The vast majority of ethnic Franks, divided between Salians and Ripuarians, were confined respectively to the Low Countries, the northeastern tip of modern France and the Rhine river banks all the way down to near the Main and Hesse areas.

Hanover was thus a gateway to the Rhine, Ruhr and Saar river valleys, their industrial areas which grew up to the southwest and the plains regions to the east and north, for overland traffic skirting the Harz between the Low Countries and Saxony or Thuringia.

The parts of the County of Flanders stretching out west of the river Scheldt ( Schelde in Dutch, Escaut in French ) became part of France during the Middle Ages, but the remainders of the County of Flanders and the Low Countries were part of the Holy Roman Empire.

Before early modern nation-building, the Low Countries referred to a wide area of northern Europe as a low-lying triangular river delta for the rivers Rhine, Meuse, Scheldt, and Ems.

There are two waterfalls and dams on the river within the village limits, known as the Great and Little Falls ; and two auto bridges, the Walden Veterans ' Memorial Bridge ( known colloquially as the High Bridge, which carries NY 52, known in the village as West Main Street ) and Low ( Oak Street ) bridges ).

He built the cut and 12 locks, which included the High Lock and the Low Lock on the river at Deeping St. James, at a cost of £ 5, 000.

That source is on the Greensand ridge and at first the river flows along the Low Weald valley at the foot of the ridge in a southeastward direction: three small streams enter from the north, having their headwaters on the ridge, before reaching a point where the river turns to the north east.

Eastphalian, or Eastfalian (), is a West Low German dialect spoken east of the Weser river in southern parts of Lower Saxony and western parts of Saxony-Anhalt in Germany, including Hanover, Braunschweig, Hildesheim, Göttingen and Magdeburg, an area that roughly corresponds with the historic region of Eastphalia.

The Low Countries were favorably positioned on a crossing of east-west and north-south trade routes and connected to a large German hinterland through the Rhine river.

From France, Germany, and the Low Countries, through the medium of the Champagne fairs, land and river trade routes brought goods such as wool, wheat, and precious metals into the region.

The river sweeps round to the south to join the River Don just below Mexborough Low Lock, where Mexborough New Cut on the River Don Navigation rejoins the river.

Etymologically, elver is derived from the old Low German word for " river.

The county's territory was situated along the upper Váh river between the High Tatras and the Low Tatras.

During the Roman occupation, a Roman road followed the course of the river Lune, linking the forts at Low Borrow Bridge ( near Tebay ) and Over Burrow ( south of Kirkby Lonsdale ).

Navigable up to the fall line at Cheraw, the river was an important trade route through the Low Country from colonial times.

In May 1706, Villeroi, pressured by King Louis XIV to atone for France's earlier defeats, initiated an offensive in the Low Countries by crossing the Dyle river.

File: Dolores River at Low Water. jpg | The Dolores river at low water, ~ 250 cfs

Low elevation and frequent rainfall, as well as the town's situation on the banks of a river, means that the area is prone to flooding.

The river then passes the remnants of a Roman fort near Low Borrowbridge at the foot of Borrowdale, and flows through south Cumbria, finally meeting the Irish Sea at Plover Scar near Lancaster, after a total journey of about 44 miles ( 71 km ).

The Russian guests had come to visit the Low Walker yard and have a quick tour of the river.

The river has played an important part in the industrial history of Sheffield, as it descends through in the between Low Bradfield and the Don, and this has enabled many mills, forges and cutlers wheels to be powered by its waters.

The Vechte ( in German and in Low Saxon ) or Vecht ( in Dutch ), often called Overijsselse Vecht in the Netherlands to avoid confusion with its Utrecht counterpart, is a river in Germany and the Netherlands.

Low Creek borders the park to the east which them flows south to join Moore River.

Its two sources, the Biely Váh ( White Váh ) and the Čierny Váh ( Black Váh ), are located in the High Tatras and Low Tatra mountains, respectively, and it flows over northern and western Slovakia and finally feeds into the Danube near Komárno.

It flows from its source located in the Low Tatra mountains ( under Kráľova hoľa ) through central and southern Slovakia, pouring into the Danube near Štúrovo and Esztergom.

The Susitna River heads at Susitna Glacier, in Alaska Range, flows southwest to Cook Inlet, west of Anchorage, Alaska Cook Inlet Low.

Low specialized in experimental and theoretical research in the fields of heat transfer, boundary layer flows, and internal aerodynamics.

It then flows south south west through woodland to the confluence with Dundale Beck where it turns north west through Low Easby and Little Ayton, before turning west and then south west at Great Ayton.

The River Leven, a tributary of the River Tees, flows through the village and links its two centres, High Green and Low Green.

* Low Impact Hydropower ( small-run-of-the-river facilities, not ones that require large dams and reservoirs, or affecting river flows adversely.

Low flows are caused by scarcity of rainfall outside the summer Monsoon, and sometimes by failure of this monsoon to develop to its normal extent.

In places Rotherhithe Street was at one time or another called Jamaica Street, Lavender Street, Low Queen Street, Queen Street, Redriff Wall, Redriff, Rotherhithe Wall, Shipwright Street and Trinity Street.

Trinity is considered " Low Church ", while continuing to be a Broad Church parish.

Its best-known Low Church parish is Trinity Church in Boston's Copley Square.

The current lighthouse was completed in 1841 ( at which time it was known as " St. Ann's Low Light ") and commissioned by John Knott, senior lighthouse keeper with Trinity House.

The Elbe (; ; Low German: Elv ) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe.

The Low Countries () are the historical lands around the low-lying delta of the Rhine, Scheldt, and Meuse rivers, including the modern countries of Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and parts of northern France and western Germany.

Economic expansion was also a central goal of the government: communications were improved with the completion of the Saint-Quentin canal ( linking the Oise and Somme rivers ) in 1738, later extended to the Escaut River and the Low Countries and the systematic building of a national road network.

Together these distinct varieties, now often combined with the Kleve dialects ( Kleverländisch ) as Meuse-Rhenish (' Rheinmaasländisch '), belong to the greater Low Franconian area between the rivers Meuse and Rhine ( A. Welschen 2002 ).

Holstein () ( Northern Low Saxon: Holsteen,, Latin and historical ) is the region between the rivers Elbe and Eider.

Low value goods are transported on rivers and canals worldwide, since slow speed barge traffic offers the lowest possible cost per ton mile and the capital cost per ton carried is also quite low compared to other modes of transport

The Renaissance changed this: beginning in 1475, the cultural obstinacy of the northern European merchant class with regard to sail arrangements began to crack, and within a hundred years the fore-and-aft rig was in common use on rivers and in estuaries in Britain, northern France, and the Low Countries, though the square rig remained standard for the harsher conditions of the open North Sea as well as for trans-Atlantic sailing.

Architecture is rendered with great care and detail, and the settings of parterres and radiating avenues driven through woods or planted across fields, garden paths gates and toolsheds are illustrated with meticulous detail, and amusingly staffed with figures and horses, coaches pulling into forecourts, water-craft on rivers, filled with the delight native to the Low Countries ' traditions.

Low water levels in the rivers, lack of rain, increasing human population and a break-up of the traditional tribal arrangements for sharing the resources of the delta are all factors that may contribute to severely damaging the ecosystem.

It is possible to reduce pollution of streams and rivers by using Low Impact Development ( LID ) methods in construction projects.

As with the majority of hills, rivers and other natural features in this area, the names of the River Tame and Werneth Low are of Celtic origin.