Previously, the Progressive Conservative Party had dominated the suburban and commuter ridings around Toronto ( the so-called " 905 belt ", referring to the region's telephone code ).

Due to the coin's wide circulation in the Upper Rhine region, it was adopted as standard currency in the so-called Rappenbund (" Rappen federation "), a union of regional mints formed in 1399 that included the Bishop of Basel and most of the region's larger cities.

Acerra, Nola, and Marigliano had been identified as the three points of the so-called " Triangle of Death " in which illegal waste management by criminal organizations (" ecomafia ") have resulted in environmental conditions endangering the health of the region's people.

The area surrounding Marion is part of the Corn Belt ; as such, agriculture remains a significant component of the region's economy.

Spofford Lake is one of the region's largest and oldest resorts.

Lakewood was known as one of the New York City region's winter resorts at the turn of the 1900s.

Yet tourism has been helping substantially the local economy since the late 19th century with sanatoria and winter sports resorts built in the High Tatras and the Low Tatras, the areas of natural beauty such as the Slovak Paradise ( Slovenský raj ) in the south-west and the Pieniny National Park at the Slovak-Polish border, and also the region's many historical sites like Spiš Castle and nearby-located Spišské Podhradie, Spišská Kapitula, Žehra and the town of Levoča ( all of which are listed by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites ), Kežmarok, and Stará Ľubovňa Castle.

As well as being the oldest and largest town in South Tyneside, South Shields is also one of the region's most popular seaside resorts.

The creation of the Tortuguero National Park in 1970 gave much needed protection to one of the region's most important and unique natural resources: a 22 km stretch of shoreline that serves as the principal nesting site for sea turtles.

By the 1st century BC, the use of hieroglyphs gave way to a Meroitic script that adapted the Egyptian writing system to an indigenous, Nubian-related language spoken by the region's people.

The region's dramatic variety of elevation gave rise to many species of edible plants for early experiments in cultivation.

It is also argued by some historians that Italy had a minor interest in the mutton and livestock that were then plentiful in Somalia, though whatever designs Italy may have had on the resource-challenged Somali landscape were undoubtedly subordinate to its interest in the region's ports and the waters and lands they gave access to.

Due mainly to the region's hot and inhospitable weather and fervent resistance from indigenous groups, the Spanish tried but eventually gave up the idea of colonizing the Caribbean lowlands and instead opted to exploit the central valley and Pacific regions.

Now without any obstacle, the Emperor gave the region's counties to Bernard and Toulouse to Guerin.

Germany's 1916 defeat in Africa in World War I eventually gave control of the territory to the French, the region's third occupying force in less than a century.

The topography is highly suggestive of a volcanic crater and, given that the region's rocks are indeed igneous and there are hot springs, this gave rise to a common misconception that Poços de Caldas would be located inside the crater of a large extinct volcano.

Nevertheless, the Carte orange was novel in that it was the first ticket that gave the passenger unlimited access to all of the region's public transports for a flat rate, and during a specific period of time.

Celebrating this unique region's rich maritime history, the festival has something to offer to everyone, young and old.

This came to a head in 1777, when Lieutenant Jacob Rose raised an army of several hundred of the region's young men to go fight alongside the British in return for 50 acres ( 0. 2 km² ) each.

As a region's farms become more productive, its comparative advantage in agricultural products increases, which means that it can produce these products at a lower opportunity cost than can other regions.

One such opportunity was identified at the Gateshead Youth Stadium, where it was considered that investment might bring a raising of the region's profile and international recognition.

However, most of these racial, religious ( i. e. Jews and Mormons ), and ethnic groups moved to segregated suburbs after World War II, and Mexicans who had been forced into squalid slums such as Boyle Heights ' infamous " The Flats " ( later the site of the infamous Aliso Village housing project ) seized the opportunity to move into the region's housing at low prices.

Students who major in broadcast journalism and in mass media are given the opportunity to join the staff for both the school newspaper, and also use and hone skills working for KKOM, KETV-3, and the region's source for news and information, KETR.

