The Ainu were distributed in the northern and central islands of Japan, from Sakhalin island in the north to the Kuril islands and the island of Hokkaidō and Northern Honshū, although some investigators place their former range as throughout Honshū and as far north as the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula in what is now Cape Lopatka.

It is the majority language of the western half of South Africa — the provinces of the Northern Cape and Western Cape — and the primary language of the coloured and white communities.

By 1000AD the Bantu colonization of the eastern half of South Africa had been completed ( but not Western Cape and Northern Cape, which are believed to have been inhabited by Khoisan people until Dutch colonisation ).

Two territorial areas are being developed as settlement exclusively for Boer / Afrikaners, Orania in the Northern Cape and Kleinfontein near Pretoria.

: Northern Cape Verde Islands.

As of 8 April 2010, the Ministry of Health South Africa had reported 87 human cases infected with Rift Valley fever ( RVF ), including two deaths in Free State, Eastern Cape and Northern Cape provinces.

An ongoing outbreak of Rift Valley fever virus ( RVFV ) infection is affecting sheep, goats, cattle and wildlife on farms within Free State, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Western Cape, Mpumalanga, North West, and Gauteng provinces.

* July – Scottish missionary David Livingstone arrives at Kuruman in the Northern Cape, his first posting in Africa.

* Northern Cape province, South Africa, in line with reference to the former Cape Province as simply The Province, particularly in rugby union.

Since 1994, it has been broken up into three smaller provinces: the Western Cape, Eastern Cape and Northern Cape, plus parts of the province were absorbed into the North West.

The Pribilof Islands ( formerly the Northern Fur Seal Islands ) are a group of four volcanic islands off the coast of mainland Alaska, in the Bering Sea, about north of Unalaska and 200 miles southwest of Cape Newenham.

The Cape Province was broken up into three smaller provinces: the Western Cape, Eastern Cape and Northern Cape.

North of Frederick Sound to Cape Spencer, and including Glacier Bay and the Lynn Canal, are the Northern Tlingit, who occupy the warmest and richest of the Sitka Spruce and Western Hemlock forest.

* Richmond, Northern Cape

The nine churches which inaugurated CUIC in 2002 were joined by the Moravian Church, Northern Province.

* Moravian Church Northern Province

The prehistoric Beifudi site near Yixian in Hebei Province, China, contains relics of a culture contemporaneous with the Cishan and Xinglongwa cultures of about 7000 – 8000 BC, neolithic cultures east of the Taihang Mountains, filling in an archaeological gap between the two Northern Chinese cultures.

Born in the western Afghan city of Herat, he rose to become a powerful rebel commander during in the Soviet War in Afghanistan, and then a key member of the Northern Alliance until finally becoming the Governor of Herat Province.

After the Northern Frontier District ( North Eastern Province ) was handed over to Kenyan nationalists at the end of British colonial rule in Kenya, Somalis in the region fought the Shifta War against Kenyan troops to join their kin in the Somali Republic to the north.

He was born at Lubwa Mission in Chinsali, Northern Province of Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia.

In July 1961 Kaunda organized a civil disobedience campaign in Northern Province, the so called Cha-cha-cha campaign, which consisted largely of arson and obstructing significant roads.

The prehistoric Beifudi site near Yixian in Hebei Province, China, contains relics of a culture contemporaneous with the Cishan and Xinglongwa cultures of about 5000 – 6000 BC, neolithic cultures east of the Taihang Mountains, filling in an archaeological gap between the two Northern Chinese cultures.

The Province of Canada also began creating districts in sparsely populated Northern Ontario with the establishment of Algoma District and Nipissing District in 1858.

Between 1988 and 2006, the Northern and Eastern provinces were temporarily merged to form the North-East Province.

4 Brigade, at Teko Barracks, Makeni, which covers the Northern Province ( including 2nd Battalion RSLAF at Teko Barracks, Makeni, as of 2003 ), and 5 Brigade, which covers the Southern Province from headquarters at Gondama Barracks, Bo.

In accordance with an informal plebiscite demonstrating the overwhelming desire of the region's population to join the newly-formed Somali Republic, Led by the Northern Province People's Progressive Party ( NPPPP ), Somalis in the NFD vigorously sought union with the Somali Republic to the north, and Somalia similarly urged self-determination for the Cushitic peoples of the area.

Many of the stories take place in the semiarid landscapes of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico, so a popular setting was the Tabernas Desert in the Province of Almeria in southeastern Spain, at the studios of Texas Hollywood, Mini Hollywood, and Western Leone.

Westphalia within the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia bordering on Rhine Province | Northern Rhineland in the west and Free State of Lippe | Lippe in the northeast

Northern Province or North Province may refer to:

* Northern Province, Rwanda, created January 2006

* Northern Province, Papua New Guinea, also known as Oro Province ( redirects )

* Northern Province, Sierra Leone

* Northern Province, Sri Lanka

* Northern Province ( Victoria ), a former electorate in the Victorian Legislative Council ( Australia )

* Northern Province, Zambia

The Bourbon economic philosophy, moreover, is not very different from that of Northern conservatives.

Obviously, such a Northern tourist's purpose is somewhat akin to a child's experience with Disneyland: he wants to see a world of make-believe.

Most of these would be in the Northern Hemisphere, where the fallout is concentrating.

Still existing on a `` Northern Union '' telegraph form is a typical peremptory message from Peru grocer J. J. Hapgood to Burton and Graves' store in Manchester -- `` Get and send by stage four pounds best Porterhouse or serloin stake, for Mrs. Hapgood send six sweet oranges ''.

Today Northern Vietnam is overtly Communist ; ;

This is not due to any policy of discrimination on the part of the Northern universities.

and that they can ignore what is happening in Northern cities because what is happening in Little Rock or Birmingham is worse.

In England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Australia, arraignment is the first of eleven stages in a criminal trial, and involves the clerk of the court reading out the indictment.

The region north of this circle is known as the Arctic, and the zone just to the south is called the Northern Temperate Zone.

While strong forms of the various dialects are not normally fully comprehensible to Northern Germans, communication is much easier in Bavaria, especially rural areas, where Bavarian dialect still predominates as the mother tongue.

The town's name is attested as Aisincurt in 1175, derived from a Germanic masculine name Aizo, Aizino and the early Northern French word curt ' farm with a courtyard ' ( Late Latin cortem ).

April ( ) is commonly associated with the season of spring in the Northern hemisphere and autumn in the Southern hemisphere, where it is the seasonal equivalent to October in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa.

* Liberation Day in Italy-April 25 is a National Holiday that celebrates the end of the Nazi Germany occupation in the Northern Italy.

In the Southern Hemisphere, August is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere.

* 461 – Majorian is arrested near Tortona ( Northern Italy ) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor.

The Northern Hemisphere is considered to be halfway through its summer and the Southern Hemisphere halfway through its winter on this day.

The Battle of Qarqar is mentioned in extra-biblical records, and was perhaps at Apamea where Shalmaneser III of Assyria fought a great confederation of princes from Cilicia, Northern Syria, Israel, Ammon, and the tribes of the Syrian desert ( 853 BC ), including Ahab ( A-ha-ab-bu < sup > mat </ sup >) ( Adad -' idri ).

under secction 7 ( 1 )( a ), but that section has been superseded by section 66 ( 1 ) of the Police ( Northern Ireland ) Act 1998 ( c. 32 ) which now provides that it is an offence for a person to, amongst other things, assault a constable in the execution of his duty, or a person assisting a constable in the execution of his duty.

Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.