Eastern Anatolia roughly coincides with the western half of the Armenian Highland.

His father declared him an Augustus and co-ruler for the Eastern half of the Empire in January, 383.

Nicaragua's legal system also is a mixture of the English Common Law and the Civil Law through the influence of British administration of the Eastern half of the country from the mid-17th century until about 1905, the William Walker period from about 1855 through 1857, USA interventions / occupations during the period from 1909 to 1933, the influence of USA institutions during the Somoza family administrations ( 1933 through 1979 ) and the considerable importation between 1979 and the present of USA culture and institutions.

The last true Roman Emperor in the West was unseated in 476, by which time it had been completely overrun by Germanic nations ; however, the Eastern half, known as the Byzantine Empire, lasted much longer, persevering in one form or another until 1453.

When the Lord Curzon ( Viceroy 1899-1905 ) took control of higher education and then split the large province of Bengal into a largely Hindu western half and " Eastern Bengal and Assam ," a largely Muslim eastern half.

The 1975-90 Lebanese civil war seriously damaged Lebanon's economic infrastructure, cut national output by half, and had major consequences for Lebanon's position as a Middle Eastern entrepot and banking hub.

In the first half of 2005, he stayed at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D. C., implementing a research project: “ Status of the new Poland in the Eastern Europe ’ s space ”.

The southern half of this plateau is grassland within the Eastern Miombo woodlands ecoregion, the majority of which is covered by the huge Selous National Park.

Eastern Hemisphere in early half of 11th century.

Such blended marriages-free people marrying enslaved people – were not uncommon on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where by this time, half the black population was free.

Including all the autocephalous churches under its supervision, its adherents number over 150 million worldwide — about half of the 300 million estimated adherents of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Animalistic guardian spirits of day and night wearing Han Chinese clothing | Chinese robes, Han Dynasty Chinese paintings | paintings on ceramic tile ; Michael Loewe writes that the Hybrid ( mythology ) | hybrid of man and beast in art and religious beliefs predated the Han and remained popular during the first half of Western Han and the Eastern Han.

The small landowner-cultivators formed the majority of the Han tax base ; this revenue was threatened during the latter half of Eastern Han when many peasants fell into debt and were forced to work as farming tenants for wealthy landlords.

The other half, Eastern in two senses, is both wider and higher than the nave.

In the latter half of the century, immigrants from Russia, Eastern Europe and Italy ; and African Americans from the southern U. S. settled in the city.

For buried structures such as pipe, this type of attack is much rarer especially in the Eastern half of the United States.

Comprising half of the Far Eastern Federal District, it is the largest subnational governing body by area in the world at and the eighth largest territory in the world, if the federal subjects of Russia were compared with other countries.

For example, in the southern half of the highway, the " inner ring " is designated as the Périphérique Ouest (" Western Ring ") as traffic flows westbound whereas the " outer ring " is designated as the Périphérique Est (" Eastern Ring ") as traffic flows eastbound.

The Northern Wei reunified northern China in 440, but split in half in 534, with Hebei coming under the eastern half ( first the Eastern Wei ; then the Northern Qi ), which had its capital at Ye ( 鄴 ), near modern Linzhang, Hebei.

However, they stumbled through the first half of the season and couldn't quite recover, finishing 35 – 47, good for 3rd in the Atlantic Division, and 9th in the Eastern Conference ( tied with Indiana ).

The Western Hemisphere or western hemisphere is mainly used as a geographical term for the half of the Earth that lies west of the IERS Reference Meridian ( which crosses Greenwich, London, United Kingdom ) and east of the Antimeridian, the other half being called the Eastern Hemisphere.

He was born of Dacian peasant stock to the half sister of the emperor Galerius near their family lands around Felix Romuliana ; a rural area then in the Danubian region of Moesia, now Eastern Serbia.

A valid American driving license is accepted in all countries except Portugal, Spain, Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe.

The jail sentence is to begin the day after Sarkees graduates from Eastern High School in June.

`` They are determined '', Montgomery writes, `` not to be surprised again, and now insist on a state of readiness for war which is not only unnecessary, but also creates nervousness among other nations in the Western Alliance -- not to mention such great suspicions among the nations of the Eastern bloc that any progress towards peaceful coexistence or disarmament is not possible ''.

There is no agreement on when and where this Urheimat existed, though the language is generally believed to have originated somewhere in or near the region stretching from the Levant / Near East to the area between the Eastern Sahara and the Horn of Africa, including Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan.

Most alphabetic scripts of India and Eastern Asia are descended from the Brahmi script, which is often believed to be a descendant of Aramaic.

Eastern Anatolia, where the Pontus and Taurus mountain ranges converge, is rugged country with higher elevations, a more severe climate, and greater precipitation than are found on the Anatolian Plateau.

Eastern Anatolia, along side Mesopotamia and the Levant, is also a heart region for the Neolithic revolution, one of the earliest areas in which humans domesticated plants and animals.

With a membership currently estimated at over 85 million members worldwide, the Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion in the world, after the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches.

The Aramaic alphabet is historically significant, since virtually all modern Middle Eastern writing systems use a script that can be traced back to it, as well as numerous non-Chinese writing systems of Central and East Asia.

** This is, on the whole, an informed and good account of the life and accomplishments of one of the greatest influences on the development of thought both Eastern and Western.

In the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, the Abbot is referred to as the Hegumen.

Arianism is defined as those teachings attributed to Arius which are in opposition to mainstream Trinitarian Christological doctrine, as determined by the first two Ecumenical Councils and currently maintained by the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Churches, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, and most Reformation Protestant Churches.

Ousia is essence or being, in Eastern Christianity, and is the aspect of God that is completely incomprehensible to mankind and human perception.

There is also an abundance of cypress, hickory, oak, populus, and Eastern Redcedar trees.

The state is sectioned into three fishing zones, Eastern, Central and Western with each fisher required a zone allocated licence.

The usual Eastern arrangement is exemplified in the plan of the convent of the Great Lavra, Mount Athos.

) However, Ambrosian chant was named in his honor due to his contributions to the music of the Church ; he is credited with introducing hymnody from the Eastern Church into the West.

Saint Alcuin ( Alcuin of York ) is considered as a saint by all the main branches of Christianity: Roman Catholic, Anglican and Eastern Orthodox Churches.

* 1989 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister in Central and Eastern Europe.

This is not to be confused with what the Arabs call the " Hindi numerals ", namely the Eastern Arabic numerals (---------) used in the Middle East, or any of the numerals currently used in Indian languages ( e. g. Devanagari: ).