Their territory lay to the north, near the sources of the Alabama, the Tombigbee, the Tennessee, and Cumberland rivers, and was easily accessible to traders among the near-by Cherokees.

Once he was firmly established in the Northern March, Albert's covetous eye lay also on the thinly populated lands to the north and east.

Fires started by the Nika rioters consumed Constantine's basilica of St Sophia, the city's principal church, which lay to the north of the Augustaeum.

The kingdom was bounded to the north by the River Stour and the Kingdom of East Anglia, to the south by the River Thames and Kent, to the east lay the North Sea and to the west Mercia.

These extended southwards along the Red Sea coast and penetrating the Arabian bifacial cultures, which became progressively more Neolithic and pastoral, and extending north and eastwards, to lay the foundations for the tent-dwelling Martu and Akkadian peoples of Mesopotamia.

To the north lay the territory of the Caledonia, by name whose people were described as " Picti ", in Latin, meaning ‘ painted ones ’.

Though the approximate site is known, it is not easy to reconcile literary indications to determine the gardens ' exact location, whether or not they lay on both sides of the Servian ager and both north and south of the porta Esquilina.

It has been proposed that the base of Clann Áeda mac Cináeda's power lay in the north of the kingdom of Alba, beyond the Mounth ( eastern Grampians ) in what had once been Fortriu and which was now called Moray ( in Irish annals of the period, MacBethad is occasionally referred to as King of Fortriu, as well as King / Mormaer of Moray, before his succession to the throne of Alba ).

The belief that a route lay to the far north persisted for several centuries and led to numerous expeditions into the Arctic, including the attempt by Sir John Franklin in 1845.

In the west lay the three counties of Maine, Anjou and Touraine, and to the north of Blois was the Duchy of Normandy, from which Duke William had conquered England in 1066.

In 1954, Prime Minister Nehru wrote a memo calling for India's borders to be clearly defined and demarcated ; in line with previous Indian philosophy, Indian maps showed a border that, in some places, lay north of the McMahon Line.

During the Mesozoic era ( about 250 to 65 million years ago ) a large ocean ( Tethys Ocean ), floored by oceanic lithosphere existed in-between the supercontinents of Gondwana and Laurasia ( which lay to the south and north respectively ; Robertson & Dixon, 2006 ).

There were ancient kingdoms too ( the era of the Mahajanapads ), that lay in parts of north rajasthan ; that were named on the saraswati river.

Noteworthy is the fact that, at an early date, the ancient Greeks employed the term " Thrace " to refer to all of the territory which lay north of Thessaly inhabited by the Thracians, a region which " had no definite boundaries " and to which other regions ( like Macedonia and even Scythia ) were added.

Their region lay on the periphery of the Greek world and was far from peaceful ; for many centuries, it remained a frontier area contested with the Illyrian peoples to the north.

To the north of Macedonia lay various non-Greek peoples such as the Paeonians due north, the Thracians to the northeast, and the Illyrians, with whom the Macedonians were frequently in conflict, to the northwest.

The frontier in New England lay to the north ; in Nevada to the east ; in Florida to the south.

Five Roman roads radiated from Tours, which lay on the main thoroughfare between the Frankish north and Aquitania, with Spain beyond.

Conversely, a German controlled major rail head lay only to the north of their positions.

After the defeat of the Cimmerians and Scythians, all of Nebuchadnezzar's expeditions were directed westwards, although the powerful Median empire lay to the north.

The Spanish believed that cities of gold, such as the ones of the Aztecs, whom they had previously conquered, lay to the north in the unexplored territory.

A number of groups have claimed possible descent from the Scythians, including the Ossetians, Pashtuns ( in particular, the Sakzai tribe ), Jats and the Parthians ( whose homelands lay to the east of the Caspian Sea and who were thought to have come there from north of the Caspian ).

To the north-west of the kingdom originally lay the realm of Arnor ; to the north, Gondor was neighboured by the Wilderland and, after its settlement, by Rohan ; to the north-east, by the land of Rhûn ; to the east, by Sauron's realm of Mordor ; to the south, by the deserts of Harad.

