with Japan's wartime government and policies, namely the notion of a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
Greater East Asia War in the Pacific The Greater East Asia War (大東亜ć¦äş‰) was a term used, at least publicly in December of 1941, by Japan's Imperial General Headquarters (Imperial GHQ) to refer to the conflict that followed (and ultimately reversed) Japan's invasions in the 1930s and early 1940s of other nations in eastern Asia and the Pacific. This war is more commonly known as the Pacific War, or as the Pacific theatres of World War II.
Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District The Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District is a regional public high school district serving approximately 3,700 in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. The district serves students from the constituent municipalities of Egg Harbor City (333 students), Galloway Township (1,853 students), Hamilton Township (1,197 students) and Mullica Township (348 students), together with the districts of the City of Port Republic and Washington Township (in Burlington County) who attend as part of sending/receiving relationships.
Greater Essex County District School Board The Greater Essex County District School Board was created on January 1st, 1998 with the amalgamation of the Windsor Board Of Education and the Essex County Board of Education. The school board services families in both Windsor, Ontario and Essex County, Ontario in Canada.
Greater Finland Greater Finland (Finnish: Suur-Suomi) was an idea which was born in some irredentist movements emphasizing pan-Finnicism and expressed a Finnish version of pre-World War II European nationalism. It was imagined to include Finland as well as territories inhabited by ethnically-related Finnic peoples: Finns, Karelians, Estonians, Ingrians, and Kvens.
Greater Flameback The Greater Flameback, Chrysocolaptes lucidus also known as the Large Golden-backed Woodpecker or Malherbe's Golden-backed Woodpecker, is a woodpecker which is a widespread and common resident breeder from the Indian subcontinent eastwards through tropical southern Asia to the Philippines and Indonesia.
Greater Flamingo The Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) is the most widespread species of the flamingo family. It is found in parts of Africa, southwest Asia (including Turkey), southern Asia (coastal regions of India) and southern Europe (including Spain, Portugal, and the Camargue region of France).
Greater German People's Party The Greater German People's Party (German GroĂźdeutsche Volkspartei) was a political party during the First Republic (1918-1934) of Austria, founded in 1920. It supported unification (Anschluss) with the German Empire.
Greater Grand Forks "Greater Grand Forks" is the name used by some people to designate the twin cities of Grand Forks, North Dakota and East Grand Forks, Minnesota as well as the surrounding area. The two cities lie directly across from each other on both sides of the Red River of the North.
Greater Grison The Greater Grison, Galictis vittata, is an animal belonging to the ferret family Mustelidae from Central and South America, from southern Mexico to Brazil and Bolivia, living in savannas and rainforests, usually seen near rivers and streams.
Greater Hartford Greater Hartford is a region located in the state of Connecticut, centered around the state's capital of Hartford. It is officially designated by the United States Census Bureau as the Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT Metropolitan NECTA (New England City and Town Area).
Greater Hartford Academy of Mathematics and Science The Greater Hartford Academy of Mathematics and Science or GHAMAS is a regional high school located at The Learning Corridor in Hartford, Connecticut. It is run by the Capital Region Education Council (CREC), one of 6 Regional Educational Service Centers (RESC) in Connecticut.
Greater Helsinki Greater Helsinki (Finnish: Suur-Helsinki or Pääkaupunkiseutu, Swedish: Storhelsingfors), Capital Region (Pääkaupunkiseutu, Huvudstadsregionen), Helsinki Metropolitan Area, and Helsinki Region (Helsingin seutu, Helsingforsregionen) all refer to regions of different size surrounding Helsinki, the capital of Finland. It is located in the south of Finland, on the coast of the Gulf of Finland, which is part of the Baltic Sea.
Greater Hesse Greater Hesse () was a German territory created by the US military administration in at the end of World War II. It was formed from the former Volksstaat Hessen on 19 September 1945 and became the modern German state of Hesse on 1 December 1946, with the part of the state on the left bank of Rhine (Rheinhessen) becoming part of the Rhineland-Palatinate.
