Alexios was able to secure much of the coastal regions by sending peasant soldiers to raid the Seljuq camps, but these victories were unable to stop the Turks altogether.

Both European ( the coastal regions, such as the Basque Country, Catalonia, and Asturias ) and Overseas – Antilles and pacific were able to grow uninterruptedly.

Other shellfish of the coastal regions include little neck clams, sea scallops, blue mussels, oysters, soft shell clams and razor shell clams.

Aboriginal communities in outback regions have not been displaced as they have been in areas of intensive agriculture and large cities, in coastal areas.

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.

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.

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

More and more of the world's people live in coastal regions.

The Passamaquoddy Nation inhabited the northwestern coastal regions of the present-day Bay of Fundy.

Cismontane chaparral (" this side of the mountain ") refers to a chaparral ecosystem in the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub Biome in California, growing on the western ( and coastal ) sides of large mountain range systems, such as: western slopes of the Sierra Nevada in the San Joaquin Valley foothills, western slopes of the Peninsular Ranges and California Coast Ranges, and south-southwest slopes of the Transverse Ranges in the Central Coast and Southern California regions.

Ecuadorians often describe the country as a series of " micro-environments " and economic-cultural regions that are reflected in the country's cultural and geographic diversity of coastal fishing and trade ( with Guayaquil as a port ), highland Quichua-speaking peoples ( with Quito as a center, and the Amazon or jungle region, with several indigenous populations continually facing intrusions by " colonos " ( colonists ) seeking to use land for farming including palm oil, or for oil and resource exploitation.

Major losses of sugarcane, totaling 9 % of the estimated 1998-99 production, were sustained primarily in the coastal regions.

During a time of La Niña, drought plagues the coastal regions of Peru and Chile.

In 1891, Rivières du Sud was placed under the colonial lieutenant governor at Dakar, who had authority over the French coastal regions east to Porto-Novo ( modern Benin ).

Most Guineans, 99 %, are blacks — mostly Fula and Mandinka-speakers concentrated in the north and northeast, the Balanta and Papel, living in the southern coastal regions, and the Manjaco and Mancanha, occupying the central and northern coastal areas.

Fish dishes are common in coastal regions and on the islands.

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

Although these continental European powers controlled various coastal regions of southern and eastern India during the ensuing century, they eventually lost all their territories in India to the British islanders, with the exception of the French outposts of Pondicherry and Chandernagore, the Dutch port of Travancore, and the Portuguese colonies of Goa, Daman and Diu.

The history of Asia can be seen as the collective history of several distinct peripheral coastal regions such as, East Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East linked by the interior mass of the Eurasian steppe.

The coastal periphery was the home to some of the world's earliest known civilizations, with each of the three regions developing early civilizations around fertile river valleys.

This tradition was part of the eastern stream of Bantu expansion ( sometimes called Kwale ) which originated west of the Great Lakes, spreading to the coastal regions of southeastern Kenya and north eastern Tanzania, and then southwards to Mozambique, south eastern Zimbabwe and Natal.

This is attributed to the fact that Ghana's Hausa population descend from Hausa-Fulani traders settled in the zongo districts of major trade-towns up and down the previous Asante, Gonja and Dagomba kingdoms stretching from the sahel to coastal regions, in particular the cities of Tamale, Salaga, Bawku, Bolgatanga, Achimota, Nima and Kumasi.

In the coastal regions of Croatia ; Istria, Dalmatia and Croatian Littoral, as well as in Lika a form of Ham known as " Pršut " is made.

According to William Derham, during the severe winters of 1703 and 1708 the ice cover permeated as far as the Danish straits, parts of the Gulf of Bothnia and Gulf of Finland, in addition to coastal fringes in more southerly locations such as the Gulf of Riga.

The land of coastal Finland is used for agriculture and dairy farming.

During the subsequent Swedish reign over Finland particularly the coastal areas witnessed waves of settlement from Sweden.

From about 50 AD, there are indications of a more intense long-distance exchange of goods in coastal Finland.

It also covers most of Sweden, Finland, much of Norway, lowland / coastal areas of Iceland, much of Russia from St. Petersburg in the west to the Pacific ocean ( including much of Siberia ), northern Kazakhstan, northern Mongolia, and northern Japan ( on the island of Hokkaidō ).

The longest growing season is found in the smaller areas with oceanic influences ; in coastal areas of Scandinavia and Finland, the growing season of the closed boreal forest can be 145 – 180 days.

Category: Populated coastal places in Finland

Finland has since then been a bilingual country with a Swedish-speaking minority ( 5. 5 % of mainland Finland's population in 2006 ) living mostly in the coastal areas of southern, south-western, and western Finland.

Category: Populated coastal places in Finland

It encompassed most of continental northern Europe from the Rhine River on the west, to the Volga River in the east, including most of modern-day Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Czech Republic, Slovakia, north-western Romania, northern Ukraine, and the European part of Russia, as well as coastal Norway and the southern portions of Sweden and Finland.

Category: Populated coastal places in Finland

After the Russian conquest of Finland in 1808 – 09, and the promising establishing of the semi-autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland, his family moved there in 1813, to the Ostrobothnian coastal town of Kokkola, where his mother Maria Magdalena Snellman died only a year later.

Although Swedish-speaking culture had been expanding eastwards through the Åland islands and along what are now the coastal regions of Finland for several centuries, the Second Swedish Crusade, undertaken by Birger Jarl in the later 1240s, is generally taken as the moment when the region now called Finland was incorporated into the Swedish state.

Category: Populated coastal places in Finland

Category: Populated coastal places in Finland

Category: Populated coastal places in Finland

Category: Populated coastal places in Finland

The peninsula had great strategic value, as coastal artillery based there would be able to reach more than halfway across the Gulf of Finland.

This may be attributed to the process of Finlandization and to technological progress making coastal artillery obsolete, but the renunciation of Stalinism by the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev and the fact that Finland had undertaken to adopt neutrality and so remain out of NATO were also important contributing factors.

Gunboats saw extensive use in the Baltic Sea during the late 18th century as they were well-suited for the extensive coastal skerries and archipelagoes of Sweden, Finland and Russia.

While this winter fur is actually a very good camouflage in the coastal regions of Finland where the snow covers the shrubs but for a short time, the mountain hare is better adapted for the snowier conditions of the inland areas.