A county is generally a sub-unit of regional self-government within a sovereign jurisdiction. Originally, in continental Europe, a county was the land under the jurisdiction of a count. Counts are called earls in post-Celtic Britain and Ireland—the term is from Old Norsejarl and was introduced by the Vikings—but there is no correlation between counties and earldoms. Rather, county, from Frenchcomté, was simply used by the Normans after 1066 to replace the native English term scir ()—Modern Englishshire. A shire was an administrative division of an Anglo-Saxon kingdom (Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia, etc.), usually named after its administrative centre: for example, Gloucestershire, in Gloucester; Worcestershire, in Worcester; etc.Etymology of the word county.
Thus, whereas the word comté denoted a sovereign jurisdiction in the original French, the English county denotes a subdivision of a sovereign jurisdiction.
University students making difference for World AIDS Day jbstockton@unr.edu (Jill Stockton) Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 With more than 7,000 people living with HIV/AIDS in Nevada, 60 School of Public Health students at the University of Nevada, Reno are looking to educate and inform the community on World AIDS Day, Saturday, Dec. 1 from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. in the grand ballroom at the Joe Crowley Student Union.
Nevada Association of Counties (NACO) - Founded in 1969 as a nonpartisan, nonprofit corporation, owned, organized, and operated by Nevada's county governments.
Nevada Community Action Association - Statewide association for the CSBG grantees in the 17 counties of Nevada. Gives information about the organization and its aims, online resources and training among other resources.
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