The broad, cultivated lowland valleys contain about half of the country's richest farmlands.

Not until the second millennium BC did cultivated, large-seeded broad beans appear in the Aegean, Iberia and transalpine Europe.

Like that of the related apple, the pear fruit is a pome, in most wild species 1 – 4 cm diameter, but in some cultivated forms up to 18 cm long and 8 cm broad ; the shape varies in most species from oblate or globose, to the classic pyriform ' pear-shape ' of the European pear with an elongated basal portion and a bulbous end.

The most widely cultivated varieties ( cultivars ) in Europe and North America today are elongated ovoid, 12 – 25 cm long ( 4½ to 9 in ) and 6 – 9 cm broad ( 2 to 4 in ) in a dark purple skin.

* In variation to rice and beans, Brazilians usually eat pasta ( including yakisoba, lamen, and bifum ), pasta salad, various dishes using either potato or manioc, and polenta as substitutions for rice, as well as salads, dumplings or soups of green peas, chickpeas, black-eyed peas, broad beans, butter beans, soybeans, lentils, moyashi ( which came to Brazil due to the Japanese tradition of eating its sprouts ), azuki, and other legumes in substitution for the common beans cultivated in South America since Pre-Columbian times.

Vicia faba, also known as the broad bean, fava bean, field bean, bell bean, or tic bean, is a species of bean ( Fabaceae ) native to north Africa and southwest Asia, and extensively cultivated elsewhere.

The nut is roughly spherical to oval, 15 – 20 mm long and 12 – 20 mm broad ( larger, up to 25 mm long, in some cultivated selections ), yellow-brown with a pale scar at the base.

His ability and interest in building design were nurtured through his cultivated background, which granted him early exposure to travel, and through a broad cultural education that included architectural history.

Even before that it had occurred to me, whenever, going from Haifa to Nazareth, I had viewed the broad expanse of the Emek Yizrael, that, because of its proximity to Haifa, its excellent railroad and highway connections, and the ease with which its soil could be cultivated, this land would be preeminently suited for Jewish colonization.

However, because of its quick growth, clinging vines and broad leaves, it can overwhelm and pull down cultivated plants including shrubs and small trees.

The broad sweep of the Merrimack River valley floodplain provided good soil for farming beans, gourds, pumpkins, melons and maize.

In the valley between Larino and Gerione, Minucius decided to make a broad frontal attack on Hannibal's troops.

A glaciated valley in the Mount Hood Wilderness showing a characteristic U-shape, the bottom's rocky ' rubble ' accretion and the broad shoulders

The San Luis Valley is the broad, generally flat, valley at the headwaters of the Rio Grande in north central New Mexico and south central Colorado.

Much of the county lies in the broad Hagerstown Valley between these two zones ; the valley is part of the Great Appalachian Valley that continues southward into Virginia and West Virginia as the Shenandoah Valley and northward into Pennsylvania as the Cumberland Valley.

Through the cul-de-sac between Baydağlari and Tahtalidağlari, the Alakir Çay (" Alakir River "), the ancient Limyra, flows to the south trickling from the broad valley under superhighway D400 near downtown Kumluca across a barrier beach into the Mediterranean.

They eventually infiltrated and occupied a broad arc of fertile farmland stretching from the Khabur River valley to the foothills of the Zagros Mountains.

They found the broad valley empty of any human settlement.

Located in the broad valley between high mountains, the Nordkette ( Hafelekar, ) in the north, Patscherkofel () and Serles () in the south.

Glamis is set in the broad and fertile lowland valley of Strathmore, near Forfar, county town of Angus, which lies between the Sidlaw Hills to the south and the Grampian Mountains to the north, approximately inland from the North Sea.

Conejos County is in a broad high mountain valley in South Central Colorado.

A large, 12 km long glacier formed the broad river valley and the cirque walls above Lake Seal.

Whilst the broads system came about through peat digging in the Middle Ages, Benacre broad was formed in a shallow valley when glacial drift blocked off the outflow to the sea.

The topography of the area is characterized by the broad alluvial plain of the Arkansas River valley and the moderately rolling slopes which rise to the higher lands on either side.

The former village of Passaconaway occupies a broad valley along the Kancamagus Highway in the northwestern part of the town.

Set astride the broad Israel River valley, the town commands remarkable views of the Presidential Range and other White Mountain summits.

He described the area as a, “ broad valley planted with fields of maize and dotted with cottonwood groves.

Thoreau is located in a broad valley beneath a large escarpment of Old Red Sandstone, which marks the southern boundary of the Colorado Plateau to the north.

The Kutztown area, broadly defined, encompasses an area of land also known as the East Penn Valley, a broad limestone valley situated in northern and eastern Berks County, bounded by the Blue Mountain and South Mountain ranges to the north and south, respectively, by the Lehigh County border to the east, and by the Ontelaunee Creek ( or Maiden Creek ) to the west.

Roaring Spring is situated within the northwest quadrant of a long bowl-like valley known as Morrisons Cove, one of dozens of long but broad valleys in Pennsylvania's Ridge and Valley region.

Coudersport lies in a broad valley the joining of Allegheny and Mill Creek rivers.

The Allegheny river makes a quick turn at this point, going from North to West ; for that reason these features are distinctly individual from afar in the broad turning valley, and rise 2400 – 2500 feet above sea-level.

The town is situated in the Chestuee Creek Valley, a broad valley carved by a tributary of the Hiwassee River, which passes a few miles to the southwest.

The city is situated at the center of the Copper Basin ( sometimes called the Ducktown Basin ), a broad valley located in the southern Appalachian Mountains near the intersection of Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina.

To the east and west of this section, however, the Caribbean lowlands widen and in places extend inland a considerable distance along broad river valleys.

The Eastern region also has spacious plains, broad valleys, and lowlands.

In the wet zone, the dominant vegetation of the lowlands is a tropical evergreen forest, with tall trees, broad foliage, and a dense undergrowth of vines and creepers.

In the wet zone, the dominant vegetation of the lowlands is a tropical evergreen forest, with tall trees, broad foliage, and a dense undergrowth of vines and creepers.

Most observers describe Venezuela in terms of four fairly well-defined regions: the Maracaibo lowlands in the northwest, the northern mountains extending in a broad east-west arc from the Colombian border along the Caribbean Sea, the wide Orinoco plains ( llanos ) in central Venezuela, and rank highly dissected Guiana highlands in the southeast.

The western shore however is characterised by broad tundra lowlands that are an extension of the Hudson Bay Lowlands and the vegetation is mostly muskeg bog.

The low-gradient Chickahominy sluggishly flows through broad swampy lowlands for from Henrico County to eastern New Kent County.

The island is characterized by broad lowlands and locally by dissected uplands which reflect the diversity of structures and lithological characters of the bedrock formations.

His " Herinnering aan Holland " ( Remembrance of Holland ): " Denkend aan Holland zie ik breede rivieren traag door oneindig laagland gaan ," Thinking about Holland, I see broad rivers slowly moving through endless lowlands.

* Barba Yorgos ( Μπάρμπα Γιώργος, " Uncle George "), he represents a crude villager from the mountains, depicted as a shepherd or dairy farmer usually on some business related visit in the lowlands ; he is depicted as a Vlach from Rumeli uncontaminated by urban trends, always depicted broad built and strong with traditional outfit.

He then executed a broad loop around the north side of the highland Lake Atitlán, fighting further battles along the way, before descending southwards once more into the Pacific lowlands.

Between Schunemunk Mountain and the Shawangunks lies the broad valley of the Wallkill River and the many lowlands within, then and now heavily farmed.