The term Nine Provinces or Nine Regions (Chinese: 九州; pinyin: Jiǔ Zhōu), is used in ancient Chinese histories to refer to territorial divisions or islands...
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Nine Provinces (Japanese and Chinese: 九州) may refer to: Nine Provinces (China), territorial divisions during Xia and Shang Dynasty China. Kyūshū, an island...
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South Africa is divided into nine provinces. On the eve of the 1994 general election, South Africa's former homelands, known as Bantustans, were reintegrated...
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French annexation. At the time of the creation of Belgium in 1830, only nine provinces existed, including the province of Brabant, which held the City of Brussels...
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Yu the Great (section Nine Provinces)
treatise in the Book of Documents, Yu divided the Chinese world into nine zhou or provinces. These were Jizhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou, Jingzhou...
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de-merged into the Northern and Eastern provinces on 1 January 2007. Sri Lanka currently has nine provinces, seven of which have had provincial councils...
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Xia dynasty (section Nine Provinces)
According to the Book of Documents, Yu the Great divided his state into nine provinces (九州). These are Ji (冀), Yan (兗), Qing (青), Xu (徐), Yang (揚), Jing (荊)...
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the provinces, rather than directly representing the people. The NCOP consists of ninety delegates, ten delegates for each of the nine provinces regardless...
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Since the election of 27 April 1994, South Africa has been divided into nine provinces. They vary widely in population, from the mostly-urban Gauteng, which...
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Act 1852 the provinces were recreated around the six planned settlements or "colonies". By 1873 the number of provinces had increased to nine, but they had...
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