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County - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3455 words) |
 | The county of Oslo is equivalent to the municipality of Oslo. |
| At the county level there is a county administrative board led by a governor appointed by the central government of Sweden, as well as an elected county council that handles a separate set of issues, notably hospitals and public transportation. |
| The term "county" is used in 48 of the 50 states of the United States for the tier of state government authority immediately below the statewide tier and above the township tier, in those states that sub-divided counties into civil townships. |
| Latvia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1516 words) |
| Known originally as Livonia, the area that now constitutes Latvia was under the influence of the German Sword Brethren (Schwertbrüder) from the 13th century onward until the 16th century, when the institution of Livonia was terminated and sold by the local aristocracy to Poland. |
| In fact, Latvia has no territorial claims towards Russia, but demands an acknowledgement from Russia of the annexiation of the Abrene region, since this land was previously part of Latvia and was detached from it by the Soviet Union. |
| There are also Jews (9883 in 2005) in Latvia who are now mainly a remainder from the Soviet Union, as during World War II the Jewish Community (according to the last official census in 1935 there were 93,479 Jews in the country, or approximately 5% of the total population) was annihilated. |
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