He achieved the independence of the southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia, the County of Portugal, from Galicia's overlord, the King of León, in 1139, establishing a new kingdom and doubling its area with the Reconquista, an objective that he pursued until his death, in 1185, after forty-six years of wars against the Moors.

The northern side of the bay is defined by Ontario's mainland, while the southern side follows the shore of the Prince Edward County headland.

While the southern two counties have historically been predominantly agricultural, New Castle County has been more industrialized.

Freeway opponents fear that upgrading Highway 84 will encourage more people to live in southern Alameda County ( where housing is more affordable ) and commute to jobs in the mid-Peninsula area ( where businesses wish to be located in order to be close to Silicon Valley ), thus increasing traffic in their neighborhoods to the south and west of U. S. 101.

A friend and fellow White House aide, Christopher Cox, won a southern Orange County seat in the same election.

Despite the abundance of well-known seeps in southern California, the first commercial oil well in California was drilled in Humboldt County, northern California in 1865.

The last county to be formed was County Wicklow in 1606-1607, taking in the southern part of Dublin ( with the exception of three " islands ," exclaves of ( mainly ) church property ), and the northern part of " Catherlough " or Carlow, including Arklow.

The Jackson County Courthouse was designed by Claire Allen, a prominent southern Michigan architect.

Responsible for recruiting and arming soldiers, Hanson proved to be an excellent organizer, and Frederick County sent the first southern troops to join George Washington's army.

* Kern County, California, a county in the southern Central Valley of the U. S. state of California

The southern half of present-day Lebanon formed the northern march of the Kingdom of Jerusalem ; the northern half was the heartland of the County of Tripoli.

* Monroe Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey, a town in southern New Jersey

However, a study of uranium / lead ratios of zircons from rock sequences in multiple locations in southern China date the extinction to 252. 28 ± 0. 08 Ma ; an earlier study of rock sequences near Meishan in Changxing County of Zhejiang Province, China date the extinction to 251. 4 ± 0. 3 Ma, with an ongoing elevated extinction rate occurring for some time thereafter.

Its southern base is in Santa Clara County, including the cities of Palo Alto, Los Altos, and Mountain View.

Most Slovenes lived in the administrative region known as Inner Austria, forming the majority of the population of the Duchy of Carniola and the County of Gorizia and Gradisca, as well as of Lower Styria and southern Carinthia.

In 1826 the family moved to Abington, County Limerick, where Le Fanu's father Thomas took up his second rectorship in southern Ireland.

In 1779 the State of North Carolina abolishes the county when it forms Warren County from the northern portion and Franklin County from the southern portion.

* January 29 – After a second petition for partition from its residents, the North Carolina General Assembly abolishes Bute County, North Carolina ( established 1764 ) by dividing it and naming the northern portion Warren County ( for Revolutionary War hero Joseph Warren ) and the southern portion Franklin County ( for Benjamin Franklin ).

It was under Roger II of Sicily that Norman holdings in Sicily and the southern part of the Italian Peninsula were promoted from the County of Sicily into the Kingdom of Sicily.

Lund Municipality ( Lunds kommun ) is a municipality in Skåne County, southern Sweden.

The southern portion of the county, of which Rockville was a part, was named Montgomery County.

The County of Castile, which originally included Cantabria ( excepting Liébana ), part of Vizcaya, most of Burgos and parts of La Rioja., became the leading force in the northern Christian states ' 800-year Reconquista (" reconquest ") of central and southern Spain from the Muslim rulers who had dominated most of the peninsula since the early 8th century.

In its course from Lake Victoria to Juba in southern Sudan, the White Nile's channel drops more than 600 m. In its 1, 600-km course from Juba to Khartoum, Sudan's capital, the river descends just 75 m. In southern and central Sudan, the White Nile passes through a wide, flat plain covered with swamp vegetation and slows almost to the point of stagnation.

Heading east, it passes through Croix-des-Bouquets, skirts the southern shore of Etang Saumâtre, and terminates at the Malpasse border crossing with the Dominican Republic.

The roads are B 3, B 6 and B 65, called Westschnellweg ( B6 on the northern part, B3 on the southern part ), Messeschnellweg ( B3, becomes A37 near Burgdorf, crosses A2, becomes B3 again, changes to B6 at Seelhorster Kreuz, then passes the Hanover fairground as B6 and becomes A37 again before merging into A7 ) and Südschnellweg ( starts out as B65, becomes B3 / B6 / B65 upon crossing Westschnellweg, then becomes B65 again at Seelhorster Kreuz ).

Despite their height, however, the mountain system does not create a major barrier between the northern and the southern portions of the Meseta Central because several passes permit road and railroad transportation to the northwest and the northeast.

The international highway M03, linking Poltava with Kiev and Kharkiv, passes through the southern outskirts of the city.

They learn that the combined armies of the north are en route in an attempt to hold Seven Gates and Bagrada, the middle and southern passes of the Cloudspine mountain range respectively, against the army of The Deceiver, who is preparing to cross the range to replace Shiver's forces in the west.

This opens the passes allowing the Goths, Huns and Alans to break out into the lowlands of southern Thrace.

On the east it passes through North Aurora, then East Denver, and on the west, through West Denver, then just below Edgewater, and through Northeast and North Lakewood, and finally ends in the southern part of Golden.

The first eclipse in such series passes through the southern edge of the Earth's shadow, and the Moon's path is shifted northward each successive saros.

The Ered Wethrin (" Mountains of Shadow ") formed the southern and eastern wall, and had only a few passes ; as such they formed a natural defensive line.

Winnipeg's Perimeter Highway ( the southern half of which, Highway 100, is officially part of the Trans-Canada ) has a mix of traffic lights and interchanges, and gives highway drivers a way of bypassing the city completely ; however, the Trans-Canada system also has an alignment which passes through the urban core of Winnipeg, incorporating Portage Avenue, Main Street / St.

The southern mainline of the Canadian Pacific Railway penetrated the range via the passes of the Coquihalla River, along one of the steepest and snowiest routes in the entire Pacific Cordillera.

The subsequent construction of roads over the Alpine passes first permitted southern and northern Roman settlements in the Alps to be connected, and eventually integrated the inhabitants of the Alps into the culture of the Empire.

The National Weather Service defines Santa Ana winds as " Strong down slope winds that blow through the mountain passes in southern California.

This map illustration shows a characteristic high-pressure area centered over the Great Basin, with the clockwise anticyclone wind flow out of the high-pressure center giving rise to a Santa Ana wind event as the airmass flows through the passes and canyons of southern California, manifesting as a dry northeasterly wind.

The River Yare rises south of Dereham and flows through the southern fringes of the city of Norwich, passes through Breydon Water and flows into the sea between Great Yarmouth and Gorleston.

The southern border of the former Connecticut Western Reserve passes through the southern part of the county, leading to jogs in the east and west borders of the county.

Additionally the A21 passes along the town's southern border.

Indiana State Road 56 enters from Switzerland County to the south and passes east along the southern border, then north through Rising Sun and along the river, continuing north to Dearborn county.

The route passes over Route 63 in Palisades Park, with access to that route provided by Bergen Boulevard, and intersects the southern terminus of Route 67 in Fort Lee.

The southern section of Route 7, which runs from Jersey City to Belleville, passes through industrial areas, the New Jersey Meadowlands, Arlington Memorial Park, and some residential and business areas.

A short distance past this intersection, the route briefly passes through the southern corner of Franklin Township before entering Delaware Township.

Route 33 passes along the southern section of the Naval Weapons Station Earle and then becomes a residential access road.