Although his father, Afzal Khan, who had none of these qualities, came to terms with the Amir Sher Ali, the son's behavior in the northern province soon excited the Amir's suspicion, and Abdur Rahman, when he was summoned to Kabul, fled across the Oxus into Bukhara.

When Afzal Khan died at the end of the year, Azam Khan became the new ruler, with Abdur Rahman as his governor in the northern province.

Southeast Alaska, sometimes referred to as the Alaska Panhandle, is the southeastern portion of the U. S. state of Alaska, which lies west of the northern half of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Prince George is the largest city in the northern part of the province, while a village northwest of it, Vanderhoof, is near the geographic centre of the province.

The northern two-thirds of the province is largely unpopulated and undeveloped, and is mostly mountainous except east of the Rockies, where the Peace River District, in the northeast of the province contains BC's portion of the Canadian Prairies.

The northern territory remained under direct administration as the Bechuanaland Protectorate and is today's Botswana, while the southern territory became part of the Cape Colony and is now part of the northwest province of South Africa ; the majority of Setswana-speaking people today live in South Africa.

* Be language or Ong Be, a language of northern Hainan province, China

The Bay of Quinte () is a long, narrow bay shaped like the letter " Z " on the northern shore of Lake Ontario in the province of Ontario, Canada.

With the arrival of northern Gothic people, particularly the Scirii in the then Roman province of Pannonia by 493 a soundshift changed Boi to Bai ( Bajuwari ).

Cottius, king of the Alpine Salassi tribe and friend of Augustus, after whom were named the Alpes Cottiae Roman province and the Cotini Celtic tribe of the northern Carpathians.

Only the Peucini, therefore, were situated on the extreme northern border of the Roman province of Moesia Inferior, which ran along the southernmost branch of the Danube delta.

Rabbani, son of Muhammed Yousuf, was born in the northern province of Badakhshan in 1940.

Roman soldier 175 a. C. from a northern province, ( re-enactment ).

The Ottoman state maintained control over much of the northern coastal areas for nearly three hundred years, leaving their possessions ( the province of Habesh ), to their Egyptian heirs in 1865 before being given to the Italians in 1885.

Elbing is the German name of Elbląg, a city in northern Poland which until 1945 was a German city in the province of East Prussia.

A minority of scholars have argued that the " Galatia " is an ethnic reference to a Celtic people living in northern Asia Minor, but most agree that it is a geographical reference to the Roman province in central Asia Minor, which had been settled by immigrant Celts in the 270s BC and retained Gaulish features of culture and language in Paul's day.

The position of emperor is a territory-independent phenomenon — the emperor is the emperor, even if he has followers only in one province ( as was the case sometimes with the southern and northern courts ).

Fierce fighting took place primarily in the East of Austria, especially in the streets of some outer Vienna districts, where large fortress-like municipal workers ' buildings were situated, and in the northern, industrial areas of the province of Styria, where Nazi agents had great interest in a bloodbath between security forces and workers ' militias.

* The third largest of the country's 60, 000 lakes, Lake Inari in the Lapland province of extreme northern Finland, has a surface area of, a total shore length of, a maximum depth of, some 3, 318 islands, and a total water volume of.

Galilee ( HaGalil, lit: the province,, Latin: Galileia, al-Jalīl ), is a large region in northern Israel which overlaps with much of the administrative North District and Haifa District of the country.

By 64 BC, Julius Caesar's legions had established their occupation, and the Romans had thus unified all three regions of Libya ( Tripolitania, Cyrenaica and northern Fezzan ) in one single new province called Africa proconsularis ( later Cyrenaica was separated administratively ).

The Shahi or Shahiya dynasties ruled portions of the Kabul Valley ( in eastern Afghanistan ) and the old province of Gandhara ( northern Pakistan and Kashmir ) from the decline of the Kushan Empire up to the early 9th century.

Jerusalem, while probably not totally abandoned, was much smaller than previously, and the town of Mizpah in Benjamin in the relatively unscathed northern section of the kingdom became the capital of the new Babylonian province of Yehud Medinata.

The language area comprises the North German states of Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia ( the Westphalian part ), Bremen, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Saxony-Anhalt ( the northwestern areas around Magdeburg ) as well as the northeast of The Netherlands ( i. e. Dutch Low Saxon, spoken in Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel and northern Gelderland ) and the Schleswigsch dialect spoken by the North Schleswig Germans in the southernmost part of Denmark.

* Gronings, in Groningen and northern Drenthe, by its Frisian substratum related to Friso-Saxon dialects

* July 22 – After a 2-month siege, the city of Groningen submits to Dutch troops, bringing the whole northern Netherlands under the Republic

The once mighty province Holland was carved into three pieces: Amstel ( Amsterdam and immediate vicinity ), Texel ( the northern peninsula ), and Delf ( the southern part ); and the other provinces were often merged in larger entities, like Overijssel and Drente into Ouden Yssel, and Frisia and Groningen into the Eems department.

On 23 May, the army under the command of Louis won the Battle of Heiligerlee in the northern province of Groningen against a Spanish army led by the stadtholder of the northern provinces, Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg.

West Frisia corresponds roughly to the Dutch province of Friesland ( Fryslân ), the northern part of North Holland province ( the historical region of West Friesland, the westernmost portion of the traditional region of West Frisia ), and also modern Groningen province, though the Western Frisian language is only spoken in Friesland proper.

The Ommerschans was a fortress built in 1628 as part of a defence line to defend the northern provinces of Groningen and Friesland from the marauding count Hendrik van den Bergh ( in Spanish service ) after the expiration of the Twelve Years ' Truce.

