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The main island is located some off the southeastern coast of China across the Taiwan Strait.
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The Momoyama family had come from Miyagi Prefecture, in the northeast of the main Japanese island of Honshu, where there are still traces of the mysterious Ainu strain.
* 1483 – Gran Canaria, the main island of the Canary Islands is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile.
Restoration and the construction of a main entrance to all museums, as well as the reconstruction of the Stadtschloss on the same island is costing over 2 billion Euros since reunification.
The main industries on the island include fishing, arts and crafts such as glass making and pottery using locally worked clay, and dairy farming.
Upon the arrival of the Dutch, the trail soon became the main road through the island from Nieuw Amsterdam at the southern tip.
The main town and administrative centre is Bandanaira, located on the island of the same name.
Five of the Banda islands were within gunshot of each other and he realised that a fort on the main island Neira would give him full control of the group.
The main island, Banda Neira ( centre ) viewed from the peak of Gunung Api volcano.
Palmeira on Sal supplies fuel for the main airport on the island, Amílcar Cabral International Airport, and is important for the hotel construction taking place on the island.
Generally they operate between outlying villages and the main town on each island.
Five of the districts are located on the main island, Grand Cayman.
Geopolitically, the island is divided into four main segments.
The main town of Fermanagh is Enniskillen (, ' Ceithleann's island ').
The Comoros archipelago consists of four main islands aligned along a northwest-southeast axis at the north end of the Mozambique Channel, between Mozambique and the island of Madagascar.
Dzaoudzi, capital of Comoros until 1962 and now Mahoré's administrative center, is situated on a rocky outcropping off the east shore of the main island.
Daily flights linked the three main islands, and air service was also available to Mahoré ; each island had airstrips.
The first two serve international routes, as the main gateways to the island for travellers.
Visitors reach the island via two international airports in Heraklion and Chania and a smaller airport in Sitia ( international charter and domestic flights starting May 2012 ) or by boat to the main ports of Heraklion, Chania, Rethimno, Agios Nikolaos and Sitia.
The majority of islands are low coral atolls in the Northern Group, with Rarotonga, a volcanic island in the Southern Group, as the main administration and government centre.
The main island is the largest of about 60 islands which form the Chagos Archipelago.
Besides the main island, there are three small islets at the mouth of the lagoon: West Island ( 3. 4 ha / 8. 4 acres ); Middle Island ( 6 ha / 14. 8 acres ); and East Island ( 11. 75 ha / 29 acres ).
The game board consists of the main Settlers island as well as a few smaller islands, which award a special victory point to each player for their first settlements on them.
On the large island, there exists a " wall of deserts " that separates the island into a large main area and separate smaller strips of land.
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`` The main bunch is outside, but there are some over there inside the wall ''.
The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries.
But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.
Steele's main business here is to arouse public opinion to the immediate danger of a Stuart Restoration.
The old ideal of the independent entrepreneur is extant -- but so is the recognition that the main chance may be in a corporate bureaucracy.
In the main stream of historical thinking is a group of scholars, H.M. Chadwick, R.H. Hodgkin, Sir Frank Stenton et al. who are in varying degrees sceptical of the native traditions of the conquest but who defend the catastrophic type of invasion suggested by them.
He had also learned to dispute extempore remarkably well, the main evidence for which of course is the presence of his name in the honors list of 1628/29.
The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg is composed in the form of a triptych, with the two small side panels framing and enclosing the main central episode of the novel.
Krim's main attack is upon the aesthetic and the publishing apparatus of American literary culture in our day.
The main question raised by the incident is how much longer will UN bury its head in the sand on the Congo problem instead of facing the bitter fact that it has no solution in present terms??
every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main ''.
Most immediately relevant to these episodes in Goa, Katanga and Ghana, as to the Suez-Hungary crisis before them, is the belief that the main theater of the world drama is the underdeveloped region of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
It is vitally important that the new U.S. aid program should encourage all of them, since the main thrust for development must come from the less developed countries themselves.
Stated in its simplest terms, the main job of the Planning Division is to plan for the future of the State of Rhode Island.
The substantial progress being made in ballistic missile technology is rapidly shifting the main threat from manned bombers to missiles.
Their main asset is an abundance of unsaturated fatty acids, so necessary for maintaining the good health of the circulatory system.
The main requirement is to be sure the boat is numbered according to the regulations of the state in which the boat will be principally used.
The main set of bars are the `` tappets '' and one tappet is connected to each lever.
It is one of the very few, if not the only surviving bridge of its type to serve a main artery of the U.S. highway system, thus it is far more than a relic of the horse and buggy days.
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