The Levant is a geographical term that refers to a large area in Southwest Asia, south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the Arabian Desert in the south, and the Zagros Mountains in the east.

The region, known for its heavy clay soil, includes the Southwest Mountains.

Another fully anchored chronology which extends back 8500 years exists for the bristlecone pine in the Southwest US ( White Mountains of California ).

When describing the geology of Calabria it is commonly referred to " The Calabrian Arc ", the arc-shaped geographic domain extending from the southern part of the Basilicata Region up to the northeast of Sicily, the Peloritano Mountains ( although some authors extend this domain from Naples in the North up to Palermo in the Southwest ).

Parts of the Atlas Mountains in North Africa, the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon ranges of Syria, Israel and Lebanon, the Jebel Akhdar ( Oman ) in Oman, parts of the Sierra Nevada and neighboring ranges in the United States ' Southwest, have shallow aquifers that are exploited for their water.

The house is situated on the summit of an-high peak in the Southwest Mountains south of the Rivanna Gap.

The Mojave Desert is bounded by the peninsular Tehachapi Mountains on the Northwest, together with the San Gabriel and the San Bernardino Mountains on the Southwest.

On August 10, 1972, a meteor which became known as The Great Daylight 1972 Fireball was witnessed by many people moving north over the Rocky Mountains from the U. S. Southwest to Canada.

Other sources using the Caucasus Mountains as the Europe-Asia divide place Sochi in Southwest Asia as it falls on the southern ( Asian ) side of the Greater Caucasus.

Galax sits in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest Virginia.

To the Southwest to Northwest regions of Fountain Hills are the McDowell Mountains, a chain of extinct volcanic mountains.

The Duchesne river drains the Southwest slope of the Uintah Mountains and the Strawberry river drains the Eastern slopes of the Wasatch Range and is connected to Strawberry Reservoir.

Due to the confluence of I-77, I-81 and several U. S. Highways, and its location in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Wytheville is known as " The Hub of Southwest Virginia " and " the Crossroads of the Blue Ridge ".

Jedediah Strong Smith ( January 6, 1799 – May 27, 1831 ) was a hunter, trapper, fur trader, trailblazer, author, cartographer and explorer of the Rocky Mountains, the American West Coast and the Southwest during the 19th century.

The nation ’ s poor Blacks, Latinos, Whites and Native Americans came together from the Mississippi Delta, the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Indian Reservations of the Northwest, the farmlands of the Southwest, and the inner cities of the North under the leadership of Dr. Abernathy to reside on the Mall of the Washington Memorial in Resurrection City.

The location of courses which offer such training for students are in India, Mexico, New Zealand, Patagonia, Rocky Mountains, and Southwest.

A competing theory posits their migration south, through the Rocky Mountains, ultimately reaching the American Southwest by the 14th century or perhaps earlier.

An aborted attempt at a trip around the world with a friend piqued his interest in the American Southwest, and he began a tour through Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico, moving up and down the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains.

During the colonial period, land that would become the Southwest Territory was part of North Carolina's land grant, but the Smoky Mountains and the Blue Ridge Mountains prevented North Carolina from pursuing any lasting interest in the territory.

With a maximum elevation of, surrounded by the Virginia Piedmont at ~ above sea level, the Southwest Mountains are not particularly large.

Other institutions of higher learning in Austin include St. Edward's University, Austin Community College, Concordia University, Huston-Tillotson University, the Seminary of the Southwest, the Acton School of Business, Austin Graduate School of Theology, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Virginia College's Austin Campus, The Art Institute of Austin, Austin Conservatory and a branch of Park University.

* The Crooked Road: Virginia's Heritage Music Trail Southwest Virginia

It is the largest municipality in Southwest Virginia, and is the principal municipality of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area ( MSA ).

Bisected by the Roanoke River, Roanoke is the commercial and cultural hub of much of the surrounding area of Virginia and Southwest Virginia.

* The Appalachian Children's Theater ( ACT ) promotes performing arts and fine arts education for children in Southwest Virginia, Eastern Kentucky, and Northeast Tennessee.

* Southwest Virginia Museum Historical State Park

* A guide to Outdoor Recreation in Southwest Virginia

* The Southwest Virginia Outdoor And Social Club

It is located within both the rolling hills and valleys of the Piedmont Region of Virginia and mountainous Southwest Virginia.

Floyd County's recorded history begins with the arrival of traders, trappers and hunters in Southwest Virginia in the 18th century.

The county's location directly adjacent to both the Roanoke and the Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford Metropolitan Statistical Areas have contributed to modest population growth in contrast to most rural counties in Southwest Virginia.

Nestled in the mountains of Southwest Virginia, Craig County was named for Robert Craig, a 19th-century Virginia congressman.

During a major expedition into East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia, a Union Army unit attacked Confederate troops at Blountville.

