Communities would come together for an entire day of singing in a large building where they sat in four distinct areas surrounding an open space, one member directing the group as a whole.

However, Sargon took this process further, conquering many of the surrounding regions to create an empire that reached westward as far as the Mediterranean Sea and perhaps Cyprus ( Kaptara ); northward as far as the mountains ( a later Hittite text asserts he fought the Hattite king Nurdaggal of Burushanda, well into Anatolia ); eastward over Elam ; and as far south as Magan ( Oman ) — a region over which he reigned for purportedly 56 years, though only four " year-names " survive.

He also boasted of having subjugated the " four quarters " — the lands surrounding Akkad to the north ( Assyria ), the south ( Sumer ), the east ( Elam ) and the west ( Martu ).

Enclosures surrounding a temple are often constructed with a gopura at each of the four cardinal points.

According to Aristotle, the four elements rise or fall toward their natural place in concentric layers surrounding the center of the earth and form the terrestrial or sublunary spheres.

Other members of the board include people from the university community such as four approved representatives from Dalhousie Student Union, as well as those in the larger surrounding community of Dalhousie, such as the Mayor of Halifax.

For example, periodic acid according to Kekuléan structure theory could be represented by the chain structure I-O-O-O-O-H. By contrast, the modern structure of ( meta ) periodic acid has all four oxygen atoms surrounding the iodine in a tetrahedral geometry.

The spelling was changed back to the older version when the present municipality was created in 1971 through the amalgamation of the Town of Hälsingborg with four surrounding rural municipalities.

The city can be broken down into the Downtown area, called the Golden Triangle, and four main areas surrounding it.

These four surrounding areas are further subdivided into distinct neighborhoods ( in total, Pittsburgh contains 90 neighborhoods.

Canada's largest administratively independent suburban municipalities are those surrounding the four largest cities.

Smaller islands surrounding the main four include:

At the end, 4 side regions and 3 inner regions were named according to their neighborhood to the four seas surrounding Turkey and positions in Anatolia.

Carved stone and cave painting in surrounding mountains and caves have allowed historians to identify four major groups in present-day Monterrey: Azalapas, Huachichiles, Coahuiltecos and Borrados.

2240 BC ), Amurru was called one of the " four quarters " surrounding Sumer, along with Subartu / Assyria, Akkad, and Elam.

The ground was divided into four neighbourhood units, separated by green belts, and in the middle was built a main shopping and cultural centre to meet the needs of 30, 000 inhabitants ( including those of surrounding districts ) ( Hertzen 1959 ).

The latter includes the von Neumann neighborhood as well as the four remaining cells surrounding the cell whose state is to be calculated.

Mid-Columbia Libraries, an intercounty library system serving Benton, Franklin, and Adams Counties, is based in Kennewick, Washington, and operates four public branch libraries in the Tri-Cities, and seven branch libraries in the surrounding area.

The metro area includes Louisville-Jefferson County and 12 surrounding counties, eight in Kentucky and four in Southern Indiana ( see Geography below ).

" Lake Chad is economically important, providing water to more than 30 million people living in the four countries surrounding it ( Chad, Cameroon, Niger, and Nigeria ) on the edge of the Sahara Desert.

With four powerful planets surrounding their own, the Encyclopedists have no defenses but their own intelligence.

The Shikoku region, comprising Shikoku and its surrounding islets, covers about and consists of four prefectures: Ehime, Kagawa, Kōchi, and Tokushima.

The project includes an inter-modal transportation center on state-owned land four miles ( 6 km ) north of the park, multiple-use trails to connect gateway communities with the park, and rehabilitation of historic carriage roads surrounding Eagle Lake.

At this point it breaks away into inward-facing cliffs eighty to one hundred feet high completely surrounding an oval central depression about twelve miles long and four wide.

Despite the league's name only its four South Division teams are actually based in Texas ; the four North Division teams are located in surrounding states of Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri.

The office was of logs, four rooms, each heated by an iron stove.

'' The other important difference between the two Constitutions was that the President of the Confederacy held office for six ( instead of four ) years, and was limited to one term.

He walked up to the lieutenant's office, leaned wearily against the gun rack that housed four rifles and a gas gun nobody remembered having used and a submachine gun that was occasionally tried out on the Academy Range.

After working in a shipping office for four years, the twenty-year-old Fleming inherited some money from an uncle, John Fleming.

The short-lived Bolognese Republic, proclaimed in 1796 as a French client republic in the Central Italian city of Bologna, had a government consisting of nine consuls and its head of state was the Presidente del Magistrato, i. e., chief magistrate, a presiding office held for four months by one of the consuls.

Day was ranked the biggest box office star for four years ( 1960 ; 1962 – 1964 ) and ranked in the top 10 for 10 years ( 1951 – 1952 ; 1959 – 1966 ).

The Chancellor cannot be removed from office during a four year term unless the Bundestag has agreed on a successor.

The terms of office for president, vice president, and congressional deputies were reduced from five years to four years ; for Supreme Court justices from six years to five years, and increased the terms of mayors and city councils from 30 months to four years.

A vice president can run for president after four years out of office.

This may even lead to an institutional variability, as in North Korea, where, after the presidency of party leader Kim Il-Sung, the office was vacant for years, the late president being granted the posthumous title ( akin to some ancient Far Eastern traditions to give posthumous names and titles to royalty ) of " Eternal President " ( while all substantive power, as party leader, itself not formally created for four years, was inherited by his son Kim Jong Il, initially without any formal office ) until it was formally replaced on 5 September 1998, for ceremonial purposes, by the office of Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, while the party leader's post as Chairman of the National Defense Commission was simultaneously declared " the highest post of the state ", not unlike Deng Xiaoping earlier in the People's Republic of China.

Towards the end of the century Prime Ministers of Scottish descent included the Tory, Peelite and Liberal William E. Gladstone, who held the office four times between 1868 and 1894.

She was elected to the Office of State Attorney in November 1978 and was returned to office by the voters four more times.

When it came to time for Ribbentrop to present the German declaration of war on 22 June 1941 to the Soviet Ambassador, General Vladimir Dekanozov, Paul Schmidt described the scene :" It is just before four on the morning of Sunday, 22 June 1941 in the office of the Foreign Minister.

The four Industrial art works atop the support towers of the Kansas City Convention Center ( Bartle Hall ) were once the subject of ridicule but now define the night skyline near the new Sprint Center along with One Kansas City Place ( the tallest office tower structure in Missouri ), the KCTV-Tower with its hundreds of lit bulbs ( the tallest freestanding structure in Missouri ), and the Liberty Memorial, a WWI memorial and museum, which flaunts simulated flames and smoke billowing into the night skyline.

Many of the Roman symbols both of war and of civil office date from his reign, and he was the first to celebrate a Roman triumph, after the Etruscan fashion, wearing a robe of purple and gold, and borne on a chariot drawn by four horses.

The office of Nagid was held by the Maimonides family for four successive generations until the end of the 14th century.

Van Buren was voted out of office after four years, losing to Whig candidate William Henry Harrison.

The term of office for president and vice president is four years.

The office was created in 1885, four years before the enactment of the Meiji Constitution.

The original Jodrell laboratory, named after Mr T. J. Phillips Jodrell who funded it was established in 1877 and consisted of four research rooms and an office.

The status of leadership of the Federal Yugoslav president was unstable with no president lasting more than four years in office.

In its first 50 days in office, Prime Minister Mohamed's new administration completed its first monthly payment of stipends to government soldiers, and initiated the implementation of a full biometric register for the security forces within a window of four months.