In a few years, he had turned himself into a leading authority on this area of functional analysis — to the extent that Dieudonné compares his impact in this field to that of Banach.

) expanded its occupied area and linked up with the Serbian army to the northwest, while its main forces turned east towards Kavala, reaching the Bulgarians.

In 1795, following the Northwest Indian War, an area that was to be part of Chicago was turned over to the United States for a military post by native tribes in concordance with the Treaty of Greenville.

When the property of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kammin was secularized during the Protestant Reformation in 1534, their secular reign including the Kolberg area became intermediately ruled by a Lutheran titular bishop, before it was turned into a Sekundogenitur of the House of Pomerania.

During a train-ride through a flooded area where an entire tribe was said to have seen the dinosaur, the locomotive suddenly derailed and turned over.

The entire Panama Canal, the area supporting the Canal, and remaining US military bases were turned over to Panama on December 31, 1999.

The ploughshare spread the cut horizontally below the surface, so when the mouldboard lifted it, a wider area of soil was turned over.

West Berlin inevitably chose the Kurfürstendamm and the area around the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, while East Berlin built up Alexanderplatz and turned Frankfurter Allee ( which they renamed Stalinallee in 1949, Karl-Marx-Allee in 1961 ), into their own showpiece boulevard.

UN forces returned primary responsibility for security in the area around the capital to Sierra Leone's police and armed forces in September 2004 ; it was the last part of the country to be turned over.

Once a secluded and heavily guarded Politbureau residential area, it has turned into a district where the young and fashionable fill the clubs and cafes.

In disks that rotate, the seat is always in contact with the disk, but the area of contact changes as the disc is turned.

While Rather was reporting from the convention floor, CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite turned his attention towards the area where Rather was reporting from and Rather was grabbed by security guards after he walked towards a delegate who was being hauled out and asked him " what is your name sir?

The dam on the Kennebec was removed in 1999 and the area around the dam has been turned into a city park.

Thompson eventually bought the Southland Ice Company and turned it into Southland Corporation, which oversaw several locations which opened in the Dallas area.

In 2006 and 2007, the area surrounding the railway station was completely renovated: a new bus terminal and an underground bicycle parking lot were constructed, and the main road leading from the railway station to the city centre was turned into a road for pedestrians and cyclists only.

Of the 13 DUKW's being used to carry this unit in, five were swamped soon after disembarking from the LCT, four were lost as they circled in the rendezvous area waiting to land and one capsized as they turned for the beach.

Shortly before the Byzantines took the area back five years later in 615, the Persians gave control to the Christian population, who tore down the partially built Jewish Temple edifice and turned it into a garbage dump, which is what it was when the Caliph Omar took the city in the 630s.

Lilburne entirely routed a Lancashire detachment of the enemy on their way to join the main Royalist army at the Battle of Wigan Lane on 25 August and as affairs turned out Cromwell merely shifted the area of his concentration two marches to the south-west, to Evesham.

Afterwards in a private conversation Hlond urged Kaller to resign and so he did for the jurisdiction in the Polish-occupied diocesan area, but retained the office of Bishop of Ermland, which rather turned quite void, especially since in the Soviet-occupied diocesan area no Catholic ecclesiastical activity whatsoever was tolerated.

When he had reduced the whole area of land between the River Iberus and the Pyrenees to a hollow, resentful, and temporary obedience, he turned his attention to administrative reforms, and increased the revenues of the province by improvements in the working of the iron and silver mines.

By 742, Carloman and Pippin had ousted their half-brother, Grifo and forced him into a monastery, and each turned his attention towards his own area of influence as major domo, Pippin in the West ( in what was called Neustria, roughly the Area between Nancy and Reims ) and Carloman in the East ( in what was called Austrasia, roughly what is now is the area between Bruges, Metz and Fulda ), which was the Carolingian base of power.

He gradually turned his attention to this area, first by the capture of Maastricht in July 1673, in which Monmouth's brigade played an honourable rôle.

While the two are heading a caravan from Salalah, Oman, they cross the border into Yemen and find the unexplored desert area that the Necronomicon calls " Roba el Ehaliyeh " or " Roba el Khaliyeh " — presumably a reference to the Empty Quarter or " Rub al Khali ".

* The Atlas range — orthographically distinct from the rest of the continent, being unconnected with and separated from the south by a depressed and desert area ( the Sahara ).

The area between the east and west coast highlands, which north of 17 ° N is mainly desert, is divided into separate basins by other bands of high ground, one of which runs nearly centrally through North Africa in a line corresponding roughly with the curved axis of the continent as a whole.

An extensive canal system exists within the Imperial Valley in the Southern California desert to provide irrigation to agriculture within the area.

This immense desert to the west of the Nile spans the area from the Mediterranean Sea southwards to the Sudanese border.

The Great Victoria Desert is a sparsely populated desert area in Western Australia and South Australia.

As this area has had very limited use for agriculture, habitats remain largely undisturbed while parts of the desert are protected areas including Mamungari Conservation Park ( formerly known as Unnamed Conservation Park ) in South Australia, a large area of pristine arid zone wilderness which possesses cultural significance and is one of the fourteen World Biosphere Reserves in Australia.

The desert zone, an area lying west and southwest of the Euphrates River, is a part of the Syrian Desert and Arabian Desert, which covers sections of Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia and most of the Arabian Peninsula.

Arroyo Tapiado in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park has over two dozen mud caves in this desert area east of San Diego, California.

However the greater proportion soaked into the desert or evaporated en route to the lake leaving less than 4 km < sup > 3 </ sup > ( 0. 24 cu mi ) in the lake which covered an area of or 12 % of the lake.

The territory — an area of wasteland and desert bordering the Atlantic Ocean between Mauritania and Morocco — is contested by Morocco and the Polisario ( an independence movement based in the region of Tindouf, Algeria ).

The Karoo apparently does not experience drought on a regular basis, so even though the area is technically desert, regular winter rains provide enough moisture to support the region ’ s interesting plant community.

As the area behind the coast is a desert, these winds can develop into sand storms with sand deposits in the Atlantic Ocean visible on satellite images.

Niger's climate is mainly hot and dry, with much desert area.

The northern part of the river, known as the Niger bend, is an important area because it is the closest major river and source of water to that part of the Sahara desert.

As for people of Kutch, this day is associated with beginning of rains in Kutch, which is largely a desert area.

In geography, an oasis ( plural: oases ) or cienega ( Southwestern United States ) is an isolated area of vegetation in a desert, typically surrounding a spring or similar water source.

* Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, United States, what was once an oasis in the vast Mojave desert has over the years grown into a metropolitan area.

The area around Lake Malawi, which today is heavily forested was a desert 135, 000 to 90, 000 years ago.

The land area is composed of varying topographic features: valleys and desert account for 82 percent of the land mass ; mountain ranges, 15 percent ; and the coastal plain, 3 percent.

The Sahara desert ecoregion covers an area of in the hot, hyper-arid center of the Sahara, surrounded on the north, south, east, and west by desert ecoregions with higher rainfall and more vegetation.

Precipitation averages a year but falls below in a large belt along the southern desert area.

It is the fourth largest Australian desert, with an area of 176, 500 km² ( 68, 100 sq mi ).