During much of the year the general level of business activity has moved along on a record-high plateau, but there have been persistent signs of slack in the economy.

The south facing slopes rise steeply from the Mediterranean coastal plain, but slope very gently on the north side towards the Anatolian plateau.

The two largest basins on the plateau are the Konya Ovasi and the basin occupied by the large salt lake, Tuz Gölü.

Overgrazing has contributed to soil erosion on some parts of the plateau.

It lies above sea level on the plateau.

The Piedmont Plateau is a lowland worn down by erosion on hard crystalline rocks, then uplifted to form a plateau.

His tomb still exists on the plateau between Lake Gygaea and the river Hermus to the north of Sardis — a large mound of earth with a substructure of huge stones.

It was built on a raised plateau overlooking the east bank of the river Strymon where it emerged from Lake Cercinitis, about 3 m. from the Aegean Sea.

Statuary, cult objects, religious offerings and unsalvageable architectural members were buried ceremoniously in several deeply dug pits on the hill, serving conveniently as a fill for the artificial plateau created around the classic Parthenon.

Aarau is situated on the Swiss plateau, in the valley of the Aar, on the river's right bank, and at the southern foot of the Jura mountains, and is west of Zurich.

Lajes Field is a plateau rising out of the sea on the northeast corner of the island.

Most of central Burkina Faso lies on a savanna plateau, above sea level, with fields, brush, and scattered trees.

Villeroi still believed ( on 22 May ) the Allies were a full day ’ s march away when in fact they had camped near Corswaren waiting for the Danish squadrons to catch up ; for his part, Marlborough deemed Villeroi still at Jodoigne when in reality he was now approaching the plateau of Mont St. André with the intention of pitching camp near Ramillies ( see map at right ).

At about 08: 00, after Cadogan had just passed Merdorp, his force made brief contact with a party of French hussars gathering forage on the edge of the plateau of Jandrenouille.

Along the Ramillies – Offus – Autre Eglise ridge-line, Villeroi positioned Walloon and Bavarian infantry, supported by the Elector of Bavaria's 50 squadrons of Bavarian and Walloon cavalry placed behind on the plateau of Mont St. André.

Although Villeroi had the option of enveloping the flanks of the Allied army as they deployed on the plateau of Jandrenouille – threatening to encircle their army – the Duke correctly gauged that the characteristically cautious French commander was intent on a defensive battle along the ridge-line.

This was potentially dangerous for the Allied infantry who would then be at the mercy of the Elector ’ s Bavarian and Walloon squadrons patiently waiting on the plateau for the order to move.

Despite Orkney ’ s protestations, Cadogan insisted on compliance and, reluctantly, Orkney gave the word for his troops to fall back to their original positions on the edge of the plateau of Jandrenouille.

Out of the Samanid dynasty came the Ghaznavids, whose warriors forged the first great Islamic empire from Ghazni ( Afghanistan ) that spanned much of the Iranian plateau, Central Asia and conducted many successful raids into India.

The eastern hills and mountains, an extension of a plateau in southern Brazil, dominate the region, whose highest point is about above sea level.

The mountainous inland is occupied by a vast plateau whose highest peaks are the Gran Sasso ( 2, 912 m ) and Mount Majella ( 2, 793 m ).

The state has two geographic regions, a narrow coastal zone that is home to the Serra do Mar coastal forests, and a high plateau ( 2500 to 3000 ft .) ( 750 to 1000 m ) whose precipitous, deeply eroded eastern escarpments are known as the Serra do Mar or Serra de Cubatão.

The old part of Bautzen is located on the plateau above the Spree, whose top is marked by the Ortenburg castle.

The area surrounding Johnstown is prone to flooding due to its position at the confluence of the Stony Creek and Little Conemaugh Rivers, forming the Conemaugh River, whose upstream watersheds include an extensive drainage basin of the Allegheny plateau.

Leng ( or Y ' Pawfrm e ' din Leng ) is a fictional cold arid plateau in the Cthulhu Mythos, whose location seems to vary entirely from story to story.

country consists of a sort of plateau or tableland about above sea-level, and deeply indented with numerous deep chasms and narrow ravines, the bed of whose creek is, to all intents and purposes, on the same level as the sea ... Mr Carver, previous to my arrival, attempted to overcome the difficulty by heading up all the creeks, and he ran a trial line upwards of eight miles ( 13 km ) in length, but this brought him to the summit of the range from which there was no getting down .</ div >

In position on the plateau of Denai, in the Valley of Vestino, inland of Lake of Garda, rises the small village of Magasa, whose origins go back to the Celtics ; they called the place mag, the field.

The first of Denniston's communities to suffer the pinch were quite naturally the smaller settlements such as Burnett ’ s Face, the town half a mile up the plateau, whose main road was the constantly-running narrow gauge skipway linking the coal face with the Bins at the head of the Denniston Incline.

The highest mountain in the group is Waun Fach whose heavily eroded peat summit plateau attains a height of.

