On September 10, 1861, Johnston was assigned to command the huge area of the Confederacy west of the Allegheny Mountains, except for coastal areas.

Stretching inland from the Aegean coastal plain, the Central Anatolian plateau occupies the area between the two zones of the folded coastal ranges in the north and south, extending east to the point where the two ranges converge.

Typical landscape for the Antarctic Peninsula area, with fjords, high coastal mountains and islands.

He extended Roman territory to the sea, founding the port of Ostia, establishing salt-works around the port, and taking the Silva Maesia, an area of coastal forest north of the Tiber, from the Veientes.

The former settled in the eastern coastal regions, while the latter settled primarily in the area known today as the Highveld — the large, relatively high central plateau of South Africa.

The Costa Smeralda (, ) is a coastal area and tourist destination in northern Sardinia, long and covering more than.

In fisheries issues, the United States claims jurisdiction for the management of coastal fisheries up to 200 mile ( 370 km ) from its coast, but excludes highly migratory species ; Ecuador, on the other hand, claims a 200-mile ( 370-km ) territorial sea, and imposes license fees and fines on foreign fishing vessels in the area, making no exceptions for catches of migratory species.

Cultivation of crops is limited to the coastal area, where the population is largely concentrated ; rice and manioc are the major crops.

By the first century BC Germanic languages had become prevalent, and the inhabitants were called Belgæ while the area was the coastal district of Gallia Belgica, the most northeastern province of the Roman Empire at its height.

Seafood proliferates throughout the coastal area.

A century before that, during the 15th century, the three colours were mentioned as the coastal signals for this area, with the 3 bands straight or diagonal, single or doubled.

There are traditional Greek-speaking settlements in the neighbouring countries of Albania, Bulgaria and Turkey, as well as in several countries in the Black Sea area such as Ukraine, Russia, Romania, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and around the Mediterranean Sea, Southern Italy, Israel, Egypt, Lebanon and ancient coastal towns along the Levant.

Ferry services link the primary roads in the coastal area, and Guyana with Suriname.

Honduras has three distinct topographical regions: an extensive interior highland area and two narrow coastal lowlands.

This area of river valleys and coastal plains, which most Honduras call " the north coast ," or simply " the coast ," has traditionally been Honduras's most exploited region.

On 5 November, Major Spyros Spyromilios led a revolt in the coastal area of Himarë and expelled the Ottoman garrison without facing significant resistance, while on 20 November Greek troops from western Macedonia entered Korçë.

The Cuban Exile journalist and author John O ' Donnell-Rosales, who was born in the area of Cuba with the last confirmed sightings, reported sightings near the Alabama coastal delta in 1994, but these were never properly investigated by state wildlife officials.

In Cyrenaica there are fewer coastal oases, and the Marj Plain – the lowland area corresponding to the Jifarah Plain of Tripolitania – covers a much smaller area.

Through this coastal area, the Chewa traded ivory, iron, and slaves with the Portuguese and Arabs.

Hence, Roman administration never extended outside the restricted area of the northern coastal plain and valleys.

Most marine life is found in coastal habitats, even though the shelf area occupies only seven percent of the total ocean area.

Nova Scotia is the second-smallest province in Canada, with an area of, including Cape Breton and some 3, 800 coastal islands.

** Eunectes deschauenseei, the dark-spotted anaconda, is a rare species found in northeastern Brazil and coastal French Guiana.

The coast is rugged and rocky, with rivers that cascade through the gorges of the coastal ranges.

True lowland is confined to a few narrow coastal strips along the Aegean, Mediterranean, and Black Sea coasts.

Flat or gently sloping land is rare and largely confined to the deltas of the Kızıl River, the coastal plains of Çukurova and the valley floors of the Gediz River and the Büyük Menderes River as well as some interior high plains in Anatolia, mainly around Tuz Gölü ( Salt Lake ) and the Konya Basin ( Konya Ovasi ).

The loss of syllable-final r in North America is confined mostly to the accents of eastern New England, New York City and surrounding areas and the coastal portions of the South, and African American Vernacular English.

One theory is that they or part of them dwelt or moved among other coastal people perhaps confederated up to the basin of the Saale ( in the neighbourhood of the ancient canton of Engilin ) on the Unstrut valleys below the Kyffhäuserkreis, from which region the Lex Angliorum et Werinorum hoc est Thuringorum is believed by many to have come.

Lobster is an integral ingredient to the cuisine, indigenous to the coastal waters of the region.

This is a part of a fixed battery, meant to protect against over-land attack as well as serving as coastal artillery.

Modern coastal artillery ( for example, Russia's " Bereg " system ) is often self propelled, ( allowing it to avoid counter-battery fire ) and fully integrated, meaning that each battery has all of the support systems that it requires ( maintenance, targeting radar, etc.

The province's mainland away from the coastal regions is not as moderated by the Pacific Ocean and ranges from desert and semi-arid plateau to the range and canyon districts of the Central and Southern Interior to boreal forest and sub-arctic prairie in the Northern Interior.

Although it is involved in " brown-water " ( riverine and coastal ) operations, the navy's primary goal has been to become an effective " blue-water " navy, able to project power on the high seas.

Most of the country is a flat coastal plain with mountains in the east and hilly lowland in the west.

* Temburong District is humid subtropical on the higher altitude south and humid tropical on the coastal and lower altitude north.

Marine environments are especially vulnerable since oil spills of coastal regions and the open sea are poorly containable and mitigation is difficult.

In the 14th century, almost all coastal parts of Borneo were under the control of Majapahit kingdom as is written in the Javanese Nagarakretagama document ( ca.

Most of the population lives in coastal cities, although the hinterland is occupied at most in small towns and villages along the rivers.

Aboukir Bay is a coastal indentation across, stretching from the village of Abu Qir in the west to the town of Rosetta to the east, where one of the mouths of the River Nile empties into the Mediterranean.

The term " coastal zone " can be used instead, which is a spatial zone where interaction of the sea and land processes occurs.

The human influence on climate change is thought to contribute to an accelerated trend in sea level rise which threatens coastal habitats.

Since the coastal areas are all part of the littoral zone, there is a profusion of marine life found just off-coast.

The Norte Chico civilization included as many as 30 major population centers in what is now the Norte Chico region of north-central coastal Peru.

About 4, 000 years ago, migrating Native Americans settled in the fertile valleys and coastal areas of what is present day Chile.

The nation's terrain is coastal plain separated by rugged mountains, the Cordillera Central and the Cordillera de Talamanca, which form the spine of the country and separate the Pacific and Caribbean watersheds.

The southeastern region of Côte d ' Ivoire is marked by coastal inland lagoons that starts at the Ghanaian border and stretch along the eastern half of the coast.