Because of its eccentric location in the Netherlands, and its geographical and cultural proximity to Belgium, integration of Maastricht and Limburg into the Netherlands did not come about easily.

Because of diversion of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya for cotton cultivation and other purposes, what once was the world's fourth largest inland sea has shrunk in the past thirty years to only about one-third of its 1960 volume and less than half its 1960 geographical size.

Because of the geographical range in Alaska and Siberia, Mammuthus primigenius tusks have been well preserved.

Because of Mount Holly's geographical location, residents there have access to a number of public and private colleges and universities, including Belmont Abbey College, Gaston College, Central Piedmont Community College, Queens University of Charlotte, Pfeiffer University, Johnson and Wales University, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Johnson C. Smith University.

* Because of the river's geographical position, it is too cold in winter to support crocodiles.

Because of the strategic geographical location of the city, Kirkuk was the battle ground for three empires — the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Babylonia, and Media — which controlled the city at various times.

Because satellites have a limited number of frequencies to use, the ability to re-use a frequency for different geographical locations ( without different data interfering with each other at the receiver ) allows for more local channels to be carried, since the same frequency can be used in several regions.

Because the family is so ancient and was so widely distributed on the Gondwana supercontinent, modern species commonly occur in relict populations isolated by geographical barriers, for instance on islands or tropical mountains.

Because it is bounded by water on three sides, it is considered a geographical headland.

Because of its topographical characteristics and geographical location, it is rarely visited by typhoons.

Because of the concentration of the population in a few cities, about 75 % of the Greeks are now able to view DTT, although only a small proportion of the geographical area of Greece is covered.

Because of this wide geographical separation along with persecution by Pakistan government and uneven development of democratic movement in the two parts of Pakistan, the communists of East Pakistan felt the need to have an independent center for further advancing their activities.

Because of its strategic geographical situation, remains of the Defence Line of ' Poznań ' Army, including reinforced concrete bunkers, can be seen near Konin.

Because of its geographical position, Key West was often sought as a port of refuge for ships caught in storms, and was for the same reason near frequent shipwrecks.

Because of geographical constraints, as well as safety considerations, the Israeli space program focuses on very small satellites loaded with payloads of a high degree of sophistication, and cooperation with other national space agencies.

Because of the relative geographical isolation of the island, the citizens developed their own culture and even their own dialect.

Because of the stature of Ethnologue as a widely accepted authority on the identification and classification of dialects and languages, their divergent views of the geographical distribution and dialectal naming of the Punjabi language merit mention.

Because of its geographical position close to the coast of the Normandy landings, Amfreville was liberated on 6 June 1944.

Because of its important geographical position, and as head of the civil and Catholic governments it acquired special importance during the 18th century.

Because of this political involvement he lost his scientific reputation with Germany ’ s wartime enemies, his membership in their geographical societies and learned associations, as well as any support for his planned expeditions.

Weather, population density, geographical distances, and local housing architecture play a role in the use of modular construction for home building .. Because modular construction is so adaptable, it has begun to permeate every region of the country

Because of their large geographic and population sizes, California and Texas send two representatives to their regional tournament ; Northern California and Southern California in the West region tournament and Texas East and Texas West ( whose areas encompass more than the geographical areas of East Texas and West Texas, splitting roughly along the I-35 / I-37 corridor ) compete in the Southwest region tournament.

Because the town was located at the geographical center of the colony ( which then included West Virginia ), Staunton served between 1738 and 1771 as regional capital for what was known as the Northwest Territory, with the westernmost courthouse in British North America prior to the Revolution.

Because these constituencies had much lower populations that the ordinary geographical constituencies this resulted in malapportionment.

Because the territory of a particular country must be the same color, four colors may not be sufficient.

Because of ethnic politics, valuable farmland in Kurdish territory has not contributed to the national economy, and inconsistent agricultural policies under Saddam Hussein discouraged domestic market production.

Because competition lowered their profits, and because of the doctrines of mercantilism, in 1602 the companies united into a cartel and formed the Dutch East India Company, and received from the government the right to trade and colonise territory in the area stretching from the Cape of Good Hope eastward to the Strait of Magellan.

Because the western boundary was contested at the time of the Purchase, President Jefferson immediately began to organize three missions to explore and map the new territory.

Because Moldova is a small country in terms of its territory telecommunications companies managed to achieve good coverage in both wired and wireless communications infrastructure.

Because Carol II lost so much territory through failed diplomacy, the army supported seizure of power by General Ion Antonescu.

Because the Umayyad rulers based in Córdoba were unable to extend their power into Frankish territory, they decided to consolidate their power within the Iberian peninsula.

Because it does not take a political position regarding devolution to a strictly defined territory, the Wessex Society can afford to assume a relaxed position about where exactly the boundaries of cultural Wessex lie.

Because the Camargue is for a large part administratively part of Arles, the commune as a whole is the largest commune in Metropolitan France in terms of territory, although its population is only slightly more than 50, 000.

Because of this victory, Boleslav freed Moravia from Magyar raids and expanded his territory to Upper Silesia and Malopolska.

Because Britain would not use Oregon for the purposes of spreading democracy, thought O ' Sullivan, British claims to the territory should be overruled.

Because Eliza was born in free territory, she was technically born as a free person under both federal and state laws.

Because Port Jefferson was the closest point on the canal system for the vast territory east of Sidney and Port Jefferson, it became an important center for commercial activity almost overnight.

Because of the 1948 incorporation, Houston did not incorporate Deer Park's territory into its city limits.

Because of the 1935 incorporation, Houston did not incorporate Galena Park's territory into its city limits, while Houston annexed surrounding areas that were unincorporated.

Because of the 1955 incorporation, Houston did not incorporate Hedwig Village's territory into its city limits, while Houston annexed surrounding areas that were unincorporated.

Because of the 1947 incorporation, Houston did not incorporate Jacinto City's territory into its city limits, while Houston annexed surrounding areas that were unincorporated.

Because of the incorporation, Houston did not incorporate Jersey Village's territory into its city limits.

Because of this females are much less likely to retain the territory than males in the event of the death of a partner.

Because a large group of the Uriankhai tumen defected to Iburai, Dayan Khan was first defeated at Turgen Stream at present-day Tumed territory.

Because of the breakup, fewer people needed to travel to the capital of the trust territory.

Because of its physical territory located deep into the north-eastern part of Thailand which was once a territory of Khmer or what is modern day Cambodia, Phimai ’ s Architecture and cultural decorations are heavily influenced by Khmer cultures.

Because the Protestant nobles had not received the confiscated property of the Catholics on Bethlen's territory and thus rescinded their support for Bethlen, and because Bethlen was not directly supported by the Ottomans, Bethlen started peace negotiations.