Haysi is also within commuting distance of the Dickenson Center for Education and Research, Southwest Virginia Community College, Mountain Empire Community College, The University of Virginia's College at Wise, Appalachian College of Pharmacy, and the Appalachian School of Law.

Transportation to Southwest Virginia Community College is offered by Four County Transit.

Beginning in 2006, Southwest Virginia Community College began holding classes in downtown Pocahontas in the historic Pocahontas Fuel Company office.

Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center, on the campus of VHCC, provides the region with access to undergraduate and graduate degree programs and courses.

Southwest Virginia MuseumThe Southwest Virginia Museum is located in the downtown area.

Regional chefs are emerging as localized celebrity chefs with growing broader appeal, such as Peter Merriman ( Hawaii Regional Cuisine ), Jerry Traunfeld, Alan Wong ( Pacific Rim cuisine ), Norman Van Aken ( New World Cuisine-fusion Latin, Caribbean, Asian, African and American ), and Mark Miller ( American Southwest cuisine ).

Art historian Richard Poss took a more flexible approach, maintaining that the astronomical rock art of the North American Southwest should be read employing " the hermeneutic traditions of western art history and art criticism " Astronomers, however, raise different questions, seeking to provide their students with identifiable precursors of their discipline, and are especially concerned with the important question of how to confirm that specific sites are, indeed, intentionally astronomical.

Other lowland ecoregions are the Borneo peat swamp forests, the Kerangas or Sundaland heath forests, the Southwest Borneo freshwater swamp forests, and the Sunda Shelf mangroves.

Further sectional references are the Northwest side and the Southwest side.

* Independent films: In the US, Telluride Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, Austin's South by Southwest, New York City's Tribeca Film Festival and Slamdance Film Festival are all considered significant festivals for independent film.

Various types of hammered dulcimers are traditionally played in India, Iran, Southwest Asia, China, and parts of Southeast Asia, Central Europe ( Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Poland, Czech Republic, Switzerland ( particularly Appenzell ), Austria and Bavaria ), the Balkans, Eastern Europe ( Ukraine and Belarus ) and Scandinavia.

Temperatures are relatively cool compared to much of Southwest Asia, mainly due to the high altitude of the city.

Mav of Sol Camp and MC Magic are the most successful rappers to come out to the Southwest region.

* The cities of the Ancestral Pueblo ( or Anasazi ) culture, located in the Four Corners region of the Southwest United States – The best known are located at Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde.

In East and Southeast Asia, these are forms such as Korean, Khmer or Mongolian wrestling and Japanese Sumo, in South and Southwest Asia Indo-Persian Pehlwani, in Central and Western Asia Turkic ( Uzbek, Tatar ) styles ; in Europe, there are Icelandic, Swiss and various English wrestling traditions.

Cultural influences left from Spanish colonization of the South and Southwest remain not only in the names of places but also in some ingredients in cooking, provided they grow in these regions ; these influences are strongly reinforced today by their proximity to northern Mexican states like Sonora, Baja California, and Chihuahua.

In 2003, a population model was released by the U. S. Geological Survey that predicted an extremely grave situation confronting the manatee in both the Southwest and Atlantic regions where the vast majority of manatees are found.

In the American Southwest, especially New Mexico, a syncretism between the Catholicism brought by Spanish missionaries and the native religion is common ; the religious drums, chants, and dances of the Pueblo people are regularly part of Masses at Santa Fe's Saint Francis Cathedral.

In Southwest China, red pandas are hunted for their fur, especially for the highly valued bushy tails from which hats are produced.

The island and the very small islands administered along with it are split into four regencies ( local government districts ); these are: Sumba Barat ( West Sumba ), Sumba Barat Daya ( Southwest Sumba ), Sumba Tengah ( Central Sumba ) and Sumba Timur ( East Sumba ).

Red sandstones are also seen in the Southwest and West of Britain, as well as central Europe and Mongolia.

Selayar Islands make up a peninsula stretching southwards from Southwest Sulawesi into the Flores Sea are administratively part of Sulawesi.

Because nearby loads are often correlated ( hot weather in the Southwest portion of the US might cause many people to use air conditioners ), electricity often comes from distant sources.

Some of the native languages of North and South America are tonal, notably many of the Athabaskan languages of Alaska and the American Southwest ( including Navajo ), and especially the Oto-Manguean languages of Mexico.

Chiricahua ( ) are a group of Apache Native Americans who live in the Southwest United States.

Hake fish are mostly found in the Southwest Atlantic ( Argentina and Uruguay ), Southeast Pacific ( Chile and Peru ), Southeast Atlantic ( Namibia and South Africa ), Southwest Pacific ( New Zealand ), and Mediterranean and Black Sea ( Italy, Portugal, Spain, Greece and France ).