In 1916 Britain and France divided the Ottoman province of Syria between them - France receiving its northern regions and Britain taking Palestine.

The reforms of Diocletian take effect, dividing Britain into four provinces and separating military and civilian government.

Midland Bank divides Britain into five big regions, while Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) slices it into 45 markets.

Let us dismiss the notion that a free, democratic and outward-looking Community is somehow a perverse Anglo-Saxon concept which divides Britain from the rest of Europe.

Because the Channel bestows upon us the right to be other, we imbue this sliver of sea dividing Britain from all those beastly foreigners with great and even mystical power.

The Mandate document divided the population into Jewish and non-Jewish, and Britain, the Mandatory Power considered the Palestinian population to be comprisd of religious, not national, groups.

Brittos divided Britain into three kingdoms and gave each to one of his sons.

Also dividing Britain from its neighbors was the issue of a social charter - adoption by majority vote of communitywide rules on, for example, minimum wages, vacation time, working conditions and labor-management relations.

The differences which divided Russia and Britain in the past have been resolved or faded into insignificance, says Alexander Yakovenko.

CACI have divided Great Britain into a series of retail catchment areas, based on a shopping centre with a Crown post office.