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  lala mara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
From her father, she inherited the title of Roko Tui Dreketi, the traditional title of the rulers of the Burebasaga confederacy, which covers the provinces of Rewa, Nadroga, Seru, Kadavu Island (off the coast of Suva, and parts of Ba and Ra.
The village of Lomanikoro in Rewa Province is the capital of the confederacy.
Adi Lala's marriage, on 9 September 1950, to Ratu Mara, who was to become the Tui Lau and Tui Nayau (the traditional ruler of Nayau and the Lau Islands) was considered a dynastic marriage, as it united two powerful feudal families.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /lala_mara.html   (484 words)

  
 UNITED PROVINCES OF AGRA AND OUDH - LoveToKnow Article on UNITED PROVINCES OF AGRA AND OUDH
The chief natural features of the province are thus determined by the main streams, whose alluvial deposits first formed the central portion of the United Provinces; while the currents afterwards cut deep channels through the detritus they brought down from the ring of hills or uplands.
Throughout the rest of the province of Agra, almost all of which was acquired between 1801 and 1803, temporary settlements are in force, usually for a term of thirty years, the revenue being assessed at one-half of the assets or estimated rental value.
The whole of Oudh was restored to the Nawab, and Shah Alam received as an imperial apanage the province of Allahabad and Kora in the lower Doab, with a British garrison in the fort of Allahabad.
48.1911encyclopedia.org /U/UN/UNITED_PROVINCES_OF_AGRA_AND_OUDH.htm   (5374 words)

  
 BOMBAY PRESIDENCY - LoveToKnow Article on BOMBAY PRESIDENCY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
This territory extends from 13 53 to 28 45 N., and from 66 40 to 76 30 E., and is bounded on the N. by Baluchistan, the Punjab and Rajputana; on the E. by Indore, the Central Provinces and Hyderabad; on the S. by Madras and Mysore; and on the W. by the Arabian Sea.
The flood season begins in March and continues till September, the average depth of the river rising from 9 to 24 ft., and the velocity of the current increasing from 3 to 7 m.
Rising in the Central Provinces, and traversing the dominions of Holkar, the Nerbudda enters the presidency at the north-western.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BO/BOMBAY_PRESIDENCY.htm   (6114 words)

  
 Bombay Presidency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Bombay Presidency was bounded on the north by Baluchistan, the Punjab and Rajputana; on the east by Indore, the Central Provinces and Hyderabad; on the south by Madras Presidency and the Kingdom of Mysore; and on the west by the Arabian Sea.
In addition to the mills there were (1901) 178,000 hand-loom weavers in the province, who still have a position of their own in the manipulation of designs woven into the cloth.
In 1950 Bombay Province was reorganized into Bombay state, which included the princely states formerly under the political authority of Bombay Province; these princely states were merged into the new state after their rulers acceded to India.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bombay_Presidency   (2635 words)

  
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ramillies (municipality, province of walloon brabant, belgium)
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municipality of regencós (baix empordà county, girona province, catalonia, spain)
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 Project South Asia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
It is bounded on the west by the Province of Bilhar and Orissa, and on the east by Assam and Burma.
The Central Provinces consist of highland country, little known, covered with jungle and forest, with three fairly fertile valleys, one sloping westward along the Narbada, one southward along the Wardha and Wainganga to the Godavari, and one eastward along the Mahanadi and its feeders.
In 1843 the province of Sind was conquered and annexed by Sir Charles Napier.
projectsouthasia.sdstate.edu /docs/GEOGRAPHY/SecondaryDocs/NewGeography.htm   (18942 words)

  
 Lala Mara - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
She was regarded as a formidable and astute woman, whose influence on her husband was said to be considerable.
From her father, she inherited the title of Roko Tui Dreketi, the traditional title of the rulers of the Burebasaga confederacy, which covers the provinces of Rewa, Nadroga, Namosi, Serua, Kadavu Island (off the coast of Suva), and parts of Ba.
Adi Lala's marriage, on 9 September 1950, to Ratu Mara, who was to become the Tui Lau and Tui Nayau (the traditional ruler of the Lau Islands) was considered a dynastic marriage, as it united two powerful feudal families.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /lala_mara.htm   (423 words)

