The Pathet Lao forces held two northern provinces and openly took the offensive in three more.

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

The two large families are cosmopolitan, with many of their species found in the northern hemisphere, and the smaller families are usually confined to Australia and the adjacent areas, or sometimes South America.

Turkey's First Geography Congress in 1941 created two regions to the east of the Gulf of Iskenderun-Black Sea line named the Eastern Anatolia Region and the Southeastern Anatolia Region, the former largely corresponding to the western part of the Armenian Highland, the latter to the northern part of the Mesopotamian plain.

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 ".

Africa is thus mainly composed of two segments at right angles, the northern running from east to west, and the southern from north to south.

* 1994 – In a U. S. friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two United States Army helicopters, killing 26 people.

These colonnades were almost finished in 432 BC and had two wings, the northern one serving as picture gallery.

In early times there were two northern kingdoms ( Bernicia and Deira ) and two midland ones ( Middle Anglia and Mercia ).

The Egyptians, Plato asserted, described Atlantis as an island comprising mostly mountains in the northern portions and along the shore, and encompassing a great plain of an oblong shape in the south " extending in one direction three thousand stadia 555 km ; 345 mi, but across the center inland it was two thousand stadia 370 km ; 230 mi.

Jafar, after two years of siege, escaped the city to ask for help in the northern Christian kingdoms.

Once again, Panipat was the scene of a confrontation between two warring contenders for control of northern India.

After this event many Jews emigrated, in two waves ; some fled to the Muslim lands of the Ottoman Empire, but many also went to Christian Europe, first to northern Italy, then to the Netherlands, and later to England.

The book is structured in two roughly equal parts, the story of the campaigns of the Israelites in central, southern and northern Canaan and the destruction of their enemies, followed by the division of the conquered land among the twelve tribes ; the two parts are framed by set-piece speeches by God and Joshua commanding the conquest and at the end warning of the need for faithful obedience of the Law ( torah ) revealed to Moses.

Nevertheless, two closely related cultures are possible candidate regions as they broadly correspond to where sources placed the Basternae: the Zarubintsy culture lying in the forest-steppe zone in northern Ukraine-southern Belarus, and the Poienesti-Lukashevka culture in northern Moldavia.

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.

These later annexed territories include Eastern Poland ( incorporated into two different SSRs ), Latvia ( became Latvia SSR ), Estonia ( became Estonian SSR ), Lithuania ( became Lithuania SSR ), part of eastern Finland ( became part of the Karelo-Finnish SSR ) and northern Romania ( became the Moldavian SSR ).

The two mountain ranges run generally parallel to the Taurus Mountains on the Turkish mainland, the outlines of which are visible from northern Cyprus.

Since 1974, the internationally recognised Republic of Cyprus has controlled the south two thirds, and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus the northern one-third.

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.

In 1784, the two provinces were divided ; Nova Scotia was split into Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island ( rejoined to Nova Scotia in 1820 ), Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick, while Quebec was split into Lower Canada ( southern Quebec ) and Upper Canada ( southern through lower northern Ontario ).

It stretched across the northern two thirds of the new Reich, and contained three fifths of its population.

Approximately 76 % of all Sikhs live in the northern Indian State of Punjab, where they form a majority ( about two thirds ) of the population.

During the summer after two thirds of the new stadium was complete, the northern and western stands would be demolished and a new pitch laid.

The northern two thirds correspond to the western part of the former province of Maine.

Geologists believe that 15, 000 to 25, 000 years ago the Laurentide ice sheet pushed down from Canada across what are now the Great Lakes, and over much of the northern U. S. One of the ice sheet's lobes bulldozed down over two thirds of Taylor county, at its farthest extent covering a line from Westboro through Perkinstown to Lublin.

The community is located within Allendale Charter Township and the CDP area consists of about the northern two thirds of the township, from the eastern boundary with the Grand River west along Pierce St., north along 75th Ave., then west along Lake Michigan Drive ( M-45 ) to the western boundary of the township.

The northern two thirds of the district belong to the North German plain ; the mountain ranges Teutoburg Forest and Wiehen Hills run east-west in the southern third of the district.

The northern part of the island forms a lowland plain that comprises some two thirds of the surface area.

By the late eighteenth century South Ronaldsay was divided into two unequally sized parishes, St. Peter ’ s covered the northern two thirds of the island while St. Mary ’ s formed the southern third.

