Hitherto, his father Sancho I and his grandfather Afonso I were mostly concerned with military issues either against the neighbouring Kingdom of Castile or against the Moorish lands in the south.

Areas within Castile and León generally tend to have more musical affinity with neighbouring regions than with other, more distant, parts of Castile and León.

According to this theory some navigations were kept secret for fear of competition by neighbouring Castile.

In 1983 León was added to the neighbouring region of Castile, to form the Autonomous Community of Castile and León.

During the 1383 – 1385 Crisis, in which Portugal was almost conquered by neighbouring Castile, Nuno Álvares Pereira established his headquarters in Estremoz, and defeated the Castilian army nearby in the Battle of Atoleiros.

North of the Interior Plateau on the range's northeastern slopes lies a huge mountainous area known by geographers as the Interior Mountains, which includes the neighbouring Skeena, Cassiar and Hazelton Mountains.

Contemporary artists like Juma Nature, Lady Jaydee, Mr. Nice, Mr. II, Cool James, Dully Sykes, Professor Jay and many others command a huge audience of followers in the country and neighbouring countries.

It had a resident population of 3, 105, 798 as of 2001, excluding the huge commuter traffic from neighbouring districts.

Another major impact has been the preferential taxation policies in neighbouring hill states which has provided the businesses in those states a huge competitive advantage.

The most obvious of these extensions forms a large loop before becoming a walkway which extends past the neighbouring AIATSIS building ending in a large curl, as if a huge ribbon has haphazardly unrolled itself along the ground.

Earlier Calif Uthman ibn Affan was buried in the huge neighbouring Jewish grave yard.

Leichhardt is the yearly host of the Italian Festa on Norton Street where local traffic is temporarily closed on Norton and neighbouring streets transforming surroundings into a huge European style outdoor café, celebrating Leichhardt's cultural diversity with an International Food Fair, gift stalls, community expos and live entertainment throughout the day.

( In the Golden Cockerel, King Dodon foolishly decides to make a pre-emptive strike against the neighbouring State, and there is huge chaos and bloodshed on the battlefield.

The milk was pooled between neighbouring shepherds, and the huge cheeses would be stored until being carried to market at the end of the season.

A huge crane used to hoist Super Gran into her flying position was parked in the neighbouring school.

The film was a huge box office grosser doing well not only in Kerala but other neighbouring states and the middle east as well.

1976 saw Cork retain their Munster title with another huge 4-14 to 3-5 win over neighbouring Limerick.

Ammianus describes Alemanni rulers with various terms: reges excelsiores ante alios (" paramount kings "), reges proximi (" neighbouring kings "), reguli (" petty kings ") and regales (" princes ").

The only means left to them was to starve the burh into submission, but this allowed the king time to send assistance with his mobile field army or garrisons from neighbouring burhs.

The history of Aegina, as it has come down to us, is almost exclusively a history of its relations with the neighbouring state of Athens, which began to compete with the thalassocracy of Aegina at the beginning of the sixth century.

However, the city of Aveiro together with neighbouring Ílhavo, make one conurbation which has a population of 119, 258 inhabitants, making it one of the most important by population density in the Centro Region.

Botswana – Namibia relations are friendly, with the two neighbouring countries cooperating on economic development.

Bulgaria was determined to observe it until the end of the war ; but it hoped for bloodless territorial gains, especially in the lands with a significant Bulgarian population occupied by neighbouring countries after the Second Balkan War and World War I.

The word borough derives from common Germanic * burg, meaning fort: compare with bury ( England ), burgh ( Scotland ), Burg ( Germany ), borg ( Scandinavia ), burcht ( Dutch ) and the Germanic borrowing present in neighbouring Indo-european languages such as borgo ( Italian ), bourg ( French ) and burgo ( Spanish and Portuguese ).

Significant trade with neighbouring countries, for example, exports of camels and other livestock to neighbouring states, such as Libya, and imports of manufactured goods, are conducted " informally " and probably not fully recorded.

Relations with neighbouring Libya, and Sudan vary periodically.

Aside from those two countries, Chad generally enjoys good relations with its neighbouring states.

Per capita income, although rapidly increasing, is low compared with most neighbouring countries.

There are no rail links with neighbouring countries.

Relations with Gabon are good, although it is not a neighbouring country.

Relations with neighbouring states have normalized somewhat since the breakup of Yugoslavia.

In 1662, English admiral and pirate Christopher Myngs captured and briefly occupied Santiago de Cuba on the eastern part of the island, in an effort to open up Cuba's protected trade with neighbouring Jamaica.

The parts of the relics which went to Ireland are reputed to be buried in Downpatrick, County Down, with St. Patrick and St. Brigid or at Saul Church neighbouring Downpatrick.

The Charlottetown Conference, as it came to be called, was also attended by a slew of visiting delegates from the neighbouring colony of Canada, who had largely arrived at their own invitation with their own agenda.

