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  Barcelona   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia an autonomous region in the northeast Spain (41º 23' N 2º 11' E).
Barcelona is located on the Mediterranean coast between the mouths of the Llobregat and Besòs 160 km south of Pyrenees mountain range the border with France.
To its north the city borders the Besòs and the municipalities of Santa Coloma Gramenet and Sant Adrià de Besòs; to south it borders the Zona Franca L'Hospitalet de Llobregat and Esplugues de Llobregat; to the is the Mediterranean; and to the west i Reixach and Sant Cugat del Vallès.
www.freeglossary.com /Barcelona   (1640 words)

  
 Vic - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Vic is the capital of the comarca (comparable to a county or shire) of Osona, in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
It was destroyed in 788 during a Muslim incursion and repopulated by Gifré el Pelós in 878 who gained control over the high part of the city and gave up the lowest part to the bishop to construct the episcopal see.
From then forth, the city was ruled by the count of Barcelona and by the bishop of Vic.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Vic   (443 words)

  
 Britain.tv Wikipedia - Barcelona
The counts of Barcelona became increasingly independent and expanded their territory to include all of Catalonia, later formed the Crown of Aragon who conquered many overseas possessions, ruling the western Mediterranean Sea with outlying territories as far as Athens in the 13th century.
To its north, the city borders the municipalities of Santa Coloma de Gramenet and Sant Adrià de Besòs; to the south it borders L'Hospitalet de Llobregat and Esplugues de Llobregat; to the east is the Mediterranean; and to the west are Montcada i Reixach and Sant Cugat del Vallès.
Barcelona is governed by a city council formed by 41 city councillors, elected for a four-year term by universal suffrage.
www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Barcelona   (3703 words)

  
 Barcelona, Spain
Barcelona was a stronghold for the anarchist cause, siding with the Republic's democratically elected government during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39).
Barcelona offers a unique opportunity for the tourist on foot to walk from Roman remains to the medieval city, and then to the modern city with its open thoroughfares and grid-iron street pattern.
Barcelona, with its mild weather and dense medieval center, is renowned for its parks and open spaces.
www.creekin.net /c6593-n172-barcelona-spain.html   (2445 words)

  
 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Barcelona   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The city of Barcelona was taken as an example: handicapped individuals document the problems they encounter on their way through the city by using images and in a few cases sound recordings.
Population of the province of Barcelona is 5,226,354 (est.
Barcelona is a hub for RENFE, the Spanish state railway network, and its main suburban train station is Sants-Estació (which is under renovation and enlargement at present in order to prepare for the arrival of the AVE system).
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/barcelona   (3931 words)

  
 ICLEI Global: Barcelona Provincial Council, Spain - Municipal System of Sustainability Indicators
A network of municipalities working towards sustainable development can develop regionally relevant sustainability indicators to help municipalities of all sizes assess their progress and incorporate sustainability into their planning processes.
Participating groups included a small multidisciplinary group of experts (university professors, local authorities, representatives from professional colleges), a municipal monitoring commission (composed of members from the 11 municipalities participating in the pilot project who coordinated the process and monitored the availability and reliability of data), and the network's technical secretariat.
The 11 municipalities and the provincial council each provided a technician on a part-time basis and a political official on an occasional basis both at the formulation stage (definition of indicators) and throughout the implementation stage (information gathering and calculation of indicators).
www.iclei.org /index.php?id=1158   (832 words)

  
 Barcelona Vacation Information, Barcelona Vacation Information
If you are planning a trip to Barcelona you may need a vacation guide so you will know where the popular attractions are and where the best hotels are for your family to stay while in Barcelona and where the best restaurants are in Barcelona.
Barcelona is located on the Mediterranean coast, between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs, 160 km south of the Pyrenees mountain range, the border with France.
To its north the city borders the River Besòs and the municipalities of Santa Coloma de Gramenet and Sant Adrià de Besòs; to the south it borders the Zona Franca, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat and Esplugues de Llobregat; to the east is the Mediterranean; and to the west Montcada i Reixach and Sant Cugat del Vallès.
www.photographypros.com /vacations/barcelona.php   (392 words)

  
 Barcelona - encyclopedia article about Barcelona. Free access, no registration needed. What does Barcelona mean? What ...
It is in the comarca This is a list of the comarques (singular "comarca") of Catalonia.
Barcelona is located on the Mediterranean The Mediterranean Sea (Akdeniz in Turkish, הים התיכון in Hebrew) is an intercontinental sea positioned between Europe to the north, Africa to the south and Asia to the east, covering an approximate area of 2.5 million km².
Barcelona is home to FC Barcelona, known asBarça, one of the most famous football clubs in the world.
www.uncg.edu /gar/courses/lixl/380BLS/380Unit5/Lesson5Europe1900_files/Barcelona.htm   (3632 words)

