After winning over the Sanhaja Berber tribe, they quickly took control of the entire desert trade route, seizing Sijilmasa at the northern end in 1054, and Aoudaghost at the southern end in 1055.

These two tribes intended to pass into Italy through the western passes, while the Cimbri and the Tigurines were to take the northern route across the Rhine and later across the Tirolian Alps.

Following the completion of the Erie Canal in 1817, which opened up easier travel to Lake Erie from the East Coast of the United States, the Detroit River became a heavily traversed route for settlers traveling to northern Michigan, and Detroit, as well, experienced a sudden increase in population.

* 1997 – En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.

Fort William is the northern end of the West Highland Way, a long distance route which runs 95 miles through the Scottish Highlands to Milngavie, on the outskirts of Glasgow, and the start / end point of the Great Glen Way, which runs between Fort William and Inverness.

The Helvetii now chose the more difficult northern route through the Sequani territory, which traversed the Jura Mountains, but bypassed the Provincia.

* Highway 65 ( King's Highway ): connects Irbid in the northern region to Aqaba, it takes the name and route of the historic King's Highway

Several proposals in late 1852 and early 1853 had strong support, but in the end they failed because of disputes over whether the railroad would follow a northern or a southern route.

The Northwest Passage is a sea route through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways amidst the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

England called the hypothetical northern route the " Northwest Passage ".

When it became apparent that there was no route through the heart of the continent, attention turned to the possibility of a passage through northern waters.

Established by this point was the purposeful alignment of an " all Canadian route " -- within the rubric of national interest, the federal government refused to consider a less costly route bypassing the rugged Canadian Shield of northern Ontario by passing south through Wisconsin and Minnesota.

* Königgrätzer Straße ( northern portion ), earlier names Brandenburgische Communication and then Schulgartenstraße, running along the former route of the customs wall and leading north to the Brandenburg Gate.

Expressing surprise at the ignorance of the poets, Pliny says " There can be no doubt that amber is the product of the islands of the northern ocean ( Baltic Sea )" and attributes its introduction into the Po valley to the Veneti, the last link in a trade route to the north through Pannonia and Germany.

Three main long-distance footpaths run the length of the mountain range ; the GR 10 across the northern slopes, the GR 11 across the southern slopes, and the HRP which traverses peaks and ridges along a high altitude route.

Topographic map, northern Gulf of Suez, route to Old Cairo | Cairo, 1856.

** Moluccan terrorists take over a school in Bovensmilde, northern Netherlands ( 105 hostages ), and a passenger train on the Bovensmilde-Assen route nearby ( 90 hostages ) at the same time.

Initially, a " northern route ", roughly following the path of the Lewis and Clark Expedition along the Missouri River through present-day northern Montana to Oregon Territory, was considered impractical because of high winter snows.

Whitney envisioned a route from Chicago and the Great Lakes to northern California, paid for by the sale of land to settlers along the route.

This was constructed as part of a project to create a wide-beam canal route to connect the northern and southern parts of the canal system, something which does not exist to this day.

King Henry VII commissioned John Cabot to lead a voyage to find a northern route to the Spice Islands of Asia ; this began the search for the North West Passage.

The city centre and most of the suburban areas lie in the middle, separated from the less densely populated northern rural areas by the Turku bypass, that forms part of European route E18.

The Inter-american Press Association, which blankets the Western Hemisphere from northern Canada to Cape Horn, is meeting in New York City this week for the first time in eleven years.

Richard S. Allen is the authority for the statement that the northern section was probably roofed by 1810.

Tri-State has acquired its exclusive distribution for the northern, principal heating states.

Cattle drove to the northern ranges and held for two winters to mature 'em into prime beef were said to be `` double wintered ''.

Lincoln was supported by Congress and the northern public for these actions.

Lincoln spent the next 100 days preparing the army and the nation for emancipation, while Democrats rallied their voters in the 1862 offyear elections by warning of the threat freed slaves posed to northern whites.

The Gulf Stream and its northern extension towards Europe, the North Atlantic Drift, for example, warms the atmosphere of the British Isles and north-western Europe and influences weather and climate as far south as the northern Mediterranean.

* In 1998, Benoît Lecomte was the first man to swim across the northern Atlantic Ocean without a kick board, stopping for only one week in the Azores.

Extending entirely across the state of Alabama for about south of its northern boundary, and in the middle stretching farther south, is the Cumberland Plateau, or Tennessee Valley region, broken into broad tablelands by the dissection of rivers.

For blacklip abalone, the size limit varies from between 138 mm for the southern end of the state and 127 mm for the northern end of the state.

In 790 he was named abbot of Centulum, also called Sancti Richarii monasterium ( Saint-Riquier ) in northern France, where his brilliant rule gained for him later the renown of a saint.

The population of Akkad, like nearly all pre-modern states, was entirely dependent upon the agricultural systems of the region, which seem to have had two principal centres: the irrigated farmlands of southern Iraq that traditionally had a yield of 30 grains returned for each grain sown and the rain-fed agriculture of northern Iraq, known as " the Upper Country ".

There were a few reasons for this, one of which was political, as the kings of England preferred to appoint bishops from the south to the northern bishoprics, hoping to counter the northern tendency towards separatism.

Soon afterwards a claim for homage from Henry of England drew forth from Alexander a counter-claim to the northern English counties.

At the end of 1874, when Field Marshal Serrano left Madrid to take command of the northern army in the Carlist War, Brigadier Martínez Campos, who had long been working more or less openly for the king, led some battalions of the central army to Sagunto, rallied to his own flag the troops sent against him, and entered Valencia in the king's name.

* 1454 – The Treaty of Lodi is signed, establishing a balance of power among northern Italian city-states for almost 50 years.

As one of the waterways and ancient highways, for centuries the road led from Europe to Asia and back, and from northern Africa to the Baltic Sea.

Assyria or Athura ( Aramaic for Assyria ) was a Semitic Akkadian kingdom, extant as a nation state from the late 25th or early – 24th century BC to 608 BC centred on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia ( present day northern Iraq ), that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history.

The Johnnycake was a poor substitute to some for wheaten bread, but acceptance by both the northern and southern colonies seems evident.

Much of the northern colonists depended upon the ability either of themselves to hunt, or for others from which they could purchase game.

Also, the old airfield at Rabasa was closed and air traffic moved to the new El Altet Airport, which made a more convenient and modern facility for charter flights bringing tourists from northern European countries.