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Encyclopedia - Borough: Encyclopedia - Borough
A borough is a local government administrative subdivision used in the Canadian province of Quebec, in some states of the United States, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Borough: Encyclopedia Ii - Borough - Present-day Boroughs
Borough - Canada. In Quebec, the term borough is used as the formal translation into English of the French arrondissement, an administr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Borough: Encyclopedia Ii - Borough - Historical Boroughs
In its original Anglo-Saxon connection with its modern meaning, a borough was a number of households or an extended household, surrounded...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Borough: Encyclopedia Ii - Borough - Pronunciation
In many parts of England, "borough" is pronounced as IPA: /bʌɹə/ ( listen) as an independent word, and as /bɹə/ when forming a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Borough: Encyclopedia Ii - Borough - Etymology
The word borough has cognates in other Germanic languages. For example, burgh in Scots, burg in German, and borg in both Danish and Swedi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Borough: Encyclopedia Ii - Borough - Borough As A Place Name
There is a neighbourhood in the London Borough of Southwark simply called The Borough, south of London Bridge across the Thames from the ...   » Read the article