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  2. Provinces of France - Wikipedia

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    Map of the provinces of France in 1789. They were abolished the following year. Under the Ancien Régime, the Kingdom of France was subdivided in multiple different ways (judicial, military, ecclesiastical, etc.) into several administrative units, until the National Constituent Assembly adopted a more uniform division into departments (départements) and districts in late 1789.

  3. Music box - Wikipedia

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    A music box (American English) or musical box (British English) is an automatic musical instrument in a box that produces musical notes by using a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc to pluck the tuned teeth (or lamellae) of a steel comb.

  4. List of administrative divisions by country - Wikipedia

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    French: Communes; German: Gemeinden) Belize: Unitary 6 districts: 201 municipalities: Benin: Unitary 12 departments (départements) 77 communes (communes) 546 districts (arrondissements) Bhutan: Unitary 20 districts (dzongkhag) 201 blocks (gewogs) 61 thromdes: Bolivia: Regional 9 departments (departamentos) 112 provinces (provincias) 339 ...

  5. Administrative divisions of France - Wikipedia

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    As agreed in the 1998 Nouméa Accord, a New Caledonian citizenship was established (in addition to the French citizenship which is kept in parallel, along with the consequent European citizenship) and a self-determination referendum was held in 2018. Two follow-up referendums were held in 2020 and 2021. It is divided into 3 provinces.

  6. Regions of France - Wikipedia

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    In 2014, the French parliament passed a law reducing the number of metropolitan regions from 22 to 13 effective 1 January 2016. [ 5 ] The law gave interim names for most of the new regions by combining the names of the former regions, e.g. the region composed of Aquitaine , Poitou-Charentes and Limousin was temporarily called Aquitaine-Limousin ...

  7. List of etymologies of administrative divisions - Wikipedia

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    Neuchâtel: French for "new castle"; Neuenburg (with the same semantic meaning) in German; Schwyz: named after the town of Schwyz; the origin of the town name is unknown. St Gallen: from Saint Gall (c. 550 – c. 646), traditionally the Irish founder/namesake of the Abbey of St. Gall which came to dominate the area.

  8. Portal:France/Provinces - Wikipedia

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    Modern France is the result of centuries of nation building and the acquisition and incorporation of a number of historical provinces into the French domain. The names of these provinces are still used to designate natural, historical and cultural regions, and many of them appear in modern région or département names.

  9. Polyphon - Wikipedia

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    A Polyphon playing "Silent Night" (the music starts 68 seconds into the video) A 1905 PolyphonA Polyphon is a disc-playing music box.The machine was invented in 1870; it was first manufactured by the Polyphon Musikwerke, in Leipzig, Germany, full-scale production having started about 1896 and continuing into the early 20th century.