* North Saharan steppe and woodlands

The North Saharan steppe and woodlands receives more regular winter rainfall than the Sahara desert ecoregion.

This trade called the Arab slave trade provided North Africa and Saharan Africa with slave labor.

The barn owls are a wide ranging family, although they are absent from northern North America, Saharan Africa and large areas of Asia.

** North Saharan steppe and woodlands ( Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco Tunisia, Western Sahara )

They are the principal inhabitants of the Saharan interior of North Africa.

OPIC supports U. S. foreign policy objectives by encouraging development in regions that have experienced instability or conflict, yet offer promising growth opportunities, such as the Middle East and North Africa, sub ‐ Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia.

Neolithic civilization ( marked by animal domestication and subsistence agriculture ) developed in the Saharan and Mediterranean North Africa after the Levante between 6000 and 2000 BCE.

Some parts of North Africa began to participate in the Neolithic revolution in the 6th millennium BC, just before Saharan desertification.

* North Saharan steppe and woodlands: This ecoregion lies along the northern edge of the Sahara, next to the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub ecoregions of the Mediterranean Maghreb and Cyrenaica.

Its population is a mixture of Moroccans from the North as well as Sahrawis from Southern Saharan Morocco and natives of Western Sahara ( who make up a fifth of the population ).

Common names of this species include Saharan horned viper, horned desert viper, Sahara horned viper, desert horned viper, North African horned viper, African desert horned viper, greater cerastes, asp and horned viper.

It is located at 35. 14 ° North, 5. 83 ° East, at the southern edge of the Saharan Atlas between the provinces of Batna and Biskra.

North Africa had declined in both political and economic importance, while the Saharan crossing remained long and treacherous.

* Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem, " Mauritania: A Saharan Frontier State ", Journal of North Africa Studies, Vol.

Thus, North Africa, along the Mediterranean from Morocco to Egypt has different food habits than Saharan Africans who consume subsistence diet.

It caused massive dislocation of the Sahelian states of the time, but also disrupted the Trans Saharan trade routes to North Africa and Europe.

From the late 11th century to the mid-12th century the Taifa kingdoms were united under the Almoravids ( of Saharan origin ), and after the collapse of the Almoravid empire, in 1151 the town was absorbed by the Almohad empire ( of North African origin ).

For example, a temperate grassland or shrubland biome is known commonly as steppe in central Asia, prairie in North America, and pampas in South America.

The Channeled Scablands in Southern British Columbia and Washington State is an example of a steppe region in North America outside of the Great Plains.

It is similar to the Eurasian steppe, the North American Great Plains or the Argentine Pampas.

The North China Plain is the area surrounding the lower Yellow River and its Tributaries, as well as the empty steppe to the North.

The Bulgars are first mentioned in the 4th century in the vicinity of the North Caucasian steppe, although scholars speculate that their history may go back to the Central Asian nomadic confederations.

Howling Arctic winds that produced coastal wind chills as low as and the burany, or blinding snowstorms of the steppe, were climatic manifestations of the USSR's close proximity to the North Pole and remoteness from oceans that tended to moderate the climate.

Veld can be loosely compared to the Australian terms " outback " or " bush ", to " the prairie " of North America, to the " pampas " lowlands of South America, or to the steppe of Central Asia.

This species is a large, broad-winged hawk of the open, arid grasslands, prairie and shrub steppe country ; it is endemic to the interior parts of North America.

The city actually lies on the border between steppe and the North China Plain, and as such, it has a four-season, monsoon-influenced climate, classified as a semi-arid climate ( Köppen BSk ).

The Forecaucasus steppe area is often also encompassed under the notion of " North Caucasus ", thus the northern boundary of the geographical region is generally considered to be the Kuma-Manych Depression.

Artemisia tridentata (" big sagebrush " or " sagebrush ") is an aromatic shrub from the family Asteraceae, which grows in arid and semi-arid conditions, throughout a range of cold desert, steppe, and mountain habitats in the Intermountain West of North America.

The steppe bison or steppe wisent ( Bison priscus ) was a bison found on steppes throughout Europe, Central Asia, Beringia, and North America during the Quaternary.

The Cimmerians, ancient equestrian nomads who bred cattle, occupied the North Pontic steppe zone including Prydniprovye ; their culture and civilization flourished between about 1000 and 800 BC The Cimmerians were driven out by the nomadic Scythians ( 700 BC ), who in turn were overcome by the Sarmatians from the East ( 200 BC ).

This expanse, together with the alluvial zone of the Kuban in the North Caucasus, constituted the fertile ` grain-surplus ' steppe areas of cereal production.

From the 5th to 8th century this was the kingdom of the Hunugur / Onogur / Unogur Crimean Huns, a horde of equestrian nomads in the North Eurasian steppe east of the Don River ( Russia ) who became known as Utigur Bulgars under Sandilch after they were annexed by the Onoq.

La wilaya connaît un déséquilibre en matière de répartition of populations created by the movement of people to the central high plains, on along the highways and urban centers, because of natural constraints related to the nature and mountain steppe of North and South zones.

Circa 1557 the Nogay nureddin Kazy Mirza quarreled with Ismael Beg and founded the Lesser Nogai Horde on the steppe of the North Caucasus.

Category: Indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands

Randolph County is located in the Piedmont section of central North Carolina, a region of gently rolling hills and woodlands.

A coureur des bois () or coureur de bois (), woodlands runner ; plural: coureurs de bois ) was an independent entrepreneurial French-Canadian woodsman who traveled in New France and the interior of North America.

In most of North America it favors deciduous forest and mixed woodlands.

Number one in Canada in terms of total certified woodlands, Abitibi-Consolidated was also one of the largest recyclers of newspapers and magazines, serving 21 metropolitan areas in North America and the United Kingdom.

Although more abundant in montane and northern coniferous woodlands such as the Sierra Nevada and the Cascade Range in northwestern North America, Gyromitra esculenta is found widely across the continent, as far south as Mexico.

In eastern North America, Chipping Sparrows breed in woodlands, farmlands, and suburban and urban districts.

Category: Indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands

The California chaparral and woodlands is a terrestrial ecoregion of lower northern, central, and southern California ( United States ) and northwestern Baja California ( Mexico ), located on the west coast of North America.

The Mediterranean woodlands and forests ecoregion of North Africa, in Morocco and Algeria

Category: Indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands

Category: Indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands

The Western Tiger Swallowtail, Papilio rutulus, is a common swallowtail butterfly of western North America, frequently seen in urban parks and gardens as well as in rural woodlands and riparian areas.

At 200 North the road becomes a two – lane rural highway, passing farmland and woodlands.

Their breeding habitat is shrubby areas and open woodlands in western North America.

Hyracotherium ( ; " hyrax-like beast "), also known as Eohippus or the dawn horse, is an extinct genus of very small ( about 60 cm in length ) perissodactyl ungulates that lived in the woodlands of the northern hemisphere, with species ranging throughout Asia, Europe, and North America during the early Tertiary Period and the early to mid Eocene Epoch, about 55 — 45 million years ago with the earliest fossil specimen found at the Tsagan Khushu Quarry 1 site, Mongolia averaging about 60 cm in length and weighing around 15 – 16 kg ( 36 lbs ).

Throughout its range, this species is generally considered a butterfly of woodlands, though it may occasionally be found in drier areas such as the deserts of western North America.

The village is surrounded by the rolling chalk hillsides and woodlands of the North Downs.