The term sworn virgin has come to refer to a traditional social role in the highlands of Albania and Montenegro.

During these years, hundreds of families of Bosnian-and Rascian Serbs sought refuge in the highlands of Montenegro.

South of these highlands, occupying a narrow strip on each side of the Tennessee River, is a country of gentle rolling lowlands varying in elevation from.

To the northeast of these highlands and lowlands is a rugged section with steep mountain-sides, deep narrow coves and valleys, and flat mountain-tops.

Numerous lakes of volcanic origin are found in the interior highlands ; many of these lakes are surrounded by mountains and have high, steep banks.

In 2004, the government began a resettlement initiative to move more than two million people away from the arid highlands of the east, proposing that these resettlements would reduce food shortages.

In 2004, the government began a drive to move more than two million people away from the arid highlands of the east, proposing that these resettlements would reduce food shortages.

Despite these changes the highlands remained very poor and traditional, with few connections to the uplift of the Scottish Enlightenment and little role in the Industrial Revolution.

Archaeologists and historians attempting to trace the origins of these villagers have found it impossible to identify any distinctive features that could define them as specifically Israelite – collared-rim jars and four-room houses have been identified outside the highlands and thus cannot be used to distinguish Israelite sites, and while the pottery of the highland villages is far more limited than that of lowland Canaanite sites, it develops typologically out of Canaanite pottery that came before.

Spotted hyenas, under these circumstances, would have been outcompeted by wolves and humans, who were as much at home in forests as in open lands — and in highlands as in lowlands.

Kames could see these stages within Scotland itself, with the pastoral / agricultural highlands, the agricultural / industrial lowlands and the growing commercial (" polite ") towns of Glasgow and Edinburgh.

By 600 CE groups of these early settlers had begun clearing the forests of the central highlands.

The climate on these highlands is temperate all year round.

Over time, these basins would have received large volumes of sediment eroded from Tharsis and the southern highlands.

Early in the following century, Brian Houghton Hodgson and others noted that many non-literary languages of the highlands of northeast India and Southeast Asia were also related to these.

Accordingly, these plants can be found in the Andean highlands, from northern Chile to Colombia, in the Sechura Desert of coastal Peru, in the cloud forests of Central and South America, in southern United States from southern Virginia to Florida to Texas, and in far southern Arizona.

With their sources in the Ethiopian highlands, these rivers flow in a generally southerly direction, cutting wide valleys in the Somali Plateau as it descends toward the sea ; the plateau's elevation falls off rapidly in this area.

When the area was claimed by the French and English, these highlands were considered the border between Canada and Louisiana.

2000 BCE is a reasonable date for the Huastec / Maya split, and the slopes of the Cuchumatanes range as a reasonable location for the speakers of proto-Maya, it seems likely that the split occurred after these proto-Maya speakers ( or a portion of them ) began to migrate north, probably along the Usumacinta River, and before the two groups resulting from the split began to move in opposite directions: the proto-Huastec speakers moving northwest ( and, soon thereafter, the proto-Chicomuceltec west into the Chiapas highlands ), and the proto-Yucatec / other Maya-speakers spreading northeast ( one branch of which became Chontal, presumed by many from its widespread loan words and hieroglyphic evidence to be the dominant language of the classic Peten Maya heartland ) ( see Fig.

Multispectral images obtained from these missions showed that this basin contains more FeO and TiO < sub > 2 </ sub > than typical lunar highlands, and hence has a darker appearance.

But according to the Harvard University scholar Michael Witzel, Airyanem Vaejah lies at the center of these lands, in the central Afghan highlands.

Besides these mass-market events, the company also ran regular tourist excursions to a variety of destinations, such as Oban in the Scottish highlands, Keswick in the English Lake District, and even the First World War battlefields in Belgium, by way of the Tilbury to Dunkerque ferry service and the Belgian railways.

The Mixtec people and their homelands are often subdivided into three geographic areas: The Mixteca Alta or Highland Mixtec living in the mountains in, around, and to the west of the Valley of Oaxaca ; the Mixteca Baja or Lowland Mixtec living to the north and west of these highlands, and the Mixteca de la Costa or Coastal Mixtec living in the southern plains and the coast of the Pacific Ocean.

