As in the case of Old Scatness in Shetland ( near Jarlshof and Burroughston on Shapinsay, brochs were sometimes located close to arable land and a source of water ( some have wells or natural springs rising within their central space ).

Eventually this song became " Bro goz va zadoù " (" Old land of my fathers ") and is the most widely accepted Breton anthem.

Cairo was founded by the Fatimid dynasty in the 10th century AD, but the land composing the present-day city was the site of national capitals whose remnants remain visible in parts of Old Cairo.

The word " forest " comes from Middle English forest, from Old French forest ( also forès ) " forest, vast expanse covered by trees "; first introduced in English as the word for wild land set aside for hunting without the necessity in definition for the existence of trees ( James 1981 ; Muir 2000, 2008 ).

Ælfric of Eynsham paraphrased Bede into Old English, saying " Now the Earth's roundness and the Sun's orbit constitute the obstacle to the day's being equally long in every land.

Other biblical scholars have argued that rather than being connected with Heth, son of Canaan, instead the Anatolian land of Hatti was mentioned in Old Testament literature and apocrypha as " Kittim " ( Chittim ), a people said to be named for a son of Javan.

Old land where the minstrels are honoured and free:

Old land where the minstrels are honoured and free ;

Old land of the mountains, the Eden of bards,

The river Ifing ( Old Norse, Ífingr ) separates Asgard, the realm of the gods, from Jötunheimr, the land of giants.

Written mostly in Latin but using an Old English boundary clause, the charter records a grant of land near the city of Rochester to Justus ' church.

However, following Manchester United's first league title in 1908 and the FA Cup a year later, it was decided that Bank Street was too restrictive for Davies ' ambition ; in February 1909, six weeks before the club's first FA Cup title, Old Trafford was named as the home of Manchester United, following the purchase of land for around £ 60, 000.

* 1856 – American Old West: On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.

The latter part of the name (" ster ") comes either from the English possessive ending-s and Irish tír ( Ulaidhs tír ) or the Old Norse staðr, both of which mean " land " or " territory ".

A cognate name also existed in Old English ( Anglo-Saxon ), in the name of the village Woolland in Dorset, England: this was written " Winlande " in the 1086 Domesday Book, and it is interpreted as ' meadow land ' or ' pasture land '.

In stanza 34, Odin says that more serpents lie beneath Yggdrasil " than any fool can imagine " and lists them as Góinn and Móinn ( possibly meaning Old Norse " land animal "), which he describes as sons of Grafvitnir ( Old Norse, possibly " ditch wolf "), Grábakr ( Old Norse " Greyback "), Grafvölluðr ( Old Norse, possibly " the one digging under the plain " or possibly amended as " the one ruling in the ditch "), Ófnir ( Old Norse " the winding one, the twisting one "), and Sváfnir ( Old Norse, possibly " the one who puts to sleep

* November 17 – American Old West: On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.

Charles Trollope Swan gave the rectorate, including the rectory living, residence ( the Old Hall, see below ) and of glebe land, to T. Pelham Dale in 1882.

It has been suggested that this battle finally severed the land connection between Wales and the kingdoms of the Hen Ogledd (" Old North "), the Brythonic-speaking regions of what is now southern Scotland and northern England, including Rheged, Strathclyde, Elmet and Gododdin, where Old Welsh was also spoken.

Attempts to conquer Prussian land began in 997, when Bolesław I Chrobry, at the urging of the Pope, sent a contingent of soldiers and a missionary ( Adalbert of Prague ) to the pagan Prussians on a crusade of conquest and conversion.

As German nationalism grew strongly inside of the German Confederation and neither of them could decide on how Germany was going to be unified into a nation-state, the Austrians were favouring the Greater Germany unification but were not willing to give up any of the German-speaking land inside of the Austrian Empire and take second place to Prussia, the Prussians on the other hand wanted to unify Germany as Little Germany primarily by the Kingdom of Prussia whilst excluding Austria.

In the absence of this, he authorised large sums to be paid as subsidies to the Prussians, who were fighting countries whose land forces dwarfed their own.

" Historical Eastern Germany ", which historically was the land of the Baltic people called Old Prussians who had been colonised and assimilated by German Drang Nach Osten, was split between Poland, Russia, and Lithuania ( a Baltic country ) and repopulated with settlers of the respective ethnicities.

Between the 14th and 17th centuries, Polish settlers from northern Masovia moved to the southern territories of the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights that was previously the land of the Baltic Old Prussians who were conquered by the Teutonic Knights in the 13th and 14th centuries.