The 146 musketeers and 55 pikemen stationed at the Ommerschans fled north, only to return later that year when the bishops retreated after their failed siege of the northern city of Groningen.

Later, around 1594, Bourtange became part of the fortifications on the border between the northern provinces ( Groningen, Friesland, Drenthe ) and Germany.

It lies approximately halfway between the cities of Leeuwarden ( the capital of Friesland ) and Groningen, in the northern part of the municipality of Achtkarspelen.

In practice, the three northern provinces ( Drenthe, Groningen and Friesland ) would remain largely undefended.

Hanze University of Applied Sciences ( UAS ), Groningen () is the largest university of applied sciences in the northern Netherlands and is located in Groningen.

Vollenhove this residence was the administrative center for the three northern provinces of Groningen, Friesland and Overijssel.

The Eerste Klasse Noord was a football league that consisted of teams from the northern provinces Groningen, Friesland and Drenthe, of which the winner went on to compete for the national title.

Ter Apel ( Gronings: Troapel, 8866 residents in 2004 ) is a town in the municipality Vlagtwedde in the northern Netherlands, in the province Groningen in the region Westerwolde.

Located in the northern part of Drenthe approximately 10 kilometers South of the city of Groningen.

Other widely spoken Afroasiatic languages are Amharic, the national language of Ethiopia, with 18 million native speakers ; Somali, spoken by around 19 million people in Greater Somalia ; and Hausa, the dominant language of northern Nigeria and southern Niger, spoken by 18. 5 million people and used as a lingua franca in large parts of the Sahel, with some 25 million speakers in total.

After the fall of the Akkadian empire in the mid 21st century BC, the Assyrians who were the northern branch of the Akkadian people, colonised parts of the region between the 21st and mid 18th centuries BC and claimed the resources, notably silver.

People from the South sign slower than people in the North — even people from northern and southern Indiana have different styles.

The peoples of the Tarim Basin in northern China are now known to be Caucasian and there were widespread attempts to keep western archeologists from testing samples such as deliberately replacing the mummies or decapitating them, even defacing ancient cave painting depictions of these people with large amounts of body hair and features such as red colored hair and blue eyes.

Some researchers have speculated that this minority of Haplogroup C3 carriers among the Ainu may reflect a certain degree of unidirectional genetic influence from the Nivkhs, a traditionally nomadic people of northern Sakhalin and the adjacent mainland, with whom the Ainu have long-standing cultural interactions.

* 2012 – At least 30 people have been killed as a result of heavy monsoon rain in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan.

* 1994 – In a U. S. friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two United States Army helicopters, killing 26 people.

For example, although the words wee and little are interchangeable in some contexts, wee ( as an adjective ) is almost exclusively written by some people from some parts of northern Britain ( and especially Scotland ) or from Northern Ireland, whereas in Southern England and Wales, little is used predominantly.

During the late 2nd century, the main ethnic change in the northern Black sea region was the immigration, from the Vistula valley in the North, of the Goths and accompanying Germanic tribes such as the Taifali and the Hasdingi, a branch of the Vandal people.

* A Covenant lawsuit ( 6: 1 – 5 ): Yahweh accuses Israel ( the people of Judah ) of breaking the covenant through their lack of justice and honesty, after the pattern of the kings of Israel ( northern kingdom )

Five kinds of Phaseolus beans were domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples: common beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris ) grown from Chile to the northern part of what is now the United States, and lima and sieva beans ( Phaseolus lunatus ), as well as the less widely distributed teparies ( Phaseolus acutifolius ), scarlet runner beans ( Phaseolus coccineus ) and polyanthus beans ( Phaseolus polyanthus ) One especially famous use of beans by pre-Columbian people as far north as the Atlantic seaboard is the " Three Sisters " method of companion plant cultivation:

During the late 1770s and the early 19th century, the Fulani, a pastoral Islamic people of the western Sahel, conquered most of what is now northern Cameroon, subjugating or displacing its largely non-Muslim inhabitants.

in negotiating a peace agreement was signed in Tripoli in February 2007, between President Bozizé and the head of the Front démocratique du people centrafricain ( FDPC ) rebel movement ( who is also said to have close ties to Union of Democratic Forces for Unity ( UFDR ), the rebel group that seized several cities in northern C. A. R.

Despite such diversity, it is possible to classify the indigenous people into three major cultural groups: the northern people, who developed rich handicrafts and were influenced by pre-Incan cultures ; the Araucanian culture, who inhabited the area between the river Choapa and the island of Chiloé, and lived primarily off agriculture ; and the Patagonian culture Patagonia composed of various nomadic tribes, who supported themselves through fishing and hunting ( and who in Pacific / Pacific Coast immigration scenario would be descended partly from the most ancient settlers ).

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.

In ancient times, the trading and colonising activities of the Greek tribes from the Balkans and Asia Minor spread people of Greek culture, religion and language around the Mediterranean and Black Sea basins, establishing Greek city states in Sicily, southern Italy, northern Libya, eastern Spain, the south of France, and the Black Sea coasts.

They are a predominantly Muslim nomadic people who inhabit the northern, western, and coastal lowlands of Eritrea, where they constitute 30 % of local residents.

The 1876 famine alone in northern China killed up to 13 million people.

West Flemish is spoken by around 1. 05 million people in West Flanders ( in Belgium ), 90, 000 in the neighbouring Dutch coastal district of Zeelandic Flanders, and approximately 20, 000 in the northern part of the French département of Nord where it is classified, as a recognized dialect of Dutch, as one of the languages of France.