Equatorial Guinea has cordial relations with neighbouring Cameroon, although there was criticism in Cameroon in 2000 about perceived mistreatment of Cameroonians working in Equatorial Guinea.

If called upon, the neighbouring amoeba midwife travels up to 200 μm towards the dividing amoeba, usually advancing in a straight trajectory with an average velocity of about 0. 5 μm / s.

After friendly greetings, he bids them exchange this letter with the one he had sent to the neighbouring Laodicean Church.

All tectonic plates have internal stress fields caused by their interactions with neighbouring plates and sedimentary loading or unloading ( e. g. deglaciation ).

This arrangement has come about because as the area of London grew and absorbed neighbouring settlements, a series of administrative reforms did not amalgamate the City of London with the metropolitan area, and its unique political structure was retained.

Up to 500 people were killed and around 40, 000 fled to neighbouring countries in the political violence surrounding the presidential poll, according to the United Nations.

The Uruguayan parties became associated with warring political factions in neighbouring Argentina.

Brazil and Uruguay have signed cooperation agreements on defence, science, technology, energy, river transportation and fishing, with the hope of accelerating political and economic integration between these two neighbouring countries.

The Uruguayan parties became associated with warring political factions in neighbouring Argentina.

Central governments had little control over the region, although some Hassaniya tribes would occasionally extended " beya " or allegiance to prestigious neighbouring rulers, to gain their political backing or, in some cases, as a religious ceremony.

In response, Barbados made an official bid to the British Government to have neighbouring Island Tobago joined with Barbados as a political union.

As the 1940s – 1950s rolled around, Barbados moved towards developing political ties with neighbouring Caribbean islands.

Subsequently appointed by the ephors to settle the political dissensions then rife at Byzantium and to protect the city and the neighbouring Greek colonies from Thracian attacks, he made himself tyrant of Byzantium, and, when declared an outlaw and driven thence by a Spartan force, he fled to Cyrus, leaving the garrison to Helixus of Megara ( see Coeratadas ).

The Revolution in neighbouring France and the subsequent Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars which involved Germany meant that Düsseldorf had a complicated political history during Heine's childhood.

The municipality otherwise reflect the same political majorities as in its neighbouring municipalitiess of Bromölla, Olofström and Karlshamn.

On 11 June 1921, he wrote to the Polish episcopate, warning against political misuses of spiritual power, urging again for peaceful coexistence with neighbouring peoples, stating that “ love of country has its limits in justice and obligations .” He sent nuncio Ratti to Silesia to act against potential political agitations of the Catholic clergy.

On 11 June 1921, Benedict XV asked Ratti to deliver his message to the Polish episcopate, warning against political misuses of spiritual power, urging again peaceful coexistence with neighbouring people, stating that “ love of country has its limits in justice and obligations ”

More broadly, " Sinicization " may refer to policies of acculturation, assimilation, or cultural imperialism of neighbouring cultures to China, depending on historical political relations.

As East Pakistan struggled to become the separate state of Bangladesh during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, the political and military turmoil and associated atrocities led to a massive refugee problem, with 7 million displaced people pouring into neighbouring India.

Following the Conservative victory in the 2006 election, Prime Minister Stephen Harper named MacKay as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency ; he was also tasked to be the political minister for both his home province, and for neighbouring Prince Edward Island, just as his father Elmer had done between 1988 and 1993.

Somewhat later, the vernacular of these people became more clearly distinct from central French and other neighbouring langues d ' oïl, prompting the abandonment of the vague term " Roman " as a linguistic, ethnic, and political designator for " Walloon ".

A number of political changes in neighbouring Arab countries illustrated to the Palestinian Arabs what could be achieved in a Western colony through political pressure and negotiating skill.

The Commission, which concluded that 1, 000 Arab rebels had been killed during the strike, later described the disturbances as " an open rebellion of the Palestinian Arabs, assisted by fellow-Arabs from other countries, against Mandatory rule " and noted two unprecedented features of the revolt: the support of all senior Arab officials in the political and technical departments in the Palestine administration ( including all of the Arab judges ) and the " interest and sympathy of the neighbouring Arab peoples ", which had resulted in support for the rebellion in the form of volunteers from Syria and Iraq.

A success, El Eternauta came to the attention of the authorities as the series featured commentary of the political situation of Argentina and neighbouring Chile, prompting López to flee for Spain to avoid possible arrest.

The local workers famously showed him solidarity in his political struggles and he stayed overnight with a local poor cotton-weaving family living in neighbouring Darwen.

Both ZANU and ZAPU formed political wings within the country ( under those names ) and military wings: the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army ( ZANLA ) and the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army ( ZIPRA ) respectively to fight the struggle from neighbouring countries — ZANLA from Mozambique and Zambia, and ZIPRA from Zambia and Botswana.