Greater Honeyguide The Greater Honeyguide (Indicator indicator) is a bird in the family Indicatoridae, paleotropical near passerine birds related to the woodpeckers. Its English and scientific names refer to its habit of guiding people to bee colonies.
Greater Hoopoe-lark The Greater Hoopoe-lark or Hoopoe Lark (Alaemon alaudipes), is a passerine bird which is a resident breeder in deserts from the Cape Verde Islands across much of north Africa, through the Arabian peninsula to Syria, Afghanistan and western Pakistan.
Greater Hungary (political concept) Greater Hungary (Hungarian: Nagy-Magyarország) is a political goal of Hungarian irredentists, who want to restore the borders of historical Hungary as they were before 1918. Historical revisionism is often used on by both proponents and opponents of Greater Hungary.
Greater Chennai Police The Greater Chennai Police, a division of the Tamil Nadu Police, is the law enforcement agency for the city of Chennai in India and the surrounding area. The city police force is headed by a Commissioner of Police and the administrative control vests with the Tamil Nadu Home ministry.
Greater China Greater China (), or simply 大华/大華, is a term referring collectively to both the territories administered by the People's Republic of China (including Hong Kong and Macau), and territories administered by the Republic of China (Taiwan and some neighbouring islands), roughly similar to the term Sinosphere introduced by the West.
Greater Israel Greater Israel (also Complete Land of Israel, , Eretz Yisrael HashlemahJerusalem Dispatch: Stripped, Yossi Klein Halevi, The New Republic, August 26 2005"Imperial Israel: The Nile-to-Euphrates Calumny", by Daniel Pipes (accessed 12 October, 2005)) is a term that denotes Biblical boundaries of the Land of Israel.
Greater Jacksonville Metropolitan The Jacksonville, Florida, Metropolitan Statistical Area, known colloquially as the Greater Jacksonville Metropolitan, consists of Duval County (Jacksonville and the "independent" cities of Jacksonville Beach, Atlantic Beach, Baldwin and Neptune Beach), Clay County, St. Johns County, Nassau County and Baker County.
Greater Khingan The Greater Khingan Range ( pinyin: DáxÄ«ngÄnlÇng; Manchu: Amba Hinggan), also called the Greater Hing'an Range or Greater Hinggan Range, is a volcanic mountain range in Inner Mongolia in northeastern China. The range extends roughly 1,200 km from north to south, narrowing towards the south.
Greater Kohima Greater Kohima refers to the urban agglomeration area around Nagaland's capital city, Kohima. The agglomeration area includes Kohima Village and Kohima Science College campus area in Jotsoma along with Kohima proper and is the largest urban area of Nagaland after Dimapur-Chumukedima.
Greater Lebanon The State of Greater Lebanon is the name of a territory that was created by France and is the precursor of modern Lebanon. By that time, Lebanon and neighboring Syria were known as the "French Mandate of Syria and Lebanon".
Greater London Council The Greater London Council (GLC) was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater London from 1965 to 1986. It replaced the earlier London County Council (LCC) which had covered a much smaller area.
Greater London Council election, 1967 The second election to the Greater London Council was held on April 13, 1967, and saw the first Conservative victory for a London-wide authority since 1931. In addition to the 100 councillors, there were sixteen Aldermen who divided 10 Conservative and 6 Labour, so that the Conservatives actually had 92 seats to 24 for Labour following the election.
Greater London Council election, 1970 The third election to the Greater London Council was held on April 9, 1970, and saw a Conservative victory with a reduced majority. In addition to the 100 councillors, there were sixteen Aldermen who divided 11 Conservative and 5 Labour, so that the Conservatives actually had 76 seats to 40 for Labour following the election.
