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A segment of this people moved south-west to Lydia, becoming known as the Lydians, while others sailed away to take refuge in Italy, where they became known as Etruscans.
In February 1918 General Mannerheim weighed the question of where to focus the general offensive of the Whites, between two strategically vital enemy strongholds: Tampere, Finland's major industrial town in the south-west, and Viipuri, Karelia's main city.
" Finally, it was recorded that the Pathans " who are more numerous than the Mughals, ... are found chiefly in the south-west of the valley, where Pathan colonies have from time to time been founded.
Meanwhile, Stephen had put down two revolts in the south-west led by Baldwin de Redvers and Robert of Bampton ; Baldwin was released after his capture and travelled to Normandy, where he became an increasingly vocal critic of the king.
Stephen then agreed to a truce proposed by his brother, Henry of Blois ; the full details of the truce are not known, but the results were that Stephen first released Matilda from the siege and then allowed her and her household of knights to be escorted to the south-west, where they were reunited with Robert of Gloucester.
He began issuing royal writs for the south-west of England once again and travelled to York where he held a major court in an attempt to impress upon the northern barons that royal authority was being reasserted.
There was considerable Irish colonization in Dyfed in south-west Wales, where there are many stones with Ogham inscriptions.
It flows south-west through Embrun, Sisteron, Manosque, Cavaillon, and Avignon, where it meets the Rhône.
This line runs from Arth along the western shore to Immensee, where it bears south-west to Lucerne, while from Immensee another railway leads ( at first some way from the shore ) to Cham, west of Zug.
In the north, La Seu d ' Urgell has borders with the municipality of les Valls de Valira, to the west with Montferrer i Castellbò where there is La Seu d ' Urgell Airport ( also known as Andorra-Pirineus airport ), to the south-west with Ribera d ' Urgellet, to the south-east with Alàs i Cerc, and to the north-east with Estamariu.
Serabit el-Khadim ( Arabic: سرابت الخادم ) ( Arabic, also transliterated Serabit al-Khadim, Serabit el-Khadem ) is a locality in the south-west Sinai Peninsula where turquoise was mined extensively in antiquity, mainly by the ancient Egyptians.
Initial settlement was concentrated on the port and city, then expanded, notably to the south-west, where the fertile Taieri Plains offered good farmland.
Meanwhile, Stephen had put down two revolts in the south-west led by Baldwin de Redvers and Robert of Bampton ; Baldwin was released after his capture and travelled to Normandy, where he became an increasingly vocal critic of the king.
Stephen then agreed to a truce proposed by his brother, Henry of Blois ; the full details of the truce are not known, but the results were that Stephen first released Matilda from the siege and then allowed her and her household of knights to be escorted to the south-west, where they were reunited with Robert of Gloucester.
He began issuing royal writs for the south-west of England once again and travelled to York where he held a major court in an attempt to impress upon the northern barons that royal authority was being reasserted.
In the south-west part are three caves, in a ledge of rocks of the Shawangunk Mountains, where ice is found at all times of the year.
Their course was west to Walebing Station, then south-west and on 11 November they arrived at New Norcia where they were welcomed by Bishop Salvado.
Markaryd Municipality ( Markaryds kommun ) is a municipality in south-west Kronoberg County in southern Sweden, where the town Markaryd is seat.
The Liberal Unionists managed to stay strong in the south-west of England, the West Midlands ( the centre of Chamberlain's power base ), and especially in Scotland, where the Liberal Unionists were initially the more dominant group in their alliance with the Scottish Conservatives against the Liberals.
A visitor centre is open to the public where the Union Canal passes over the Water of Leith via the Slateford Aqueduct at Longstone, in south-west Edinburgh.
The next event is a right angle bend, of no apparent significance from the boat, but a map shows that this is where the canal ( and the Trent ) changes its basic direction from south-west ( heading away from Runcorn ) to north-east ( heading towards Nottingham ).
The A171 leads west to Middlesbrough and east to Whitby whilst the A173 goes south-west to Stokesley and north-east as far as Skelton where it joins the A174 coast road.
The only exception to its natural protection was 300 metres on the south-west where it was defended by walls, the line of which is necessarily followed by those of the modern town.
Evidence of pre-historic settlement is found in Beenalaght ( 13. 6 km / 8. 5 miles south-west of Mallow ), where an alignment of six standing stones lie on a hill to the west of the Mallow-Coachford Road.

