Sentences with 'counties'
Example sentences and phrases with the word counties and other words derived from it.
• « Charlemagne organised his empire into counties, ruled by counts (appropriately enough), usually his military followers but sometimes commoners, all of whom were sent to govern lands to which they had no personal ties. »
• « Charlemagne established a group of officials who travelled throughout the empire inspecting the counties to ensure loyalty to the crown. »
• « But six Protestant-majority northern counties resisted joining the rest of Ireland, which was largely Catholic, and remained part of the United Kingdom. That territory was called Northern Ireland, so the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. »
• « Farmers in western Pennsylvania counties produced whiskey from their grain for economic reasons. »