It is a lonely, rather desolate region, but full of legendary and historic associations.

Abbotsford is a historic house in the region of the Scottish Borders in the south of Scotland, near Melrose, on the south bank of the River Tweed.

In November 1087, Abu Bakr was killed in battle by a poisoned arrow, while fighting in the historic region of the Sudan.

However, it has not incorporated the general Eastern umlaut of all synchronic or even historic " ya " sounds into " e " before front vowels – e. g. поляна ( polyana ) vs полени ( poleni ) " meadow – meadows " or even жаба ( zhaba ) vs жеби ( zhebi ) " frog – frogs ", even though it co-occurs with the yat alternation in almost all Eastern dialects that have it ( except a few dialects along the yat border, e. g. in the Pleven region ).

The hills of the Franconian Jura in the south mark the border with the Upper Bavarian region ( Altbayern ), historic Swabia, and the Danube basin.

In September 2002, Secretary of State Colin Powell made a brief but historic visit to Gabon to highlight environmental protection and conservation in the Central Africa region.

The region roughly coincides with the present-day voivodeship ( province ) called Greater Poland Voivodeship (), although some parts of historic Greater Poland are within the Kuyavian-Pomeranian, Łódź and Lubusz Voivodeships.

* Highway 65 ( King's Highway ): connects Irbid in the northern region to Aqaba, it takes the name and route of the historic King's Highway

The historic region of Jutland, the area that was covered by Codex Holmiensis ( Jyske Lov ) covered the Jutland Peninsula area north of Eider River and included Funen, the North Jutlandic Island and other smaller islands.

Northern Schleswig and Southern Schleswig form the historic region Southern Jutland ( Sønderjylland ).

The mountainous region of the northern shore is known both for its historic character and as a major wine region, while the flat southern shore is known for its resort towns.

Livonia (,,, German and Scandinavian languages: Livland, Latvian and,, archaic English Livland ,, Liwlandia ; Лифляндия / Liflyandiya ) is a historic region along the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea.

The province's name recalls the traditional name of a historic Polish region, Lesser Poland, or in Polish: Małopolska.

A historic moment came about in 2006 when the town of Radłów changed its local laws to make German, alongside Polish, the district ’ s second official language ; thus becoming the first town in the region to achieve such a feat.

* Persis or Pārs, a historic region in southwest Persia and the original power base of Achaemenids

Silesian Voivodeship, or Silesia Province ( in Polish, województwo śląskie ), is a voivodeship, or province, in southern Poland, centering on the historic region known as Upper Silesia ( Górny Śląsk ), with the capital in Katowice.

The region also has many important centers of tourism which are known both for their historic monuments and for the beauty of their beaches ; such as Assos, Ayvalık, Bergama, Foça, İzmir, Çeşme, Sardis, Ephesus, Kuşadası, Didim, Miletus, Bodrum, Marmaris, Datça and Fethiye.

The area has borne the brunt of the tectonic divergence between the African and Arabian plates and the converging Arabian and Eurasian plates, which has made the region a very diverse zone of high snow-covered mountains, fertile broad alluvial basins and desert plateau, which has also increased its biodiversity further and enabled the survival into historic times of species not found elsewhere.

In the early 9th century he appeared as a count in the Grabfeld, a historic region in northeastern Franconia bordering on Thuringia.

The modern province includes most of this historic region, except for some south-western parts.

Major tourist destinations in the region include the historic, cultural and artistic cities of Milan ( which is Italy's second top tourist destination ), Brescia, Mantua, Pavia, Como, Cremona, Bergamo, Sondrio, Lecco, Lodi, Varese, Monza, and the lakes of Garda, Como, Maggiore, and Iseo.

In addition, the violence has curbed expansion of tourism in the region, which is full of historic and religious sites that are of interest to many people around the world.

The former is the historic highway north to Chicago via Cairo, Illinois, while the latter roughly parallels the Mississippi River for most of its course and crosses the Mississippi Delta region to the south, with the Delta also legendary for Blues music.

Rouen (), in northern France on the River Seine, is the capital of the Haute-Normandie ( Upper Normandy ) region and the historic capital city of Normandy.

Tannu Uriankhai ( Mongolian: Tagna Urianhai ; ; Traditional Chinese: 唐努烏梁海 ; Simplified Chinese: 唐努乌梁海 ; Hanyu Pinyin: Tángnǔ Wūliánghǎi ) ) is a historic region of the Mongol Empire and, later, the Qing Dynasty.

There followed the historic appropriations and budget fight, in which the General Assembly decided to tackle executive powers.