  
 Barcelona Information|Destinies|Main|Flight|Touristic|Knowing|Supplies|Spain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Barcelona is the capital city of Catalonia, an autonomous community in Spain.
Barcelona is a progressive, industrial, middle-class and European city, while at the same time being traditionalist, popular, typically Mediterranean and having a pleasant climate.
To its north, the city borders the Besòs river and the municipalities of Santa Coloma de Gramenet and Sant Adrià de Besòs; to the south it borders L'Hospitalet de Llobregat and Esplugues de Llobregat; to the east is the Mediterranean; and to the west are Montcada i Reixach and Sant Cugat del Vallès.
www.euro-mar.com /eng/spain-barcelona.php   (594 words)

  
 ContraCostaTimes.com | 06/18/2006 | Barcelona has it all: amenities and vibrant economy
Barcelona, on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea in the autonomous region of Catalonia in northeastern Spain, is the center of a large and diverse metropolis with more than 200 municipalities.
Barcelona ranks No. 1 for its quality of life among European cities surpassing cities such as Paris, Stockholm, Munich, Madrid, Zurich, Dublin and Vienna, according to a recent survey by real estate firm Cushman and Wakefield, Healy and Baker.
There also is an emerging venture capital industry in the Barcelona region, but it has a long way to go before it achieves Silicon Valley or Route 128 in Massachusetts standards.
www.contracostatimes.com /mld/cctimes/news/local/states/california/14847853.htm   (551 words)

  
 ICLEI Global: Barcelona, Spain - Barcelona: Towards a Noiseless City
Reducing urban noise requires municipalities to implement a broad range of measures and work with a variety of stakeholders to address different sources of noise.
Summer Night-time Terrace Bars-A list of recommendations was drawn up to reduce the noise from terrace bars, which was used as a guideline for the renewal of activity permits in the summers of 2002 and 2003.
In 2003, major roadwork companies in Barcelona joined the campaign and committed to reducing noise in their daily activities in accordance with a jointly developed good practices code.
www.iclei.org /index.php?id=1155   (737 words)

  
 VI. Country Narratives -- Countries Q through Z   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Russia is placed on Tier 2 Watch List for a third consecutive year for its continued failure to show evidence of increasing efforts to combat trafficking, particularly in the area of victim protection and assistance.
The government mandated that all municipalities establish a response team consisting of one police officer and one social welfare worker to provide assistance to victims; only a few local teams were active and functional in 2005, others failed to be responsive or have yet to be designated.
Taiwan is placed on Tier 2 Watch List for its failure to show evidence of increasing efforts over the past year to address trafficking, despite ample resources to do so, particularly to address the serious level of forced labor and sexual servitude among legally migrating Southeast Asian contract workers and brides.
www.state.gov /g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2006/65990.htm   (17655 words)

  
 Chapte2 2: Honored Citizens of Barcelona
After attendance was taken, the municipal notaries inscribed into the matrícula all the direct male descendants of citizens who had reached the age of twenty.
The crucial factor underlying the sharp rise in demand for patents of citizenship among rural elites was the rank's exemption from royal taxation.
This guaranteed the Barcelona patrician a much higher (and more secure) social status than the bourgeois, whose strident claims to noble rank were often spurned by local aristocrats.
libro.uca.edu /amelang/hcb2.htm   (7044 words)

  
 Zoocheck Canada Inc. - Programs & Projects - The Performing Prisoners Campaign: Animals in Entertainment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Prohibition on the use of wild animals in circuses in Barcelona and Blanes.
Federal prohibitition against touring and circus exhibitions of monkeys, predators, with the exception of domesticated dogs and cats, pinnipeds with the exception of sea-lions, rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses, deer, giraffes, kangaroos, birds of prey, ratite birds and crocodiles (per the Animal Protection Ordinance, 1988).
Many US municipal jurisdictions have prohibitions against certain types of animal performances, such as bear wrestling, mule diving, elephant rides etc.; these have not been catalogued.
www.zoocheck.com /programs/entertain/LISTJUR1.shtml   (662 words)

  
 Welcome to PRYO.Net
Provinces with respect to component cities and municipalities, and cities and municipalities with respect to component barangays shall ensure that the acts of their component units are within the scope of their prescribed powers and functions.
No province, city, municipality, or barangay may be created, divided, merged, abolished, or its boundary substantially altered, except in accordance with the criteria established in the local government code and subject to approval by a majority of the votes cast in a plebiscite in the political units directly affected.
The Ombudsman and his Deputies shall be appointed by the President from a list of at least six nominees prepared by the Judicial and Bar Council, and from a list of three nominees for every vacancy thereafter.
www.pryo.net /History/Constitution-1987.html   (14452 words)

  
 Vic is the capital of the comarca comarca of Osona...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
"Vic" is the capital of the "comarca comarca" of Osona Osona, in the province of Barcelona Barcelona, Catalonia Catalonia, Spain Spain.
The conflict became the War of the Spanish Succession War of the Spanish Succession and the end of the freedom for Catalonia as a nation.
See also List of municipalities in Barcelona List of municipalities in Barcelona.
www.biodatabase.de /Vic   (232 words)

