The highest mountains of the West Indies are in this range: Pico Duarte, 3, 098 m, and others above 3, 000 m. Near the center of the island, this range turns southward and is called Sierra de Ocoa, finishing near the city of Azua de Compostela, on the Caribbean coast.

Near Downtown, the urban core of the city has a variety of neighborhoods, including historic Westport, Ivanhoe, Hyde Park, Squire Park, the Crossroads Arts District, 18th and Vine Historic District, Pendleton Heights, Quality Hill, the West Bottoms, and the River Market.

In the ancient Near East, each city had a local patron deity, such as Shamash at Larsa or Sin at Ur.

Near the end of World War II, the city of about 340, 000 became capital of the Province of Magdeburg.

* 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain – Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.

Near the south end of the eastern city wall.

Near the old Forbes Field where he began his pro career the city of Pittsburgh has renamed a street in his honor.

Near the city of Zaragoza Charlemagne received the homage of Sulayman al-Arabi.

Near the southern entrance to the city lies a ' rubbish mountain ' called the Makab, a 600, 000 cubic meter heap that reaches the height of a four-storey building.

The city, along with the rest of southern Mesopotamia and much of the Near East, Asia Minor, North Africa and southern Caucasus, fell to the north Mesopotamian Assyrian Empire from the 10th to late 7th centuries BC.

Near the city of Nitra is Sony's Japanese factory.

* November 24 – American Civil War – Battle of Lookout Mountain: Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.

He came under criticism for focusing city resources on the development of businesses downtown, the North, Near South, and Near West Sides, while neglecting neighborhoods in the other areas of the city ; in particular the needs of low-income residents.

Near the modern city of Veria, Perdiccas I ( or, more likely, his son, Argaeus I ) built his capital, Aigai ( modern Vergina ).

Near Mahabaleshwar, at the extreme point of Wai Tulka in the city of Satara in Maharashra

Near the Monastery of St. Ursus, a Franciscan monastery was built, and after 1280 it formed the northern city wall on the eastern part of the city.

The custom of purifying or consecrating a destroyed city with salt and cursing anyone who dared to rebuild it was widespread in the ancient Near East, but historical accounts are unclear as to what the sowing of salt meant in that process.

Near the end of Resident Evil, the protagonist Alice walks outside of her quarantine into a ravaged city street jammed with traffic.

Near the city center, its elevation is above sea level.

Near Antwerp, the largest city on its banks, the Scheldt flows west into the Netherlands towards the North Sea.

Near at hand, they forced the city of Mantinea in Arcadia, to disband into its constituent villages.

During this period Europe, North Africa and the Near East fell under increasing domination by the Roman Empire, which continued expanding, most notably conquering Britain under the emperor Claudius ( 43 ).

The position of emperor was increasingly influenced by Near Eastern concepts of kingship.

Near the end of Emperor Wu's reign, there was an incident when magicians claimed that an aura of an emperor was appearing from Chang ' an prisons.

Near to the palace was the Gujri Mahal built by the emperor for his wife Gujri.

Near this, at Heilbronn, the emperor Alexander established his headquarters on June 4.

* Christopher Lillington-Martin, " Archaeological and Ancient Literary Evidence for a Battle near Dara Gap, Turkey, AD 530: Topography, Texts & Trenches ", British Archaeological Reports ( BAR ) – S1717, 2007 The Late Roman Army in the Near East from Diocletian to the Arab Conquest Proceedings of a colloquium held at Potenza, Acerenza and Matera, Italy ( May 2005 ) edited by Ariel S. Lewin and Pietrina Pellegrini with the aid of Zbigniew T. Fiema and Sylvain Janniard.

Muwaffaq al-Din Muhammad ' Abd al-Latif ibn Yusuf al-Baghdadi (; 1162 – 1231 ), more commonly known as ' Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi or ' Abdallatif al-Baghdadi (), born in Baghdad, Iraq, was a celebrated physician, historian, Egyptologist and traveller, and one of the most voluminous writers of the Near East in his time.

* 1934 – Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne ; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.

* May 28 – Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne, becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy.

* American singer / songwriter Holly Near was born in Ukiah.

Ali Ahmad Jalali ( born 1940 ) is an Afghan American and a Distinguished Professor at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies of the United States ' National Defense University.

Lawrence E. " Larry " Stager ( born January 5, 1943 ) is Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University and is Director of the Harvard Semitic Museum.

He was born in Shind Village Near Bhor.

Jean Chardin ( 16 November 1643 – 5 January 1713 ), born Jean-Baptiste Chardin, and also known as Sir John Chardin, was a French jeweller and traveller whose ten-volume book The Travels of Sir John Chardin is regarded as one of the finest works of early Western scholarship on Persia and the Near East.

John Basil Hennessy AO ( born 10 February 1925 ), is an Australian archaeologist of the Ancient Near East and Emeritus Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Sydney.

Holly Near ( born June 6, 1949 in Ukiah, California ) is an American singer-songwriter, actor, teacher, and activist for social change.

Martin Gardiner Bernal ( born March 1937 ) is a Professor Emeritus of Government and Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University.

Peter Hansen ( born June 2, 1941 in Aalborg ), a Danish national, was Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East ( UNRWA ) from 1996-2005.

Alfred Sisley, Lane Near a Small Town ( c. 1864 ), one of the earliest extant paintings by Sisley, a French born British national Impressionist painter, who lived and worked in France.

Charles David Welch ( born 1953 ) is an American diplomat who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs in the United States Department of State from 2005 through 2008.

Zainab Bahrani () ( born 1962 ) is an Iraqi professor of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology at Columbia University.

Bentley Layton ( born 1941 ), is Professor of Religious Studies ( Ancient Christianity ) and Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations ( Coptic ) at Yale University ( since 1983 ).

John Van Seters ( born Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 2 May 1935 ) is a scholar of the Hebrew Bible ( Old Testament ) and the Ancient Near East.

* December 18-Dorothy Garrod, English Palaeolithic archaeologist of the Near East ( born 1892 ).

* 17 November-Max von Oppenheim, German Near Eastern archaeologist ( born 1860 ).

* September 12: John Garstang, English archaeologist of the Near East ( in Beirut ) ( born 1876 ).

* Mark R. Cohen ( born 1943 ), professor of Near Eastern Studies