The village of Madina do Boé in the southeasternmost area of the territory, close to the border with neighbouring Guinea, was the location where PAIGC guerrillas declared the independence of Guinea-Bissau on September 24, 1973.

The inhabitants were drawn chiefly from Montauriol, a village which had grown up around the neighbouring monastery of St Théodard.

At the beginning of 2004, Adnams purchased land in neighbouring village of Reydon to expand its business with a new distribution centre, designed by architect Jeremy Blake, which was nominated for the 2007 RICS East of England Award for Sustainability.

Small portions of the county are administered by councils that are based in neighbouring counties, notably the village of Aghagallon in the Craigavon Borough and the town of Portrush in the Coleraine Borough.

* Communes: The Mayor and staff, caring for the needs of a single town or of a village and neighbouring minor towns or villages.

The village has a train station called " Quorn and Woodhouse ", shared with the neighbouring hamlet of Woodhouse, which was on the national Great Central Railway network.

Objection was widespread, not only at the prospect of losing the cricket field but also due to the threat to a neighbouring wetland ecosystem, considered valuable by environmentalists and the village population.

At county level, Quorn, along with the neighbouring village of Barrow upon Soar, is represented by a single Leicestershire County Council councillor, Tony Kershaw ( Con ).

The development of the suburbs has connected South Malling to Lewes although the church mainatins its village setting by the River Ouse, with the neighbouring rectory.

Since 1994 Veghel and the neighbouring village of Erp have formed a single municipality.

At the same time at least 25 mortar shells were fired into the neighbouring village of Budrus.

It is the location of Feltham Young Offenders ' Institution, situated near the town's border with Ashford and the neighbouring village of East Bedfont.

The school has close links to the Christian Churches in South Walsham and the neighbouring village of Upton.

The club's ground is in neighbouring village, Great Cornard.

During World War II, RAF Leiston, northwest of the town in the neighbouring village of Theberton, sent fighter squadrons of the American 357th Fighter Group to fight the Luftwaffe.

The planned village was then mostly meant to provide services to the neighbouring farmers.

The village is expected to grow with some 3, 000 households in the coming years, a 50 % growth ( Sonniuswijk or Breugel, which has to be decided after a MER investigation ), as a measure to prevent the municipality from being absorded within the neighbouring municipality of Eindhoven.

During the Batavian Republic period, the neighbouring village of Thamen was merged with Uithoorn.

The same word has given name to the neighbouring village of Höör.

His parents could only afford to send him to a small school in the village, but he picked up some Latin from the friars of a neighbouring convent, who brought him under the notice of the bishop of Beauvais.

Other finds in the parish point to large scale prehistoric structures and settlements in the whole area, including the numerous monuments around Stonehenge, the discovery of a Neolithic village in the neighbouring parish of Durrington by the Stonehenge Riverside Project, and continuing excavations at Boscombe Down where Wessex Archaeology found the Amesbury Archer and Boscombe Bowmen.

While the practice is now widespread, decorative village signs are still common in Norfolk and in the neighbouring county of Suffolk as well as Essex and other eastern / east anglian counties.

The ruined parish church North Walsham, an Anglo-Saxon settlement, and the neighbouring village of Worstead became very prosperous from the 12th century through the arrival of weavers from Flanders.

Gomersal was originally ' Great Gomersal ' according to historical maps – neighbouring village Little Gomersal has, however, retained its diminutive.

A number of tributaries join it near the village of Isfield, and more at Barcombe Mills, where it is used by Southern Water along with neighbouring Barcombe Reservoir, and there are many weirs and bridges.

In 1920, the five neighbouring municipalities of Woensel ( to the north ), Tongelre ( northeast and east ), Stratum ( southeast ), Gestel en Blaarthem ( southwest ) and Strijp ( west ), which already bore the brunt of the housing needs and related problems, were incorporated into the new Groot-Eindhoven (" Greater Eindhoven ") municipality.

Afghanistan seems in prehistory, as well as in ancient and modern times, to have been closely connected by culture and trade with the neighbouring regions to the east, west, and north.