  
 Sitges Spain -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
List of municipalities in Barcelona Category:Catalonia Category:Gay villages pl:Sitges
List of Viceroys of New Spain ca:Nova Espanya da:Nyspanien de:Neuspanien es:Nueva_Espa%F1a fr:Nouvelle-Espagne nl:Nieuw-Spanje pt:Nova Espanha pl:Nowa Hiszpania zh-tw:新西班牙 Category:Colonial Mexico Category:Viceroyalties Category:Spanish colonization of the Americas Category:Spanish colonial period in the Philippines
Alfons I, Count of Barcelona (1162-1196) known as ''el Cast (the Chaste)'' or ''el Trobador (the Troubadour)'', also Alfonso II of Aragon.
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/133/sitges-spain.html   (939 words)

  
 List of municipalities in Barcelona - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of the municipalities in the province of Barcelona in the autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.
See also a list of the comarques of Catalonia.
This page was last modified 00:38, 20 October 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_Barcelona   (70 words)

  
 portland imc - 2004.08.21 - Hard hit Municipalities:The Attempt to Destroy Lavalas and the Consolidation of the Coup
Immediately following the coup on February 29th more than 400 mayors and the employees of their municipalities were forced from their posts following a campaign of repression and political terror.
Each of the local municipalities also employed hundreds of people who were purged through a violent campaign of intimidation in a climate described as a "witch hunt" by many international observers.
Many public services such as trash collection and road maintenance are no longer provided to the communities and up to 20,000 people countrywide have forced out of their jobs and can no longer support their families.
portland.indymedia.org /en/2004/08/295235.shtml   (547 words)

  
 Philippine Constitution - Preamble   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The territorial and political subdivisions of the Republic of the Philippines are the provinces, cities, municipalities, and barangays.
The organic act shall define the basic structure of government for the region consisting of the executive department and legislative assembly, both of which shall be elective and representative of the constituent political units.
Until a law is passed, the President may fill by appointment from a list of nominees by the respective sectors the seats reserved for sectoral representation in paragraph (2), Section 5 of Article V1 of this Constitution.
www.concourt.am /wwconst/constit/philipin/philip-e.htm   (17844 words)

  
 Municipalities - Canadian Social Research Links
It is important that we, federal and municipal politicians, come together like this to talk about how together we can meet the interests of 21st century Canadian communities.
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities is the national voice of municipal governments, dedicated to improving the quality of life in all communities by promoting strong, effective and accountable municipal government.
Municipalities may face unexpected barriers in implementing the Walkerton Inquiry recommendations to protect drinking water and agricultural lands due to the federal governments approach to trade negotiations, according to a new study by the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives."
www.canadiansocialresearch.net /municipal.htm   (7364 words)

  
 CEMR - Fields of activity - News list
The Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) has sent a letter to the Committee on Environment of the European Parliament asking to take fully into account the role of local and regional authorities in the directive proposal of the European Commission on the assessment and management of floods...
The Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) represents the interests of local and regional authorities federated in 47 national associations from 34 countries.
This is one of the main messages of the “Euro-Mediterranean Cities” declaration presented on 19 December in Barcelona at the occasion of the launch of the European Commission’s new initiative “de-pollute the Mediterranean by 2020”...
www.ccre.org /champs_activites_liste_news_en.htm?ID=3114   (712 words)

  
 NATO/SFOR : Transcript of Press Briefing, 14 Sept. 1997
About 50 candidates have been removed from the list, including about 30 from Republika Srpska, and the Provisional Election Commission Chairman, Ambassador Frowick, has decided that it is appropriate in his view to return two of those candidates to the electoral process.
That means that they've registered to cast their ballot for the municipality, though they can cast their ballot where they are now living by absentee ballot.
It was made clear before the voter registration process even began that the voters would vote in their municipality where they lived in 1991.
www.nato.int /sfor/trans/1997/t970914a.htm   (2322 words)

  
 Business - The Enquirer - November 4, 1997   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Cincinnati was ranked seventh on the magazine's list last year but slipped out of the 1997 rankings.
Cleveland was rated sixth for shaking its image as the ''Mistake by the Lake.'' ''Indeed, while all the cities included in Fortune's list this year have improved, Cleveland, once the butt of many a joke, may have come the furthest,'' the magazine said.
Dublin, Ireland, headed the list for Europe; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, was rated as the best in Asia; and Santiago, Chile, was the place to be in Latin America.
www.enquirer.com /editions/1997/11/04/bus_fortune.html   (508 words)

  
 Ain-Al-Yaqeen - March 25, 2005 - Article 10
Trophies and shields of the ministry were given to a number of wilayats and industrial establishements and individuals as a token for the winners of the competition organised by the ministry.
A total of 27 municipalities were felicitated by awarding cash prizes and certificates of appreciation and six municipalities were given away ministry's shields with cash prizes.
A total of 137 persons from the private sector were honoured for their contribution to the contest for the year 2004.
www.ain-al-yaqeen.com /issues/20050325/feat10en.htm   (4136 words)

  
 Barcelona (province) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
5,300,000 people live in the province (2006), of whom fewer than a third live in the municipality of Barcelona.
Some other cities and towns in Barcelona province include L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Badalona, Cerdanyola, Martorell, Mataró, Granollers, Sabadell, Terrassa, Sitges, Igualada, Vic, Manresa, Berga.
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en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barcelona_(province)   (183 words)

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