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 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.

Near the end of the work, Renaud is forced to cede Bayard to Charlemagne who, as punishment for the horse's exploits, has a large stone tied to Bayard's neck and the horse pushed into the river ; Bayard however smashes the stone with his hooves and escapes to live forever more in the woods.

Near the end of his life, he returned to live performance as a frontman and produced two albums returning to his blues roots, which were critically well received and award-winning.

Near Mezzouna, his vehicle was part of a column strafed by Kittyhawk ( P-40 ) fighter bombers of the Desert Air Force – most likely from No. 3 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force – and he received severe, multiple wounds.

The 2nd century writer Lucian gave an account of the Greek Deucalion in De Dea Syria that seems to refer more to the Near Eastern flood legends: in his version, Deucalion ( whom he also calls Sisythus ) took his children, their wives, and pairs of animals with him on the ark, and later built a great temple in Manbij ( northern Syria ), on the site of the chasm that received all the waters ; he further describes how pilgrims brought vessels of sea water to this place twice a year, from as far as Arabia and Mesopotamia, to commemorate this event.

Near the old fortress town of Monterrey, General Pedro de Ampudia received orders from Antonio López de Santa Anna to retreat further to the city of Saltillo, where Ampudia was to establish a defensive line.

Near the end of his first year he received a telegram informing him that his mother had died from asthma.

Near midnight, the men of the Australian Division received this blunt message from Birdwood: " Must organise entrenchments and hold on with all your might.

Near the end of his graduate study, Kimura gave a paper at the 1955 Cold Spring Harbor Symposium ; though few were able to understand it ( both because of mathematical complexity and Kimura's English pronunciation ) it received strong praise from Wright and later J. B. S.

Near the same time, Ross received word that his first child had died, possibly stillborn.

NEKAAL received a $ 56, 060 grant from NASA's Near Earth Objects ( NEO ) tracking program to acquire the Pitt telescope from Lindley Hall, Kansas University.

Near the end of his life, he received recognition for his lifetime's work, when he was appointed to the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian award.

Near the end of his career he received the Copley Medal, the most prestigious honorary award in British science.

Born in Edenwold, Saskatchewan, Wagner received a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Divinities from the University of Saskatchewan in 1958, a Master of Arts in 1960 and Ph. D. in Near Eastern Studies in 1965 from the University of Toronto.

Near the end of the campaign, James Tien, the honorary chairman of the Liberal Party states that members of the election committee received phone calls from the Liaison Office demanding them to vote for Leung.

Near the end of the most productive phase of his career, Baker received a knighthood, was elected to the Royal Academy, had conferred on him the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1927, and received honorary degrees from Witwatersrand and Oxford Universities.

He received his B. A., M. A., and Ph. D. degrees from the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University.

A second single, " Whenever You're Near Me ", received little attention, and was not even correctly promoted on the Arista website ( it was listed as " Whenever You Need Me "; despite fan efforts to get the mistake corrected ).

Educated at the University of London, Gaster received an undergraduate degree in classics in 1928 and a master's degree in Near Eastern archaeology in 1936.

Near the end of the 13th century, he received Uesugi domain in Tango province, and he adopted the name of " Uesugi " after arriving and establishing himself.

* received an MA in political science from Georgetown University in 1997 after graduating with a BA in history and Near Eastern studies from the University of California Los Angeles, and

magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1964, spent two years at Yale Divinity School, and in 1971 received his PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Literature from Harvard University, on meter in Hebrew Poetry.