Greater London Council election, 1973 The fourth election to the Greater London Council was held on April 12, 1973. Labour, benefiting both from the unpopularity of the Conservative GLC's transport policy and from the difficulties of the national Conservative government, won a very large majority of 58 seats to 32 for the Conservatives; the Liberals also won their first two seats on the council.
Greater London Fund for the Blind The Greater London Fund for the Blind is a British charity. It was formed in 1921 by Sir Arthur Pearson to co-ordinate the raising of funds to improve the lives of blind and visually impaired people in London.
Greater London Leopards The Greater London Leopards, or just Leopards as they were more commonly known, was a British basketball team competing in the British Basketball League. Established in 1994, the Leopards franchise wa one of the most successful teams of the 1990s dominating the domestic scene with local rivals London Towers.
Greater London Urban Area The Greater London Urban Area is the conurbation or continuous urban area based around London, in south east England. As defined by the Office for National Statistics at the time of the 2001 census it had a population of 8,278,251, making it the second largest urban area in the European Union, after Paris.
Greater Long-tailed Hamster The Greater Long-tailed Hamster (Tscherskia triton) is a major crop-eating rodent that resides in Northern China. Some authorities maintain that the 15th gua of the Yi Jing (I Ching) refers repeatedly to this animal.
Greater Los Angeles Area The Greater Los Angeles Area, or the Southland, is the agglomeration of urbanized area around the city of Los Angeles, California. There are two "official" definitions — the Los Angeles metropolitan area consisting only of Los Angeles and Orange County, and the Combined Statistical Area (a group of interacting metropolitan areas) sprawled over five counties in the southern part of California, namely Los Angeles County, Orange County, San Bernardino County, Riverside County and Ventura County.
Greater Lowell Greater Lowell is the name given to the city of Lowell, Massachusetts and its suburbs, mostly in Northern Middlesex County, Massachusetts and the Merrimack Valley. The towns of Dracut, Tewksbury, Billerica, Chelmsford, and Tyngsborough, Massachusetts are usually included.
Greater Manchester County Records Office Greater Manchester County Records Office, is located in Manchester, England. Opened in 1976, its main function is to collect, store, and make available for research the written heritage of the Greater Manchester county, including census and General register office index material.
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service The Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service is the county-wide, statutory emergency fire and rescue service for the Metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, England. It is administered by a joint authority of the ten Metropolitan Boroughs of Greater Manchester, known as the "Fire and Rescue Authority".
Greater Manchester Open The Greater Manchester Open was a European Tour golf tournament which was played annually from 1976 to 1981. It was held at Wilmslow Golf Club in Wilmslow, Cheshire, just to the South of Manchester, one of the main cities of the North of England.
Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority The Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority (GMWDA) is a waste disposal authority created under the Local Government Act 1985 to carry out the waste management functions and duties of the Greater Manchester County Council after its abolition in 1986.
Greater Mekong Sub-region Academic and Research Network Greater Mekong Sub-region Academic and Research Network (GMSARN) is a network of academic and research institutions in a Greater Mekong sub-region. Its mission is to carries out activities in human resources development, joint research, and dissemination of information and intellectual assets generated in the region.
Greater Merseyside Greater Merseyside is a term for the sub-region of North West England that includes Merseyside County and Halton. This corresponds, in part, to the original proposal for Merseyside and the River Mersey or Liverpool's hinterland.
Greater Metro Junior A Hockey League The Greater Metro Junior A Hockey League (GMHL) is a Canadian Tier II Junior "A" ice hockey league. The GMHL is sanctioned by the National Junior Hockey Alliance but is not affiliated with the Canadian Junior A Hockey League or Hockey Canada.
Greater Metropolitan Area of Aveiro The Greater Metropolitan Area of Aveiro (Portuguese: Grande Ărea Metropolitana de Aveiro) in Portugal consists of 13 municipalities that makes the fourth most populous metropolitan area in the country. They spread over two subregions: Baixo Vouga (population: 364,975) and Entre Douro e Vouga (95,520).
