The Pyramid Temple, which stood on the east side of the pyramid and measured north to south and east to west, has almost entirely disappeared apart from the black basalt paving.

As the Sahara dried after 2000 BCE, the north of Niger became the desert it is today, with settlements and trade routes clinging to the Air in the north, the Kaouar and shore of Lake Chad in the west, and ( apart for a scattering of oases ) most people living along what is now the southern border with Nigeria and the southwest of the country.

In pre-Islamic Arabia, apart from a small number of urban trading settlements, such as Mecca and Medina, located in the Hejaz in the west of the peninsula, most of what was to become Saudi Arabia was populated by nomadic tribal societies or uninhabitable desert.

He issued the oldest surviving English code of laws apart from those of the kingdom of Kent, and established a second West Saxon bishopric at Sherborne, covering the territories west of Selwood Forest.

With the trees of the New Park covering Bruce's army to the west, the only approach apart from the Pows to the east was directly over the old road from Falkirk.

* east and west would not be 180 degrees apart, but instead would differ from that by up to twice the degrees of latitude of the location in question, and

The idea of an east to west waterway link across southern England was first mentioned in Elizabethan times, between 1558 and 1603, to take advantage of the proximity of the rivers Avon and Thames, only apart at their closest.

The infamous " Option A " in this report was illustrated by a map of a truly vestigial system with, for example, no railways west of Bristol and none in Scotland apart from the central belt.

His confederation fell apart, the British deserted their Indian allies at the peace conference that ended the War of 1812, the dream of an independent Indian state in the Midwest vanished, and American settlers took possession of all the territory south of the Great Lakes, driving the Indians west or into reservations.

For the most part the bridge was static, apart from the section closest to the west bank, which would have been a drawbridge.

These rivers ' origins, near the villages of Izvoru Mureşului and Sândominic, are only a few miles apart ; yet the Mureş flows west to the Tisza, while the Olt flows south to the Danube.

Unlike the above scenario ( east / west Slavic ), the barrier between east south Slavic and west south Slavic is natural and not political: the speakers ' ancestors inhabited their respective lands having taken alternative routes thus being apart for some generations.

It was made in gothic style, a one-aisle church with set apart presbytery and tower on the west side and St. Anne chapel adjacent to aisle.

Lenox is set apart from Richmond to the west by a branch of the Berkshire Mountains, with the highest peak in the ridge being Yokun Seat at 2, 124 ft ( 647. 4 m ).

The town, apart from the newer development to the west named Telscombe Cliffs & above Firle Road, still retains its original " grid " layout: rectangular plots of land on both sides of the main road.

The Farallon Plate was an ancient oceanic plate, which began subducting under the west coast of the North American Plate — then located in modern Utah — as Pangaea broke apart during the Jurassic Period.

Route 8 branches apart from the Route 2 ( the Trans-Canada Highway ) west of Fredericton at the Fredericton West High Speed Connector crossing Route 640 then Route 101.

Prior to this they were based upon the mean solar time at several meridians 15 ° apart west of Greenwich ( GMT ).

Taking apart the Largue, also coming from the Jura mountains near Illfurth, it receives several tributaries from the west bank Vosges mountains after passing through Altkirch: the Doller in Mulhouse, the Thur near Ensisheim, the Lauch in Colmar, the Fecht in Illhaeusern, the Giessen in Sélestat, the Andlau near Fegersheim, the Ehn near Geispolsheim, the Bruche next to Strasbourg and the Souffel upstream from La Wantzenau before meeting with the Rhine downstream from Gambsheim's lock.

Three miles from NY 414, just west of Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge, NY 5 and US 20 meets NY 318 and NY 89 at intersections just apart.

In downtown Auburn, NY 5 and US 20's east and west lanes split apart from each other for a short distance as an arterial over the alignments of Clark Street, Franklin Street, and Grant Avenue.

This fault pattern is caused by the tensional forces pulling apart the adjacent Basin and Range province to the west, making this section transitional.

* Guildhall, London, repairs ( 1772 ), Rooms over Matted Gallery ( 1773 ), Old Council Chamber ( 1774 ), New Council Chamber ( 1777 ), Alterations to Chapel ( 1774 & 1782 ), Town Clerk's House ( 1781 ), New Facade ( 1785-8 ), Chamberlain's House ( 1785-6 ), New Houses, west side of the yard ( 1795 ), Exterior Stuccoed ( 1805 ), windows of the Great Hall redesigned ( 1806 ) & Court of the King's Bench, altered ( 1804-6 ) all has been demolished apart from the facade

The guerrillas were swarming from their bivouac at the west end of the enclosure.

They would have to go west through the narrow river valley that separated Leyte from Samar and hope that it didn't close in before they returned.

He turned from the flying trees to look ahead and saw with an inward boy's eye again the great fieldstone house which, built on one of the many acres of ancestral land bordering the west harbor, had been Izaak's bride-gift to his cousin-wife as the last century ended.

The Class had entries from as far west as Wisconsin and as far south as Kentucky.

the southern United States, extending from Florida in the east to Texas in the west, still maintains its unique flavor of gracious living and historical elegance.

Floating ice bore down from the north and west.

It was hoped that to this post would flow a large quantity of furs from the west, principally down the Arkansas River.

A second car was coming from the west, from the direction of Sanford's Run.

The Plymouth was coming at him from the east, the pickup truck from the west.

* At Clarus, on the west coast of Asia Minor ; as at Delphi a holy spring which gave off a pneuma, from which the priests drank.

* In Didyma, an oracle on the coast of Anatolia, south west of Lydian ( Luwian ) Sardis, in which priests from the lineage of the Branchidae received inspiration by drinking from a healing spring located in the temple.

From the neolithic age Asia Minor was the route of the forward-Asiatic cultural stream which moved from the Near East to the west and spread the agriculture to the east coasts of Greece and Crete during the 5th millennium BC and then to the Balkan region and the whole of Europe.

A lot of religious elements including the were transmitted from the Hittites to the Greeks and then to the west.

The Aegean Islands are found within its waters, with the following islands delimiting the sea on the south ( generally from west to east ): Kythera, Antikythera, Crete, Kasos, Karpathos and Rhodes.

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.

In the west, the mountains tend to be low, with elevations from, but they rise in the easterly direction to heights greater than south of Rize, reaching at the Kaçkar Mountains in the Pontic Alps.

Beginning in the west of Antalya province, the south-facing Mediterranean coast of Turkey is separated from the interior by steep ranges, known as the Taurus mountains, that run along the entire length of the coast.

The region varies in elevation from from west to east.

The Alps, one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretch approximately across eight Alpine countries from Austria and Slovenia in the east, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, France to the west and Italy and Monaco to the south.

The Ancient Pueblo homeland centers on the Colorado Plateau, but extends from central New Mexico on the east to southern Nevada on the west.

In the northern part of this plateau, west of Jackson county, there are about of level highlands from above sea level.