Areas of the south east such as Harran and the Hakkari mountains continued to be inhabited by remnants of the Assyrians, but these regions remained under Parthian and then Sassanid Persian rule.

Areas of dense vegetation, such as jungles and forest, act as force-multipliers, of benefit to inferior armies.

Within each of these maturity levels are Key Process Areas which characterise that level, and for each such area there are five factors: goals, commitment, ability, measurement, and verification.

Some Local Government Areas around Australia have introduced " anti-graffiti squads ", who clean graffiti in the area, and such crews as BCW ( Buffers Can't Win ) have taken steps to keep one step ahead of local graffiti cleaners.

Areas which were converted to Islam early, such as Aceh, broke away from Srivijaya ’ s control.

Areas with navigable waterways often have boats or boat service, and many innovative means of transport exist such as tuk-tuk, vanpool, songthaew, or even elephants in rural areas.

This allowed for new development on infill sites or on the edge of larger towns and villages, “ but preventing development in the open countryside and in designated areas such as green belts and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty .” In addition, opportunities for public participation in the planning process were also increased by the Act, partly in response to opposition to some features of urban housing and planning policies.

Areas of moorland inland such as: Bodmin Moor, Dartmoor and Exmoor experience lower temperatures and more precipitation than the rest of the south west ( approximately twice as much rainfall as lowland areas ), because of their high altitude.

Areas that are rifting apart, such as mid-ocean ridges and the East African Rift, have mountains due to thermal buoyancy related to the hot mantle underneath them ; this thermal buoyancy is known as dynamic topography.

Areas with lots of sensory innervation, such as the fingertips and the lips, require more cortical area to process finer sensation.

Areas such as software engineering and software architecture have also been pioneered by Naur.

* Areas with a high annual precipitation due to a frequent cloud cover in combination with heavy and sometimes persistent orographic rainfall ; such forests have a perceptible canopy strata, a high number of epiphytes and a thick peat layer which has a high storage capacity for water and controls the runoff ;

Areas of the sanctuary will be designated to represent various concepts, such as saints, virtues and sins, and secular concepts such as regions, presumably with decoration to match.

Areas near the Arctic Circle such as Iceland and Greenland began to have shorter growing seasons and colder winters.

Areas outside of Port Townsend ( such as Cape George ) gave Kerry 2-to-1 victory margins.

Protected areas will usually encompass several other zones that have been deemed important for particular conservation uses, such as Important Bird Areas ( IBA ) and Endemic Bird Areas ( EBA ), Centres of Plant Diversity ( CBD ), Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas ( ICCA ), Alliance for Zero Extinction Sites ( AZE ) and Key Biodiversity Areas ( KBA ) among others.

Areas of the town, such as Mount Pleasant, were noted for their absence of public houses due to the Methodist beliefs of the populations.

Areas such as Union Square, Herald Square, 23rd Street, and 125th Street were obvious locations and the larger movie theaters popped up there.

In July 1923, Trenchard sent a memorandum to AOC ( Air Officer Commanding ) Central and AOC Coastal Areas advising them the strategic area offensive would be the dominating policy of future conflicts, and the Coastal services would take part in such operations.

Areas of the code were rewritten in 1956 to accept subjects such as miscegenation, adultery, and prostitution.

Areas maintained by the National Park Service include: Appalachian National Scenic Trail ; Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor ; and Weir Farm National Historic Site.

Afghanistan as a whole, the Northern Areas of Pakistan and the Kashmir Valley may also be included.

By 2010 under one of the National Key Economic Areas ( NKEA ) and under the Government Transformation Programme ( GTP ), the federal government have announced to improve the public transport system by building a Mass Rapid Transit ‘”( MRT )”’ system in the Klang Valley / Greater KL.

There are 12 Metropolitan Statistical Areas ( MSA ) and 1 Micropolitan Statistical Area ( μSA ) in the Central Valley.

Areas of focus include Palestinian refugees, the construction of a territorial link between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, development of the Jordan Valley, infrastructure cooperation, the economic status of Jerusalem.

Areas such as Derbyshire ` s Amber Valley and Erewash combine attractive countryside with industrial heritage and are home to historic canals and sites associated with the mining industry.

In California, the American Viticultural Areas ( AVA ) with the most plantings of Malbec include Napa Valley, Alexander Valley, Paso Robles and Sonoma Valley.

British Columbia is divided into four " Designated Viticultural Areas " (" DVAs "): Okanagan Valley, Vancouver Island, Fraser Valley, and the Similkameen Valley.

* Astore Valley, a district in the Northern Areas of Pakistan

Areas where dramatic declines were observed in the 1880s included the Puketoi Range, the Hutt Valley and Tararuas, and the Pahiatua-Dannevirke area.

The region contains five Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty ( AONBs ), including all of the Shropshire Hills, Malvern Hills and Cannock Chase, and parts of the Wye Valley and Cotswolds.

American Viticultural Areas range in size from the Upper Mississippi Valley AVA at across four states, to the Cole Ranch AVA in Mendocino County, California, at only.