Greater Metropolitan Area of Coimbra The Grande Ărea Metropolitana de Coimbra (or in English Greater Metropolitan Area of Coimbra) has 16 municipalities (largest to smallest in number of inhabitants): Coimbra, Figueira da Foz, Cantanhede, Montemor-o-Velho, Soure, Mealhada, Penacova, LousĂŁ, Condeixa-a-Nova, Miranda do Corvo, Mira, Tábua, Mortágua, Vila Nova de Poiares, Penela and GĂłis.
Greater Metropolitan Area of Minho Greater Metropolitan Area of Minho (Grande Ărea Metropolitana do Minho) in Portugal consists of 13 municipalities that makes the third most populous metropolitan area in the country. They spread over three subregions: Ave (population: 377,086), Cávado (359,739) and Tâmega (38,312).
Greater Metropolitan Area of Porto Greater Metropolitan Area of Porto, in Portuguese Grande Ărea Metropolitana do Porto, is a metropolitan area composed of several municipalities centered in the city of Porto, in northern Portugal. In total it has 14 municipalities that make up the second biggest urban area in the country, after Greater Metropolitan Area of Lisbon.
Greater Metropolitan Area of the Algarve The Greater Metropolitan Area of the Algarve (Grande Ărea Metropolitana do Algarve) has 16 municipalities (largest to smallest in number of inhabitants): LoulĂ©, Faro, PortimĂŁo, OlhĂŁo, Silves, Albufeira, Lagos, Tavira, Lagoa, Vila Real de Santo AntĂłnio, SĂŁo Brás de Alportel, Monchique, Castro Marim, Aljezur, Vila do Bispo and Alcoutim. Faro is the capital.
Greater Metropolitan Area of Viseu The Greater Metropolitan Area of Viseu (Grande Ărea Metropolitana de Viseu) has 21 municipalities (largest to smallest in number of inhabitants): Viseu, Tondela, Seia, Mangualde, SĂŁo Pedro do Sul, Castro Daire, Gouveia, Nelas, SátĂŁo, Santa Comba DĂŁo, Vouzela, Moimenta da Beira, Oliveira de Frades, Carregal do Sal, Penalva do Castelo, Tarouca, Aguiar da Beira, Sernancelhe, Vila Nova de Paiva, Fornos de Algodres and Penedono. Viseu is the capital.
Greater Mexico City Greater Mexico City refers to the conurbation around Mexico City, officially called Zona Metropolitana de la Ciudad de MĂ©xico or ZMCM (Metropolitan Zone of Mexico City) in Mexico. In 2005 it had a population of 18.
Greater Middlesbrough Greater Middlesbrough is an informal term for the collective urban areas south of the Tees, centred on Middlesbrough, that include areas immediately surrounding the official boundaries of Middlesbrough not included within its council area. These areas include all the townships and settlements that have a Middlesbrough Postal address such as the greater Eston area, Port Clarence & parts of the Hambleton district of North Yorskshire (Great Ayton, Maltby, Newby, Stokesley).
Greater Middlesex Conference The Greater Middlesex Conference, is an athletic conference comprised of 33 public and private high schools located in the greater Middlesex County, New Jersey area. The league operates under the supervision of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association.
Greater Mongolia Greater Mongolia, as a geographical region, is the contiguous territories primarily inhabited by ethnic Mongols. It approximately includes the modern state of Mongolia (without the Bayan-Ă–lgiy Province), the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China (PRC), and the Buryat Republic as well as a few smaller territories in Russia.
Greater Montreal Area The Greater Montreal Area is a term used to describe either the Montreal, Quebec, Canada Census Metropolitan Area or the Montreal Metropolitan Community (French: Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal). The CMA is defined by Statistics Canada while the Montreal Metropolitan Community is a level of government in Quebec, and is led by a president, who is currently Gérald Tremblay, mayor of Montreal.
