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The easternmost part of current Brazil was granted to Portugal when Pedro Álvares Cabral landed there while he was en-route to India.
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* the easternmost part of the country falls into the Limpopo drainage basin ;
View of La Désirade from Pointe des Châteaux ( Guadeloupe ) | Pointe des Châteaux, the easternmost part of Grande-Terre.
Polisario remains in control over the easternmost part of the territory.
Labrador is the easternmost part of the Canadian Shield, a vast area of ancient metamorphic rock comprising much of northeastern North America.
After World War I the easternmost part of this region was awarded to Poland by the victorious Allies after rebellions by Silesian Polish people and a plebiscite.
The easternmost part of Oerik, the Flanaess, has received the lion's share of detail, though Hepmonaland has received significant attention.
Located on the eastern portion of Long Island, it is the easternmost county in the state and part of the New York metropolitan area.
For a long part of the middle ages Cottian Alps have been divided between Duchy of Savoy, which controlled their northern part and the easternmost slopes, and the Dauphiné, at the time independent from France kingdom.
** The easternmost part of the Manawatu-Wanganui Region, in the southern North Island
* Ossiriand ( later used as a name for the easternmost part of Beleriand ).
* Osiedle Słowińskie (" Slovincian Neighbourhood ") — the easternmost part of Słupsk, similar in character to Osiedle Akademickie.
While U. S. 1 is generally the easternmost of the main north – south U. S. Highways, part of Routes 9, 13, 17, and 301 occupy corridors closer to the ocean.
It comprises most of Pomerelia ( the easternmost part of historical Pomerania ), as well as an area east of the Vistula River.
In the Book of Jubilees, it is mentioned as being part of the border, beginning with its easternmost point up to its mouth, between the allotments of sons of Noah, that of Japheth to the north and that of Shem to the south.
The Uwharrie Mountains, part of North Carolina's easternmost mountain range, are the oldest mountain range in North America.
Before the 20th century, the tiny settlement was concentrated around in what was Kenton Lane ( the easternmost part of which remains as Old Kenton Lane to the east of Kingsbury station ) and is now part of the present day Woodgrange Avenue and Kenton Road.
From the 4th to the 12th century, the ancient kingdom of the Uí Fidgenti was approximately co-extensive with what is now County Limerick, with some of the easternmost part the domain of the Eóganacht Áine.
It is a four-lane highway for most of its length with the exception of the easternmost part of the route.
Chapter 69-836, which became a law on July 3, 1969, without the Governor's approval, redefined the city boundaries to exclude the easternmost part.
Fairhaven was first settled in 1659 as " Cushnea ", the easternmost part of the town of Dartmouth.
Other large hills in Lowell include Lynde Hill, also in Belvidere, and Christian Hill, in the easternmost part of Centralville.
Great Notch is the easternmost part of the township.
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The district is based in Rochester, Buffalo, and Niagara Falls, and includes parts of Erie, Monroe, Niagara and Orleans Counties ; its easternmost point is in Fairport at the home of its current representative, Democrat Louise Slaughter, who has been the district's representative since 1993.
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Ilha do Sul is the easternmost point of Brazil.
Has 25, 726 inhabitants, a city situated on the northern coast of Alagoas state, Brazil, being the easternmost city of that state.
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The Frankish Empire ( at its greatest extent around the year 800 ) included most of modern Franconia, which was situated at its easternmost borders.
All but the easternmost provinces of the Islamic realm had been taken from Christian rulers, and the vast majority of the first Muslims west of Iran and Arabia were converts from Christianity ... Their loss was sorely felt and it heightened the fear that a similar fate was in store for Europe .</ BLOCKQUOTE >
Following the third Silesian Uprising ( 1921 ), however, the easternmost portion of Upper Silesia ( including Katowice ), with a majority ethnic Polish population, was awarded to Poland, where it was formed into the Silesian Voivodeship.
Yugor, the easternmost state formed by the Yugur people, was the Ganzhou Kingdom ( AD 870 – 1036 ), with its capital near present-day Zhangye in the Gansu province of China.
Historically, the Argolís was the easternmost portion of the Peloponnesian peninsula, and the city of Árgos was its capital.
This fortress was a frontier post protecting the then easternmost boundaries of Russia from forays of nomads.
Since emperor Diocletian's Tetrarchy reform ( 293 ), the country was further divided in three provinces, as the small, easternmost region Sitifensis was split off from Mauretania Caesariensis.
The town of Erfurt was the easternmost trading post in Frankish territory at the time.
It was considered " the farthest voyage " according to an ancient Greek proverbial expression, the easternmost location in that society's known world, where the sun rose.
While Conan was busy on Anjou's western border, Gelduin and Robert attempted to isolate the easternmost castles of Amboise and Loches by raiding the Saumurois and disrupting communications.
Other traditions say that he was buried at Ynys Seiriol (), off easternmost Anglesey.
According to the findings of British researcher Tudor Parfitt, the location of Senna was more than likely in Yemen, specifically, in the village of Sanāw within the easternmost portion of the Wadi Hadhramaut.
The Soviets ceded the portion to the east of the Oder-Neisse line ( light beige ) to Poland, while a portion of the isolated easternmost section of German East Prussia, Königsberg, was annexed directly into the USSR
Because heliacal rising occurs in the east, and the sun's heat begins there daily, Sopdu was referred to as Lord of the East, and had his greatest cult centre at the easternmost nome of Lower Egypt, which was named Per-Sopdu, meaning place of Sopdu.
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In exchange for this concession, Michigan would be granted the western three-quarters of the Upper Peninsula ( the easternmost portion had already been included in the state boundaries ).
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In 1987, when TSR published the first Forgotten Realms boxed set, Kara-Tur was briefly described as the easternmost end of the continent of Faerûn.
The adjacent territory became later known as East Prussia, and then an easternmost province of Germany until 1945 when, in accordance with the Potsdam Conference, it was split between Poland and the Soviet Union.
Later in August, Tropical Storm Christine became the easternmost forming tropical cyclone on record when it developed formed over the western African country of Guinea.
Bagelkhand Agency, the easternmost charge, was established in March 1871, when it was separated from Bundelkhand agency.
The section of the park lying south of 86th Street, where John Jacob Astor had a villa was used as a picnic ground when the northern section of " East River Park " was acquired by the city of New York in 1891 ; the easternmost block of 86th Street was acquired subsequently, and the street de-mapped.
The Gulf of Anabar is believed to be the easternmost fjord in Russia – defining the point at which the climate during the Last Glacial Maximum became too dry for glaciers to form – one notices a quite clear transition from fjords to deltas at river mouths when the Lena River delta is reached shortly to the east.
Three of the platforms on the southern side ( both bays and the down loop ) were taken out of use in 1968 when the easternmost of the two signal boxes was closed and the track layout altered.
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