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Situated in a region of some of the loveliest mountain scenery in the country, the school buildings are located amid open fields and farm lands.
In contrast with other continents, it is marked by the comparatively small area of either very high or very low ground, lands under occupying an unusually small part of the surface ; while not only are the highest elevations inferior to those of Asia or South America, but the area of land over is also quite insignificant, being represented almost entirely by individual peaks and mountain ranges.
Beltane marked the beginning of the pastoral summer season, when the herds of livestock were driven out to the summer pastures and mountain grazing lands.
Early Voortrekker accounts describe how the lands surrounding the mountain retreat of the Basotho had been burnt and destroyed, in effect leaving a vacuum that subsequent Voortrekkers began to occupy.
This boundary dispute was settled in agreements signed in 2002 that would cede 1, 000 km² of Pamir mountain range to China in return for China relinquishing claims to 28, 000 km² of Tajik lands.
In the 1550s, after the Tsardom of Russia had defeated the Khanate of Kazan and proceeded to gradually annex the lands of the Bashkirs, the Russians finally reached the southern part of the mountain chain.
At the end of Maximilian's rule, the Habsburgs ' mountain of debt totalled 6 million gulden ; this corresponded to a decade's worth of tax revenues from the their inherited lands.
Nineteen barrios comprise the rural areas of the municipality, and the topology of their lands varies from flatlands to hills to steep mountain slopes.
The low lands between these two mountain ranges make up the Upper Zeysky Plain, which is primarily marshland with larch and pine forests.
Ahead of the 1990s, the MAB programme was a research programme organized along 14 large research projects addressing ecosystems such as mountain areas, arid lands, etc.
* Hilltop Reservation, opened in spring 2003, is composed of lands in the grounds of the former Essex Mountain Sanatorium, is home to many hiking and mountain biking trails.
It is located at the picturesque narrow west end of the Kittitas Valley (, ) where high elevation timber lands of the Cascade Range, with mountain lakes and vacation homes, give way to horse country and cattle ranches surrounded by rich, irrigated farmlands noted for Timothy hay, alfalfa, vegetables, fruit, and forage production.
During the Saka ’ s period ( from 700 BC to the beginning of the Common Era ), these lands were chosen for residence by Saka tribes and later Uisun tribes inhabiting the territory north of the Tian Shan mountain range.
He quotes the BLM: " An estimated 13. 5 million mountain bicyclists visit public lands each year to enjoy the variety of trails.
The vegetation mixes cactus species of the caatinga dry lands with rare examples of the mountain flora, especially bromeliads, orchids and " sempre vivas " ( member of the strawflower family ).
With the silk trade and quick collapse of the North American beaver-based fur trade in the later 1830s – 1840s, many of the mountain men settled into jobs as Army Scouts, wagon train guides and settlers through the lands which they had helped open up.
The buffalo goes back to a legend that the rules of Nan and Phrae were brothers, and met at a mountain to decide about the boundary between their lands.
Montenegro, preparing to grab Albanian-populated lands for itself, supported a 1911 uprising by the mountain tribes against the Young Turks regime that grew into a widespread revolt.
Montenegro, preparing to grab Albanian-populated lands for itself, supported a 1911 uprising by the mountain tribes against the Young Turks regime that grew into a widespread revolt.
This act aims to preserve the environment around the mountain due to threats from increased development such as conversion to agricultural lands, timber production, hunting, and increased tourism.
He is said to have lived until he was 1, 908 years of age, at which point he decided to leave the mortal lands and headed for the quiet of the mountains where he became a divine spirit of the mountain, or Sansillyeong ( 산신령 ).
The basic plotline involved Harry, his niece Rhonda, and his cowardly mountain lion Quickclaw exploring various lands for hidden treasure.
White Istria is around the mountain peaks, Grey Istria is the fertile inner lands while Red Istria is the blood-red painted lands of terra rossa or " crljenica " near the coastline.

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`` We'll double teams zigzagging up the mountain, Harmony '', he spoke reassuringly, concerned by the pinched look around her mouth.
If one looks at the fields around the Deserted Village and right up the mountain, one can see the tracks in the fields of ' lazy beds ', which is the way crops like potatoes were grown.
They dug a great canal to the sea, and alongside the bridges carved tunnels into the rings of rock so that ships could pass into the city around the mountain ; they carved docks from the rock walls of the moats.
The area around Lake Tanganyika is warmer, averaging ; the highest mountain areas are cooler, averaging.
While the town's name is generally seen as a diminutive form of Barcelona in Spain, Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing point out an earlier attestation of the name Barcilona in Barcelonnette in around 1200, and suggest that it is derived instead from two earlier stems signifying a mountain, * bar and * cin ( the latter of which is also seen in the name of Mont Cenis ).
The area around the peak of the Žumberak mountain is assigned partly to Slovenia and partly to Croatia ( the Sveta Gera area ).
As a result, many Cimbri has left the mountain region and dispersed around the world, for places such as the Rio Grande do Sul state in Southern Brazil.
In antiquity, a cosmological view prevailed in India that held the Earth is a disc that consists of four continents grouped around the central mountain Meru like the petals of a flower.
Fans of " mountain music " come from around the United States to hear this annual concentrated gathering of talent.
The right horn meanwhile circled around the mountain to attack the English rear.
As a young man he had thanked the mountain for saving his life and prayed at the foot of the mountain sprinkling offerings and bowing nine times to the east with his belt around his neck and his hat held at his chest.
The world's longest mountain system is known as Ocean Ridge, which is a chain of mountains that runs on the seafloor of five oceans around the world ; it has a length of, and the total length of the system is.
Rwanda's tourism is centered around the attractions of Volcanoes National Park ( PNV ) with its six volcanoes and its protected population of mountain gorillas made famous by Dian Fossey.
A number of earlier inhabitants of Silesia, the Silingi, remained in the region and they concentrated around the Zobten mountain and in a settlement named Niempsch ( derived from a Slavic name for Germans ).
Other filming locations used were in central and southern Italy, such as the parks of Valle del Treja ( between Rome and Viterbo ), the area of Camposecco ( next to Camerata Nuova, characterized by a karst topography ), the hills around Castelluccio, the area around the Gran Sasso mountain, and the Tivoli's quarries and Sardinia.
As an analogy, running around to the opposite side of a mountain at maximum speed may take longer than walking through a tunnel crossing it.
Large lava flows of andesite and basalt covered parts of the mountain, including one around the year 100 BCE that traveled all the way into the Lewis and Kalama river valleys.
The majority of large deer species inhabit temperate mixed deciduous forest, mountain mixed coniferous forest, tropical seasonal / dry forest, and savanna habitats around the world.
Legend says he is not dead, but asleep with his knights in a cave in the Kyffhäuser mountain in Thuringia or Mount Untersberg in Bavaria, Germany, and that when the ravens cease to fly around the mountain he will awake and restore Germany to its ancient greatness.
At the same time, The Watcher surprises Rabican's army from behind and crushes it, seemingly slaying the Avatara and scattering survivors around the mountain range.
But when summer comes around, Telluride transforms into an outdoor recreation hot spot, with tourists visiting to enjoy a wide range of activities including but not limited to mountain biking, hiking, river rafting, sightseeing and more.
In late frontier times, the Chiricahua ranged from San Carlos and the White Mountains of Arizona, to the adjacent mountains of southwestern New Mexico around what is now Silver City, and down into the mountain sanctuaries of the Sierra Madre ( of northern Mexico ).

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