In pictures: Rioting in north Belfast follows 12 July parades
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A determination by the Parades Commission meant that a parade by three Orange lodges would not be allowed to march on a stretch of the Crumlin Road that separates loyalist and nationalist communities.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland set up lines to ensure that the determination was upheld and lodges were stopped at the junction of Woodvale Road and Woodvale Parade.
As the parade approached police lines, crowds gathered in support of the marchers who were being stopped.
Police came under attack from a missiles, including petrol bombs, stones, fireworks and golf balls.
North Belfast MP Nigel Dodds was knocked unconscious after being hit by a missile during the riot and was taken away in an ambulance
On Friday, the first night of violence, 32 officers were injured in violence that broke out in the Woodvale area of north Belfast and on the Newtownards Road in east Belfast.
One protestor was flung from the roof of a police Land Rover after being sprayed by a police water cannon.
Late on Friday night, the Orange Order called off their protest and the clean up operation began.
On Saturday, protests were held in the Woodvale Road area, scene of the previous night's disorder.
Later that evening, police came under attack from crowds in the area throwing bricks, stones and furniture.
Fireworks were also thrown on the second night of disturbances.
Further protests took place on Sunday, with crowds gathering at the roundabout between Woodvale Road and Twaddell Avenue.
The protests were largely peaceful, despite calls for the protests to end and appeals for no more violence.
Those calls were ignored as police came under attack from petrol bombs for a third night.
The disturbances were not as severe as on previous nights, but crowds had also gathered in the Mount Vernon and Short Strand areas of Belfast.
On Monday, police said that 44 officers had been injured over three nights of rioting, with the cost of policing running into "multiple millions" of pounds.
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