He became commander of the Confederacy's western armies in the area often called the Western Department or Western Military Department.

About 90 % of the world's extractable amber is still located in that area, which became the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia in 1946.

* 1893 – Ibadan area became a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton.

Taking the title " Margrave of Brandenburg ", he pressed the " crusade " against the Wends, extended the area of his mark, encouraged German migration, established bishoprics under his protection, and so became the founder of the Margraviate of Brandenburg in 1157, which his heirs — the House of Ascania — held until the line died out in 1320.

No larger settlements, however, have been found to have existed in this remote rural area, located at least 15 km from the nearest road even in Roman times, up to the early medieval period when the place is mentioned as a king's mansion for the first time, not long before Charlemagne became ruler of the Germanic Franks.

This area later became the Southwest Territory ( 1790 ), the precursor to the state of Tennessee.

However, he became gravely ill during the 1918 flu pandemic and, since Spain was neutral and thus under no wartime censorship restrictions, his illness and subsequent recovery were covered worldwide, giving the false impression ( in the absence of real news from anywhere else ) that Spain was the most-affected area.

Commercial farming became viable in the area once the grain trade had developed technologies to handle the bulk export of grain, especially hopper cars and grain elevators.

Although Grothendieck himself never published his work in this area, the proposal became the inspiration for work by other mathematicians and the source of the theory of dessins d ' enfants.

Louisiana Creole ( also called French Créole ) refers to native born people of the New Orleans area who are descended from the Colonial French and / or Spanish settlers of Colonial French Louisiana, before it became part of the United States in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase.

The area thrived during the Ottoman Empire, as the centre of opium production and Afyon became a wealthy city with the typical Ottoman urban mixture of Turks, Armenians and Greeks.

In 1974 the area became part of the borough of Torfaen, in the new local government county of Gwent.

The area became the number one place for electrical supplies.

Roman neglect of this area allowed Aquitanian to survive while the Iberian and Tartessian languages became extinct.

Nevertheless, the Knickerbocker Rules were rapidly adopted by teams in the New York area and their version of baseball became known as the " New York Game " ( as opposed to the " Massachusetts Game ", played by clubs in the Boston area ).

Many refugees from areas captured by Israeli forces in 1947 – 48 fled to the Bethlehem area, primarily settling in the what became the official refugee camps of ' Azza ( Beit Jibrin ) and ' Aida in the north and Dheisheh in the south.

They became an increasing area of interest for scholars in the 19th century and most were recorded or catalogued by George Malcolm Laws, although some have since been found to have British origins and additional songs have since been collected.

That plan became complicated when Governor Nelson Rockefeller announced his desire to redevelop a part of the area as a separate project.

San Francisco from Indian RockPolitically, the area that became Berkeley was initially part of a vast Contra Costa County.

" The area near the university became known for a time as " East Berkeley.

In 1934, the McDaniel family moved to the largely black South Side area of Chicago, where the young man dropped the name Otha and became known as Ellas McDaniel, until his musical ambitions demanded that he take on a more catchy identity.

As the Turkish incursion into Europe started, Croatia once again became a border area.

The area became rather deserted and was subsequently settled by Serbs, Vlachs, Croats and Germans and others.

Over decades, the size of daily strips became smaller and smaller, until by the year 2000, four standard daily strips could fit in an area once occupied by a single daily strip.

Various European powers – Portugal, the Netherlands, and England – competed for trade in the area from the 15th century onward, until in 1677, France ended up in possession of what had become a minor slave trade departure point — the infamous island of Gorée next to modern Dakar.

After Performing in Rio's Hollywood Rock Festival in April 1996, Supergrass met the infamous train robber Ronnie Biggs, and apparently said to him, " I was frightened for my life when I heard there was a supergrass in the area.

Sommer was especially infamous for hanging prisoners from trees with their wrists behind their backs in the " singing forest ", so named because of the screams which emanated from this wooded area.

