With the Turkic expansion during Early Middle Ages ( c. 6th – 11th centuries ), peoples speaking Turkic languages spread across Central Asia, covering a vast geographical region stretching from Siberia to Europe and the Mediterranean.

In February 1946, Kennan, an American diplomat in Moscow, sent his famed " Long Telegram ", which predicted the Soviets would only respond to force and that the best way to handle them would be through a long-term strategy of containment, that is stopping their geographical expansion.

During the Theisen administration, the village saw the largest expansion of its geographical boundaries and the largest growth in housing as a result of the baby-boomers moving from the larger urban centers to the more rural Sauk Village.

This appears as the third principal component of genetic variation in Eurasia ( after the " Great expansion " from the African continent, and a second expansion from the area of Northern Siberia ), which suggests geographical expansion during the early Jōmon period.

In fact, the game is designed to limit player's geographical expansion possibilities, forcing them to deal with other civilizations militarily, diplomatically or otherwise if they wish their own civilization to reach its full potential.

Oignies-en-Thiérache, Monument for the geographical centre of the EU until its May 2004 expansion

* To increase the rate of Red Kite expansion into North West England and link up with existing populations in Wales, Yorkshire, North East England and South West Scotland and so increase the chances of a continuous geographical range.

He continued to build on the department through expansion of the Regional Administration into 10 geographical locations across the country.

Tacfarinas is an example of the multiple rebellions against the expansion of the Roman Empire through military establishment and geographical positioning as well as the adequate and tactful response by the Third Augustan Legion.

With the gradual expansion of Laurence Echard's ( d. 1730 ) gazetteer of 1693, it too became a universal geographical dictionary that was translated into Spanish in 1750, into French in 1809, and into Italian in 1810.

These supposed benefits have led to an expansion of these programmes in most jurisdictions that have introduced them, aiming to increase geographical coverage, but also the availability of these services out of hours.

In a memorandum sent to President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan on September 17, 1958, he argued for the creation of a tripartite directorate that would put France on an equal footing with the United States and the United Kingdom, and also for the expansion of NATO's coverage to include geographical areas of interest to France, most notably French Algeria, where France was waging a counter-insurgency and sought NATO assistance.

This trend of the globalized public sphere is not only as a geographical expansion form a nation to worldwide, but also changes the relationship between the public, the media and state ( Volkmer, 1999: 123 ).

In national terms the Jacksonians favored geographical expansion, justifying it in terms of Manifest Destiny.

While there was a great deal of geographical expansion there were also losses and fragmentation.

After the obvious geographical expansion from downtown, " other neighborhoods … … into existence … … the result of streetcar lines moving north and east from downtown and providing opportunities for settling that were obviously attractive to all but the poorest.

By 1968, the further expansion of Dampier had been constrained by geographical factors and the new town of Karratha was established as a result.

These moves are just as important as other strategic thrusts, such as acquisition, geographical expansion, and so on.

Grown achieves an advantage by expansion in volume or geographical distribution.

They favored geographical expansion to create more farms for people like them, and distrusted the upper classes who envisioned an industrial nation built on finance and manufacturing.

In converting to civilian production after the war, C. Don Williamson began a strategy of geographical expansion and established new production facilities, warehouses, and sales territories throughout the United States.

Urban sprawl accelerated the rate of expansion of metropolitan areas, and multiple split plans have caused the geographical area of a given area code in those regions to shrink.

Two years later, in 2004, the network spanned the geographical limits of the city: first, in March, with the expansion of the Yellow Line from Campo Grande to Odivelas ( which included five new stations ); then, in May, the Blue Line was extended from Pontinha to Amadora Este.

Certain names of places, such as Streetsboro, OH, Greensboro, NC, and Maynesborough, NH reflect the historical use of Borough as a geographical scale in the United States.

Each local government services all the suburbs that are within its geographical boundaries and are responsible for their own urban area, up to a certain scale, and residential planning as well as waste management and mains water storage.

If the attack is conducted on a sufficiently large scale, entire geographical regions of Internet connectivity can be compromised without the attacker's knowledge or intent by incorrectly configured or flimsy network infrastructure equipment.

Weather maps are created by plotting or tracing the values of relevant quantities such as sea level pressure, temperature, and cloud cover onto a geographical map to help find synoptic scale features such as weather fronts.

A globe is a three-dimensional scale model of Earth ( terrestrial globe or geographical globe ) or other spheroid celestial body such as a planet, star, or moon.

With elements similar to miniature wargaming, building models and architectural models, a plan-relief is a means of geographical representation in relief as a scale model for military use, in order to visualise building projects on fortifications or campaigns involving fortifications.

