The main Iranian contributor to Brahui vocabulary, Balochi, is a Northwestern Iranian language, and moved to the area from the west only around 1000 AD.

Despite this difference, grammatical similarities between Sakkwatanci and Ghanaian Hausa determine that the dialect, and the origin of the Ghanaian Hausa people themselves, are derived from the Northwestern Hausa area surrounding Sokoto.

* IIT was ranked as a tier 1 university being the 113th best university nationally, and the fourth best university in the Chicago metropolitan area ( after the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and Loyola University ), based on U. S. News & World Report's " Best Colleges 2013 "

The Great Northwest Athletic Conference ( GNAC ) is a college athletic conference which has historically operated in the Northwestern United States, but also currently includes four schools in areas not usually considered part of that region — two in Alaska ( neither of which is located in Southeast Alaska, an area often considered part of the Northwest ), one in eastern Montana ( almost never considered part of the region ), and one in the Canadian province of British Columbia ( an area included with the Northwest U. S. in the larger Pacific Northwest region ).

Logging was the major economic activity in the area throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with Sutherland Innis, Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, Northwestern Cooperage and Lumber Company ( Buckeye Company ) and T. G.

Until 1960s, Tracy was a highly active railroad town on the Chicago & Northwestern Railway as a concentration point for numerous branchlines in the area serving heavy agriculture.

Also, the students that live towards Darlington and the South Beaver area go to Northwestern until third grade when they merge to Blackhawk Intermediate School with the students that went to Patterson Primary School.

Major growth occurred with the arrival of the Austin and Northwestern Railroad in April 1882, when Burnet then became the railhead for the area to the west.

The Hui of Northwestern China ( often referred to as " Dungans " or " Tungani " by the 19th-century western writers as well as by members of Turkic nationalities in China and Central Asia ) would normally speak the same Mandarin dialect as the Han people in the same area ( or in the area from which the particular Hui community had been resettled from ).

Also, the ancestors to the Ute, Paiute, and Northwestern Shoshone moved into the area.

Researchers at Northwestern University have used infrared light to directly stimulate the neurons in the inner ear of deaf guinea pigs while recording electrical activity in the inferior colliculus, an area of the midbrain that acts as a bridge between the inner ear and the auditory cortex.

Acworth, as well as the greater Northwestern area of the county lack local service, with only express routes operating out of the newly renovated Acworth Park and Ride lot.

Music at Northwestern has a long and proud heritage of serving the college and the greater Twin Cities area through its preparation of students to serve in their homes, churches, and communities through Christian leadership.

This is explained by the fact that the historical Old and Middle Dutch language area largely corresponded to the portion of Northwestern Europe that was economically focused on the Dutch-speaking cities of Bruges and Ghent ( later followed by Antwerp and Amsterdam ) resulting in a mental socio-economical border greatly limiting interaction.

In November 1913, Obregón's forces captured Culiacán, thus securing the supremacy of the Constitutional Army in the entire area of Northwestern Mexico under Obregón's command.

Winnipeg's relatively isolated location makes Winnipeg International Airport the primary international airport for a very large area, and as such it is used as a gateway to areas including the province of Manitoba and parts of neighboring provinces and territories Saskatchewan, Northwestern Ontario and Nunavut.

Northwestern Bell and AT & T dedicated staff to the ' Res City ' area and their staff actually had offices located in the same strip malls to help make the transition and service the accounts going forward.

Northwestern Mexico is the primary area of production for tepary beans.

In the Northwestern Pacific area, the typhoon season ordinarily comes almost from May to November.

Northwestern Europe is a variously-defined northern area of Western Europe and a western area of Northern Europe.

The Dinosaur National Monument sits on a vast area of desert land in Northwestern Colorado and Northeastern Utah.

Born in the Chicago area, he graduated Niles West High School in 1981, then graduated with bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from Northwestern University in 1985, and an MBA from Stanford University in 1989.

It has been influenced by the Iranian languages spoken in the area, especially Balochi.

* 2005 – An Iranian Air Force C-130 military transport aircraft crashes into a ten-floor apartment building in a residential area of Tehran, killing all 84 on board and 44 more civilians.

A fairly large area () just above the confluence of the two rivers at Al Qurnah and extending east of the Tigris beyond the Iranian border is marshland, known as Hawr al Hammar, the result of centuries of flooding and inadequate drainage.

Their objectives were to halt any potential foreign assistance to the Shias and to the Kurdish opponents of the regime and to end Iranian domination of the area.

The main petroleum pipeline was completed in 2005 under American pressure to limit Russian and Iranian influence in the area.

The Bactrians spoke Bactrian, a northern dialect of the East Iranian language, sharing some view features to modern Pashto and close related Yidgha, Munji, and Ishkashmi, and the principal religions of the area before the coming of Islam were Zoroastrianism and Buddhism.

The city was a major area of the Iranian speaking Medes and Achaemenids.

Ziggurats ( Akkadian ziqqurat, D-stem of zaqāru " to build on a raised area ") were massive structures built in the ancient Mesopotamian valley and western Iranian plateau, having the form of a terraced step pyramid of successively receding stories or levels.

Overall the Kurds share some genetic ties to other speakers of Iranian languages as well as with various peoples from the Caucasus such as the Armenians which suggests that the Kurds have ancient ethnic ties that connect them to both the early inhabitants of the Kurdistan area, such as the Hurrians.

In addition, some Proto-Elamite sites are found well outside this area, spread out on the Iranian plateau ; such as Warakshe, Sialk ( now a suburb of the modern city of Kashan ) and Jiroft in Kerman Province.

From this time, Mesopotamian sources concerning Elam become more frequent, since the Mesopotamians had developed an interest in resources ( such as wood, stone, and metal ) from the Iranian plateau, and military expeditions to the area became more common.

Heyerdahl also claimed that findings and Russian written sources from the Caucasus area verify not only the existence of the Æsir or the Iranian Ossetians ; whom he described as " the Odin people of today "— but also of an ancient tribe living around the area of Lake Van in today's Turkey.

Hussein also deported to Iran a large number of the residents of the area who were of Iranian descent.

In the very early part of its history, the inhabitants of the area were from Iranian stock and they spoke an Eastern Iranian language called Khwarezmian.

In the early part of its history, the inhabitants of the area were from Iranian stock and spoke an Eastern Iranian language called Khwarezmian.

The Iranian plateau in geology refers to a geographical area north of the great folded mountain belts resulting from the collision of the Arabian plate with the Eurasian plate.

It also served as an important strategic area during the Cold War, sharing borders with both Turkey ( a NATO member state ) and Iran ( a close ally of the West until the Iranian Revolution of 1979 ).

According to certain historical assumptions about the early history and origin of ancient Persians in south-western Iran ( where Achaemenids hailed from ), Old Persian was originally spoken by a tribe called Parsuwash who arrived in the Iranian Plateau early in the 1st millennium BCE and finally migrated down into the area of present day Fārs province and their language, i. e. Old Persian, became the official language of the Achaemenid kings.

According to that, the flight of people from the area may have taken place as early as the 9th or 8th century BCE ( when the area was being fought over by Urartians and Iranian tribes, the Medes ), long before the invasion of Cimmerians or the rise of the Armenian kingdom.