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Trinidad and Tobago - LOCATION, SIZE, AND EXTENT, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATE, FLORA AND FAUNA (411 words) |
 | Elected county councils with certain executive powers govern the eight counties of Trinidad. |
| The three major cities, Port-of-Spain, San Fernando, and Arima, each have a mayor and a city council. |
| In 1980, Tobago was granted its own House of Assembly, which sits for four years and consists of 12 elected members and three members chosen by the majority party. |
| CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Gregory XIII (2513 words) |
| Perhaps one of the happiest events during his pontificate was his arrival at Rome of four Japanese ambassadors on 22 March, 1585. |
| They had been sent by the converted kings of Bungo, Arima, and Omura, in Japan, to thank the pope for the fatherly care he had shown their country by sending them Jesuit missionaries who had taught them the religion of Christ. |
| In order to safeguard the Catholic religion in Germany, he instituted a special Congregation of Cardinals for German affairs, the so-called Congregatio Germanica, which lasted from 1573-1578. |
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