* Northern Anatolian conifer and deciduous forests: These forests occupy the mountains of northern Anatolia, running east and west between the coastal Euxine-Colchic forests and the drier, continental climate forests of central and eastern Anatolia.

The Ainu were distributed in the northern and central islands of Japan, from Sakhalin island in the north to the Kuril islands and the island of Hokkaidō and Northern Honshū, although some investigators place their former range as throughout Honshū and as far north as the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula in what is now Cape Lopatka.

* Ailanthus altissima ( Tree of Heaven ) – northern and central mainland China, Taiwan, arguably the best known species.

At the end of 1874, when Field Marshal Serrano left Madrid to take command of the northern army in the Carlist War, Brigadier Martínez Campos, who had long been working more or less openly for the king, led some battalions of the central army to Sagunto, rallied to his own flag the troops sent against him, and entered Valencia in the king's name.

In comparison to the northern colonies, the southern colonies were quite diverse in their agricultural diet and did not have a central region of culture.

The most troublesome enemies of Roman Britain were the Picts of central and northern Scotland, and the Gaels known as Scoti, who were raiders from Ireland.

This was brought about by a stagnant high-pressure area that lingered over central and northern Scandinavia from ca.

Numerous bulldozer excavations containing the remnants of metal, fuel, and water drums are scattered about the north central portion and northern edge of the island.

The book is structured in two roughly equal parts, the story of the campaigns of the Israelites in central, southern and northern Canaan and the destruction of their enemies, followed by the division of the conquered land among the twelve tribes ; the two parts are framed by set-piece speeches by God and Joshua commanding the conquest and at the end warning of the need for faithful obedience of the Law ( torah ) revealed to Moses.

The conquest begins in Canaan with Jericho, followed by Ai ( central Canaan ), after which Joshua builds an altar to Yahweh at Mt Ebal ( northern Canaan ) and renews the Covenant.

Several paleontologists suggest the possibility of two separate brown bear migrations: grizzlies are thought to stem from narrow-skulled bears which migrated from northern Siberia to central Alaska and the rest of the continent, while Kodiak bears descend from broad-skulled bears from Kamchatka, which colonized the Alaskan peninsula.

In northern and central Sardinia, the dance is lively and animated with leaps and agile movements and usually accompanied by a choir of three or more singers in the center of the circle.

What was even worse was his constant discrimination against the central and northern regions of Chad, where the southern Chadian administrators came to be perceived as arrogant and incompetent.

The larger, northern portion of the basin is bounded within Chad by the Tibesti Mountains in the northwest, the Ennedi Plateau in the northeast, the Ouaddaï Highlands in the east along the border with Sudan, the Guéra Massif in central Chad, and the Mandara Mountains along Chad's southwestern border with Cameroon.

Permanent streams do not exist in northern or central Chad.

* predominantly Islamic peoples of the northern semi-arid regions ( the Sahel ) and central highlands, including the Fulani (; ) ( 14 %); and

* the " Kirdi ", non-Islamic or recently Islamic peoples of the northern desert and central highlands ( 18 %).

About 50 % are Baya-Mandjia, 40 % Banda ( largely located in the northern and central parts of the country ), and 7 % are M ' Baka ( southwestern corner of the CAR ).

The relatively small central area dominates in terms of population and agricultural resources, and is the cultural and political center from which Chile expanded in the late 19th century when it incorporated its northern and southern regions.

Prior to the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century, northern and central Chile was under Inca rule while independent Mapuche inhabited south-central Chile.

Central America is part of the Mesoamerican biodiversity hotspot, which extends from northern Guatemala through central Panama.

Wolves of the central and northern chains of the Rocky Mountains and coastal ranges are more formidable animals than the more southern plains wolves, and resemble Russian and Scandinavian wolves in size and proportions.

* California montane chaparral and woodlands: In southern and central coast adjacent and inland California regions, including covering some of the mountains of: the California Coast Ranges ; the Transverse Ranges ; and the western slopes of the northern Peninsular Ranges.

After this visit, in which she was deemed sufficiently orthodox, she began traveling with her followers throughout northern and central Italy advocating reform of the clergy and the launch of a new crusade and advising people that repentance and renewal could be done through " the total love for God.

