The Greater Flamingo ( Phoenicopterus roseus ) is the most widespread species of the flamingo family.

The clearest difference between this species and the Greater Flamingo, the only other Old World species of flamingo, is the much more extensive black on the bill.

* Greater flamingo

To the southeast, it is bounded by the ranges that separate it from the Orontes valley in Greater Syria and the Mesopotamian plain.

To distinguish him from Ajax, son of Oileus ( Ajax the Lesser ), he is called " Telamonian Ajax ," " Greater Ajax ," or " Ajax the Great ".

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) is a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services headquartered in Druid Hills, unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, in Greater Atlanta., Georgia, as seen from Emory University

Category: People from the Greater Los Angeles Area

Category: People from the Greater Los Angeles Area

The board brought together key stakeholders, including relevant government agencies, representation from private sector, urban specialists and economists, with cooperation from the government of Japan and French private sector, to prepare a master plan for the city in the context of Greater Kabul.

Freestyle's popularity spread outward from the Greater Toronto Area's Italian and Greek populations in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

As described in Isaac Asimov's autobiography In Memory Yet Green, the Futurians spun off from the Greater New York Science Fiction Club ( headed by Sam Moskowitz, later an influential SF editor and historian ) over ideological differences, with the Futurians wishing to take a more overt political stance.

As a result, Wollheim broke off from the Greater New York group and founded the Futurians in September, 1938.

Diocletian invaded and vast amounts of territory from western provinces of Greater Armenia became " protectorates " of Rome.

In 1969 it recommended a system of single-tier unitary authorities for the whole of England, apart from three metropolitan areas of Merseyside, Selnec ( Greater Manchester ) and West Midlands ( Birmingham and the Black Country ), which were to have both a metropolitan council and district councils.

Greater Hobart area from Mount Wellington

The Greater Antilles are made up of continental rock, as distinct from the Lesser Antilles, which are mostly young volcanic or coral islands.

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Greater London's population declined steadily in the decades after World War II, from an estimated peak of 8. 6 million in 1939 to around 6. 8 million in the 1980s.

Saint Hedwig of Silesia (), also Saint Hedwig of Andechs (, ) ( 1174 – 15 October 1243 ) from the comital House of Andechs was Duchess of Silesia from 1201 and of Greater Poland from 1231 as well as High Duchess consort of Poland from 1232 until 1238.

The reference stated that Jabir said, " The Prophet ... returned from one of his battles, and thereupon told us, ' You have arrived with an excellent arrival, you have come from the Lesser Jihad to the Greater Jihad — the striving of a servant ( of Allah ) against his desires ( holy war ).

Greater administrative power was given to both the leaders of the prefectures and of the provinces, while power was taken away from the vicariates of the dioceses, of which a number were abolished.

The Islamic conquest of Afghanistan began from Herat, which was one of the important cities of Greater Khorasan | Khorasan, and made its way to Kabul in the late 7th century.

The Board brings together key stakeholders, including relevant government agencies, as well as representation from private sector and urban specialists and economists, with cooperation from the government of Japan and French Private sector, the board prepared a master plan for the city in the context of Greater Kabul.

* A Battalion in every Kreis ( roughly equivalent to a U. S. county ; there were 920 kreise in Greater Germany )

Northern and some western parts of Greater Poland remained in Germany, where they formed much of the province of Posen-West Prussia ( 1922 – 1938 ), whose capital was Schneidemühl ( Piła ).

Following the German invasion of 1939, Greater Poland was incorporated into Nazi Germany, becoming the province called Reichsgau Posen, later Reichsgau Wartheland ( Warthe being the German name for the Warta river ).

The term was also used by Germans referring to Greater Germany, a state consisting of pre World War I Germany, actual Austria and the Sudetenland.

It was in Munich that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain assented to the annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland region into Greater Germany in the hopes of sating the desires of Hitler's Third Reich.

There is also is unitary Belgian nationalism, several versions of a Greater Netherlands ideal, and a German-speaking community of Belgium annexed from Prussia in 1920, and re-annexed by Germany in 1940 – 1944.

The Greater German Empire under Nazi Germany in 1943

For instance, variants of Pan-Germanism have different ideas about what constituted Greater Germany, including the confusing term Grossdeutschland, which, in fact, implied the inclusion of huge Slavic minorities from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Such systems, or variations of them, are used in parts of the United Kingdom ( the Greater London Authority, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly ), Germany, Lesotho, Mexico, Bolivia and New Zealand.

" The Vistula was the traditional limit of Greater Germany.

In the summer of 1939 the Nazis themselves actually banned the continued use of the term in the press, ordering it to use expressions such as nationalsozialistisches Deutschland (" National Socialist Germany "), Grossdeutsches Reich (" Greater German Reich "), or simply Deutsches Reich ( German Reich ) to refer to the German state instead.

Romantic nationalism, which had begun as a revolt against " foreign " kings and overlords, had come full circle, and was being used to make the case for a " Greater Germany " which would rule over Europe.

In the spring of 1938, just after the annexation of Austria into Greater Germany, eighty-four year-old Prince Franz I abdicated, naming his thirty-one year-old third cousin, Prince Franz Joseph II, as his successor.

Northern and some western parts of Greater Poland remained in Germany, where they formed much of the province of Posen-West Prussia ( 1922 – 1938 ), whose capital was Schneidemühl ( Piła ).

Following the German invasion of 1939, Greater Poland was incorporated into Nazi Germany, becoming the province called Reichsgau Posen, later Reichsgau Wartheland ( Warthe being the German name for the Warta river ).

Greater Poland is a major transport hub within Poland, a great deal of traffic from Russia and other states of the former Soviet Union pass through Poznań and Konin to reach Germany and other EU member states.

The party promised to rebuild Germany as a major power and create a Greater Germany that would include Alsace-Lorraine, Austria, Sudetenland, and other German-populated territories in Europe.

German troops promptly invaded northern Italy and the provinces of Trento, Belluno and South Tyrol became part of the Operation Zone of the Alpine Foothills, annexed to Greater Germany.

Although Germany never formally annexed Alsace-Lorraine, it was incorporated into the Greater German Reich, which had been restructured into Reichsgaue.

Following the Anschluss, the annexation of Austria into Greater Germany by the Nazi regime, in 1938 the University of Vienna was reformed under political aspects and a huge number of teachers and students were dismissed for political and " racial " reasons.

Located near the tripoint along the junction of France, Germany, and Luxembourg, Metz forms a central place of the European Greater Region and the SaarLorLux euroregion.

It rises in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland at Kromołów near Zawiercie, Silesian Voivodeship, flows through Łódź Land, Greater Poland and Lubusz Land, where it empties into the Oder near Kostrzyn at the border with Germany.

It served as the motivation for the expansionist policies of Nazi Germany, aiming to provide extra space for the growth of the German population, for a Greater Germany.