Word Finder - consulates

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Rule by consuls, as during most periods of the Roman Republic or in France between 1799 and 1804.

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The office of a consul, in its various senses.

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The term of office of a consul.

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The business office of a consul; a minor embassy.

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Any town or city council.

Great Britain and all the larger European states have consulates there.

British, Russian, French, Turkish and Austrian consulates and a few European commercial firms are established at Tabriz; there are also post and telegraph offices.

The residence of the high commissioner and the consulates of the powers are in the suburb of Halepa.

One of the first provincial factories and consulates of the British Turkey (Levant) Company was established there in the reign of James I.; and a British agent had been in residence there even in Elizabeth's time.

Consulates of Great Britain, Germany, France, Russia and Turkey and several European mercantile houses are established at Bushire, and notwithstanding the drawbacks of bad roads to the interior, insufficient and precarious means of transport, and want of security, the annual value of the Bushire trade since 1890 averaged about £1,500,000 (one-third being for exports, two-thirds for imports), and over two-thirds of this was British.

Along the east side of the peninsula runs the Praya Grande, or Great Quay, the chief promenade in Macao, on which stand the governor's palace, the administrative offices, the consulates and the leading commercial establishments.

The banks of the port are closely lined with the offices, warehouses and wharves of commercial houses, with timber yards and innumerable ricemills, while the custom house, the harbour master's office and many of the foreign legations and consulates are also situated here.

A few houses, including the palace of the governor and the foreign consulates, are of more elaborate and solid construction than the majority of the buildings.

The more important consulates in the provinces of Turkey are also provided with one or more dragomans, whose duties, mutatis mutandis, are of a similar though less important nature.

The town is the seat of British, French and Russian consulates.

It is the seat of the British consulate for Kurdistan, and there are other European consulates besides an American mission with schools.

Between 1843 and 1845, Great Britain, the United States, and France opened consulates.

There are consulates of the chief nations of Europe, of the United States of America and of several Central and South American republics.

Protestants were successively removed from the states-general, the consulates, the town.

Once more Colbert failed; with regard to internal affairs, he was unable to unify weights and measures, or to suppress the many custom-houses which made France into a miniature Europe; nor could he in external affairs reform the consulates of the Levant.

It further ordered that all foreign members of congregations were to register themselves at their respective consulates, in accordance with the decrees of 1901 and 1902.

In addition, you must apply for your first passport in person. This can be done at U.S. embassies and consulates, a passport agency, orother participatingfacilities.

In general, visas can be applied for at consulates and embassies.

Chaplains are also appointed under the foreign office to embassies, legations, consulates, &c.