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.

Environment – current issues: air heavily polluted with sulfur dioxide from oil-shale burning power plants in northeast ; contamination of soil and groundwater with petroleum products, chemicals at former Soviet military bases ; Estonia has more than 1, 400 natural and artificial lakes, the smaller of which in agricultural areas are heavily affected by organic waste ; coastal sea water is polluted in many locations.

Although Egypt did not have its former grasp on Canaan, there was a strong presence into the twelfth century, and Philistia took greater control of the southern coastal plain then also ( mentions the Philistines ).

At the end of this period a new landscape emerges: the northern Canaanite cities still existed, more or less intact, and became the Phoenicians ; the highlands behind the coastal plains, previously largely uninhabited, were rapidly filling with villages, largely Canaanite in their basic culture but without the Bronze Age city-state structure ; and along the southern coastal plain there are clear signs that a non-Canaanite people had taken over the former Canaanite cities while adopting almost all aspects of Canaanite culture.

On the mainland, Muslim communities are concentrated in coastal areas, with some large Muslim majorities also in inland urban areas especially and along the former caravan routes.

The ethnic groups of the coastal region, particularly the Ewes ( about 21 % of the population ), constitute the bulk of the civil servants, professionals, and merchants, due in part to the former colonial administrations which provided greater infrastructure development in the south.

The series follows a British former secret agent who is held prisoner in a mysterious coastal village resort where his captors try to find out why he abruptly resigned from his job.

The 984 hectares Padthaway Conservation Park that is situated on a former coastal dune is close to Padthaway.

Polders are most commonly though not exclusively found in river deltas, former fenlands and coastal areas.

The former species appears to be more coastal, while the latter appears to be more pelagic and possibly migratory.

The former estuary ( of the Aesontius, and the early Soča / Isonzo ) in the newly formed lagoon of Grado became an independent coastal rivulet.

Incorporation of Rhodes University's former campus in East London in 2004 gave the University an urban base and a coastal base for the first time.

The landscape has been formed for a great part by storm tides in the 10th to 14th centuries, overflowing and carrying away former peat land behind the coastal dunes.

The present islands are a remnant of the former coastal dunes.

Common names include Sea-holly and Eryngo, the former typically being applied to coastal species, and the latter to grassland species.

The part of U. S. 1 in Georgia, as it shifts from the coastal alignment in Florida to the Fall Line alignment in South Carolina, is generally very rural, passing through marshes and former plantations between the towns and cities of Folkston, Waycross, Baxley, Lyons, Swainsboro, and Augusta.

The territory of the former province shows a stark contrast between some densely populated areas ( coastal plains as well as metropolitan area of Toulouse in the interior ) where density is between 150 inhabitants per km² / 390 inh.

Recent competition with the former Warsaw Pact states and their Baltic coasts has had less impact on Dithmarschen because their coastal formations are quite different.

Looe () is a small coastal town, fishing port and civil parish in the former Caradon district of south-east Cornwall, England, with a population of 5, 280 ( 2001 census ).

They range from windswept coastal headlands, ancient woodlands and flower-rich meadows to former inner-city railways, long-abandoned landfill sites and industrial areas now re-colonised by wildlife.

Along the coast and contemporarily to the Iberians, the seafaring Phoenicians ( in Guardamar ) and Greeks ( along the coastal section to the north of the Alicante city ) settled stable trading colonies and interacted with the former ( see Lady of Elche for the most renowned archeological piece of this period ).

* Rogaland Fish Museum ( Rogaland Fiskerimuseum ), located in an old herring salting factory in Åkrehamn, is fully restored to its former glory and housing new exhibitions about the history of this vibrant coastal community.

Fosnes is a coastal municipality and rowing boats were the main form of transportation in the former centuries.