Numerous rivers cross Loreto's territory, all of which are part of the Amazonian Hydrographical System.

Loreto's main monuments occupy the four sides of the piazza: the college of the Jesuits, the Palazzo Comunale ( formerly the Palazzo Apostolico ), designed by Bramante, with an art gallery with works of Lorenzo Lotto, Vouet and Annibale Carracci as well as a collection of maiolica, and the Shrine of the Holy House ( Santuario della Santa Casa ).

The general consensus amongst scholars is that Luwian was spoken — to a greater or lesser degree — across a large area of western Anatolia, including ( possibly ) Wilusa (= Troy ), the Seha River Land ( to be identified with the Hermos and / or Kaikos valley ), and the kingdom of Mira-Kuwaliya with its core territory of the Maeander valley.

The other four pairs of twins — Ampheres and Evaemon, Mneseus and Autochthon, Elasippus and Mestor, and Azaes and Diaprepes — were also given " rule over many men, and a large territory.

Although the German invasion successfully conquered large areas of Soviet territory, the overall strategic effects were more limited.

The account indicates that the Philistine city and its political territory were stricken with a " ravaging of mice " and a plague, bringing death to a large segment of the population.

The lost territory was mostly restored, except for large parts of today's Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In 1549, the institution of the Audiencia in Santa Fe de Bogotá gave that city the status of capital of New Granada, which comprised in large part what is now territory of Colombia.

While Constantius was away from the eastern frontier in early 337, Shapur assembled a large army, including war elephants, and launched an attack on Roman territory, laying waste to Mesopotamia and putting Nisibis under siege.

Patrol parties from large groups will even take over a smaller group's territory, gaining access to more resources, food and females.

Ecuador continues to contest the boundary with Peru, which was established by the Rio Protocol of 1942 and ceded to Peru a large portion of territory east of the Andes.

Humble Oil continued to expand its West Coast operations, adding California to its marketing territory, building a large number of new Enco stations and rebranding others.

Its statutory law of 27 February 2004 gives it the particular designation of " overseas country " to underline the large autonomy of the territory.

The Duke of Burgundy had assembled a large territory, including his native duchy and the Burgundian Netherlands.

The greatest expansion of the impi outside the Zululand / Zimbabwe area however was to come in East Africa, where bands of Ngoni fighting men, conquered large swathes of territory, using the methods first laid down by Shaka.

* 1701 – Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of the Ohio River to England.

The territory may be large enough to hold some young adults which stay with their parents until they establish their own territories.

The family was quite large, covering considerable territory, principally centred around Wycliffe-on-Tees, about ten miles to the north of Hipswell.

The Khazars ( Old Turkic: 10px10px10px10px10px ) were semi-nomadic Turkic people who established one of the largest polities of medieval Eurasia, with the capital of Atil and territory comprising much of modern-day European Russia, western Kazakhstan, eastern Ukraine, Azerbaijan, large portions of the northern Caucasus ( Circassia, Dagestan ), parts of Georgia, the Crimea, and northeastern Turkey.

The division was the result of concerns expressed by settlers already in Nebraska as well as the senators from Iowa who were concerned with the location of the territory's seat of government if such a large territory was created.

Slavic prince Pribina began to build in January 846 a large fortress as his seat of power and several churches in the region of Lake Balaton, in a territory of modern Zalavár surrounded by forests and swamps along the river Zala.

In the rainy season the Save is a large stream and even in the " dries " it can be navigated from its mouth by shallow draught steamers for over 150 m. Its general direction through Portuguese territory is east by north.

At the time, China had fallen victim to the expansionist policies of the Empire of Japan, who had conquered large areas of Chinese-controlled territory, namely Taiwan, Korea and South Manchuria.

Soon the new ruler had faced the task of integrating the relatively large, ethnically and culturally heterogeneous territory.

* At the end of his rule, Mieszko I left to his sons a territory at least twice as large as what he inherited from his father.

Destitute and practically destroyed, Paraguay had to endure a lengthy occupation by foreign troops and cede large patches of territory to Brazil and Argentina.

Shortly after Adrian's accession the territory ruled by the papacy was invaded by Desiderius, king of the Lombards, and Adrian was compelled to seek the assistance of the Frankish king Charlemagne, who entered Italy with a large army.

The genus comprises about 30 species of monoecious trees and shrubs, a few reaching a large size, distributed throughout the North Temperate Zone.

The city comprises a large number of theatres and many museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, the world's oldest art collection accessible to the public.

Cameroon comprises an estimated 250 distinct ethnic groups, which may be formed into five large regional-cultural divisions:

The yolk, too, is large, and comprises 22 – 31 % of the egg.

It combines a large state sector that comprises the ' commanding heights ' of the economy, which are guaranteed their public ownership status by law, with a private sector mainly engaged in commodity production and light industry responsible from anywhere between 33 % ( People's Daily Online 2005 ) to over 70 % of GDP generated in 2005.

Central Tanzania comprises a large plateau, with plains and arable land.

An inductively coupled transponder comprises an electronic data carrying device, usually a single microchip, and a large coil that functions as an antenna.

This comprises a large sacred area on the south side of the ancient city where seven monumental Greek temples in the Doric style were constructed during the 6th and 5th centuries BC.

The generalization of optimization theory and techniques to other formulations comprises a large area of applied mathematics.

This forms a large group of related largely monotheistic religions, generally held to include Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and comprises over half of the world's religious adherents.

This long area comprises many large islands, including Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja.

The large half-timbered building which now comprises numbers 17, 18 and 19 was formerly the White Lion Inn.

This large family comprises around 189 living species in 25 genera.

It comprises a number of shopping streets and a large residential area.

Located east-northeast of Charing Cross, it is one of the locally important district centres identified in the London Plan, and comprises a number of shopping streets and a large residential area.

The map of Bexley shows that a large proportion of its area comprises suburbia.

Cameron Parish comprises a large portion of the Louisiana Chenier Plain, and thus is home to numerous cheniers, elevated ridges that occur in certain coastal regions, particularly in Louisiana.

Djoser's funerary complex, built by the royal architect Imhotep, further comprises a large number of dummy buildings and a secondary mastaba ( the so-called ' Southern Tomb ').

The large Neebish Island comprises about 43 % of the township's territory in its southeastern section.

Located on the Becker Farm ( on what is now a large business complex, which comprises more than half of the total area within the town ), a miniature railroad operated from 1938 until 1972.

The main college site comprises three quads, the original Old Quad, the small second quad affectionately known as the Deer Park, and the large New Quad, as well as collection of smaller houses facing Radcliffe Square and the High Street.

After the Normans conquered Dublin and its hinterland in the 12th century, Hugh Tyrell, 1st Baron of Castleknock, granted a large area of land, including what now comprises the Phoenix Park, to the Knights Hospitaller.

It comprises large portions of the western Harz mountain range, extending from Herzberg and Bad Lauterberg at the southern edge to Bad Harzburg and Ilsenburg on the northern slopes.

Geologically, the peninsula comprises the eroded remnants of two large composite shield volcanoes ( Lyttelton formed first, then Akaroa ).

It has a relatively large codebase ; as of February 2010, the source comprises over 68, 000 lines of C ++ and 23, 000 lines of Scheme code.