This, then, Theodora reflected, was the parish, the most ancient division of civil society in Britain.

It was one of the five ancient divisions of the island called moku.

It was only after the fifth century that such gradually developed, mostly in accordance with the ancient divisions of the Roman Empire.

It means both an ancient division of the country and the main road running through the old Japanese geographical region.

This reflects an ancient division in Buddhist hermeneutics, a topic to which the sūtra devotes an entire chapter.

These ancient divisions still exist, but have no administrative significance today.

India's official ideology holds that secularism is overpowering ancient religious divisions.

It means both an ancient division of the country and the main road running through it.

This ancient division was mainly occupational but gradually developed into a hereditary order.

This ancient division of philosophy into three parts was in the greater part of the universities of Europe changed for another into five.