US Satellite imagery of Syrian tanks departing Da ' el in Daraa province after several days of assaults against the town in April 2012.

The city of Indrapura, at the site of the modern village of Dong Duong in Quang Nam province ( about from Da Nang ), was the capital of Champa from about 875 to about 1000 AD.

National highway system with total 244. 5 km long has been improving and widening up to delta highway level 1 and 2 standard ( National Highway No 5 and 6 ) or up to third grade like National Highway No 20 to Da Lat, on that way there was 75 kilometers in the province territory had been spread on the surface ).

Daqing (; formerly spelled " Taching ") ( pronounced Da Tshing ) is a prefecture-level city in the west of Heilongjiang province of Northeast China.

Xiamen University ( XMU, Latin: Universitas Amoiensis, ), colloquially known as Xia Da (), located in Xiamen, Fujian province, is the first university in China founded by overseas Chinese.

As a result, the province has received one of the highest infrastructure scores in the Provincial Competitiveness Index 2009, second only to Da Nang in central Vietnam.

Mỹ Sơn is located near the village of Duy Phú, in the administrative district of Duy Xuyên in Quảng Nam province in Central Vietnam, 69 km southwest of Da Nang, and approximately 10 km from the historic town of Trà Kiệu.

It is bordered by Thua Thien-Huế province to the north, the nation of Laos to the west, Kon Tum Province to the southwest, Quảng Ngãi Province to the southeast, the South China Sea to the east, and the city of Da Nang to the northeast.

: Da Piazza in Piazza: Begin and finish in Prato. Sport Manifestation that coinvolge all the municipality in the mountains of the province. Two kind of manifestation: walking and with Mountain bike-May

Like fellow conspirators Zhang Song and Fa Zheng, who also sought to hand Yi Province to a more capable ruler, Meng Da pledged his allegiance to Liu Bei when the latter invaded the province.

With a GDP per capita of 16. 1 million VND ( 2007 ), Khanh Hoa is the economically most developed province of central Vietnam ( after Da Nang ).

Its location is at the confluence of two large rivers namely, the Red and Da Rivers ; this province links the northern provinces of the Red River delta with the country's mountainous provinces and also the two Chinese provinces of Guangxi and Yunnan.

Three large rivers flow through the province: the Red, Lô and Da rivers, which ensure a plentiful source of water serving daily life as well as industrial purposes.

The main agricultural regions of the province are the plains around Tuy Hoa and the lowlands along Da Rang River.

Population density is relatively high ( exceeding 500 / km2 ) along the lower Da Rang River, but is lower than 50 / km2 in much of the western part of the province.

* 1896 – Officially recognised date of the Cry of Pugad Lawin, the start of the Philippine Revolution is made in Pugad Lawin ( Quezon City ), in the province of Manila ( actual date and location is disputed ).

Productive soils are found in most of the southern half of the province ( excluding the mountains ), and in certain parts of the north.

King Alfred the Great and the chronicler Æthelweard identified this place with the district that is now called Angeln, in the province of Schleswig ( Slesvig ) ( though it may then have been of greater extent ), and this identification agrees with the indications given by Bede.

Abu Sayyaf (;, ASG, ) also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya is one of several military Islamist separatist groups based in and around the southern Philippines, in Bangsamoro ( Jolo and Basilan ), where for almost 30 years various Muslim groups have been engaged in an insurgency for an independent province in the country.

The first were nearly all in the downtown of Buenos Aires ( el égido de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires ), and soon Polish brewers began industrial production of beer: San Carlos in the province of Santa Fe, Río Segundo and Córdoba in the province of Córdoba, Quilmes ( Quilmes beer ) and Lavallol on the outskirts of La Plata ( in Buenos Aires Province ), San Miguel de Tucumán in the province of Tucumán and on the outskirts of the cities of Mendoza and Salta.

Nowadays Afyon is known for its marble ( in 2005 there were 355 marble quarries in the province of Afyon producing high quality white stone ), its sucuk ( spiced sausages ), its kaymak ( meaning either cream or a white Turkish Delight ) and various handmade weavings.

He also obtained the capitulation of Fiñana ( in the modern province of Almería ), after setting fire to its suburbs.

After finishing school in his native province, he went to Darul-uloom-e-Sharia ( Abu-Hanifa ), a religious school in Kabul.

At the same time, in October 1908, Austria-Hungary seized the opportunity of the Ottoman political upheaval to annex the de jure Ottoman province of Bosnia-Herzegovina, which it had occupied since 1878 ( see Bosnian Crisis ), and Bulgaria declared itself a fully independent kingdom.

Notable variations are found in speakers from Phnom Penh ( which is the capital city ), the rural Battambang area, the areas of Northeast Thailand adjacent to Cambodia such as Surin province, the Cardamom Mountains, and in southern Vietnam.

