Sentence examples for five main provinces from inspiring English sources

The empire was divided into five main provinces (Rajya), each under a commander (Dandanayaka or Dandanatha) and headed by a governor, often from the royal family, who used the native language for administrative purposes.

After a month of wrangling and procrastination, finally, on November 14th, the governors of the three main provinces agreed to accept revenue cuts.

Physiographically, the northwestern Mediterranean coastal zone can be differentiated into two main provinces.

DEHAP, a pro-Kurdish party, got more than 6% of the total vote in 2002 (and more than 45% in the five main Kurdish provinces), yet it ended up without a single seat in parliament.

From west to east, the South Namibian Plateau consists of four main morphological provinces: the coastal province and the intermediate, upper and Kalahari provinces in the interior plateau.

Under the Umayyads, a Muslim dynasty that gained power in 661 from the Meccans and Medinans who had initially led the Islamic community, Palestine formed, with Syria, one of the main provinces of the empire.

In the confusion that followed the coup, the rebels launched a new offensive and succeeded in taking the capitals of the three main northern provinces.

By way of initiation, many are obliged to club, stamp or bite to death their friends and relatives, and then to lick their brains, drink their blood and even eat their boiled flesh.Nearly 2m people, representing some 90% of the population of the three main Acholi provinces of Gulu, Kitgum and Pader, have fled their homes and now live in crowded and unhealthy camps.

Those who have tried to escape have either undergone a similar death themselves or had lips, noses, breasts and limbs hacked off in retribution.In an attempt to escape the rebels' raids, nearly 2m people, some 90% of the population in the three main Acholi provinces, live in overcrowded and disease-ridden camps for "internally displaced people".

The northwestern Mediterranean coastal zone can be differentiated into two main physiographic provinces: the elevated tableland in the south and the coastal zone to the north.

Camus [ 27] hypothesized that these events have shaped the biogeography of the Chilean coast where three main biogeographic provinces are recognized.