Greater Morocco Greater Morocco is a name used to describe areas believed by many Moroccan nationalists to have historically formed a part of the country. The belief that Morocco had lost territories had important consequences for the country's early foreign policy and relations to neighboring countries and territories.
Greater Mummy The Greater Mummy of the Dungeons and Dragons game is a priest of a god (usually an Ancient Egyptian one) who, through enduring mummification and being imbued with dark magic, becomes a creature of the undead much like a mummy. This transformation enables them to continue devoutly serving their deity beyond the veil of death.
Greater Need There were three Billboard charting singles on Greater Need: "By My Side," a duet with Jon Randall at #18, "I Just Might Be" at #45, and the highest ranking "Good as I Was to You" at #4. The album itself topped out at #8 on the album charts.
Greater Netherlands The Greater Netherlands (Dutch Groot-Nederland) is an irredentist ideal, at present usually referring to a union of the Netherlands and Flanders, and implying the break-up of Belgium. In older versions the claimed Greater Netherlands was larger, and included formerly Flemish-speaking parts of northern France around Dunkirk and Lille, and sometimes all of Belgium including French-speaking Wallonia.
Greater New Haven Greater New Haven is the metropolitan area whose extent includes those towns in Connecticut that share an economic, social, political, and historical focus on New Haven, Connecticut. It occupies the south-central portion of the state in a radius around New Haven.
Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company The Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company (GNPOC), incorporated June 18, 1997, is the largest petroleum exploration, refinement and distribution company operating in Sudan. GNPOC is a joint operating company owned by CNPC of China (40%), PETRONAS of Malaysia (30%), ONGC of India (25%) and SUDAPET of Sudan (5%).
Greater Noida Greater Noida (GN) is a planned township close to Delhi, India, situated in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Greater Noida falls within the NCR of India’s capital, New Delhi and is adjacent to Noida, one of the largest industrial townships in Asia.
Greater Nottingham Partnership The Greater Nottingham Partnership (GNP) was formed in 1994 by Nottingham City Council and Nottinghamshire County Council with the aim of improving partnership working across the Greater Nottingham conurbation and attracting more government regeneration funding into the area.
Greater Orlando Aviation Authority Greater Orlando Aviation Authority, which manages Orlando International Airport and Orlando Executive Airport, is governed by a seven-member board: the mayor of the City of Orlando, Florida; the Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners; and five other members who are appointed by the Governor of the State of Florida, subject to confirmation of the Florida Senate.
Greater Oslo Region Greater Oslo Region ("Stor-Oslo-regionen" in Norwegian) is a statistical metropolitan region surrounding the Norwegian capital of Oslo. The region includes the city of Oslo (population: 521,886), the entire county of Akershus (population: 488,618) and several municipalities in the counties of Buskerud (140,934), Oppland (8,463), Vestfold (26,582) and Ăstfold (65,531).
Greater Pittston Greater Pittston is a reference to the area in and around Pittston, Pennsylvania including Avoca, Pennsylvania, Dupont, Pennsylvania, Duryea, Pennsylvania, Exeter Boro, Pennsylvania, Exeter Township, Pennsylvania. Hughestown, Pennsylvania, Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania, Laflin, Pennsylvania, Pittston, Pennsylvania, Pittston Township, Pennsylvania, West Pittston, Pennsylvania, West Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Wyoming, Pennsylvania and Yatesville, Pennsylvania.
Greater Poland Uprising (1794) The 1794 Greater Poland Uprising (Polish: powstanie wielkopolskie 1794 roku) was a military insurrection by Poles in Wielkopolska (Greater Poland) against the occupying Prussian forces after the 1793 Second Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Together with the assault by General Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, the 1794 Wielkopolska Uprising prevented the Prussians from intervening against Polish forces in the Kościuszko Uprising in central Poland against Tsarist Russia.
