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In the north of the region is the Sailughem Mountains, also known as Kolyvan Altai, which stretch northeast from 49 ° N and 86 ° E towards the western extremity of the Sayan Mountains in 51 ° 60 ' N and 89 ° E. Their mean elevation is 1, 500 to 1, 750 m. The snow-line runs at 2, 000 m on the northern side and at 2, 400 m on the southern, and above it the rugged peaks tower up some 1, 000 m more.
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It was thickly settled by fifteen thousand citizens and laid out into pig-infested streets, mostly around the Battery, going bravely north to Wall Street, but giving up and becoming fields and farms in the region of Harlem Heights.
For southeastern Louisiana, Mobile was the principal post, and it was to furnish supplies for trade to the north and east, in the region threatened by British traders.
The region north of this circle is known as the Arctic, and the zone just to the south is called the Northern Temperate Zone.
The region is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and the Aegean Sea to the west.
Armenia is a landlocked country in the Transcaucasia region, between the Black and Caspian Seas, bordered on the north and east by Georgia and Azerbaijan and on the south and west by Iran and Turkey.
In the remainder of this region, the southern portion, the most prominent feature is Little Mountain, extending about from east to west between two valleys, and rising precipitously on the north side above them or above the sea.
North of the mineral region is the Cereal Belt, embracing the Tennessee Valley and the counties beyond, whose richest soils are the red clays and dark loams of the river valley ; north of which are less fertile soils, produced by siliceous and sandstone formations.
The large sign, formerly reading " University of Lawsonomy ", was a familiar landmark for motorists in the region for many years and was visible from I-94 about 13 miles north of the Illinois state line, on the east side of the highway.
The area around Abensberg is characterized by the narrow valley of the Danube, where the Weltenburg Abbey stands, the valley of the Altmühl in the north, a left tributary of the Danube, and the famous Hallertau hops-planting region in the south.
However, if we look for the peoples in the region from the upper Main in the north, south to the Danube and east to the Czech Republic where the Quadi and Marcomanni were located, Ptolemy does not give any tribes.
It would appear that the subsidizing of southern populations by the import of wheat from the north of the Empire temporarily overcame this problem, and it seems to have allowed economic recovery and a growing population within this region.
Measured from north to south, the region covers a distance of roughly 400 kilometres.
In the historical period, the Achaeans were the inhabitants of the region of Achaea, a region in the north central part of the Peloponnese.
The plateau, on whose centre stands the town of Ajmer, may be considered as the highest point in the plains of North India ; from the circle of hills which hem it in, the country slopes away on every side-towards river valleys on the east, south, west and towards the Thar Desert region on the north.
The Arabian Sea ( Persian Sea ) is a region of the Indian Ocean bounded on on the north by Pakistan and Iran, on the south by northeastern Somalia, on the east by India and on the west by the Arabian Peninsula.
Kerguelen Islands ( France ; also an EU Overseas territory ) are situated in the Antarctic Convergence area, while the Falkland Islands, Isla de los Estados, Hornos Island with Cape Horn, Diego Ramírez Islands, Campbell Island, Macquarie Island, Amsterdam and Saint Paul Islands, Crozet Islands, Prince Edward Islands, and Gough Island and Tristan da Cunha group remain north of the Convergence and thus outside the Antarctic region.
By the time of his death, Mahmud ruled a vast empire that stretched from Kurdistan to the entire Hindu Kush region as far east as the Punjab as well as territories far north of the Amu Darya.
There were rebellions in the north in the region of Bukhara.
* most of the north and central region of the country is part of the Okavango inland drainage basin ;
A relatively dry tropical savanna, the Sahel extends beyond the borders of Burkina Faso, from the Horn of Africa to the Atlantic Ocean, and borders the Sahara to its north and the fertile region of the Sudan to the South.
Situated between 11 ° 3 ' and 13 ° 5 ' north latitude, the Sudan-Sahel region is a transitional zone with regards to rainfall and temperature.
Bordeaux is located close to the European Atlantic coast, in the southwest of France and in the north of the Aquitaine region.
A branch of the Bastarnae, called the Peucini by Greco-Roman writers, occupied the region north of the Danube river delta.
Moreover the far north remains largely undeveloped as producers await higher prices or new technologies as many operations in this region are not yet cost effective.
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Sixty miles north of New York City where the wooded hills of Dutchess County meet the broad sweep of the Hudson River there is a new home development called `` Oakwood Heights ''.
A precision transit is set up so that it is aligned with respect to true north.
Although this technique is simple and satisfactory, one practical difficulty does exist: the direction of true north must be known for each launch point.
However, this difficulty is not too serious if it is realized that a surveying team can establish a true north base line with a few days' work.
Forty miles farther north is Mount Moosilauke, Dartmouth's own mountain.
More than 10 companies maintain facilities in Dallas and one large manufacturer is located to the north at Sherman.
Ontario's foliage is most vivid from about Sept. 23 to Oct. 10, with both Muskoka ( 100 miles north of Toronto ) and Haliburton ( 125 miles northwest of Toronto ) holding color cavalcades starting Sept. 23.
It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west.
The family moved north across the Ohio River to free ( i. e., non-slave ) territory and made a new start in what was then Perry County but is now Spencer County, Indiana.
It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait.
It is a peninsula bound by the Black Sea to the north, Georgia to the north-east, the Armenian Highland to the east, Mesopotamia to the south-east, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Aegean Sea to the west.
As one component of the interconnected global ocean, it is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean ( which is sometimes considered a sea of the Atlantic ), to the Pacific Ocean in the southwest, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the Southern Ocean in the south.
In 2012, it is the parallel of latitude that runs north of the Equator.
In contrast, the largest North American community north of the circle, Sisimiut ( Greenland ), has approximately 5, 000 inhabitants, while between Canada and the USA, Barrow, Alaska is the largest settlement with circa 4, 000 inhabitants.
It is bordered by Pakistan in the south and the east, Iran in the west, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, and China in the far northeast.
In the north, it is connected to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea by the Dardanelles and Bosporus.
The Anatolian peninsula, also called Asia Minor, is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean Sea to the west, and the Sea of Marmara to the northwest, which separates Anatolia from Thrace in Europe.
He stated, " he Act of Congress which prohibited a citizen from holding and owning in the territory of the United States north of the line therein is not warranted by the Constitution and is therefore void.
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