During most of the colonial period, Costa Rica was the southernmost province of the Captaincy General of Guatemala, which was nominally part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain ( i. e., Mexico ), but which in practice operated as a largely autonomous entity within the Spanish Empire.

* Cumberland, Ontario ( disambiguation ), three locations within the Canadian province of Ontario

Deng was born into an ethnically Hakka Han family in Paifang village ( 牌坊村 ), Xiexing township ( 协兴镇 ), Guang ' an County in Sichuan province, approximately 160 km from Chongqing ( formerly spelled Chungking ).

Delft () is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland ( Zuid-Holland ), the Netherlands.

He took the habit of a Friar Preacher at Rome ( 1839 ), and the province of France was canonically erected in 1850.

From this province were detached the province of Lyon, called Occitania ( 1862 ), that of Toulouse ( 1869 ), and that of Canada ( 1909 ).

Relations between the two countries have not always been cordial due to the former French government's policy of supporting militant separatists in Angola's Cabinda province and the international Angolagate scandal embarrassed both governments by exposing corruption and illicit arms deals.

The name most likely corresponds to the word Breton, the French adjective referring to the Atlantic province of Brittany.

The act renamed the northeasterly portion of the former French province of New France as Province of Quebec, roughly coextensive with the lower third of contemporary Quebec.

was a product of the French province of the Order of Preachers.

Mainly or partially francophone or francosphere countries include France, Belgium ( Wallonia is almost entirely francophone, and there is a large French-speaking community in the Brussels-Capital Region and a few bordering municipalities ), Canada ( the province of Quebec is francophone, and there are large French-speaking communities in Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and other Canadian provinces ), United States ( South / Central Louisiana and parts of Maine ), Switzerland, Haiti, the French West Indies and several countries in Africa, including Congo, Burundi, Madagascar and Rwanda, that are former French or Belgian colonies.

Today, only two European regions continue to associate with the Franks: the French province of Île-de-France, originally the Western Franks ' seat of power ; and the Ripuarian Frankish dynasty's adopted homeland, modern Franconia.

A pro-French Batavian Republic was established ( 1795 – 1806 ), and with the consolidation of French power under Napoleon gradually turned into a French satellite state, culminating in the Kingdom of Holland ( 1806 – 1810 ) and later simply an imperial province.

In turn, the predominantly French speaking part of the duchy was ceded to Belgium as the province de Luxembourg.

Lake Champlain ( French: lac Champlain ) is a natural, freshwater lake in North America, located mainly within the borders of the United States ( states of Vermont and New York ) but partially situated across the Canada-United States border in the Canadian province of Quebec.

A brief dramatic episode of Marxist-Leninist revolution took place in North America during the October Crisis in the province of Quebec in Canada, where the Marxist-Leninist and Quebec separatist Front de libération du Québec ( FLQ ) kidnapped the British Trade Commissioner in Canada, James Cross, and Quebec government minister Pierre Laporte who was later killed, it issued a manifesto condemning what it considered English Canadian imperialism in French Quebec calling for an independent, socialist Quebec.

Initially, the majority of the province was French, which demanded " rep-by-pop " ( representation by population ), which the Anglophones opposed.

After the acquisition by Spain of the French territory of Louisiana in 1763, the capital of the Spanish province of Texas was established on the east side of the river, near present-day Robeline, Louisiana.

Between 1805 and 1813, the Slovene-settled territory was part of the Illyrian Provinces, an autonomous province of the Napoleonic French Empire, the capital of which was established at Ljubljana.

The province of South Holland as it is today has its origins in the period of French rule from 1795 to 1813.

City of Saint John ( French: Ville de Saint John ), or commonly Saint John, is the largest city in the province of New Brunswick, and the second largest in the maritime provinces after Halifax.

* February 27 – Seven Years ' War – French and Indian War: Cherokee natives allied with French forces attack a North Carolina militia stationed at Fort Dobbs in the western part of the province.

Coat of arms of the second Duchy of Burgundy and later of the French province of Burgundy

The parts of Hesse-Darmstadt on the western banks of the Rhine ( province Rheinhessen ) were occupied by French troops until 1930 under the terms of the Versailles peace treaty that officially ended WWI in 1919.

The Prussian Rhine province was formed in 1822 and Prussia had the tact to leave them in undisturbed possession of the liberal institutions they had become accustomed to under the republican rule of the French.

The annexation was acknowledged during the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659, and it became a French province.

The Province of Upper Canada ( French: province du Haut-Canada ) was a political division in British Canada established in 1791 by the British Empire to govern the central third of the lands in British North America and to accommodate Loyalist refugees from the United States of America after the American Revolution.

The defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War ( 1871 ) and the subsequent annexation by Germany of the French province of Alsace-Lorraine caused the French government to abandon its colonial ambitions and withdraw its military garrisons from its French West African trading posts, leaving them in the care of resident merchants.