The western valleys, along the Haitian border, remain relatively dry, with less than of annual precipitation, due to the rain shadow effect caused by the central and northern mountain ranges.

The central and southern portions of the country had Chibcha influences.

Altering such central portions of the web would have immense, ramifying consequences.

In the 15th century, the most important among all of the separate Christian kingdoms that made up the old Hispania were the Kingdom of Castile ( occupying northern and central portions of the Iberian Peninsula ) the Crown of Aragon ( occupying northeastern portions of the peninsula ) and the kingdom of Portugal occupying western iberian peninsula.

The High German languages ( in German, Hochdeutsche Sprachen ) or the High German dialects ( Hochdeutsche Mundarten / Dialekte ) are any of the varieties of standard German, Luxembourgish and Yiddish, as well as the local German dialects spoken in central and southern Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Luxembourg and in neighboring portions of Belgium and the Netherlands ( Ripuarian dialects in southeast Limburg ), France ( Alsace and northern Lorraine ), Italy, Denmark, and Poland.

Image: Great Basin National Park 102007 015. JPG | Pinyon / Juniper woodlands cover most of the mountain ranges in the northeastern and central portions of the state.

* The thinly populated Canadian Shield in the northwestern and central portions, which comprises over half the land area of Ontario ; though this area mostly does not support agriculture it is rich in minerals and in part covered by the Central and Midwestern Canadian Shield forests, studded with lakes and rivers.

The western portion of the volcano lies in the Amazonis quadrangle ( MC-8 ) and the central and eastern portions in the adjoining Tharsis quadrangle ( MC-9 ).

They line the central portions of the Cordillera Administrative Region.

Sudan has 4, 725 kilometers of narrow-gauge, single-track railroads that serve the northern and central portions of the country.

Sudan has 4, 578 kilometers of narrow-gauge, single-track railroads that serve the northern and central portions of the country.

* Mazari Sharif Airport ( 3100 m runway ) is a dual-use airport serving the northern and central portions of the country.

Summer warming has been shown to increase water stress and reduce tree growth in dry areas of the southern boreal forest in central Alaska, western Canada and portions of far eastern Russia.

During the LA Riots in 1992, when portions of south central Los Angeles erupted in chaos, overwhelming the Los Angeles Police Department's ability to contain the violence, the California Army National Guard and selected units of the California Air National Guard was mobilized to help restore order.

Earlier, the Classical Romans interacted with ( and later conquered ) parts of Mauretania, a state that covered northern portions of modern Morocco and much of north western and central Algeria during the classical period.

One of the black basses, it is native to only a few rivers in western South Carolina, southwestern North Carolina, northern middle and eastern Tennessee, southwestern Virginia, and portions of Georgia, Alabama, and streams in central Kentucky, and West Virginia, and is uncommon compared to the other species.

It damages the cochlea with lesions and degrades central portions of the auditory system.

The canal ’ s central portions stretched from Yangzhou to Luoyang ; the section between the Yangtze and the Huai continued to the Shanyang River ; and the next section connected the Huai to the Yellow River and was called the Tongji Channel.

Jewel-Osco has 180 stores across northern, central, and western Illinois ; eastern Iowa ; and portions of northwest Indiana.

Although Rubiaceae are found in nearly every major region of the world ( with the exception of continental Antarctica, the high arctic, and portions of central Africa and Asia ), diversity is highest in the humid tropics.

It is in the central and eastern portions of the range only that crystalline rocks make their appearance ; the western part is composed almost exclusively of sedimentary deposits, and the secondary ridges extending through Berne and the adjoining cantons are formed of jurassic, cretaceous, or eocene strata.

Beginning in the 9th century, Arabs took African slaves from the central and eastern portions of the continent ( where they were known as the Zanj ) and sold them into markets in the Middle East and eastern Asia.

The broads are unevenly distributed, with far more broads in the northern half of Broadland ( the Rivers Bure, Thurne and Ant ) than in the central and southern portions ( the Rivers Yare, Waveney, Chet and Wensum ).

Sandy Creek and Mill Creek, tributaries of the Ohio, flow through the northern and central portions of the county.