It is not significantly used in Europe or the northern two thirds of Asia.

Following the collapse of NorOntair in 1996, Bearskin picked up over two thirds of that carrier's routes, thereby adding scheduled service to all the major northern Ontario cities.

* The Kingdom of Hungary – two thirds of the former territory that was administered by the medieval Kingdom of Hungary was conquered by the Ottoman Empire and the Princes of vassal Ottoman Transylvania, while the Habsburg administration was restricted to the western and northern territories of the former kingdom, which remained to be officially referred as the Kingdom of Hungary.

Large tracts of the central and northern Chaco have high soil fertility, sandy alluvial soils with elevated levels of phosphorus and a topography that is favorable for agricultural development, but in combination with aspects that are challenging for farming: a semi-arid to semi-humid climate ( 600 – 1300 mm annual rainfall ) with a six-month dry season and sufficient fresh groundwater restricted to roughly one third of the region, two thirds being without groundwater or with groundwater of high salinity.

The southern two thirds of the floor has a slightly lower albedo than the northern part.

The Americas contain two thirds of the known species, distributed from southern United States to Uruguay and northern Argentina.

A round of talks between Spain, Morocco and Mauritania were held in Madrid and culminated in a tripartite agreement, becoming known as the Madrid Accords On November 16, 1975, where Spain formally ceded the administration of the northern two thirds of the territory to Morocco, while the southern third was to be administrated by Mauritania.

In the northern part of this plateau, west of Jackson county, there are about of level highlands from above sea level.

There are nine historic baronies, four in the northern area and five in the south of the county:

The modern English county of Essex maintains the historic northern and the southern borders, but only covers the territory east of the River Lea, the other parts being lost to neighbouring Mercia during the 8th Century.

The last county to be formed was County Wicklow in 1606-1607, taking in the southern part of Dublin ( with the exception of three " islands ," exclaves of ( mainly ) church property ), and the northern part of " Catherlough " or Carlow, including Arklow.

Since 1995, Jan Mayen has been administered by the County Governor ( fylkesmann ) of the northern Norwegian county of Nordland to which it is closest.

* Meridian Baseline Historical Park: a historical park in Henrietta Township in the northern part of the county.

Kesgrave is a small town in the English county of Suffolk on the northern edge of Ipswich.

A former RCA facility in Taiwan's northern county of Taoyuan polluted groundwater with toxic chemicals and led to a high incidence of cancer among former employees.

The Township of Tecumseh was organized on April 12, 1837, initially encompassing the entire northern third of the county.

In 1779 the State of North Carolina abolishes the county when it forms Warren County from the northern portion and Franklin County from the southern portion.

Kiskunlacháza is a town in Pest county in the northern part of Central Hungary, approximately 4 miles from the Danube river and its largest neighbor, Ráckeve.

Baltimore County is a county located in the northern part of the US state of Maryland.

Washington County is a county located in the western part of the US state of Maryland, bordering southern Pennsylvania to the north, northern Virginia to the south, and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia to the south and west.

The northern portions of the county were occupied by smaller bands of Wappinger such as the Tankiteke, Kitchawank and Sintsink.

Larger mammals include black-tailed deer, coyote, raccoon, skunk and invasive opossum ; with sightings of lynx, bobcat, black bear, cougar and elk not uncommon, especially in the northern parts of the county.

The northern and western portions of the county are forested, while the remainder of the county includes urban areas, agricultural lands, and floodplains.

The northern region of the county is still very much rural with large farmlands but at the same time developed residences used during the summer and or on weekends by people living in the New York City urban area.

Almost a half mile long border exists with Berkshire County, Massachusetts in the extreme northern end of the county.

There are piney woods ( sometimes capitalized ) in the northern part of the county.

This was an enormous county, including the northern part of New York State as well as all of the present State of Vermont and, in theory, extending westward to the Pacific Ocean.

The northern end of the county is part of the Adirondack Mountains.

Prior to the 1890s Perthshire's boundaries were irregular: the parishes of Culross and Tulliallan formed an exclave some miles away from the rest of the county, on the boundaries of Clackmannanshire and Fife ; while the northern part of the parish of Logie formed an enclave of Stirlingshire within the county.

While fishing in the Genesee and other area streams is excellent, Wiscoy Creek in the northern part of the county ( also in Wyoming County ) is one of the most famous trout streams in the area, drawing fishermen from across northeastern USA.