  
 Rewa Rugby Union - Teivovo.com
Playing for your province should mean something and the ‘vanua’ expect each and every player to give their all.
If Rewa open up their game, they could easily score more tries, making use of the speed at the back.
One of Rewa’s brightest prospects, however, is Eremodo Tuinasauvuki, a nippy halfback who’s attentive at the breakdown.
www.teivovo.com /provincial_unions/rewa/2002/index_2002.html   (652 words)

  
 News - Int’l - New Zealanders reviewing Fiji dairy industry - chairman Engormix.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Mr Serulagilagi said Rewa Dairy was also seeking the Fiji Government's help to enhance the role of the company in developing a local agriculture-based industry.
Mr Galuinadi said Rewa was the sole processor of local milk and most of its products had imported ingredients that were repackaged or blended with local milk and butter.
Rewa was told by quarantine officials the milk could not be taken off the wharves without a manufacturer's certification that it was sterilised at specific temperatures.
www.engormix.com /e_noticias_list.asp?NRO=2882&AREA=&P=224   (916 words)

  
 Local_government_of_Fiji   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The divisions are basically agglomerations of provinces and have few administrative functions of their own, but serve to foster cooperation among the member provinces for providing services.
Each province has a ''provincial council'' which may make bylaws and impose rates (local taxes), subject to the approval of the Fijian Affairs Board, a government department.
In addition, 14 of the 32 members of the Senate, the upper house of the Fijian Parliament, are chosen by the provincial councils (one Senator each) and confirmed by the Great Council of Chiefs.
q-basic.xodox.de /Divisions_of_Fiji   (414 words)

  
 Guiyang - Current News & Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Companies in the city of Guiyang, in the southwestern province of Guizhou, are a microcosm of this trend.
The children at two schools in Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou province, were taken to the hospital after they began vomiting and had diarrhea and high fevers...
The children in Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou province, were taken to the hospital because of vomiting, diarrhea and high fevers, Xinhua said.
news.daylightonline.com /Guiyang.html   (2947 words)

  
 Strategic Marriages
Comprised of the provinces of Tailevu, Naitasiri, Lomaiviti, and parts of the western provinces of Ba, Ra, and Namosi.
Comprising the provinces in Vanua Levu, the second largest island to the north of Viti Levu, the island where Suva and Nadi are located.
The largest of the three confederacies comprises the provinces of Rewa, Nadroga, Serua, the island of Kadavu off the coast of Suva, and parts of Ba and Ra.
maorinews.com /karere/fiji/stratmarr.htm   (1504 words)

  
 PATRICIAN BROTHERS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Indian Province of the Brothers of St. Patrick celebrated its centenary in 1975 at Madras.
At the present time, more and more religious people are moving out into village areas to be of help to the marginalised and less privileged and to stand for the cause of peace and justice.
In 1968 the Australian Province moved into another stage of its history with the Brothers becoming involved with education in Papua New Guinea.
www.iol.ie /%7Epatbros/Global/global.html   (2478 words)

  
 King--of the Khyber Rifles -- Chapter 5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Rewa Gunga told me they were still at large in Delhi.
But King smiled merrily as he jumped out of the train, and Rewa Gunga, who was there to meet him, advanced with outstretched hand and a smile that would have melted snow on the distant peaks if he had only looked the other way.
King had to stop him, not that he feared trouble, for they did not seem to resent either abuse of cudgeling in the least--and that in itself was food for thought; but broken shoulders are no use for carrying loads.
www.litrix.com /kkr/kkr005.htm   (3399 words)

  
 Bialystok : Cities and Towns in Poland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The province is a plain drained by the Bug and Narew rivers.
Bialystok Province is primarily agricultural; industries are concentrated in the capital.
The province was incorporated into the USSR during World War II.
www.meetpoland.com /cities-and-towns-in-poland/Bialystok.html   (179 words)