In the meantime, while the South has been undergoing this phenomenal modernization that is so disappointing to the curious Yankee, Southern writers have certainly done little to reflect and promote their region's progress.

Sharp sought " old world " English and Scottish ballads passed down to the region's inhabitants from their British ancestors.

Some lcoal media, which takes an interest in state or provincial news can rise to prominence due to their investigative journalism, and to the local region's preference of updates in national politics rather than regional news.

In July 2010, the Puntland Council of Ministers unanimously approved a new anti-terrorism law to more efficiently handle terror suspects and their accomplices ; a special court is also expected to be established within the region's existing criminal courts system to facilitate the task.

The first limited access highways were Parkways, so called because of their often park-like landscaping and, in the metropolitan New York City area, they connected the region's system of parks.

The region's ethnic diversity has been affected by repeated waves of immigrant workers from abroad: Belgians before 1910 ; Poles and Italians in the 1920s and 1930s ; Italians and Germans since 1945 and North Africans and Portuguese since 1960 ; and large cities like Lille, Calais, and Boulogne are home to sizable communities of British, Dutch, Scandinavian, Sub-Saharan African, and Latin American immigrants and their descendants.

Extension and widening of the road was fiercely opposed by environmentalists, who were concerned about the road's proximity to San Francisquito Creek, and by residents of Menlo Park, who feared that completion of the road would increase traffic congestion in their area due to the mid-Peninsula region's lack of a direct north-south arterial.

The area's proximity to Paris promoted the region's economic success in its wine trade but also put the villages and vineyards in the path of marching armies on their way to the French capital.

The military achievements of these and later western Sudanic rulers, and their control over the region's gold mines, constituted the nexus of their historical relations with merchants and rulers in North Africa and the Mediterranean.

Barossa's early settlers brought their food traditions with them, instilling the region's cuisine with a strong German influence.

However, their itineraries diverge when they discover the region's cultural heritage and its cuisine: some visit Troyes and its ancient houses, others visit Langres and its walls, Châlons-en-Champagne and it Cloister, still others visit Épernay, Reims, or Colombey-les-deux-Églises.

Historically, Klamath County's economy was based on timber and agriculture, and although these natural resource industries now contribute only a small fraction to the region's current economic activity and employment, their legacy lives on in local politics, community identity, and landscape.

Many farmers found that they could no longer sell their tobacco crop at a profit and that the ATC was the region's only buyer, now that the many tobacco companies had formed the trust using that agency to purchase all the tobacco from any farmer at a fixed price.

Today's residents of Genoa point to the region's first post office and several other attributes of stability, correctly noting that their community deserves the title of " Nevada's first town.

There, español may be used as in Castile to stress the national nature of the language, but with a slightly different nuance: they are accepting another region's historical language as their own.

Warrenton served as a center for trade and entertainment for the region's planters and their slaves.

Serving as the region's agricultural hub during much of the first quarter of the 20th century, Shawnee provided the markets for significant numbers of farmers to sell their crops.

Toponymists are responsible for the active preservation of their region's culture through its toponymy.

Each year the Côte d ' Azur hosts 50 % of the world's superyacht fleet, with 90 % of all superyachts visiting the region's coast at least once in their lifetime.

From March to October 1915, a plague of locusts stripped areas in and around Palestine of almost all vegetation and the Turkish authorities, worried about feeding their troops, turned to world-famous botanist and the region's leading agronomist, Aaron Aaronsohn.

This fact, combined with the region's infertility, meant that the Locrians tended to be dominated by their neighbours, and played little part in Greek history.

Early residents in the area made their living catching the region's plentiful waterfowl.

Likely due to their region's lack of suitable candidates for domestication, the Khoisan did not have farming or domesticated animals until a few hundred years before then, when they adopted the domesticated cattle and sheep of the Bantu that had spread in advance of the people's actual arrival.

The region's isolation from Central Thailand and the large population of people in Isan, who were still attached to their cultural heritage, helped preserve Lao culture.