Historians identify several waves of migration to the United States: one from 1815 – 1860, in which some five million English, Irish, Germanic, Scandinavian, and others from northwestern Europe came to the United States ; one from 1865 – 1890, in which some 10 million immigrants, also mainly from northwestern Europe, settled, and a third from 1890 – 1914, in which 15 million immigrants, mainly from central, eastern, and southern Europe ( many Austrian, Hungarian, Turkish, Lithuanian, Russian, Jewish, Greek, Italian, and Romanian ) settled in the United States.

The castle ruin Hammershus, on the northwestern tip of the island, is the largest medieval fortress in northern Europe, testament to the importance of its location.

Following his conquest of most of Western Europe, the first Napoleon made his elder brother Joseph ( 1768 – 1844 ) king first of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and then of Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ), his third brother Louis ( 1778 – 1846 ) king of Holland ( 1806 – 1810 ) ( subsequently forcing his abdication after his failure to subordinate Dutch interests to those of France ) and his youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte ( 1784 – 1860 ) king of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern Germany ( 1807 – 1813 ).

This genus is native to western and southwestern Europe, western and central Asia, Australasia and northwestern Africa.

The history of the Netherlands is the history of a seafaring people thriving on a watery lowland river delta on the North Sea in northwestern Europe.

As a result, members were forced underground and dispersed across northwestern Europe.

* 1990 – The Burns ' Day storm hits northwestern Europe.

Huge quarries in northwestern Europe, such as those of Mount Saint Peter ( Belgium / Netherlands ), extend for more than a hundred kilometers.

Some countries in northwestern Europe had more liberal policies towards contraception than the United States at the time, and when Sanger visited a Dutch birth control clinic in 1915, she learned about diaphragms and became convinced that they were a more effective means of contraception than the suppositories and douches that she had been distributing back in the United States.

Through a combination of cultural diffusion and migration of peoples, the Neolithic traditions spread west and northwards to reach northwestern Europe by around 4500 BC.

The other major branch continues north along the coast of northwestern Europe.

It is believed that North Atlantic Deep Water formation has been dramatically reduced at times during the past ( such as during the Younger Dryas or during Heinrich events ), and that this might correlate with a decrease in the strength of the Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic drift, in turn cooling the climate of northwestern Europe.

He made a voyage of exploration to northwestern Europe at about 325 BC.

The word must have originally referred to the wheeled heavy plough which was common in Roman northwestern Europe by the 5th century ..

Europe is conventionally considered one of the seven continents, but is variably considered a subcontinent or large peninsula of northwestern Eurasia.

The Triassic was named in 1834 by Friedrich Von Alberti, after the three distinct rock layers ( tri meaning " three ") that are found throughout Germany and northwestern Europe — red beds, capped by chalk, followed by black shales — called the ' Trias.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, or UK, is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe.

UK ( or U. K .) is a common abbreviation for the United Kingdom ( of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ), an island country and soveign state in northwestern Europe.

The romanticised idea of the Vikings constructed in scholarly and popular circles in northwestern Europe in the nineteenth and early 20th centuries was a potent one, and the figure of the Viking became a familiar and malleable symbol in different contexts in the politics and political ideologies of 20th-century Europe.

In June, these meadows are covered with chalk grassland flowers. There are large areas of calcareous grassland in northwestern Europe, particularly areas of southern England, such as Salisbury Plain and the North and South Downs.

The very most valuable of these have been the deposits of iron ore in northwestern Sweden.

In the 19th century these deposits prompted the building of a railroad from northwestern Sweden to the Norwegian seaport of Narvik so that the iron ore could be exported by ship to places like southern Sweden, Germany, Great Britain, and Belgium for smelting into iron and steel.

Anticipation of significant economic growth based on the iron deposits discovered at Iron Mountain in northwestern Llano County attracted capital from Dallas and from northern states, and the boom years of Llano-from 1886 to 1893-were launched.

Gravity models of Abby Creek and Bion barite deposits, Howard Pass quadrangle, northwestern Brooks Range, Alaska Geological Survey Open-file Report 97-704.

These are the Athabasca-Wabiskaw oil sands of north northeastern Alberta, the Cold Lake deposits of east northeastern Alberta, and the Peace River deposits of northwestern Alberta.

After the initial discovery, more fossils were found, mainly in the late-early Eocene fluvial deposits in northern Pakistan and northwestern India.

The discovery of placer gold deposits along the South Platte River at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in northwestern Kansas Territory by a party of miners led by William Greeneberry " Green " Russell in July 1858 precipitated the Pike's Peak Gold Rush.

Further, a large group of pleistocene post-caldera trachytic lava domes, lava flows, and pyroclastic-flow deposits have been discovered on the northwestern flanks of the massif.

It was the gateway from inner Edo to northern and northwestern Japan and Kan ’ ei-ji temple in Ueno.

An under sea water supply tunnel with a length of, named the Bosphorus Water Tunnel, was constructed in 2012 to transfer water from the Melen Creek in Düzce Province ( to the east of the Bosphorus strait, in northwestern Anatolia ) to the European side of Istanbul, from a distance of.