While neighbouring Nunavut is mostly Arctic tundra, the Northwest Territories has a slightly warmer climate and is mostly boreal forest ( taiga ), although about half of the territory is north of the tree line.

The Bushveld area has been demarcated by the World Wildlife Fund as part of the Angolan Mopane woodlands ecoregion, which extends north across the Cunene River into neighbouring Angola.

The municipality is part of the " Stadsregio Arnhem-Nijmegen " ( Cityregion Arnhem-Nijmegen ( neighbouring city, 15 km north )), a metropolitan area with 736, 107 inhabitants ( January 2011 ).

As many of the small neighbouring municipalities from the north and south of the city were annexed during the mid-20th century, Turku is today shaped like an elongated pear.

Turku Airport is located eight kilometres to the north of the city centre, partly in the neighbouring municipality of Rusko.

Additionally, most neighbouring districts are regarded as exclusive residential areas, including Knightsbridge and Brompton to the east and the nearest parts of Notting Hill to the north.

albertana ), and moving east along the Gulf of Mexico, and then north again, through the Atlantic coastal and inland neighbouring states.

Historians ( such as William St. Clair-Baddeley in 1929 ) have concluded that the Saxons may have launched a surprise attack and seized the site at Hinton Hill because it commanded the Avon Valley and disrupted communications north and south between Bath and her neighbouring Romano-British towns of Gloucester and Cirencester.

Milngavie is located to the north of the neighbouring town of Bearsden.

However, upon Napoleon's second defeat in 1815, the Congress of Vienna reassigned the areas north of the Lauter to Bavaria ; and those territories are now presently located in the neighbouring German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Islington remains a district with diverse inhabitants, with its millionaires ' houses and apartments not far from social housing in immediately neighbouring Islington districts such as Finsbury and Clerkenwell to the south, Bloomsbury and King's Cross to the west, and Highbury to the north west, and also the Hackney districts of De Beauvoir and Old Street to the north east.

The northernmost third of the constituency, around Penge and Crystal Palace, can be categorised as being similar in character to neighbouring Lewisham and north Croydon, having an inner-city feel about it and many ethnic minority residents.

There have been plans for a connection to the A12 motorway to the north ( to facilitate for a better connection from the western parts of Houten ) since 2002, but since this road needs to be built across land of the neighbouring municipality Bunnik, these plans are blocked by NIMBY lobby groups.

It lies south of Exeter along the A380 on the north of Torbay, north-east of Plymouth and adjoins the neighbouring town of Paignton on the west of the bay.

The larger neighbouring kingdoms included Northumbria to the north, recently united from its constituent kingdoms of Bernicia and Deira, East Anglia to the east, and Wessex, the kingdom of the West Saxons, to the south.

Amersham on the Hill is built on the north side of the Misbourne valley, on a small plateau that forms the watershed between the Misbourne and the neighbouring River Chess.

This reservoir, with a capacity of, was erected north of Hill Crest Road, Hanger Hill, in 1888 and a neighbouring reservoir for was constructed c. 1889.

Close to the border with the neighbouring county of Shropshire, the village is eight miles ( 13 km ) east of Whitchurch and seven miles ( 11 km ) north of Market Drayton.

The only neighbouring village is Grayshott ; however less than three miles away to the north is Churt, Surrey and to the south is Haslemere, which has the nearest railway station .</ br >

The neighbouring municipalities of Kongsberg are Flesberg to the north ; Øvre Eiker and Hof to the east ; Lardal, Siljan, and Skien to the south ; and Sauherad and Notodden to the west.

Wetzlar's neighbouring towns and cities are Gießen ( up the Lahn from centre to centre about 12 km ), Koblenz 80 km down the Lahn, Limburg an der Lahn 40 km to the west, Siegen 50 km to the northwest, Dillenburg 30 km to the north, Marburg 30 km to the northeast and Frankfurt am Main 60 km to the south.

Along the valleys of the Lahn ( east and west ) and Dill ( north ) are heavily built-up neighbouring communities, whose built-up areas in some places merge with Wetzlar's.