For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

All western Europe would hear and listen to him in this same vein about the middle of the century.

The only other regions so blessed are the British Isles, western Europe, eastern China, southern Chile and parts of Japan, New Zealand and Tasmania.

The abacus had fallen out of use in western Europe in the 16th century with the rise of decimal notation and algorismic methods.

The north western coasts of Anatolia were inhabited by Greeks of the Achaean / Mycenaean culture from the 20th century BC, related to the Greeks of south eastern Europe and the Aegean.

In western Europe Arianism, which had been taught by Ulfilas, the Arian missionary to the Germanic tribes, was dominant among the Goths and Lombards ( and, significantly for the late Empire, the Vandals ); but it ceased to be the mainstream belief by the 8th century.

Found along the southern shore of the Baltic Sea, yellow amber reached the Middle East and western Europe via trade.

The constellations of the Zodiac of western Asia and Europe were not used ; instead the sky is divided into Three Enclosures ( 三垣 sān yuán ), and Twenty-eight Mansions ( 二十八宿 èrshíbā xiù ) in twelve Ci ( 十二次 ).

Some have understood Ammianus's testimony as a claim that at the time of Atlantis's actual sinking into the sea, its inhabitants fled to western Europe ; but Ammianus in fact says that “ the Drasidae ( Druids ) recall that a part of the population is indigenous but others also migrated in from islands and lands beyond the Rhine " ( Res Gestae 15. 9 ), an indication that the immigrants came to Gaul from the north ( Britain, the Netherlands or Germany ), not from a theorized location in the Atlantic Ocean to the south-west.

She was thus a principal agent — almost an embodiment — of the work of the Catholic Church during the Early Middle Ages in the construction of the religion-culture of western Europe.

Furthermore, it was Abbas Mirza who first dispatched Iranian students to Europe for a western education.

These waters separate eastern Europe and western Asia.

Bosnia and Herzegovina is located in Southeastern Europe, in the western Balkans.

Russian oil, from ports such as Novorossyisk, is exported by tankers to western Europe and the U. S. via the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles straits.

* United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, a sovereign state in western Europe

Orchestras of Russian folk instruments exist in many countries of western Europe, Scandinavia, USA, Canada, Australia and Japan.

Diffusion of metallurgy in western Europe.

From the 12th century, major advances in the chemical arts shifted from Arab lands to western Europe.

Eastern Christians of eastern Europe and western Asia used for a long time the Julian Calendar, that of the old Orthodox church, in countries like Russia.

The Cretaceous as a separate period was first defined by a Belgian geologist Jean d ' Omalius d ' Halloy in 1822, using strata in the Paris Basin and named for the extensive beds of chalk ( calcium carbonate deposited by the shells of marine invertebrates, principally coccoliths ), found in the upper Cretaceous of western Europe.

It was especially important for preserving in its libraries manuscripts of Greek and Latin authors throughout a period when instability and disorder caused their mass-destruction in western Europe and north Africa: On the city's fall, thousands of these were brought by refugees to Italy, and played a key part in stimulating the Renaissance, and the transition to the modern world.

This victory is traditionally credited with halting northward Islamic expansion in western Europe.

Such bottlers include Coca-Cola Enterprises, which is the largest single Coca-Cola bottler in North America and western Europe.

In western Europe there emerged what is considered the " ultimate " heavy cavalry, the knight.

Here the peoples spoke the tongue of Iceland because that island had gotten the jump on the Hawaiian-Americans who were busy resettling North America and the western half of South America after the Apocalyptic War.

The third is between Japan and western North America.

Albertosaurus (; meaning " Alberta lizard ") is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 70 million years ago.

* Alnus rhombifolia — white alder, interior western North America

Queen Charlotte Sound defines its western side, while to the south lies Tory Channel, which is on the sea route from Wellington in the North Island to Picton.

Art historian Richard Poss took a more flexible approach, maintaining that the astronomical rock art of the North American Southwest should be read employing " the hermeneutic traditions of western art history and art criticism " Astronomers, however, raise different questions, seeking to provide their students with identifiable precursors of their discipline, and are especially concerned with the important question of how to confirm that specific sites are, indeed, intentionally astronomical.

Boone is a town located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, United States.

) After leaving New York City, it is the main north – south street of western Yonkers, New York through Sleepy Hollow ( known as ether North or South Broadway in most sections ), before becoming Albany Post Road ( and Highland Avenue ) at the northern border of Sleepy Hollow, New York.

The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft and surface vessels are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

The Mediterranean climate regime resembles the climate of the lands in the Mediterranean Basin, parts of western North America, parts of Western and South Australia, in southwestern South Africa and in parts of central Chile.

It originally ranged primarily in the western half of North America, but it has adapted readily to the changes caused by human presence and, since the early 19th century, has been steadily and dramatically extending its range.

Coyotes are presently the most abundant livestock predators in western North America, causing the majority of sheep, goat and cattle losses.

According to the WHO, it is practiced in 28 countries in western, eastern, and north-eastern Africa, in parts of the Middle East, and within some immigrant communities in Europe, North America, Australasia.

For 20 years, the two powers struggled for supremacy in the western Mediterranean Sea, primarily on the Mediterranean island of Sicily and its surrounding waters but also to a lesser extent in the Apennine peninsula and North Africa.

It originated as a Phoenician colony in Africa, near modern Tunis, and gradually became the center of a civilization whose hegemony reached along the North African coast and deep in its hinterland, and also included the Balearic Islands, Sardinia, Corsica, a limited area in southern Spain, and the western half of Sicily.

: Largest and southernmost island in the Mariana Islands archipelago ; strategic location in western North Pacific Ocean.

In Chinese astronomy some of them are located in the Black Tortoise of the North ( 北方玄武, Běi Fāng Xuán Wǔ ), while the rest were placed among the Southern Asterisms ( 近南極星區, Jìnnánjíxīngōu ) by Xu Guangqi, based on knowledge of western star charts.

The gray whale is distributed in an eastern North Pacific ( North American ) population and a critically endangered western North Pacific ( Asian ) population.

Hitler's ideological foes were the Communists in Russia but because of the German failure to defeat the United Kingdom and the Italian failures in North Africa and the Mediterranean the Axis forces were split between garrisoning western Europe and Scandinavia and attacking Africa.

The Phoenicians spread through the western Mediterranean reaching North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula.

It lasted more than thirty years until February 1943, when western Tripolitania was conquered by the Allies in the North African Campaign.