Extending entirely across the state of Alabama for about south of its northern boundary, and in the middle stretching farther south, is the Cumberland Plateau, or Tennessee Valley region, broken into broad tablelands by the dissection of rivers.

Adjoining the Cumberland Plateau region on the southeast is the Appalachian Valley ( locally known as Coosa Valley ) region, which is the southern extremity of the Appalachian Mountains, and occupies an area within the state of about.

** The Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee and Kentucky

Geographically and geologically, Virginia is divided into five regions from east to west: Tidewater, Piedmont, Blue Ridge Mountains, Ridge and Valley, and Cumberland Plateau.

The Cumberland Plateau and the Cumberland Mountains are in the south-west corner of Virginia, below the Allegheny Plateau.

Limey shale overlaid by limestone, Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee

In 1805, the Cherokee ceded their lands between the Cumberland and Duck rivers ( i. e. the Cumberland Plateau ) to Tennessee.

By that time, railroads were proving a better method of transportation, and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was being built west from Baltimore to Cumberland, mostly along the Potomac River, then by a more direct route than the National Road across the Allegheny Plateau of West Virginia ( then Virginia ) to Wheeling.

The topography in the southern and eastern portions of the county is dominated by the dissected remnants of the Cumberland Plateau, such as Keel Mountain, Monte Sano Mountain and Green Mountain.

In 1840, White County became a destination for people from all over the country when Christopher Haufmann erected a large hotel on Bon Air Mountain, part of the Cumberland Plateau.

Sunset over White County, viewed from US-70 at the edge of the Cumberland Plateau

* Cumberland Plateau

It is an erosional remnant of the nearby Cumberland Plateau.

The land west of the Sequatchie Valley is known as the Cumberland Plateau and the land to the east of the Sequatchie Valley is known as Walden Ridge.

Scott County, a part of the Cumberland Plateau, includes the majority of the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area.

Wonder Cave is located on the north side of Layne's Cove at the foot of the Cumberland Plateau.

It has a varied geography, extending from the southeast corner of the Nashville Basin over the Highland Rim and up onto the Cumberland Plateau, for a difference in elevation of about.

Valley of the Three Forks near Pall Mall, with the Cumberland Plateau dominating the horizon

Whitley County is located within the Cumberland Plateau of southeastern Kentucky, which is greatly overlapped by the broad Eastern Coal Field region of the state.

* Cumberland Plateau

** Cumberland Valley AVA, wine region

Lou later moved to Parramatta region in western Sydney, and played for Cumberland.

The second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson, William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, Cumberland — part of the scenic region in northwest England, the Lake District.

The conquest of Cumberland was the beginning of a long war between Scotland and England which saw the region change hands a number of times and centred around Carlisle, it having become a major stronghold with the construction of the castle.

McCreary and the southern reaches of Pulaski County represent the beginnings of the Cumberland Plateau and the Eastern Kentucky Coal Field region.

The town lies in a narrow valley on Big Wills Creek in the Cumberland Plateau region immediately west of Lookout Mountain, with Sand Mountain somewhat more removed to the west.

The region is part of the Cumberland Plateau, with shallow but deeply incised stream valleys dissecting sedimentary rock, including significant seams of bituminous coal.

Also is the Gateway to Lake Cumberland one of the largest man made lakes in the region, created by Wolf Creek Dam.

Cumberland Head is a census-designated place and region of the Town of Plattsburgh in Clinton County, New York, United States.

Carlisle is located within the Cumberland Valley, a highly productive agricultural region.

It is in a rich agricultural region known as the Cumberland Valley, a broad zone between South Mountain and the ridge-and-valley Appalachians.

The city is situated in Powell Valley, where the Appalachian Ridge-and-Valley province gives way to the Cumberland Plateau region.

Arthur, who was attempting to establish a large-scale iron production operation in the Cumberland Gap region, founded the nearby cities of Middlesboro, Kentucky and Harrogate, Tennessee and the nearby community of Arthur.

In the late 1880s, an abundance of financial capital, the popularity of social theories regarding planned cities, and a thriving coal mining industry in East Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau region led to the establishment of a number of company towns throughout the Upper Tennessee Valley, most of which were funded by investors from the northeast or Knoxville.

Wartburg was founded in the 1840s by George Gerding, a land speculator who bought up large tracts of land in what is now Morgan County with plans to establish a series of German colonies in the Cumberland region.

The arrival of the railroad in 1880 expanded logging and coal mining operations in the Cumberland region, moving Morgan County away from an economy based on subsistence agriculture to a wage-based economy.

Although this is a significant number for the region, this is by far the lowest in the Upper Cumberland area.

Union general John T. Wilder, who in the 1850s had managed a foundry in Indiana, noted the iron ore and coal deposits of the Cumberland Plateau region while operating in the area during the Civil War.

The road, which roughly paralleled what is now U. S. 70, would prove influential in the early settlement of the Cumberland region.

By that date he had been on a tour to the north-west, which went via the Welsh marches to Cheshire, Lancashire and Cumberland ; while other itineraries took him to the west Midlands, the north-east ( reaching Yorkshire and County Durham ), and the Bristol region.

* 1746 – The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland.

Banquo's loyalty to Macbeth, rather than Malcolm, after Duncan's death makes him a passive accomplice in the coup: Malcolm, as Prince of Cumberland, is the rightful heir to the throne and Macbeth a usurper.

Daniel Amneus, however, argues that when Ross and Angus bring King Duncan's praise, and the news that Macbeth has been granted the title of Thane of Cawdor, the " greater honor " he ascribes to Macbeth is actually his title as Prince of Cumberland.

If Macbeth, rather than Malcolm, is Prince of Cumberland then Macbeth would be next in line to the throne and no coup would be needed, effectively removing this ambiguity from Banquo's character.

Cumberland is one of the historic counties of England.

Lord Edgecumbe recommended the Duke of Devonshire and Duke of Grafton to sit for him, and other peers soon followed, including the Duke of Cumberland, third son of George II, in whose portrait, according to Nicholas Penny " bulk is brilliantly converted into power ".

* 1847 – Cumberland School of Law is founded in Lebanon, Tennessee, United States, one of only 15 law schools to exist in the United States at the end of 1847.

The population is 633 ( all on Robinson Crusoe ); of those 598 reside in the capital, San Juan Bautista, on Cumberland Bay on the north coast of the island ( 2002 census ).

* There is a historic stone lighthouse located on Cumberland Head, which is privately owned.

The Cumberland Bay State Park is located on Cumberland Head, with a campground, city beach, and sports fields.

* 1780 – The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in early Tennessee.

* 1806 – Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.

It is located on the Cumberland River in the north-central part of the state.

Today, the city along the Cumberland River is a crossroads of American culture, and one of the fastest-growing areas of the Upland South.

" Parkin observes that much of Cumberland's material " is derived from Roman Stoicism, particularly from the work of Cicero, as " Cumberland deliberately cast his engagement with Hobbes in the mould of Cicero's debate between the Stoics, who believed that nature could provide an objective morality, and Epicureans, who argued that morality was human, conventional and self-interested.

" Cumberland emphasizes that desiring the well-being of our fellow humans is essential to the " pursuit of our own Happiness.

The very first Youth Triennium was held in 1980 at Indiana University and the conference for teens is an effort of the Presbyterian Church ( U. S. A .), the largest Presbyterian denomination in the nation ; Cumberland Presbyterian Church ; and Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America, the first African American denomination to embrace Presbyterianism in the reformed tradition.

" As of 2 012 it is in dialog with the Episcopal Church, the Moravian Church, the Korean American Presbyterian Church, the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America, and the U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.