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Reporting to Liu Bang’s central government were hundreds of local provincials called commanderies.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

A. Three Knight Templars, hailing from three different commanderies, may, under the sanction of a charter or warrant from some regular Grand Encampment, form and open an Encampment for the dispatch of business.

From The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge by Morgan, William

To-day his collection of ancient works on La Chevalerie, in most of the languages of Europe, is a thing to be proud of, and his sub-collection on the Hospitallers and their commanderies is especially rich.

From The Book-Hunter at Home by Allan, P. B. M.

Every peasant-tenant of the seven commanderies held his homestead on a lease; and I had a crown for each renewal.

From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Sastrow, Bartholomew

In the meanwhile he either lived in Marienburg, or visited the commanderies, searching in his travels for distractions and adventures.

From The Knights of the Cross or, Krzyzacy by Binion, Samuel A.