*** allows searching for any or a specified type of geographical feature within a rectangular area or the whole world, with a name equal to or containing the search term ; returns coordinates, country and province with a small scale map.

This can be the result of population dispersal leading to emigration, or by geographical changes such as mountain formation, island formation, or large scale human activities ( for example agricultural and civil engineering developments ).

Weather maps are created by plotting or tracing the values of relevant quantities such as sea level pressure, temperature, and cloud cover onto a geographical map to help find synoptic scale features such as weather fronts.

Barring some major emergency on a scale matching or exceeding the bank's geographical area of operation, depositors ' unpredictable needs for cash are unlikely to occur at the same time ; that is, by the law of large numbers, banks can expect only a small percentage of accounts withdrawn on any one day because individual expenditure needs are largely uncorrelated.

Through processes of neoliberalism, the State has " hollowed out " some of its cartographic responsibilities and delegated power to individuals who are at a lower geographical scale.

Measures to implement these provisions should not prejudice prior trademark rights that have been acquired in good faith ; and, under certain circumstances — including long-established use — continued use of a geographical indication for wines or spirits may be allowed on a scale and nature as before.

The park is a scale model of the Holy Land, including cities, hills, rivers, and seas in approximately correct geographical location.

The relative geographical isolation of the Brandywine population makes for a limited choice in mating.

Each questionnaire was audited for obvious mistakes and for comments, and was identified by a serial number, by the source list from which the company name was selected, and by the geographical location of the company as determined by the postmark on the return envelope.

This traditional geographical definition is used, for example, in the latest edition of Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, as well as the archeological community.

Regions as defined in this context are merely for statistical, geographical, geological and climate related purposes and do not refer to an administrative division.

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Among the letters of Julian are two ( 29 and 30 ) addressed to Alypius ; one inviting him to Rome, the other thanking him for a geographical treatise, which no longer exists.

Celsius conducted many geographical measurements for the Swedish General map, and was one of earliest to note that much of Scandinavia is slowly rising above sea level, a continuous process which has been occurring since the melting of the ice from the latest ice age.

Some Anglican suffragans are given the responsibility for a geographical area within the diocese ( for example, the Bishop of Stepney is an area bishop within the Diocese of London ).

Evaluating Collins ' approach, he considers " the wide geographical spread from which the material comes and the implicit assumption that linguistic developments would have occurred uniformly throughout this area " a weakness and concludes, " The character of the Hebrew and Aramaic could support a date in the fifth or fourth century for the extant written form of the book, but does not demand a second-century date.

Primitive medical technology provided limited means of protection for the aggressor and a battle's surrounding geographical regions.

Some sources also add neighbouring countries ( for historical, geographical and / or cultural reasons ):

Unlike with geographical maps, where many famous projections are known ( such as the Mercator projection ), the calendar projection is a matter of such triviality that no names for these exist in common circulation.

In the years following the Revolution, Concord's central geographical location made it a logical choice for the state capital, particularly after Samuel Blodget in 1807 opened a canal and lock system to allow vessels passage around the Amoskeag Falls downriver, connecting Concord with Boston by way of the Middlesex Canal.

The 15th census based on improved geographical information systems is planned for 2010.

The more modernist works focus on imperial systems in China and employ scientific method to analyze epochs of Chinese dynasties from geographical, genealogical, and cultural artifacts, for example, from Carbon-14 dating and geographical records to correlate climates with cycles of calm and calamity in Chinese history.

Arminjon, Nolde, and Wolff believed that, for purposes of classifying the ( then ) contemporary legal systems of the world, it was required that those systems per se get studied, irrespective of external factors, such as geographical ones.

They started a project known as INGRES using funding that had already been allocated for a geographical database project and student programmers to produce code.

The theorist Anthony D. Smith uses the term ' ethnic nationalism ' for non-Western concepts of nationalism as opposed to Western views of a nation defined by its geographical territory.

Among concrete examples of Modern human behavior, anthropologists include specialization of tools, use of jewellery and images ( such as cave drawings ), organization of living space, rituals ( for example, burials with grave gifts ), specialized hunting techniques, exploration of less hospitable geographical areas, and barter trade networks.

The American industry, or " Hollywood ", as it was becoming known after its new geographical center in California, gained the position it has held, more or less, ever since: film factory for the world, exporting its product to most countries on earth and controlling the market in many of them.

The city of Lille identifies itself as a part of historic Flanders, and thus as " Flemish " in the geographical and historical sense, and this is reflected, for instance, in the name of its local railway station TGV Lille-Flandres.

Some examples of FIPS Codes for geographical areas include FIPS 10-4 for country codes or region codes and FIPS 5-2 for state codes.