Over 200, 000 refugees from the Darfur region of northwestern Sudan currently claim asylum in eastern Chad.

Meanwhile, in what are now the northwestern Chinese provinces of Gansu, Shaanxi, and Ningxia, there emerged a Western Xia Dynasty from 1032 to 1227, established by Tangut tribes.

In the northwestern sections of the United Kingdom the Northern Soul explosion, which started in late 1960s and peaked in 1974, made the region receptive to Disco which the region's Disk Jockeys were bringing back from New York.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, hundreds of religious documents dated between 150 BCE and 70 CE were found in caves near the ancient settlement of Qumran, about a mile inland from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea ( presently in the West Bank ).

Mantle xenoliths have been described from Kachchh ( northwestern India ) and elsewhere in the western Deccan.

With help from Plancius Peter, a Flemish minister who was engaged in producing maps, globes and nautical instruments, they sought for a northeastern or northwestern access to Asia to circumvent the VOC monopoly.

A few of the holders of Wentworth grants were originally from northwestern Connecticut, and some of them, including Remember Baker and Seth Warner, were relatives of Allen.

Cave paintings in central and northwestern Eritrea were also discovered by Italian colonialists indicating a population of hunter gatherers from the Epipaleolithic era in the region.

Ivan competed with his powerful northwestern rival, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, for control over some of the semi-independent Upper Principalities in the upper Dnieper and Oka River basins.

They are found predominantly in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and the northwestern portion of Michigan's Lower Peninsula.

Due to its location in the northwestern portion of the Upper Peninsula, Houghton is isolated from the state's most populous areas.

Bled () is a town and a municipality in northwestern Slovenia in the region of Upper Carniola.

Girl Scouts of Michigan Shore to Shore serves just under 20, 000 girls in northwestern Michigan ( not including the Upper Peninsula ).

The beds of the Chalk Group were deposited over the buried northwestern margin of the Anglo-Brabant Massif during the Upper Cretaceous.

Various protests broke out in the Upper Midwest, notably Minneapolis and Milwaukee, as well as northwestern cities such as Portland and Seattle.

The stones were formed as a result of glaciation, in which sheets of ice plucked stones from the bedrock, grinding off their rough edges and depositing them in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and the northwestern ( and some in the northeastern ) portion of Michigan's lower peninsula.

* Copper Country Trail follows US 41 in the Keweenaw region of the northwestern Upper Peninsula.

After the fall of Pagan in 1287, the northwestern parts of Upper Myanmar came under the Sagaing Kingdom ( 1315 – 1364 ) ruled by Burmanized Shan kings.

The centre of the City Municipality of Kranj and of the traditional region of Upper Carniola ( northwestern Slovenia ) is a mainly industrial city with significant electronics and rubber industries.

Upper Pohatcong Mountain is a ridge in the Appalachian Mountains of northwestern New Jersey in the United States.

South of Lake Blackshear, it transforms again, flowing through a channel in limestone rock above the Upper Floridan Aquifer below southwestern Georgia and northwestern Florida.

The watershed covers including the Upper and Lower Quinn River, Smoke Creek Desert, Massacre Lake, and Thousand Creek / Virgin Valley watersheds of northwestern Nevada as well as small parts across the borders of California and Oregon.

Upper: The Sevier headwaters are in northwestern Kane County along the western side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau, and it flows northward into Garfield County through an extended valley beside the plateau past Hatch and Panguitch.

Today, the region is known as having the highest population of Americans of Finnish Ancestry of any region in the United States ; in the northwestern half of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan they make up the plurality of population.

In the Austrian usage of the term, Upper Styria ( Obersteiermark ) refers exclusively to the northwestern, generally mountainous and well wooded half of the federal state of Styria, the southwestern half of the state around the capital of Graz being known as Mittelsteiermark ( Central Styria ), which is further divided into Eastern and Western Styria ( east and west of Graz ).

The National Park of Upper Niger is a recently gazetted national park in Guinea in northwestern Africa.

* Minisink-a loosely-defined region of the Upper Delaware Valley in northwestern New Jersey, northeastern Pennsylvania, and around Port Jervis, New York, first settled in the 1690s

The town serves as a transportation hub for the northwestern part of Ghana, with major roads leading south to Kumasi, north to Hamile and Burkina Faso, and northeast to Tumu and the Upper East Region.

The Upper West Region of Ghana is located in the northwestern corner of the country and is bordered by Burkina Faso to the north.

Upper Mesopotamia is the name used for the uplands and great outwash plain of northwestern Iraq and northeastern Syria and southeastern Turkey which is known by the traditional Arabic name of Al-Jazira ( Arabic, الجزيرة ), variously transliterated into Roman script as Djazirah, Djezirah and Jazirah.

The 1836 treaty ceded the yellow ( Royce No. 205 ) area covering eastern Upper Peninsula and the northwestern Lower Peninsula of Michigan.

The Porcupine Mountains, or Porkies, are a group of small mountains spanning the northwestern Upper Peninsula of Michigan in Ontonagon and Gogebic counties, near the shore of Lake Superior.