William Quantrill passed through the Eudora area in 1863 on his way to Lawrence, Kansas to commit his infamous and deadly raid on the unsuspecting town.

Tom Quick Sr. of Milford, the father of the infamous Tom Quick Jr. who built a cabin on the south side of the Shohola Creek in 1741, was the first European to settle in the area.

This fear was based on the infamous Navasota area / Mexico drug flights and Federal law enforcement arrests of the 1980's.

Early summer, specially June, tends to be quite infamous due to a phenomenon where persistent cloudiness covers the entire bay area of Funchal, locally nicknamed " Funchal's helmet ".

It was named after an infamous band of ruffians, known as the ' Wokingham Blacks ', who terrorised the local area until 29 of them were arrested after fighting a pitched battle with Grenadier Guards in Bracknell.

One infamous area of Ozone Park is known as " the hole " which is a term that is used for areas of Ozone Park where houses are below grade.

The Senecas actually inhabited the area well into the 19th century and were removed only during a violent overtaking compelled by pioneer Samuel Brownstone, an infamous enemy of the Iroquois.

From November 1860 through to June 1861 anti-Chinese miners attacked Chinese gold miners in the area, now known as the infamous Lambing Flat riots.

Because of the difficult-to-control border, the area around Gandria became infamous for smuggling.

While the sand mean high tide is public property, residents have fought to keep the public out of the area and the beaches private and Geffen " fought an infamous battle for decades to keep the public from using an easement he was supposed to grant under terms of building his home on Carbon Beach " before losing the court battle 2005 and having to open the gates beside his home to the public.

During the 18th Century a migration of Kwakwaka ' wakw ( Kwak ' wala-speaking ) people of the Wakashan cultural and linguistic group migrated south from the area of Fort Rupert and established themselves in the Campbell River area, at first enslaving and then absorbing the Comox, and became infamous as raiders of the Coast Salish peoples farther south, known to history as the Euclataws, which is also spelled Yucultas and is a variant on their name for themselves, the Laich-kwil-tach, Lekwiltok or Legwildok.

Enonkoski is a very small town, with two small supermarkets, a gas station, a gift shop, and several bakeries / cafés and a bar infamous to the local population for the drunks that lounge around the area.

The area also housed, schooled and provided stomping grounds for numerous famous and infamous free thinkers, poets, artists and rapscallions such as General George Patton, Alexander Calder, Upton Sinclair, L. Ron Hubbard, Jack Parsons, Albert Einstein, Bobby Fischer and David Lee Roth.

As Caleb roams the area, he may even hear the infamous sounds of Jason Voorhees himself, or perhaps even discover his goalie mask and machete hanging on one of the walls.

Considered by some infamous for its pubs, there are no fewer than ten public establishments that serve alcohol in the Bethesda area ( excluding Tregarth ).

Long famous for its sausages ( especially fuet ) and other pork derivatives, in recent years the area has become somewhat infamous for the pollution of its waterways due to the factory farming of pigs.

At the time the area at the foot of nearby Mount Lofty was known as the Tiers, infamous for being the haunt of numerous Tiersmen and woodcutters on the run from authorities in Adelaide.

The Fremont Troll by kcline: The infamous Fremont Troll located under the George Washington Bridge in the Seattle, Washington area captures a Volkswagen Beetle.

An area called Monto ( in or around Montgomery Street off Sackville Street ) became infamous also as the British Empire's biggest red light district, its financial viability aided by the number of British Army barracks and hence soldiers in the city, notably the Royal Barracks ( later Collins Barracks and now one of the locations of Ireland's National Museum ).

An infamous example of the rule in execution is the Pine Tar Incident on July 24, 1983, when Kansas City Royals third baseman George Brett was called out after hitting an apparent home run, because after comparing the length of the pine-tar treated area to the width of home plate ( 17 inches ), the umpire determined too much of the bat was covered with pine tar.

During the late 1920s and early 1930s the aerodrome was also a checking-in point for the infamous ' Contact Races ' held in the Midlands, which were organised by and between various civil flying clubs in the area.