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* After being stopped twice by the Romans in his attempts to invade Illyria by sea, and constrained by the Roman commander Marcus Valerius Laevinus ' fleet in the Adriatic, Philip V of Macedon keeps his activities in Illyria land based.
Twice thwarted in attempts at invasion of Illyria by sea, and now constrained by Laevinus ' fleet in the Adriatic, Philip spent the next two years 213 – 212 BC making advances in Illyria by land.
" Agron, king of the Illyrians, was the son of Pleuratus, and possessed the most powerful force, both by land and sea, of any of the kings who had reigned in Illyria before him.
A hereditary land of the Habsburg Monarchy, it became a constituent of the Austrian Empire in 1804 and part of the Kingdom of Illyria until 1849.
Lynkestis or Lynchestia ( meaning " land of the lynx ") was a region ( in earlier times, a kingdom ) of Upper Macedonia on the southern borders of Illyria which was ruled by kings, lords and independent or semi-independent chieftains till the later Argead rulers of Macedon ( Amyntas IV, Philip II ) neutralized their independence with dynastic alliances and the practice of bringing up tribal chieftains ' sons in the palaces of Philip.
The process of state formation in Macedonia was in many ways analogous to its neighbours in Epirus, Illyria, Thrace, and Thessaly, whereby regional elites could mobilize disparate communities for the purpose of organizing land and resources.
Twice thwarted in attempts at invasion of Illyria by sea, and now constrained by Laevinus ' fleet in the Adriatic, Philip spent the next two years 213 – 212 BC making advances in Illyria by land.

land and is
he knows that the land is hard and pitiless.
Moreover, the law of the land is not irrevocable ; ;
We consider a rural community as an assemblage of inhabited dwellings whose configuration is determined by the location and size of the arable land sites necessary for family subsistence.
We assume for this illustration that the size of the land plots is so great that the distance between dwellings is greater than the voice can carry and that most of the communication is between nearest neighbors only, as shown in Figure 2.
The deployment of a portion of these forces beyond our shores, on land and sea, is persuasive demonstration of our determination to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our allies for collective security.
The only real problem is to devise a plan whereby the owners of the above-water land can develop their property without the public losing its underwater land and the right to its development for public use and enjoyment.
And then there is St. Louis county, where the Democratic leadership has shown little appreciation of the need for sound zoning, of the important relationship between proper land use and economic growth.
They point out simply that `` it is the law of the land ''.
This land is in various stages of development in several locations throughout the town.
The rural land use study is being carried out under contract by the University of Rhode Island and identifies all agricultural land uses in the state by type of use.
Within the units in the National Forest System the pattern of land ownership is quite irregular.
One consequence is the occurrence of occasional conflicts because private owners of some inholdings object to public programs of use on neighboring National Forest or other Federal land, or because such ownerships are developed for uses that are not compatible with use for the public of neighboring National Forest land.
The long-range objective is to bring about consolidation of ownership through use of land exchange authority and through purchase on a moderate scale of inholdings which comprise key tracts for recognized National Forest programs such as recreation development, or which are a source of damage to lands in National Forests and National Grasslands.
Ignorance of the law is no better excuse on the water than it is on land ; ;
Minnesota, fabled land of waters, is in itself, ideal vacationland, having within its borders 10,000 lakes!!
Look at the physical features of the land to determine how desirable it is for use, what can be done to correct the faults, and what it will cost to make the area meet your needs in comparison to other sites.
And due to modern resource-use and game management practices, there is still game to shoot, even with the ever-expanding encroachment on land and water.
As an isolated policy, land reform is likely to be politically disruptive ; ;
It is hard to believe that this mass of intertwined concrete constitutes what the law calls `` the highest and best use '' of centrally located urban land.

land and setting
This would seem to indicate that we are trying neither `` to halt an influx of migrants '' nor are we `` setting up such standards for development that only the well-to-do could afford to buy land and build in the new sites ''.
The axes represent the school's origins in a rural setting, and the determination of its founders who cleared the land and built the school on donated items and labour.
Campbell's land record was short-lived, because rule changes meant that Craig Breedlove's Spirit of America, a pure jet car, would begin setting records later in 1964 and 1965.
After Roosevelt signed an executive order setting aside land in the Benguet region of the Philippines for a military reservation under the United States Army, Camp John Hay of Baguio City was established on October 25, 1903 and named in his honor.
* Norsca ( Warhammer ), a fictional land in the Warhammer Fantasy game setting
The author Lucy Maud Montgomery drew inspiration from the land during the late Victorian Era for the setting of her classic novel Anne of Green Gables ( 1908 ).
This encompassed basic local government functions, ranging from land dealings and management of community centres to road maintenance and garbage collection, as well as setting education programmes and standards in their local schools.
* To immigrants in the early 19th century, the land in the United States seemed pristine, edenic and undefiled – " the perfect place to recover pure, uncorrupted and original Christianity " – and the tradition-bound European churches seemed out of place in this new setting.
In 1583 De Monte sent Byrd his setting of verses 1 – 4 of Psalm 136 ( Super flumina Babylonis ), including the pointed question ’ How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land ?’ Byrd replied the following year with a setting of the defiant continuation, set, like de Monte's piece, in eight parts and incorporating a three-part canon by inversion.
She was in the process of setting up an educational center for Honduran children on of land she owned.
The good news was some of those allocated forces were already forward at Milne Bay, where he was setting a trap with the veteran mid-East blooded 7th Australian Division, for he fully expected the Japanese would continue trans-coastal landings in an attempt to out flank Port Moresby, bringing ground forces in and around the point, in an end-around past the eastern tip of New Guinea and land on undefended beaches there.
Barton pleaded guilty to two charges: setting fire to federal forest land and lying to investigators and was given a six year sentence in federal prison.
In many states, when setting boundary corners land surveyors are also required to place survey monuments bearing their registration numbers, typically in the form of capped iron rods, concrete monuments, or nails with washers.
When Belisarius eventually returned to Italy, Procopius relates that " during a space of five years he did not succeed once in setting foot on any part of the land ... except where some fortress was, but during this whole period he kept sailing about visiting one port after another.
Some of the harsher tactics included forcing settlers off their land and setting fire to settler buildings as well as trying to exclude the smaller ranchers from participation in the annual roundup.
Decrees setting forth changes in marriage customs and land reform were not received well by a population deeply immersed in tradition and Islam, particularly by the powerful land owners who were harmed economically by the abolition of usury ( though usury is prohibited in Islam ) and the cancellation of farmers ' debts.
Map of the land of Oz, the fictional realm that is the setting for L. Frank Baum's " List of Oz books | Oz " series.
The Imperial Land Company converted desert land into a fertile setting for year-round agriculture.
Making things worse, the State Legislature raised property tax rates, setting values at “ the highest and best use ” as opposed to the actual use of the land.
In July 2010 a wind farm was proposed as a possible use for the land, and the town began setting zoning regulations for wind turbine placement in December 2010.
The town was mostly an agricultural setting in the earliest times, with rye fields and orchards filling the land.
Once automobiles replaced horse and wagon as the primary mode of transportation, farmers in the area began selling portions of their land to city workers who wished to live outside of the urban setting.

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