`` It is as though '', I said on the historic three-hour, coast-to-coast radio broadcast which I bought ( following Father Coughlin and pre-empting the Eddie Cantor, Manhattan Merry-go-round and Major Bowes shows ) `` That Man in the White House, like some despot of yore, insisted on reading my diary, raiding my larder and ransacking my lingerie!!

With eyes focused on the third congressional district, the historic Delta district, and Congressman Frank E. Smith as the one most likely to go, the redistricting battle will put to a test the longstanding power which lawmakers from the Delta have held in the Legislature.

He joined with George Marston and other civic-minded businessmen to purchase the site of the original Presidio of San Diego, which they developed as a historic park and eventually donated to the city of San Diego.

The Arc de Triomphe is the linchpin of the historic axis ( Axe historique ) – a sequence of monuments and grand thoroughfares on a route which goes from the courtyard of the Louvre, to the Grande Arche de la Défense.

Deeply involved in the future of the Jews in the former Soviet Union, Steinsaltz serves as the region's Duchovny Ravin ( Spiritual Rabbi ), a historic Russian title which indicates that he is the spiritual mentor of Russian Jewry.

Each borough contains a number of localities ( Ortsteile ), which often have historic roots in older municipalities that predate the formation of Greater Berlin on 1 October 1920 and became urbanized and incorporated into the city.

Public parkland includes the esplanade along the Charles River, which mirrors its Boston counterpart, Cambridge Common, a busy and historic public park immediately adjacent to the Harvard campus, and the Alewife Brook Reservation and Fresh Pond in the western part of the city.

A Synagogue in Sydney serves a small historic Jewish community which was once one of the largest ones in eastern Canada with four shuls: one in Glace Bay, one in New Waterford, one in Whitney Pier, and the one in Sydney.

In, the team moved into historic Comiskey Park, which they would inhabit for more than eight decades.

The ' 38 club saw Dizzy Dean lead the team's pitching staff and provided a historic moment when they won a crucial late-season game at Wrigley Field over the Pittsburgh Pirates with a walk-off home run by Gabby Hartnett, which became known in baseball lore as " The Homer in the Gloamin '".

Infantry who moved on horseback, but dismounted to fight on foot, were known in the 17th and early 18th centuries as dragoons, a class of mounted infantry which later evolved into cavalry proper while retaining their historic title.

To support the intended process of nation building even further, a vague myth of some common Germanic original language developed, and German dialectology began to name dialect groups after presumed and real groups of historic tribes having existed from BC to about 600 AD, from which they were assumed to have descended.

In 1819, Dartmouth College was the subject of the historic Dartmouth College case, which challenged New Hampshire's 1816 attempt to amend the College's royal charter to make the school a public university.

The Royal Danish Army includes amongst its historic regiments the Jutish Dragoon Regiment, which was raised in 1670.

Over the next two years she applied her system to recording the historic ballet steps of the Royal Danish Ballet, which were in danger of being forgotten from lack of recording.

The dot-com bubble ( also referred to as the Internet bubble and the Information Technology Bubble ) was a historic speculative bubble covering roughly 1995 – 2000 ( with a climax on March 10, 2000, with the NASDAQ peaking at 5132. 52 in intraday trading before closing at 5048. 62 ) during which stock markets in industrialized nations saw their equity value rise rapidly from growth in the Internet sector and related fields.

1 ) The discount rate assumption relies on the market for competing investments at the time of the analysis, which would likely change, perhaps dramatically, over time, and 2 ) straight line assumptions about income increasing over ten years are generally based upon historic increases in market rent but never factors in the cyclical nature of many real estate markets.

Flutie had estimated " an 80 percent chance " of making the drop kick, which was called to give Flutie, 43 at the time, the opportunity to make a historic kick in his final NFL game, the drop kick being his last play in the NFL.

Downtown Ellensburg has many historic buildings, many of which were constructed in the late 19th century.

By the 9th century BC, the Kingdom of Israel, once united under King Solomon, was divided into the northern Kingdom of Israel and southern Kingdom of Judah, which retained the historic seat of government and focus of the Israelite religion at the Temple in Jerusalem.

It is expected to revitalize some of the most commercial and historic districts in the City of Kabul, which will contain numerous historic mosques and shrines as well as viable commercial activities among and within war-damaged buildings.

Some of the male lecturers in Oxford are still not happy with women getting degrees ; the number of women in the University is restricted by statute to no more than 25 % ( a restriction which would only be removed in the 1970s ); women are segregated in special women's colleges such as Shrewsbury, while the prestigious historic colleges remain exclusively male ; women's colleges are starved for funds and run on a shoestring.

Beyond its first verse, which is consistent, it has many historic and extant versions: Since its first publication, different verses have been added and taken away and, even today, different publications include various selections of verses in various orders.