The first sampling census in the Congo extended over a three-year period, 1955 - 57 ; ;

The dominion of Alp Arslan after Manzikert extended over much of western Asia.

* 1937 – The Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage ; over 90 % would vote in the affirmative.

A logical conclusion to draw is that the Hermunduri extended over later Swabia and therefore the Alemanni originally derived from the Hermunduri!

The Bailie ’ s authority extended over the rector of Aegina, whereas Kastri ( opposite Hydra ) had been granted to two families, the Palaiologoi and the Alberti.

The main Hadrianic cardo terminated not far beyond its junction with the decumanus, where it reached the Roman garrison's encampment, but in the Byzantine era it was extended over the former camp to reach the southern walls of the city.

The original thoroughfare, flanked by rows of columns and shops, was about 73 feet ( 22 meters ) wide ( roughly the equivalent of a present-day six lane motorway ), but buildings have extended onto the streets over the centuries, and the modern lanes replacing the ancient grid are now quite narrow.

Exhaustive searches have been carried out to find all pairs less than a given bound, this bound being extended from 10 < sup > 8 </ sup > in 1970, to 10 < sup > 10 </ sup > in 1986, 10 < sup > 11 </ sup > in 1993, and to a bound well over that today.

The layout of the table has been refined and extended over time, as new elements have been discovered, and new theoretical models have been developed to explain chemical behavior.

Another class of carbine is a semi-automatic version of a submachine gun, with an extended barrel, usually just over 406 mm ( 16 inches ) long, which will escape ban by some " assault weapon " legislation.

; Field goal: Scored by a drop kick or place kick ( except on a kickoff ) when the ball, after being kicked and without again touching the ground, goes over the cross bar and between the goal posts ( or between lines extended from the top of the goal posts ) of the opponent's goal, worth three points.

From the archaeological excavations in the 1970s, it is clear that construction took over most of the site of the earlier temple enclosure and that the Triportico and Rotunda roughly overlapped with the temple building itself ; the excavations indicate that the temple extended at least as far back as the Aedicule, and the temple enclosure would have reached back slightly further.

" With satisfaction came severe personal difficulties: acting the same role over an extended period, it became impossible for him to separate Ziggy Stardust — and, later, the Thin White Duke — from his own character offstage.

This extended to DC suing Fawcett Comics over Captain Marvel, at the time comics ' top-selling character.

These cells and the bacteria trapped inside them entered a symbiotic relationship, a close association between different types of organisms over an extended time.

The paradox is further extended when one considers that – despite his claims of spiritual authority over Philemon – Paul frames himself – and, by extension, both Philemon and Onesimus – as fellow bondservants of Christ, who being their spiritual master, is also their brother and equal.

To all this activity must be added numerous writings of a miscellaneous nature, addresses, letters, and the like, and exegetical works that extended over the whole of his life and that include both commentaries and treatises on Biblical archaeology.

Regardless of speculation about Keitai's genealogy, it is well settled that there was an extended period of disputes over the succession which developed after Keitai's death.

Approximate fractals found in nature display self-similarity over extended, but finite, scale ranges.

In animals, adipose, or fatty tissue is the body's means of storing metabolic energy over extended periods of time.

Secondary sources of law were developed and refined over the subsequent centuries, consisting primarily of juristic preference ( istihsan ), laws of the previous prophets ( shara man qablana ), continuity ( istihsab ), extended analogy ( maslaha mursala ), blocking the means ( sadd al-dhari ' ah ), custome urf and saying of a companion ( qawl al-sahabi ).

Moreover, the original concept of Fourier analysis has been extended over time to apply to more and more abstract and general situations, and the general field is often known as harmonic analysis.

The murals often develop over an extended period and tend to stylization, with a strong symbolic or iconographic content.

The notion that glass flows to an appreciable extent over extended periods of time is not supported by empirical research or theoretical analysis ( see viscosity of amorphous materials ).

Islamic armies conquered part of Persia, Syria, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Armenia, and what is now the modern-day post-Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan and surrounded the Byzantine heartland ( present-day Turkey ) in a pincer movement which extended from the Mediterranean to the Caucasus and the southern shores of the Caspian.

The front arm is nearly fully extended but not entirely so ; the rear arm is more cambered than the front arm, but more extended than a modern-day boxer's rear arm.

The sultanate's control extended probably over the coastal regions of modern-day Sarawak and Sabah, the Sulu archipelago, and the islands off the northwest tip of Borneo.

To the south, it has been argued that the ancient Thracian language was a dialect of Dacian, or vice versa, and that therefore the Dacian linguistic zone extended over the Roman province of Thracia, occupying modern-day Bulgaria south of the Balkan Mountains, northern Greece and European Turkey, as far as the Aegean sea.

Ōllamaliztli was the Aztec name for the Mesoamerican ballgame, whose roots extended back to at least the 2nd millennium BC and evidence of which has been found in nearly all Mesoamerican cultures in an area extending from modern-day Mexico to El Salvador, and possibly in modern-day Arizona and New Mexico.

It is the name of the now-ruined capital city that surrounds modern-day Hampi, of the historic Vijayanagara empire which extended over the southern part of India.

) Finally, the modern-day game Zork: The Undiscovered Underground created as a promotion for Zork Grand Inquisitor featured an extended reference to a line in Zork III about " a whole convention of grues " in a certain location, by having the player infiltrate a literal grue convention, complete with lectures, entertainment and souvenirs.

The Kings of Ryūkyū unified Okinawa Island and extended the kingdom to the Amami Islands in modern-day Kagoshima Prefecture, and the Sakishima Islands near Taiwan.

Western Galicia – Volhynia extended between the rivers San and Wieprz in what is now south-eastern Poland, while eastern territories covered the Pripet Marshes ( now in Belarus ) and upper Southern Bug in modern-day Ukraine.

Sadzny, formerly known as Zygia ( Jiketi of the Georgian sources ) extended north to Abkhazia proper between the modern-day cities of Gagra and Sochi, and was run by the Gechba clan.

Most of South America spun so that the western edge of modern-day Brazil lined up with eastern North America, forming a continental margin that extended into the southern edge of Scandinavia.

Arachosia was centred around Arghandab valley in modern-day southern Afghanistan, and extended east to as far as the Indus River in modern-day Pakistan.

José de Escandón y Helguera, 1st Count of Sierra Gorda ( May 19, 1700, Soto de la Marina, Cantabria, Spain – 1770, New Spain ) was a Spanish Indian-fighter in New Spain and the founder and first governor of the colony of Nuevo Santander, which extended from the Pánuco River in the modern-day Mexican state of Veracruz to the Guadalupe River in the U. S. state of Texas.

At its height in the late 13th century, the Khanate extended from the Amu Darya south of the Aral Sea to the Altai Mountains in the border of modern-day Mongolia and China.

The Chinese domain was also extended into Inner Mongolia and Manchuria to the north, and with naval expeditions sent to the south, the indigenous Baiyue of modern-day Guangdong and northern Vietnam ( the latter called Jiaozhi, and then Annam during the Tang Dynasty ) were also quelled and brought under Chinese rule.

An 1889 map calls it ' Horsely Down ', though this extended somewhat further south and west than the modern-day Shad Thames.

The grant extended from King Georges Road and Stoney Creek Road ( of modern-day Penshurst and Beverly Hills ) to beyond Kogarah railway station.

The Mankessim Kingdom's influence included not only their own kingdom, but extended to the whole of the entire coast of modern-day Akanland.