This is crossed by foot-hills and rolling prairies in the central part of the state, where it has a mean elevation of about, becomes lower and more level toward the southwest, and in the extreme south is flat and but slightly elevated above the sea.

One strategy adopted by both Sargon and Naram-Sin, to maintain control of the country, was to install their daughters, Enheduanna and Emmenanna respectively, as high priestess to Sin, the Akkadian version of the Sumerian moon deity, Nanna, at Ur, in the extreme south of Sumer ; to install sons as provincial ensi governors in strategic locations ; and to marry their daughters to rulers of peripheral parts of the Empire ( Urkesh and Marhashe ).

After March it began to pass northwards, a motion quite apparent by the middle of April ; in June it passed at the same distance from the zenith as it did in December ; and in September it passed through its most northerly position, the extreme range from north to south, i. e. the angle between the March and September positions, being 40 ″.

This is a list of the extreme points of Botswana, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.

This is a list of the extreme points of Burkina Faso, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.

This is a list of the extreme points of Chad, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.

This is a list of the extreme points of Cameroon, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.

This is a list of the extreme points of the Central African Republic, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.

This is a list of the extreme points of Cote d ' Ivoire, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.

This is a list of the extreme points of Comoros, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.

This is a list of the extreme points of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.

This is a list of the extreme points of Egypt, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.

This is a list of the extreme points of Eritrea, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.

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The vegetation is generally sparse, with the only patch of forested land being found in Nanortalik Municipality in the extreme south near Cape Farewell.

This is a list of the extreme points of Greenland, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.

This is a list of the extreme points of Guam, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.

This is a list of the extreme points of Guinea, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.

This is a list of the extreme points of Guinea-Bissau, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.

This is a list of the extreme points of Japan, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.

Some scholars go to the extreme of arguing that, in the unlikely scenario Arabs had occupied what is now Ukraine and Russia, the Rus might never have been able to push south and east from the Baltic to establish Russia.

This is a list of the extreme points of Lesotho, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.

This is a list of the extreme points of Liberia, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.

In the extreme south of the country lies " the land of the red rocks "- a reference to the deposits of minerals found here.

In the summer, the extreme maximum temperature is much warmer in the north than in the south, with temperatures near the Gulf of Mexico occasionally reaching 100 ° F ( 38 ° C ), although temperatures above 95 ° F ( 35 ° C ) are commonplace.

In the following decades, fear of communism and the Great Depression of 1929 – 1933 led to the rise of extreme nationalist governmentssometimes loosely grouped under the category of fascismin Italy ( 1922 ), Germany ( 1933 ), Spain ( after a civil war ending in 1939 ) and other countries such as Hungary ( 1944 ), Romania ( 1940 ) and Slovakia ( 1939 ).

Altogether more than 1, 250, 000 deaths resulted from the extreme incidence of plague in 17th-century Spain.

At one extreme, Japan permits the use of all 14 channels for 802. 11b, while other countries such as Spain initially allowed only channels 10 and 11, and France only allowed 10, 11, 12 and 13.

The Iberian Peninsula ( Asturian, Galician, Leonese, Mirandese, Portuguese and,, Aragonese and,, ), commonly called Iberia, is a peninsula located in the extreme southwest of Europe and includes the modern-day sovereign states of Spain, Portugal and Andorra, as well as the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.

Poor weather over Spain and the extreme range caused widespread scattering and forced 30 of the 37 aircraft to land in the dry salt lake to the west of the objective.

The extreme left criticize the institution of monarchy as anachronistic, while the far right criticize King Juan Carlos personally because he has given his royal assent and tacit approval to what they perceive to be a liberal agenda in Spain and a secularism of Spanish life.

However these views were too extreme for even 17th century Spain, where the King and leading courtiers kept galleries of such works in relatively private rooms, and his piece on the subject was not published in the pamphlet for which it was written.

Chaves is in the extreme north of Portugal, bounded on the north by Galicia ( Spain ), on the east by the municipalities of Vinhais and Valpaços, on the south by the municipality of Vila Pouca de Aguiar and on the west by the municipalities of Montalegre and Boticas.

In October 1601, the long awaited aid from Spain appeared in the form of an army under Don Juan de Aguila, which occupied the town of Kinsale in the extreme south of the country.

They failed to qualify for the next World Cup and European Championships, and suffered extreme embarrassment ( similar to the Faroe Islands loss ) when they lost 9 – 0 to Spain and 5 – 0 to Israel in 1999.

On his return to Spain in 1833, he became active in the extreme left-wing of Spanish political culture.

Map of the extreme points of Spain.

This is a list of the extreme points of Spain — the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.

Currently the series airs on Cadena 3 ( channel 28 ) in Mexico, the Sci Fi Channel in the United States, SIC Radical in Portugal, Mega Channel in Greece, tv 3 in Estonia, extreme tv in Spain and AXN Sci Fi in Romania, Poland and Bulgaria.

O Vicedo is a municipality located on the extreme northwestern coast of Galicia, Spain, in the province of Lugo.

Although he seems to have disapproved an extreme policy in church matters, his family connection with his son-in-law, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham secured him the appointment, on 21 April 1623, of admiral of the fleet to bring home Prince Charles from Spain.

Priego de Córdoba is a town and municipality of southern Spain in the extreme southeastern portion of the province of Córdoba, near the headwater of the Guadajoz River, and on the northern slope of the Sierra de Priego.

Yecla is a town and municipality in eastern Spain, in the extreme north of the autonomous community of Murcia, located 96 km from the capital of the region, Murcia.

After leading a vagabond life in the south of Spain, he was arrested at Ecija, was brought to Toledo, and was there put to torture with extreme ferocity in order to extort a general confession as to his life during the past months.

A line from Cape San Antonio, Spain () to Cabo Berberia, the Southwest extreme of Formentera ( Islas Baleares ).

Patrice de Plunkett in his L ' Opus Dei: enquête sur le " monstre " ( Opus Dei: Inquiry on the " monster "), said that the ones who started the hostilities against Opus Dei is the " extreme wing of the Franco regime in Spain of the 1940s, because Josemaria Escriva refused to integrate with the official ideology of the times.