Approximate Latrobe Valley Area. The Baw Baw Shire Council & Latrobe City Council Local Government Areas.

The Latrobe Valley consists of two Local Government Areas, The City of Latrobe ( central / eastern Latrobe Valley ) which has the bulk of the region's population and also the Shire of Baw Baw ( west Latrobe Valley ).

Special areas within Kananaskis Country that are not formally designated as parks or ecological reserves include the Bow Corridor Area, the Elbow River Valley Area, Evan-Thomas Provincial Recreation Area, the Highwood / Cataract Areas, Sentinel Provincial Recreation Area, Stoney Creek Provincial Recreation Area, Strawberry Provincial Recreation Area and the Sibbald Area ( Sibbald Lake Provincial Recreation Area, Sibbald Meadows Pond Provincial Recreation Area ).

Areas with no reception ( black ) were jokingly referred to as " Valley of the Clueless " ( Tal der Ahnungslosen ), while Das Erste | ARD was said to stand for " Außer ( except ) Rügen und Dresden "

While Chenin blanc is grown throughout the United States, the American Viticultural Areas with the most significant amount of plantings include the California AVAs of Clarksburg, Napa Valley, and Mendocino, the Washington wine regions of the Yakima and Columbia Valley, and the Texas High Plains AVA.

Areas with terrain features cost more movement to enter, such as desert, hills, and forests, while swamp and mountains ends movement for the turn.

All telecom companies are working to broaden their networks in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Northern Areas, which were largely ignored until recently.

Bishops thus elected serve Episcopal Areas, which consist of one or more Annual Conferences.

In May 2006 in Geneva, Switzerland the United Nations Committee against Torture released a report, which, along with calling on the United States to close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and criticizing interrogation techniques, took note of the " limited investigation and lack of prosecution " in connection to accusations of torture in Areas 2 and 3 of the Chicago Police Department.

Areas which the GLA has responsibility for include transport, policing, fire and rescue, development and strategic planning.

Areas of the Deccan Traps ( a basaltic lava ) in west central India are good examples of rock formations with high porosity but low permeability, which makes them poor aquifers.

Other references to Le Pétomane include Mel Brooks's 1974 film Blazing Saddles, Kevin Gilbert's The Shaming of the True, the 1984 college romp film Up the Creek, directed by Robert Butler, in which the four protagonists represent Lepetomane University in an inter-collegiate river raft race, Kinky Friedman's 1999 novel Spanking Watson, and John Hodgman's book The Areas of My Expertise.

The Industrial Development Act of 1966 changed the name of Development Districts ( parts of the country with higher levels of unemployment than the national average and which governments sought to encourage greater investment in ) to Development Areas and increased the percentage of the workforce covered by development schemes from 15 % to 20 %, which mainly affected rural areas in Scotland and Wales.

It is estimated that, between 1964 and 1970, 45, 000 government jobs were created outside London, 21, 000 of which were located in the Development Areas.

Areas in southern Australia which has a mediterranean or temperate climate allows cooking for richer hot dishes, or slow cooked dishes in the winter which is not always desirable in the warmer regions further north at the same time of year, as well as experiencing greater seasonal change in local produce.

Special Areas of Conservation, under the European Union Habitats Directive, in County Kilkenny includes Hugginstown Fen south-west of Ballyhale, The Loughans near Urlingford, Cullahill Mountain on the Castlecomer Plateau near Johnstown, Spahill and Clomantagh Hill which form part of an escarpment which links the Slieveardagh Hills with the Castlecomer Plateau, Galmoy Fen north of Johnstown, Lower River Suir south of Thurles, the freshwater stretches of the Barrow / River Nore and Thomastown Quarry, near Thomastown.

Surveys of woodlands of County Kilkenny include A Woodland Survey of Kilkenny, undertaken in 1997 to identify woodlands in the county and A survey of broadleaved woodlands in three special Areas of Conservation, Barrow-Nore, River Unshin and Lough Forbes ( 2000 ) which covers some of County Kilkenny, and National Survey of Native Woodlands ( NSNW ) 2003-2008 which was one of the largest ecological surveys to be completed in Ireland and did its fieldwork in the county in 2003.

At each census, the government produces a report called " Key Statistics for Urban Areas ", which gives the population of the actual town or city.

Areas of the eastern portion of the county drain into the Lehigh River via the Quakake Creek, Nesquehoning Creek, Mahoning Creek, and Lizard Creek, all of which also start in the county.

In 1994 the Conservatives were instructed to desist from their policy of " Priority Group Sales Areas " ( the targeted sale of Council flats and houses in specific wards ) as it constituted gerrymandering, which partly accounts for the difference between electoral results and demographics.

In England, the designating body for SSSIs, Natural England, selects biological SSSIs from within Natural Areas which are areas with particular landscape and ecological characteristics, or on a county basis.

The protection given to scheduled monuments is given under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979, which is a different law from that used for listed buildings ( which fall within the town and country planning system ).