More eastern segments of the road, identifiable in present-day northern Iran, were not noted by Herodotus, whose view of Persia was that of an Ionian Greek in the West ; stretches of the Royal Road across the central plateau of Iran are coincident with the major trade route known as the Silk Road.

The official version of the origin of the name, as given by the Puerto Rico Department of Natural Resources, and under whose care the island is currently entrusted, is as follows: " Its name is attributed to the 18th century French writer Jean Baptist Labat who called it Coffre A ’ morr ( Caja de Muertos ), making reference to the fact that when the island is seen from certain places in southern Puerto Rico, it gives the impression of seeing a dead person laying on a plateau.

This aided a planned offensive whose objective was to capture more of the Villers-Bretonneux plateau.

The Zimbabwean plateau eventually became the centre of subsequent Kalanga states.

In the west the flora resembles that of central Europe, while in the east it is distinctly Mediterranean in character, though the difference of latitude is only about 1 °, on both sides of the chain from the centre whence the Corbières stretch north-eastwards towards the central plateau of France.

The centre of Tanzania is a large plateau, which is part of the East African Plateau.

Thailand has about the same surface area as Spain and a length of approximately 1650 kilometers or 1025 miles ( Italy, in comparison, is about 1250 kilometers or 775 miles long ), with foothills of the Himalayas in the north, a high plateau in the northeast, a verdant river basin in the centre and tropical rainforests and islands in the south.

The city sits on an elevated plateau, 130 to 140 metres ( 425 to 460 ft ) above sea-level ( whereas the elevation of the centre of Paris is only 33 m ( 108 ft ) above sea level ), surrounded by wooded hills: in the north the forests of Marly and Fausses-Reposes, and in the south the forests of Satory and Meudon.

Bern lies on the Swiss plateau in the Canton of Bern, slightly west of the centre of Switzerland and north of the Bernese Alps.

To the north the plateau gradually slopes away towards the Oxus, falling from an average altitude of 15, 000 feet to 4, 000 feet about Faizabad, in the centre of Badakhshan, but tailing off to ~ 100 at Kunduz, in Kataghan, where it merges into the flat plains bordering the Oxus river.

Zoheleth-the serpent-stone, a rocky plateau near the centre of the

It links the upper town ( the historical centre, located on a plateau ) with the lower town, has three stations and runs on rubber tyres.

Vicenza's area was a location of major combat in both World War I ( on the Asiago plateau ) and World War II ( a focal centre of the Italian resistance ), and it was the most damaged city in Veneto by Allied bombings, including many of its monuments ; the civil victims were over 2, 000.

Once the centre of power of the Maratha Empire, it is situated 560 metres above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the confluence of the Mula and Mutha rivers.

A red ochre painting discovered at the centre of the Arnhem Land plateau about two years ago depicts two emu-like birds with their necks outstretched.

The town centre lies 5 km to the north, on a plateau on the western side of the river.

Kōya was to become a representation of the two mandalas that form the basis of Shingon Buddhism: the central plateau as the Womb Realm mandala, with the peaks surrounding the area as petals of a lotus ; and located in the centre of this would be the Diamond Realm mandala in the form of a temple which he named Kongōbu-ji — the Diamond Peak Temple.

Between the 12th century and early 16th century, the town served as the political and administrative centre of this essentially independent County of Gorizia, which at the height of its power comprised the territory of the present-day regions of Goriška, south-east Friuli, the Kras plateau, central Istria and East Tyrol.

The sandstone plateau area of the ecoregion is a particularly rich centre of biodiversity supporting a unique heathland flora.

Far from the city centre, near the ICTP ( International Centre for Theoretical Physics ) you can find the Department of Theoretical Physics, on the coastline road, in Miramare-Grignano, and the Department of Astronomy, located near Trieste's two Astronomical Observatories: on San Vito hill and on the karst plateau, near Basovizza.

The centre of the island is a moorland plateau, rising to 1, 289 feet ( 393 metres ) at An Sgurr, a dramatic stump of pitchstone, sheer on three sides.

The centre of Eltham is situated on a plateau, high enough to offer unrestricted views across South London.

At the centre is the marshy depression of Skiddaw Forest — a treeless plateau at an altitude of ; and flowing outwards from here are the rivers which divide the area into three sectors.

The earlier sources suggested that the " name ‘ Ediacara ’ or ‘ Idiyakra ’ may be derived from an Indigenous term associating it with a place near water " However, " recent linguistic research has suggested that the term may be a mispronunciation of the two words ‘ Yata Takarra ’ meaning hard or stony ground in reference to the flat Ediacara plateau of dolostone that forms the centre of the Ediacara syncline.

Right behind the city centre, the area known as " El Alto " forms a plateau at about 900 m of altitude.

In the centre of the plateau is a smooth surface, containing a hollow, which archaeologists consider to be reminiscent of dolmens found in southwestern Syria, and which Samaritans consider to be a portion of their former temple.

The centre of the area consists of an upland plateau enclosed by hill ranges.