  
 Editorial : Staging the Pacific Province   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Part of the established theatre is, of course, the canon of published drama, and the role of publishing was a focus of this conference, where a number of prominent bc playwrights read and Karl Siegler of Talonbooks spoke.
Of course, as a number of history papers made clear, early bc theatres were often contained in multipurpose buildings, or attempted to replicate the opera houses or theatres of lost homelands.
The conference “Staging the Pacific Province,” too, was a highly celebratory event, one that this issue cannot hope to capture.
www.utpjournals.com /product/ctr/101/101_Editorial.html   (2771 words)

  
 Fijivillage.com Demo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
He is a powerful leader of a volatile province who in temperament and political history is at the opposite end of the scale to Ratu Jope.
The story at Rewa Dairy hinges once again around accountability and just like in the sugar industry this farmer run coop is paralyzed by politics.
Appeals to the Government to investigate are met with a shrug and a reminder that the Board of Rewa Dairy is an independent body and accusations of mismanagement and corruption should be dealt with by the Police.
www.fijivillage.com /demo/yellow-b-demo.shtml   (1410 words)

  
 DNZB / BIOGRAPHY
On becoming the first provincial treasurer and a member of the executive, he resigned his seat and was elected unopposed for the new seat of Mataura, which he held until 1864.
As treasurer he was a prime mover in the drive to get better communications for the province, overseeing the raising of the funds necessary for the development of wharves, roads, the electric telegraph, and railways from Bluff to Invercargill and onward to Winton.
Later he was appointed first commissioner for Central Province, as well as comptroller general of labour, sheriff, chief of police and governor of the gaol.
www.dnzb.govt.nz /dnzb/Find_Quick.asp?PersonEssay=1C11   (1104 words)

  
 GMINA KOSAKOWO - TURYSTYKA I REKREACJA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Kosakowo district is situated in the north east part of the Pomeranian province.
The district is composed of several villages: Rewa, Mechelinki, Mosty, Pierwoszyno, Kosakowo, Debogorze, Debogorze-Wybudowanie, Kazimierz, Pogorze and Suchy Dwor.
In the eastern part of Rewa a yacht harbour with service facilities and marina is planned to be built.
www.kosakowo.pl /turyst/Ainform.htm   (230 words)

  
 History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The people of Fiji are larger - much larger in some cases, as in the province of Nadroga where even the women are nearly 180 centimetres (6 ft) tall.
The chiefs of Rewa, fearing that once started such a disturbance could lead to a greater conflict, promptly fired muskets on the disturbing parties.
In passing his presence they had to stoop or even sometimes crawl; if carrying objects these had to be lowered; when entering the house in his presence the commoner had to use a door reserved for him.
www.pacificislandtravel.com /fiji/about_destin/history.asp   (4565 words)

  
 Ministry of Provincial Development reorganised - Fiji Government Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Under the new organization structure, the province is the focal planning unit headed by the Provincial Administrators.
The Provincial administrator is to ensure that development programmes are implemented in a meaningful and sustainable manner within the Province in close consultation with other agencies of Government, Non-Government Organizations and the general public.
For example, the provincial administrator Rewa will now direct funding and development efforts to the villages and settlement in Rewa only as opposed to his previous role as the district Officer Nausori when he looked after the whole of Rewa together with villages and settlements in Tailevu South and lower Naitasiri.
www.fiji.gov.fj /cgi-bin/cms/exec/view.cgi/48/3923/printer   (306 words)

  
 Fiji Postcards 3D: Fijian Domestic Activities 1890-1939   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
From the style of the pots in the picture I would judge that the photograph was taken in one of the specialist potter-villages of Rewa District, near Suva.
It is possible to make out the light wooden paddles with which several of the women are forming the pots, holding a river-pebble inside them (the so-called "paddle and anvil" technique: see article on this website).
The chiefly island of Bau lies off Rewa Province on the "mainland" of Vitilevu.
www.justpacific.com /fiji/fijiphotos/cards/fijians/domestic.html   (1306 words)