To the north of Macedonia lay various non-Greek peoples such as the Paeonians due north, the Thracians to the northeast, and the Illyrians, with whom the Macedonians were frequently in conflict, to the northwest.

There, along the east bank of the Southern Bug, opposite the hamlet of Zhitzhakli a few miles north of the Black Sea, he arrived at General Headquarters of the Russian Army.

This town should not be confused with Pawtucket, just north of Providence, or Pawcatuck, Connecticut, on the Pawcatuck River, opposite Westerly, Rhode Island.

True, there had been raids on Naples -- but Naples was pretty far north on the opposite coast.

It now turns due north, and soon becomes itself a tributary of the Rhine, which it surpasses in volume when the two rivers unite at Koblenz ( Switzerland ), opposite Waldshut, Germany.

Actium ( Greek: Ἄκτιον ) was the ancient name of a promontory of western Greece in northwestern Acarnania, at the mouth of the Sinus Ambracius ( Gulf of Arta ) opposite Nicopolis, built by Augustus on the north side of the strait.

Some theories connect these flows directly, implying that there is significant upwelling of dense deep waters within the Southern Ocean, transformation of these waters into light surface waters, and a transformation of waters in the opposite direction to the north.

On the opposite extreme, summers in the Southern Interior valleys are hot ; for example in Osoyoos the July Maximum averages, hot weather sometimes moves towards the Coast or to the far north of the province.

However, the " N " and " S " ( north and south ) poles are labeled here geographically, which is the opposite of the convention for labeling the poles of a magnetic dipole moment

The moraine caused the Tioughnioga River to flow south instead of north, the opposite of the other waters of the Finger Lakes.

170, 000 Greek Cypriots were evicted from their homes in the north with 50, 000 Turks following the opposite path concluding the de facto division of Cyprus.

Meanwhile, one of his legions began the conquest of the tribes in the far north ( directly opposite Britain ).

Since opposite ends of magnets are attracted, the north pole of a magnet is attracted to the south pole of another magnet.

The north near the border with Ecuador is opposite much of Malaya, including the east coast and Penang, and the adjacent part of the Kra Peninsula in Thailand ; whereas many of the Riau Islands of Indonesia are antipodal to the northern Peruvian Amazon.

The northern corner on the Argentinian border, north and south of the town of Salto, are opposite a few small islands and bits of coast off Shanghai.

Although not overlapping with the large Javanese cities of Jakarta and Bandung, which are opposite Colombia, Java from Semarang east on the north coast, and south of Bandung on the south coast, correlates to Venezuela.

Unusually for an object in the Solar System, Halley's orbit is retrograde ; it orbits the Sun in the opposite direction to the planets, or clockwise from above the Sun's north pole.

Of these the most lofty and striking were Mimas and Corycus, in the peninsula which stands out to the west, facing the island of Chios ; Sipylus, to the north of Smyrna, Corax, extending to the south-west from the Gulf of Smyrna, and descending to the sea between Lebedus and Teos ; and the strongly marked range of Mycale, a continuation of Messogisin the interior, which forms the bold headland of Trogilium or Mycale, opposite Samos.

Since opposite poles ( north and south ) attract, the Earth's " North Magnetic Pole " is thus actually the south pole of the Earth's magnetic field.

A small neighborhood with its own distinct identity, Bellepoint, is located on the west bank of the river to the north of Benson Creek, opposite the river from the " downtown " district.

It is the opposite of east and is perpendicular to north and south.

It is the opposite of west and is perpendicular to north and south.

* 9-St. Nicholas Avenue, west side, opposite north line of 133rd Street

Hancock is on the north bank of the Keweenaw Waterway, opposite Houghton, Michigan.

Argentina is largely antipodal to central and coastal China, the exceptions being the north bordering Paraguay and the area around Buenos Aires, which are opposite ocean, including the coast down to Bahía Blanca, which is close to antipodal with the Chinese port of Tianjin.

" This was variously interpreted over the years to mean the north side of the front of a fixed altar, the north end of a fixed altar ( i. e., facing south ), the north side of a free-standing altar ( presumably facing those intending to receive the Elements who would be sitting in the quire stalls opposite ), or at the north end of a free-standing altar placed lengthwise in the chancel, facing a congregation seated in the nave.