south-west and Crown
Tourism is concentrated in the south-west of the island, around Crown Point, Store Bay, Pigeon Point and Buccoo Reef.
In addition to Dublin city, the royal demesne itself also consisted of the royal manors of Crumlin, Esker, Newcastle, and Saggart, in the south-west of the county, and the royal demesnes of O Thee ( O ' Teig ), O Brun ( O ' Broin ), and O Kelly ( O ' Ceallaigh ) in the south-east of the county, which were rented from the Crown by Irish-speaking tenants.
It follows a route north towards the city and meets the M2 highway at the Crown Interchange ( which is immediately south-west of the city centre ).

south-west and lead
On the southern side of the range, several long but narrow river valleys lead off towards the south-west, separated by a number of subsidiary ridges.
Shortly afterwards 11 Platoon's lead section crossed a dirt road running south-west to north-east.
Other roads lead from Zvishavane to Gweru, north, and Mberengwa, south-west.
On 1 July / 2 July 1915 south-west of Krithia, Gallipoli, Turkey, Captain O ' Sullivan volunteered to lead a party of bomb throwers to recapture a vital trench.
Newly-discovered iron ore deposits to the south-west may lead to a revival of the town.

south-west and mining
It rises to the south-west of Sydney near the coal mining town of Appin, and then flows north past Campbelltown, roughly parallel to the Main South Railway.
The former mining village of Coalsnaughton lies just south, whilst Alloa lies four miles south-west.

south-west and industry
Although Canynges benefitted from the wide trade connections of his forebears and a large inheritance, he does not seem to have followed them in the cloth manufacturing industry as his name was never recorded in the aulnage returns, but rather specialised in the shipping of cloth to south-west Europe.
Throughout Cornwall and south-west England clotted cream manufacture is a cottage industry, with many farms and dairies producing cream for sale in local outlets.
Today Winterthur is a service and high tech industry centre, but many people make use of its proximity to Zürich, which lies approximately to the south-west, and only 18 minutes by train.
His family belonged to the gentry of south-west Wales ; though well-established, his family was not well-off, and his father experimented with agriculture and industry in a manner that brought him into contact with the new science of the day.
The timber industry has slowly begun to overtake many of the historic properties surrounding Bombala, such as the over 150 year old property of Aston, south-west of the township.

south-west and castles
In the south-west Matilda's supporters built a range of castles to protect the territory, usually motte-and-bailey designs such as those at Winchcombe, Upper Slaughter, or Bampton.
Around 80 % of Norman castles in this period followed the motte-and-bailey pattern, but ringworks were particularly popular in certain areas, such as south-west England and south Wales.
In the south-west Matilda's supporters built a range of castles to protect the territory, usually motte and bailey designs such as those at Winchcombe, Upper Slaughter, or Bampton.
He played an important role capturing and slighting English-held castles in south-west Scotland, including Rutherglen castle which he successfully recaptured from the English in 1313.
King William I formed a deer park to the south-west of the castle, but after his capture by the English in 1174 he was forced to surrender several castles, including Stirling and Edinburgh, under the Treaty of Falaise.
" Some of Singleton's plans included a game canvas four times bigger than the original Lords of Midnight, divided into twelve kingdoms set south-west of the original game, dynamic full-color graphics with black masking to hide any color clashes, unique graphics for all castles, unique, generated, full-scale facial graphics for all characters, a more convincing name generator, interior scenes of keeps and citadels, et cetera.

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