Also vexatious were the Saxons, the name Roman writers gave to the peoples who lived in the northern part of what is now Germany and the southern part of the Jutland peninsula.

Several paleontologists suggest the possibility of two separate brown bear migrations: grizzlies are thought to stem from narrow-skulled bears which migrated from northern Siberia to central Alaska and the rest of the continent, while Kodiak bears descend from broad-skulled bears from Kamchatka, which colonized the Alaskan peninsula.

Nigeria began to withdraw its forces, comprising some 3, 000 troops, beginning 1 August 2006, and a ceremony on 14 August marked the formal handover of the northern part of the peninsula.

Advocates for a northern homeland point to Greek and Roman sources that associate the Cimbri with the peninsula of Jutland, Denmark.

Chaparral is a shrubland or heathland plant community found primarily in the U. S. state of California and in the northern portion of the Baja California peninsula, Mexico.

The title was not exactly hereditary but self proclaimed by those who had, wholly or partially, united the Christian northern part of the Iberian peninsula, often at the expense of killing rival siblings.

The island is divided into two parts, the northern portion which is Maxorata and the southwestern part called the Jandía peninsula.

It was the first invasion of the peninsula, apart from its remotest northern regions, since the days of Hannibal, 500 years before.

In the 15th century, the most important among all of the separate Christian kingdoms that made up the old Hispania were the Kingdom of Castile ( occupying northern and central portions of the Iberian Peninsula ) the Crown of Aragon ( occupying northeastern portions of the peninsula ) and the kingdom of Portugal occupying western iberian peninsula.

Indeed, the breadth of his vision gave rise to his grand strategy of conquering Rome by opening a northern front and subduing allied city-states on the peninsula rather than by attacking Rome directly.

Almost 40 % of the Italian territory is mountainous, with the Alps as the northern boundary and the Apennine Mountains forming the backbone of the peninsula and extending for.

The distribution of immigrants is largely uneven in Italy: 87 % of immigrants live in the northern and central parts of the country ( the most economically developed areas ), while only 13 % live in the southern half of the peninsula.

They are believed to have originated from Jutland peninsula ( called Iutum in Latin ) in modern Denmark, Southern Schleswig ( Southern Jutland ) and part of the North Frisian coast in northern Germany.

The northern part of the peninsula is occupied by Koryak Autonomous Okrug, where around 6, 700 Koryaks live.

With Lusitania ( and Asturia and Gallaecia ), Rome had completed the conquest of the Iberian peninsula, which was then divided by Augustus ( 25 – 20 BC or 16-13 BC ) into the eastern and northern Hispania Tarraconensis, the southwestern Hispania Baetica and the western Provincia Lusitana.

( Paran is a vaguely defined region in the northern part of the Sinai peninsula, just south of Canaan ) Moses sent twelve spies into Canaan as scouts, including most famously Caleb and Joshua.

The Korean peninsula was divided into two occupied zones in 1945, with the northern half of the peninsula occupied by the Soviet Union and the southern half by the United States.

* Marin County, California, is a southwards-pointing peninsula surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, the northern part of San Francisco Bay, and San Pablo Bay

The Scandinavian Peninsula is a peninsula in Northern Europe, which today covers Norway, Sweden, and most of northern Finland.

The northern and central part of the peninsula is partially inhabited by the Sami, often referred to as " Lapps " or " Laplanders ".

Despite its name, Mare Island in the northern part of the bay is a peninsula rather than an island.

North of Najd a larger desert, An Nafud, isolates the heart of the peninsula from the steppes of northern Arabia.

* 1945 – Cold War: United States troops arrive to partition the southern part of Korea in response to Soviet troops occupying the northern part of the peninsula a month earlier.

Andromeda is represented in the northern sky by the constellation Andromeda, which contains the Andromeda Galaxy.

The northern two-thirds of the province is largely unpopulated and undeveloped, and is mostly mountainous except east of the Rockies, where the Peace River District, in the northeast of the province contains BC's portion of the Canadian Prairies.

The northern desert contains great mineral wealth, principally copper.

A number of noteworthy coastal areas abut the Kattegat, including the Kullaberg Nature Reserve in Scania, Sweden, which contains a number of rare species and a scenic rocky shore, the town of Mölle, which has a picturesque harbour and views into the Kullaberg, and Skagen at the northern tip of Denmark.

Earth's northern hemisphere contains most of the planet's land, and roughly 90 % of its human population.

The northern third of Michigan is called the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and contains:

Saudi Arabian Oil Company ( Saudi Aramco ) technicians have determined that very deep aquifers lie in many areas of northern and eastern Arabia and that the Wasia, the largest aquifer in Saudi Arabia, contains more water than the Persian Gulf.

The name refers either to the constellation Ursa Major, the " Great Bear ", which is prominent in the northern portion of the celestial sphere, or to the constellation Ursa Minor, the " Little Bear ", which contains Polaris, the Pole Star, also known as the North Star .< ref >

The Basilica of Aquileia ( northern Italy ) contains an apse fresco ( c. 1031 ) showing emperor Conrad II, his wife Gisela of Swabia and Patriarch Poppone of Aquileia.

A fragment of a Gospel Book, now in the Durham Cathedral library and created in northern Britain in the 7th century, contains the earliest example of true knotted designs in the Celtic manner.

The northern area of the city near the Atlantic coast contains Splashmins Fun Park, Fort William Frederick, a park and the Umana Yana, a conical thatched building built by Wai-Wai Amerindians using traditional techniques.

It also contains redwood forests, along with the Sierra Nevada including Yosemite Valley and Lake Tahoe, Mount Shasta ( the second-highest peak in the Cascade Range after Mount Rainier in Washington ), and the northern half of the Central Valley, one of the world's most productive agricultural regions.

The northern part of Aksai Chin is referred to as the Soda Plain and contains Aksai Chin's largest river, the Karakosh, The river, which receives meltwater from a number of glaciers, crosses the Kunlun farther northwest, in Pishan County and enters the Tarim Basin, where it serves as one of the main sources of water for Karakax and Hotan Counties.

Lying between the two mountain ranges is the so-called Central Valley, which contains some of the richest agricultural land in the country, especially in its northern portion.

The southern European chestnut wood usually contains at least 10 to 13 % more tannin than chestnut trees in northern climates.

The northern part of the county contains part of the Uinta Mountains.

The northern portion contains a large military base, Vandenberg Air Force Base, and thus military interests are prominent.

The northern third of Iredell county is highly rural and contains no large towns.

The commercial district surrounding South Coast Plaza, which contains parts of northern Costa Mesa and southern Santa Ana, is sometimes called South Coast Metro.

The town's largest park, World War I Memorial Park, is located in the northern part of town and contains the highest point in Bristol County-Sunrise Hill ( Watery Hill ) at 390 feet above sea level.

The township contains the northern property of Michigan International Speedway.

The northern border contains 48161, which is primarily used for the city of Monroe and Monroe Charter Township.

Thompson and Meserve's Purchase contains a northern portion of the Presidential Range, including Mount Adams, the second highest mountain in New Hampshire at, and Mount Jefferson, the third highest peak at.

The town contains the southernmost point in the state of New Hampshire, at, as the northern boundary of Massachusetts runs slightly northwest from Pelham.