The evidence for these processes comes from the highly anorthositic composition of the crust of the lunar highlands, as well as the presence of the rocks rich in KREEP.

Each of these had regional kingdoms in ancient Yemen, with the Minaeans in the north in Wadi al-Jawf, the Sabeans on the south western tip, stretching from the highlands to the sea, the Qatabanians to the east of them and the Hadramites east of them.

Kham Magar live in small villages throughout these highlands up to about 2, 500 meters.

When the men left the highlands to drive their cattle to market in Edinburgh the women would prepare rations for them to eat during the long journey down through the glens.

It has its sources in the Guyana highlands, but its long course is frequently interrupted by violent currents, rocky barriers, and rapids.

Several secondary plateaus of lower altitude are also distinguished by geographers, The Katun valley begins as a wild gorge on the south-west slope of Belukha ; then, after a big bend, the river ( 600 km long ) pierces the Katun Alps, and enters a wider valley, lying at an altitude of from 600 to 1, 100 m, which it follows until it emerges from the Altai highlands to join the Biya in a most picturesque region.

Her early Greek images are small votive representations of her monumental rock-cut images in the Phrygian highlands ; she stands alone within a naiskos, which represents her temple or its doorway, and is crowned with a polos ( a high, cylindrical hat ), with a long, flowing chiton that cover her shoulders and back.

Inferring the events to represent experiments on people until they died, the study interpreted that use of trepanation as an indicator of the stressful sociopolitical climate that not long thereafter resulted in the abandonment of Monte Alban as the primary regional administrative center in the Oaxacan highlands.

The long resistance of the inhabitants of Ghor to the adoption of Islam provides an indication of the region ’ s inaccessibility ; according to some travelers, the entire region is comparable to a fortress raised in the upper Central Asian highlands: from every approach, tall and steep mountains have to be traversed to reach there.

An economic impact assessment of Mountaineering confirms the value to the highlands to be £ 163. 7m each year, and because of this there has been continued support to expand the existing long distance hiking and biking trails.

Also, many parts of the highlands no longer have substantial Gaelic-speaking populations, and some parts of what is now thought of as the Highlands have long been Scots-speaking or English speaking areas: Caithness, Cromarty, Grantown-on-Spey, Campbeltown etc.

The collision lifted the Himalayas and most of the Indonesian islands, and created a long arc of highlands and islands, which includes the Arakan Yoma range of Burma, the Andaman and Nicobar islands, and the islands off the west coast of Sumatra, including the Banyak Islands and Mentawai Islands.

The Mitchell River and its tributaries have for a long time carved their way eastwards through the rugged, weathered highlands of the Great Dividing Range, carrying away sediments to be deposited in the broad floodplains and wetlands of the Gulf Savannah country.

The city is located at the southern edge of the Sahara, near the Niger River, which has headwaters in the highlands very near the Atlantic coast before its long 1500 mile journey to the northeast, before finally turning south to reach the Atlantic.

Cortés first arrived at Zempoala in 1519 with 500 conquistadores who then made a long trip up into the highlands using the same routes used to haul maize to Tenochtitlan.

The central part includes highlands in the interior ; this area is known as, and has long been a residential area.

Although animal husbandry was long associated with agriculture practiced in the lowlands adjacent to the Western Carpathians, the Vlach methods and associated rituals of sheep and goat tending were unique and newly introduced by them, as were the introduction of grazing in the highlands and the emphasis upon the production of milk and cheese ( bryndza ).

In 1522, having set up the new borders with Camerino and achieving domination over the area with a final decisive victory over another rival borough of Nursini in the battle of Pian Ferduto, “ Visso was then able to make use of its freedom and new security to realize the long planned project and build, on the highlands of Macereto, a great and artistic sanctuary .” ( Venanzangeli p 30 )

Padang Panjang ( sometimes written as Padangpanjang, literally translated means long field ) is located in the cool highlands of West Sumatra, inland from the provincial capital Padang.