Then he noticed the clouds racing upon them -- heavy, ominous, leaden clouds that formed even as they sliced over the crests of the surrounding hills.

Beaten with fear and sound and wet and chill, they crawled to the hurricane deck and looked out haggardly at a world of water that reached clear to the surrounding hills.

During the Greco-Turkish War ( 1919-1922 ) campaign ( part of the Turkish War of Independence ) Afyon and the surrounding hills were occupied by French, Italian and then Greek forces.

Accrington is a hill town located at the western edge of the Pennines within a bowl and largely encircled by surrounding hills to heights of 300-400m.

The name “ Dachau ” originated in the Celtic Dahauua, which roughly translates to “ loamy meadow ” and also alludes to the loamy soil of the surrounding hills.

Of the sources, Coleridge was influenced by the surrounding of Culbone Combe and its hills, gulleys, and other features including the " mystical " and " sacred " locations in the region.

The majority of the spectators of events in the hippodrome, however, would have sat on the surrounding hills.

* Observation Posts ( 7 ) were located on hills that provided a good view of the surrounding area.

After Nuwakot, he occupied strategic points in the hills surrounding the Kathmandu Valley.

The first mention of Nijmegen in history is in the 1st century BC, when the Romans built a military camp on the place where Nijmegen was to appear ; the location had great strategic value because of the surrounding hills, which gave ( and continues to give ) a good view over the Waal and Rhine valley.

The Palatine Hill and hills surrounding it presented easily defensible positions in the wide fertile plain surrounding them.

In 1462 Portuguese explorer Pedro da Cintra mapped the hills surrounding what is now Freetown Harbour, naming the oddly shaped formation Serra Lyoa ( Lion Mountains ).

File: 07Tirana04. jpg | Overlooking Tirana's surrounding hills

The Violette Szabo GC Museum is located in the cottage in Wormelow Tump, Herefordshire, that Violette's English cousins formerly owned, and that Violette would visit before the war to enjoy walks in the surrounding hills.

The soil surrounding Medina consist of mostly basalt, while the hills, especially noticeable to the south of the city, are volcanic ash which date to the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era.

It stood out prominently from surrounding hills because of the symmetry and extensive snow and ice cover of the pre-1980 summit cone, earning it the nickname " Fuji-san of America " (" Mount Fuji of America ").

At a conventional date of 1350 BC the fortifications on the acropolis, and other surrounding hills, were rebuilt in a style known as cyclopean because the blocks of stone used were so massive that they were thought in later ages to be the work of the one-eyed giants known as the cyclopes ( singular: Cyclops ).

The acropolis was excavated in 1902, and the surrounding hills have been methodically investigated by subsequent excavations.

They built baths and a temple on the surrounding hills of Bath in the valley of the River Avon around hot springs.

In the resulting Battle of Spion Kop, British troops captured the summit by surprise during the early hours of 24 January 1900, but as the early morning fog lifted they realised too late that they were overlooked by Boer gun emplacements on the surrounding hills.

And looking up from the center, the surrounding hills are plastered with makeshift brick houses of those less economically fortunate.

The city rises from the flat beach into gentle rising hills, then is bounded by surrounding mountains that represent the Southern and nearly the Western extent of the Ligurian Alps range.

While the surrounding hills are in an altitudinal range of ( warm temperate zone between and cold temperate zone between ), the city itself has an altitude range varying between and.

The hills surrounding the current location of Como have been inhabited, since at least the Bronze Age, by a Celtic tribe known as the Orobii.

The valley lay clear, and open to the eye, right up to the sharp-limbed line of gaunt, scoured hills that formed the horizon twenty miles ahead.

He doubted if a man could wade as far as the desolate, dry hills that rimmed the valley.

* The upper Valdarno, a long valley bordered from East by the Pratomagno massif and from West by the hills around Siena.

The Ethiopian forces positioned themselves on the hills overlooking the Adwa valley, in perfect position to receive the Italians, who were exposed and vulnerable to crossfire.

Located in the hills between the Chianti Classico area and Arno valley, the wines of the Colli Fiorentini vary widely depending on producer, but tend to have a simple structure with strong character and fruit notes.

Surrounded by hills in a river valley, Florence can be hot and humid from June to August.

The town is generally built upon a series of low hills rising to above sea level at " The Ridge " before falling back in the river valley further to the north.

" According to Catherine Jarrige of the Centre for Archaeological Research Indus Baluchistan at the Musée Guimet in Paris: "… the Kachi plain and in the Bolan basin ( are ) situated at the Bolan peak pass, one of the main routes connecting southern Afghanistan, eastern Iran, the Balochistan hills and the Indus River valley.

This area of rolling hills is thus located on the western edge of the Indus valley, where, around 2500 BCE, a large urban civilization emerged at the same time as those of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Egypt.

In a valley, a plain is enclosed on two sides but in other cases a plain may be delineated by a complete or partial ring of hills, by mountains or cliffs.

It lies at an altitude of about 1, 350 m ( 4, 500 ft ) above sea level, in a warm, sheltered, fertile valley, surrounded by the hills of the Magaliesberg range.

During the last ice age, the basin now filled by the bay was a large linear valley with small hills, similar to most of the valleys of the Coast Ranges.

You have had these plans of your university made by a great architect, native to our own American soil, who himself had the sense to adapt — not to copy in servile fashion — but to adapt the old Californian architecture to the new university uses, and so we have here a great institution of learning absolutely unique, even in its outward aspect, situated in this beautiful valley with the hills in the background, under this sky, with these buildings, and if this university does not turn out the right kind of citizenship and the right kind of scholarship, I shall be more than disappointed.

The Vardar valley consists primarily of hills and mountains.

Trier lies in a valley between low vine-covered hills of ruddy sandstone in the west of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, near the border with Luxembourg and within the important Mosel wine region.

The northeast side of the Limmat valley includes a range of hills, which marks the watershed between the Limmat and the Glatt.

Situated in the valley between the Aventine and Palatine hills, it was the first and largest stadium in ancient Rome and its later Empire.

This valley consists of a plain extending from the mountains to the Adriatic sea, broken only by some low hills: Colli Berici, Colli Euganei, Colli Asolani and Montello, which constitute the remaining 14 % of the territory.

In the valley is the only river in the county, the Tualatin River, the Tualatin Plains, and several small hills.

These hills are divided by the valley of the Dinan river which joins the Nore from the east.

It has a varied landscape, with forested ranges of hills in the south and north separated by the valley of the Loire.

Athens is surrounded by hills that rise about three hundred feet from river valley to the narrow ridge tops.

The territory occupied by Moab at the period of its greatest extent, before the invasion of the Amorites, divided itself naturally into three distinct and independent portions: The enclosed corner or canton south of the Arnon, ( referred to as " field of Moab ") the more open rolling country north of the Arnon, opposite Jericho, and up to the hills of Gilead ( called the " land of Moab ") and the district below sea level in the tropical depths of the Jordan valley.