Greater Poland Uprising (1806) The 1806 Greater Poland Uprising (Polish: powstanie wielkopolskie 1806 roku) was a military insurrection by Poles in Wielkopolska (Greater Poland) against the occupying Prussian forces after the Partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1772–1793).
Greater Poland Uprising (1846) The 1846 Wielkopolska Uprising () was a planned military insurrection by Poles in the land of Greater Poland against the occupying Prussian forces, designed to be part of a general Polish uprising in all three partitions of Poland, against the Russians, Austrians and Prussians.
Greater Poland Uprising (1848) Greater Poland Uprising of 1848 () was a military insurrection of the Polish people in the Grand Duchy of Poznań (or the Greater Poland region) against the occupying Prussian forces, during the Spring of Nations period.
Greater Poland Uprising (1918–1919) The Greater Poland Uprising of 1918–1919, or Wielkopolska Uprising of 1918–1919 (Polish: powstanie wielkopolskie 1918–19 roku; German: Großpolnischer Aufstand) or Posnanian War was a military insurrection of Poles in the Greater Poland (also called the Grand Duchy of Poznań or Provinz Posen region) against Germany and Prussia.
Greater Poland Voivodeship Greater Poland Voivodeship (Polish: województwo wielkopolskie) is an administrative region or voivodeship of western-central Poland. It was created January 1, 1999, out of the former Poznań, Kalisz, Konin, Piła and Leszno voivodeships pursuant to the Local Government Reorganization Act of 1998.
Greater Prairie Chicken The Greater Prairie-Chicken, Tympanuchus cupido, is a large bird in the grouse family. This North American species was once abundant, but has become extremely rare or extinct over much of its range due to habitat loss.
Greater redhorse The greater redhorse, Moxostoma valenciennesi, is a species of freshwater fish endemic to states in the northcentral and northeastern United States as well as Ontario and Quebec in Canada. It is typically found in clear, relatively fast-moving rivers and in both shallow and deep waters in some lakes.
Greater Ranges The Greater Ranges comprise the high mountain ranges of Asia: the Himalaya, the Karakoram, the Hindu Kush and Hindu Raj, the Pamir Mountains, the Tien Shan, and various smaller mountain ranges of China, especially in Tibet. All of these ranges have peaks over 6000 m (19,695 ft), and most have peaks over 7,000 m (22,966 ft).
Greater Region The Greater Region of Saarland-Lorraine-Luxembourg -Rhineland-Palatinate-Walloon Region-French Community of Belgium- and German-speaking Community of Belgium has not found a specific shortcut yet. Download of the charter 9 October 1998 It is not identical with the Euregio, being in the same territory.
Greater Ridgeway The Greater Ridgeway is a 583 kilometre long distance footpath crossing England from Lyme Regis to Hunstanton. It is a combined route which is made from the joining of four other long distance footpaths - the Wessex Ridgeway, The Ridgeway National Trail, the Icknield Way and the Peddars Way National Trail.
Greater Richmond Transit Company The Greater Richmond Transit Company, known locally as GRTC, is a local government-owned urban-suburban bus line based in Richmond, Virginia, USA. It serves the independent city of Richmond and the adjacent counties of Henrico and Chesterfield with a fleet of over 200 diesel-powered transit buses purchased with Federal Transit Administration (FTA) grants operating approximately 70 routes.
Greater Romania Greater Romania (România Mare) generally refers to the territory of Romania in the years between the First and Second World Wars, the largest geographical extent of Romania up to that time and its largest peacetime extent ever.
Greater San Luis PotosĂ Greater San Luis PotosĂ is the urban conglomerated which results of the fusion of the cities of San Luis PotosĂ and Soledad with other communities around the zone. This metropolitan area is the 5th bigger in Mexico and has a population of 1.
Greater Sand Plover The Greater Sand Plover, Charadrius leschenaultii, is a small wader in the plover family of birds. The spelling is commonly given as greater sandplover, but the official British Ornithologists' Union spelling is greater sand plover.
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