The Germanic tribe referred to as the Aestii by others, who Endzelins states knew themselves as Prussians, transferred the name to the more eastern Estonians with which they had contact since the first century BC, as the Estonians did not have their own name other than maarahvas " people of the land ".

The 1846 Wielkopolska Uprising () was a planned military insurrection by Poles in the land of Greater Poland against the Prussian forces, designed to be part of a general Polish uprising in all three partitions of Poland, against the Russians, Austrians and Prussians.

The preferred method was to try to convert the still heathen Prussians to Christianity, and thereby also acquire their land.

A 1341 document reported that the Teutonic Order had bestowed land on the river Angerapp ( Angrapa ) upon twelve Old Prussians for their loyal service.

The urban land use study carried out by the planning division staff has consisted of identifying and mapping all urban land uses which are of significance to statewide planning.

* Israel: Israel's land primarily consisted of desert until the construction of desalination plants along the country's coast.

Compaq's ( now HP United States ') headquarter campus consisted of of land which contained 15 office buildings, 7 manufacturing buildings, a product conference center, an employee cafeteria, mechanical laboratories, warehouses, and chemical handling facilities.

About 28. 4 % of the total land area consisted of forests and woodlands in 2000.

Its geographic coordinates are 24 ° 51 ′ N 67 ° 02 ′ E. Most of the land consisted largely of flat or rolling plains, with hills on the western and Manora Island and the Oyster Rocks.

Manors each consisted of up to three classes of land:

Not all manors contained all three kinds of land: typically, demesne accounted for roughly a third of the arable area, and villein holdings rather more ; but some manors consisted solely of demesne, others solely of peasant holdings.

As with peasant plots, the demesne was not a single territorial unit, but consisted rather of a central house with neighbouring land and estate buildings, plus strips dispersed through the manor alongside free and villein ones: in addition, the lord might lease free tenements belonging to neighbouring manors, as well as holding other manors some distance away to provide a greater range of produce.

Russia consisted mainly of poor farming peasants, with 1. 5 % of the population owning 25 % of the land.

The land area of San Marino consisted only of Mount Titano until 1463, at which time the republic entered into an alliance against Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, duke of Rimini, who was later defeated.

Almost all of the interior consisted of cattle and sheep ranches ; pasture accounted for 89 % of the country's productive land.

The Rotkappen saw limited combat service during 1945 and consisted of a winged missile, resembling a large bird about to land with wingtip steering rocket jets.

Taxpayers consisted here of male heads of households who owned even a very small shop or piece of land.

The land columns attacking from west of the fort consisted of the New York Volunteers, the Loyal American Regiment, Emmerich's Chasseurs, the 57th and the 52nd Regiments of Foot.

Until well into the 19th century, Zug consisted of agricultural land.

The bases consisted of 5. 8 km² ( 2. 25 mi² ) of land, largely reclaimed from the sea.

They raided along the then-wealthy coast of Gallia Belgica ( i. e., the land south of the Rhine and north of the Rivers Marne and Seine ), and the Chauci made inroads into the region that would later become the Roman province of Germania Inferior ( which mostly consisted of the modern southern Netherlands ).

The reservation consisted of approximately of land extending well out from both sides of the river.

Charles Eddy donated the land which consisted of an entire town block.

By 1794 Highbury consisted of Highbury House and Highbury Hill House, Highbury Barn and the gated terraces of Highbury Terrace and Highbury Place, which had been built on land leased by John Dawes.

The average market value of all machinery and equipment per farm was $ 36, 801 and 31. 69 % of land in farms consisted of harvested croplands.

Mikołajczyk offered a smaller section of land, but Stalin declined, telling him that he would allow the exiled government to participate in the Polish Committee of National Liberation ( PKWN and later " Lublin Committee "), which consisted of communists and satellite parties set up under the direct control by the Soviet plenipotentiary Colonel-General Nikolai Bulganin.

By 1920, the businesses in Loxley consisted of an egg store, grocery store, two general merchandise stores, train depot, drug store, telegraph office, land office, repair garage, post office, bank, hotel, butcher shop, orange packing shed, cement block plant, a blacksmith, a feed and lumber store.

The remaining portion of the original four sections of government land consisted of hills and mountains which were mostly unoccupied, and Congress acted on the commission's recommendation in June 1880 by adding those lands to the permanent reservation.