He is widely credited with uniting many of the Northern Nguni people, specifically the Mtetwa Paramountcy and the Ndwandwe into the Zulu Kingdom, the beginnings of a nation that held sway over the portion of southern Africa between the Phongolo and Mzimkhulu Rivers, and his statesmanship and vigour marked him as one of the greatest Zulu kings.

In Northern Ireland flood risk management is provided by Rivers Agency.

Music groups in this region include the Northern Rivers Symphony Orchestra and Operator Please.

The Oxley Wild Rivers National Park lies along the Great Escarpment between the Northern Tablelands, and the east coast and has dramatic gorges and waterfalls, extensive wilderness and dry rainforest.

Here the Northern Tablelands plateau drops precipitously into the rugged gorges carved out by the Aspley and upper Macleay Rivers which meander through the Park.

Most of the Dreadnought graduates were employed on dairy farms in the Northern Rivers area.

Kakadu National Park is located within the Alligator Rivers Region of the Northern Territory of Australia.

Five Rivers Council serves Scouts in the Southern tier of New York and the Northern tier of Pennsylvania.

With access to the Gulf of Mexico via the Warrior and Alabama Rivers, two major railways ( Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Norfolk Southern ), Interstate 22, and the recent addition of BAE Systems, the city is hoping for economic growth.

Located in the Shasta Cascade area of Northern California Visitors use Mount Shasta as a base to engage in trout fishing in the nearby Sacramento, McCloud and Klamath Rivers, or come to see and climb Mount Shasta, Castle Crags or the Trinity Alps.

Five different railroad lines were laid through the village site between 1847 and 1863 ( the Vermont Central Railway and Connecticut River Railroad in 1847, the Connecticut and Passumpsic Rivers Railroad in 1848, the Northern New Hampshire Railroad in 1849, and the Woodstock Railroad in 1863 ), creating an eight-track crossing that was served by 50 passenger trains daily.

In 1880, Fort Spokane was established by U. S. Army troops under Lt. Col. Henry Clay Merriam northwest of Spokane at the junction of the Columbia and Spokane Rivers to protect the construction of the Northern Pacific Railway and secure a place for U. S. settlement.

The University of New England Act, 1989, created a network University consisting of: ( i ) a campus at Armidale, incorporating the former University of New England and the former Armidale College of Advanced Education ; and ( ii ) a campus at Lismore, incorporating the former Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education.

Several are still in use around the Northern Rivers area of NSW, Australia.

Australia has two Adelaide Rivers, in the Northern Territory and Tasmania, and an Adelaide Reef in Queensland.

* ABC Northern Rivers 738 AM / 94. 5 FM

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* Hadronyche formidabilis, Northern Rivers funnel-web spider or Northern Tree funnel-web spider

Oxley discovered the rich Northern Rivers and New England regions of New South Wales, and in what is now Queensland he explored the present site of Brisbane.

At its broadest definition, during the New England New State Movement the New England Region included the northern coastal lowlands of New South Wales, known as the Mid North Coast and Northern Rivers region, and including cities such as Lismore and Grafton.

Apart from this usage, the Mid North Coast and Northern Rivers region are not considered to be part of New England.

Category: People from the Northern Rivers

The original Northern Neck land grant in 1661 was a land grant first contrived by the exiled British King Charles II in 1649 and encompassing all the lands bounded by the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers and, later, by a straight line ( the " Fairfax Line ") connecting their sources.

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

The Northern and Central European settlements in this region have built up a large-scale production of chocolate and its by-products, thus rendering them quintessential products to the region.

In the northwestern sections of the United Kingdom the Northern Soul explosion, which started in late 1960s and peaked in 1974, made the region receptive to Disco which the region's Disk Jockeys were bringing back from New York.

Dayton is situated within the Miami Valley region of Ohio just north of the Cincinnati – Northern Kentucky metropolitan area.

Archaeological studies of rock art in Northern Australia suggest that the people of the Kakadu region of the Northern Territory have been using the didgeridoo for less than 1, 000 years, based on the dating of paintings on cave walls and shelters from this period.

The La Tolita developed in the coastal region of Southern Colombia and Northern Ecuador between 600 bc and 200 AD.

* Northern-most point-the point at which the border with Sudan enters the Red Sea, Northern Red Sea region

There is some evidence that an El Niño may cause a wetter, cloudier winter in Northern Europe and a milder, drier winter in the Mediterranean Sea region.

Gdańsk itself has a population of 455, 830 ( June 2010 ), making it the largest city in the Pomerania region of Northern Poland.

The Greek government opposes the use of the name without any qualification such as ' Republic of Northern Macedonia ' to the post-1991 constitutional name of its northern neighbour, citing historical and territorial concerns resulting from the ambiguity between the terms Republic of Macedonia, the Greek region of Macedonia and the ancient kingdom of Macedon, which falls within Greek Macedonia.

In the northern Syrian, eastern Anatolian region of the Levant, Natufian culture at Cayonu and Mureybet developed the first fully agricultural culture with the addition of wild grains, later being supplemented with domesticated sheep and goats, which were probably domesticated first by the Zarzian culture of Northern Iraq and Iran ( which like the Natufian culture may have also developed from Kebaran ).

The region continues to rise, still causing weak earthquakes across Northern Europe.

Seasonal references in the Hebrew calendar reflect its development in the region east of the Mediterranean and the times and climate of the Northern Hemisphere.

The region to the north was administered separately by the BSAC and later named Northern Rhodesia ( now Zambia ).

The East Angles, Middle Angles, Mercians and " all those north of Humber " arrived from the region of Anglia ( a peninsula in Southern Schleswig, Northern Germany ) " which has ever since remained waste between the Jutes and Saxons ".

Most of the region was a part of the Kingdom of Sweden from the 13th century to 1809, when the vast majority of the Finnish-speaking areas of Sweden were ceded to the Russian Empire ( excluding the Finnish-speaking areas of the modern-day Northern Sweden ), making this area the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland.

Green Party candidates have been elected to all levels of representation ; local, Dáil and European Parliament, and in 2007 the party gained its first representation in the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Northern Ireland party having become a region of the Irish party in the previous year.

The Green Party is an all-island party, with a region in each of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

The Green Party in Northern Ireland voted to become a region of the Green Party in Ireland in 2005 at its annual convention, and again in a postal ballot in March 2006.

Northern Schleswig and Southern Schleswig form the historic region Southern Jutland ( Sønderjylland ).

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.

Instead, they evolved in the Northern Hemisphere and invaded the Australasian region a number of times.