UN has said that up to 20, 000 people left the region, taking refuge in nearby Cameroon and Nigeria.

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

Those that stayed behind and replanted choose high-yielding varieties like Trebbiano and Sangiovese clones such as the Sangiovese di Romagna from the nearby Romagna region.

Geographical distribution of gazpachos manchegos is limited to the east region of La Mancha, in Albacete and nearby areas.

Hong Kong has also had an abundant supply of labour from the region nearby.

The flooded grasslands and savannas ecoregion in the south central region of the island surrounds a chain of lakes and lagoons in which the most notable include that of Lake Azuei and Trou Caïman in Haiti and the nearby Lake Enriquillo in the Dominican Republic.

Strong trade ties also made the region an important cultural center and established it as a base that would influence nearby kingdoms and regions in Burma, Sri Lanka, Maritime Southeast Asia, and Indochina.

Ibn Battuta joined the royal caravan for a while, then turned north on the Silk Road to Tabriz, the first major city in the region to open its gates to the Mongols and by then an important trading centre as most of its nearby rivals had been razed by the Mongol invaders.

In the late 9th century, a Slavic Pomeranian fortified settlement was built at the site of modern part of Kołobrzeg county called Budzistowo near modern Kołobrzeg, replacing nearby Bardy-Świelubie, a multi-ethnic emporium, as the center of the region.

* In Finland, a municipality ( kunta ) is independent and constitutes local government ; each co-operates with municipalities nearby in a sub-region ( seutukunta ) and region ( maakunta ).

The olive tree is native to the Mediterranean region and Western Asia, and spread to nearby countries from there.

Primer sequences need to be chosen to uniquely select for a region of DNA, avoiding the possibility of mishybridization to a similar sequence nearby.

In an effort to reduce increasing piracy in the nearby region, Seychelles requested Indian Navy to carry out anti piracy operations in her waters.

Tübingen is, with nearby Reutlingen ( about east ), one of the two centre cities of the Neckar-Alb region.

However, sticky rice, the staple food of the region, which requires flooded, poorly drained paddy fields, thrives and where fields can be flooded from nearby streams, rivers and ponds, often two harvests are possible each year.

Soon a massive movement of people, goods and money started moving towards the Klondike, Yukon region and the nearby District of Alaska.

In the nearby Les Perrieres vineyard, the topsoil is only around 12 inches ( 30 centimeters ) above the limestone and the wine from that region is much more powerful, minerally and tight, needing longer in the bottle to develop fully.

The exact cause of this phenomenon is still being investigated, although it has been hypothesized that narrow jets of gas from some of the young stars in the region punctured the sheet of dust and gas, as well as, powerful radiation from a nearby mature star may have helped to create the hole.

The landscape is characterised by granite rocks and harsh mountains that, even if not particularly high, have constituted for millennia a barrier between this region and the nearby territories of Baronie and Montalbo.

Horseradish ( often grated and mixed with cream, hard-boiled eggs, or apples ) is also a traditional Easter dish in Slovenia and in the adjacent Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia ; it is used also in the other nearby Italian region of Veneto.

Maluku was a cosmopolitan society where spice traders from across the region took residence in settlements, or in nearby enclaves, including Arab and Chinese traders who visited or lived in the region.

Along with nearby Bratislava, Vienna forms a metropolitan region with 3 million inhabitants.

It is also a commercial hub for the surrounding region, while tin and iron were mined nearby.

Approximately one-third of nearby galaxies are classified as containing LINER nuclei.

George Papashvily in his book Anything Can Happen ( 1940 ), claimed that there was a discovery in the Caucasus mountains of a cavern containing giant human skeletons " with heads as big as bushel baskets " and also of an ancient tunnel nearby which leads down into the inside of the earth.

This also allows small objects to be detected in an environment containing much larger nearby slow moving objects.

Many were found in formal excavations but some, particularly a coffin still containing a male skeleton, were unearthed nearby during building work.

However supersweet varieties containing the sh2 allele must be grown in isolation from other varieties to avoid cross-pollination and resulting starchiness, either in space ( various sources quote minimum quarantine distances from 100 to 400 feet or 30 to 120 m ) or in time ( i. e., the supersweet corn does not pollinate at the same time as other corn in nearby fields ).

One of the first significant gifts of costume came in 1913 when the V & A received the Talbot Hughes collection containing 1, 442 costumes and items as a gift from Harrods following its display at the nearby department store.

On September 5, 1864, Union General Albert L. Lee left from Baton Rouge to make another raid on Clinton and destroyed a tannery at nearby Greensburg containing two thousand sides of leather.

The Jordan curve theorem asserts that every Jordan curve divides the plane into an " interior " region bounded by the curve and an " exterior " region containing all of the nearby and far away exterior points, so that any continuous path connecting a point of one region to a point of the other intersects with that loop somewhere.

Galactic Sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha is a galactic sector containing Earth, Barnard's Star, and probably other nearby systems.

In 1925 Hrozný led a Czech archaeological team that discovered 1000 cuneiform tablets containing contracts and letters of Assyrian merchants in the Turkish village of Kültepe, and excavated the nearby ancient Hittite city of Kanesh.

Roman Górecki, ( 1889-1946 ), a World War II Polish Army general, is buried at Whitchurch cemetery in a war graves plot containing mainly burials from the then Polish military hospital at nearby Iscoyd Park ( within Wales ) where he died.

At 9: 02 A. M. on April 19, 1995, a Ryder rental truck, containing approximately 5, 000 pounds ( 2, 300 kg ) of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, nitromethane, and diesel fuel was detonated in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, destroying a third of the building and causing severe damage to several other buildings located nearby.

The Avebury monument was a part of a larger prehistoric landscape containing several older monuments nearby, including West Kennet Long Barrow and Silbury Hill.

Benjamin Leclerc then purchased an estate containing the nearby village of Buffon and moved the family to Dijon acquiring various offices there as well as a seat in the Dijon Parlement.

In the nearby Glengarriff Forest is the glen that gave Glengarriff its name, ( loosely translated as: rough glen ) containing some of the oldest and most extensive oak and birch groves left in Ireland.

There are also seedy sections containing karaoke, hostess bars and massage parlours although the seediness is mild compared to nearby Mong Kok.

Cannock Chase German war cemetery is located nearby containing 4, 885 German military dead from the First and Second World Wars.

Other notable buildings include the parish church of St. Michael and All Angels, the Painted Room ( containing sixteenth-century frescoes ), nearby Eastnor Castle and the St. Katherine's Hospital site.

Two oblong mounds, one containing 46 Romano-British burials and one containing 8 Saxon burials, lie nearby.

This denotes its importance to the nearby settlements known today as The Kimbles and collectively they comprise a typical Chiltern strip parish with Ellesborough containing valuable hill pasture.

Then in the 1930s, the Sacred Heart Catholic Mission set up a settlement containing a primary school nearby.

" These two confrontational techniques also distract the snake from any nearby squirrel burrows containing pups.

The manorial court records of nearby Halesowen record a " Great Fire of Birmingham " between 1281 and 1313, an event possibly reflected in late 13th century pits containing large quantities of charcoal and charred and burnt pottery found beneath Moor Street.