  
 King--of the Khyber Rifles -- Chapter 6   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Rewa Gunga sat, mounted, at their head, and close to him his personal servant rode another horse.
Only the glow of King's cheroot, and the lesser, quicker fire of Rewa Gunga's cigarette, betrayed humanity, except that once or twice King's horse would put a foot wrong and be spoken to.
To hold up a despatch rider was about as irregular as any proceeding could be; but it was within his province to find out how far the Khyber jezailchis could be trusted and within his power more than to make up the lost time.
www.litrix.com /kkr/kkr006.htm   (5168 words)

  
 Definition of Madhya Pradesh
The city of Ujjain (also known as Avanti) arose as a major center in the second wave of Indian urbanization in the sixth century BCE, and served as the chief city of the Malwa or Avanti region, which was an independent kingdom until it was absorbed into the Maurya, and later the Gupta, empires.
Madhya Pradesh was created in 1950 from the former British Central Provinces and Berar and the princely states of Makrai and Chhattisgarh, with Nagpur as the capital of the state.
In 1956, the states of Madhya Bharat, Vindhya Pradesh, and Bhopal, made up of former princely states, were merged into it, and it lost the Marathi-speaking southern region Vidarbha, which included Nagpur, to Bombay state.
www.wordiq.com /definition/Madhya_Pradesh   (833 words)

  
 Mae Wong national park - Thailand
The area was declared a national park on 14 September 1987 as the 55th park of Thailand.
This 894 square kilometers park is located approximately 350 km north-west of Bangkok, in the provinces of Nakon Sawan and Kampaeng Phet.
Mae Rewa is located 30 km from Mae Rewa ranger station.
www.trekthailand.net /north33/index.html   (576 words)

  
 THE THREATENED TRIBAL: THE BAIGAS. Chapter 9
In these highlands were, the boundaries of three administrative districts of the Central Provinces well as the boundary between the province and Rewa State.
Central Provinces, Report on the Census of theCentral Provinces for 1866 (Nagpur: M. Lawlor at the Chief Commissioner's Office Press, 1967), "Statement B"; and James Forsyth, The Highlands of Central India.
Abbreviations of Central Provinces is C.P., of The Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces is CCCP, and Government of India is GOI..
www.lib.virginia.edu /area-studies/SouthAsia/Ideas/CP/ch09baiga.html   (13440 words)

  
 Constitiution Commission members profiles
Adi Litia Cakobau: She is representing the confederacy of Kubuna of which Tailevu and Naitasiri provinces are key constituents.
She is now the vice-Chairperson of the Great Council of Chiefs, and at the height of the terrorist crisis, had asked the Chairman, Sitiveni Rabuka to resign, eyeing the top post for herself.
Berenado Vunibobo: Vunibobo is representing Burebasaqa confederacy of which Rewa province is a prominent member.
www.fijihosting.com /pcgov/archive/2000-10/no92.htm   (1341 words)

  
 BOMBAY PRESIDENCY - Online Information article about BOMBAY PRESIDENCY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Burhanpur, a station on the Great Indian Peninsula railway, flows eastward through the district of Khandesh, the native state of Rewa Kantha and the district of Surat, and falls into the Gulf of Cambay, a few miles west of the town of Surat.
It forms the western boundary of the province of Gujarat, and when flooded during the rains unites the Gulfs of Cutch and Cambay, and converts the territory of Cutch into an See also:
Railways and Irrigation.—The province is well supplied with railways, all of which, with one exception, concentrate at Bombay City.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /BLA_BOS/BOMBAY_PRESIDENCY.html   (4516 words)

  
 Vindhya Pradesh - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Vindhya Pradesh by created in 1948 from the merger of several former princely states.
It was named for the Vindhya Range, which runs through the center of the province.
Vindhya Pradesh, together with the states of Madhya Bharat and Bhopal, was merged into Madhya Pradesh on November 1, 1956.
www.free-definition.com /Vindhya-Pradesh.html   (142 words)

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