Due to the extremely rugged, mountainous nature of Southeastern Alaska, almost all communities ( with the exception of Hyder, Skagway, and Haines ) have no road connections outside of their locale, so aircraft and boats are the major means of transport.

The small size of nearby communities make the city a major commercial and industrial hub of the region.

) Before a major fire, typical chaparral plant communities are dominated by manzanita, chamise ( also called greasewood or Adenostoma fasciculatum ) and Ceanothus species, Toyon ( which can sometimes be interspersed with scrub oaks ), and other drought-resistant shrubs with hard ( sclerophyllous ) leaves ; these plants resprout ( see resprouter ) from underground burls after a fire.

Three major bridges that cross the Lempa were swept away, restricting access to the eastern third of the country and forcing the emergency evacuation of many communities.

Main roads connect virtually all major communities, but maintenance work is difficult because of heavy rainfall.

His conscription policies led to a popular Arab revolt in 1834, resulting in major casualties for the local Arab peasants and massacres of Christian and Jewish communities by the rebels.

' Religion remained the major cause of differentiation in all Irish diaspora communities and had the greatest impact on identity, followed by the nature and difficulty of socio-economic conditions faced in each new country and the strength of continued social and political links of Irish immigrants and their descendants with the old country.

Over the next four centuries this law underwent discussion and debate in both of the world's major Jewish communities ( in Israel and Babylonia ), and the commentaries on the Mishnah from each of these communities eventually came to be edited together into compilations known as the two Talmuds.

Escaped slaves known as Jamaican Maroons established independent communities in the mountainous interior that the British were unable to suppress, despite major attempts in the 1730s and 1790s.

She implemented four major initiatives: Take Time For Kids, an awareness campaign to educate parents and caregivers on parenting ; family literacy, through cooperation with the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy, she urged Texas communities to establish family literacy programs ; Reach Out and Read, a pediatric reading program ; and Ready to Read, an early childhood educational program.

Across town, Greenwich Village also saw a growing homosexual community ; both Harlem and Greenwich Village provided furnished rooms for single men and women, which was a major factor in their development as centers for homosexual communities.

Over the next four centuries this material underwent analysis and debate, known as Gemara (" completion "), in what were at that time the world's two major Jewish communities, in the land of Israel and in the Babylonian Empire.

Outside Israel, in Orthodox and Conservative communities, the holiday lasts for eight days with the first two days and last two days being major holidays.

The Kurds, many of whom speak Kurdish, make up 9 % of the population and live mostly in the northeast corner of Syria, though sizable Kurdish communities live in most major Syrian cities as well.

The major Sinhalese communities in Italy are located in Lombardia ( In the districts Loreto and Lazzaretto ), Milan, Lazio, Rome, Naples and Southern Italy ( Particularly Palermo, Messina and Catania ).

The private study requirement to review the Targum was never entirely relaxed, even when Jewish communities had largely ceased speaking Aramaic, and the Targum never ceased to be a major source for Jewish exegesis.

The mass housing projects of Ernst May and Bruno Taut are evidence of markedly creative designs being incorporated as a major feature of new planned communities.

A major development in recent decades has been the study of the formation, structure, and evolution of scientific communities by sociologists and anthropologists including Michel Callon, Bruno Latour, John Law, Anselm Strauss, Lucy Suchman, and others.

First developed in the late 19th century, it is one of the largest Chinatowns in North America and one of several major Chinese-Canadian communities in the Greater Toronto Area.

Shiraz has had major Jewish and Christian communities.

In his research Zaken outlines three major eruptions that took place between 1843 and 1933 during which the Assyrian Christians lost their land and hegemony in their habitat in the Hakkārī ( or Julamerk ) region in southeastern Turkey and became refugees in other lands, notably Iran and Iraq, and ultimately in exiled communities in European and western countries ( the USA, Canada, Australia, New-Zealand, Sweden, France, to mention some of these countries ).

" Further, the report showed " Comprehensive programs worked for both genders, for all major ethnic groups, for sexually inexperienced and experienced teens, in different settings, and in different communities.

The Bosnian Christian communities also experienced major changes.

Respecting their need, one of the major focal points of our concern is the South-Asian region.

Traditionally, wheat and barley were the main crops of the region, but the inauguration of major new irrigation projects in the 1980s has led to greater agricultural diversity and development.

In addition to asparagus, the production of hops plays a major role locally, the region having its own label, and there are still three independent breweries in the area.

Now the Jats are major land holders in the region.

The region was a major producer of raw opium ( hence the name Afyon ) until the late 1960s when under international pressure, from the USA in particular, the fields were burnt and production ceased.

The major cities are the capital Sarajevo, Banja Luka in the northwest region known as Bosanska Krajina, Bijeljina and Tuzla in the northeast, Zenica and Doboj in the central part of Bosnia and Mostar, the capital of Herzegovina.

Recent studies suggest that deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon could increase sharply in the future as a result of over US $ 40 billion in planned investments in highway paving and major new infrastructure projects in the region.

The Dutch, however, who had supplied the major share of the troops and money to secure the victory ( the Austrians had produced nothing of either ) claimed the government of the region till the war was over, and that after the peace they should continue to garrison Barrier Fortresses stronger than those which had fallen so easily to Louis XIV ’ s forces in 1701.

The following table is a guide to major events in the region during the period covered by the Book of Ezra:

The primary objective was to increase strategic depth between the border and Italy and also to provide a major fluvial supply-route between the Roman armies in the region.

The Goths appear to have established a loose political hegemony over the existing tribes in the region, or at least to have played the leading role in a series of major invasions of the empire launched by a grand coalition of lower Danubian tribes from ca.

The Sarmato-Gothic alliance of the lower Danube carried out major invasions of the Balkans region in 252, and in the periods 253-8 and 260-8.

In northern Biltine Prefecture, a region called the Mortcha plays a major role in animal husbandry.

The Norte Chico civilization included as many as 30 major population centers in what is now the Norte Chico region of north-central coastal Peru.

* Type collections: Often a collection consists of an examples of major design variants for a period of time in one country or region.

Chalmers has partnerships with major industries mostly in the Gothenburg region such as Ericsson, Volvo and SKF.

Until at least September 2005, the United States funded efforts to help protect a major pipeline, the 769-kilometer-long Caño Limón – Puerto Coveñas pipeline, which carries about 20 percent of Colombia's oil production to Puerto Coveñas from the guerrilla-infested Arauca region in the eastern Andean foothills and Amazonian jungle.

Since 1979 the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution has addressed some of the major environmental problems of the UNECE region through scientific collaboration and policy negotiation.

He repeats Acheson's argument that the region lacks major urban centres, but adds that the Maritimes were also lacking the great rivers that led to the cheap and abundant hydro-electric power, key to Quebec and Ontario's urban and manufacturing development, that the extraction costs of Maritime resources were higher ( particularly in the case of Cape Breton coal ), and that the soils of the region were poorer and thus the agricultural sector weaker.

* Designated Market Area, a region of the country in which radio and television stations in the major city of the area are seen in homes and households, as defined by Nielsen Media Research.

In Siam, regional power struggles among several kingdoms in the region led to a large diaspora of ethnic Lao between the 1700s-1800s by Siamese rulers to settle large areas of the Siamese kingdom's northeast region, where Lao ethnicity is still a major factor in 2012.