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The river lands are occupied by the Vanir and are called Vanaland or Vanaheim.
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The result of the bloody three-day confrontation known as the Battle of the Maule was that the Inca conquest of the territories of Chile ended at the Maule river, which subsequently became the boundary between the Incan empire and the Mapuche lands until the arrival of the Spaniards.
The Great Uprising of 1598 swept all Spanish presence south of the Bío-Bío River except Chiloé ( and Valdivia which was decades later reestablished as a fort ), and the great river became the frontier line between Mapuche lands and the Spanish realm.
The lands comprising modern-day Albania were incorporated into the Roman Empire as part of the province of Illyricum above the river Drin, and Roman Macedonia ( specifically as Epirus Nova ) below it.
He then invaded the Glomacze lands on the middle Elbe river, conquered Gana ( Jahna ), the capital after a siege, and had a fortress ( the later Albrechtsburg ) built at Meissen.
Upon his succession to the throne, Humayun had two major rivals interested in acquiring his lands — Sultan Bahadur of Gujarat to the south west and Sher Shah Suri ( Sher Khan ) currently settled along the river Ganges in Bihar to the east.
Indian removal was a 19th century policy of the government of the United States to relocate Native American tribes living east of the Mississippi River to lands west of the river.
The Indians east of the Mississippi were to voluntarily exchange their lands for lands west of the river.
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 implemented the U. S. government policy towards the Indian populations, which called for relocation of Native American tribes living east of the Mississippi River to lands west of the river.
He was hard pressed by the predations of Hazael, king of the Arameans, who is said to have defeated his army " throughout all of the territories of Israel " beyond the Jordan river, in the lands of Gilead, Gad, Reuben, and Manasseh ( f ).
:" Japhet, the son of Noah, had seven sons: they inhabited so, that, beginning at the mountains Taurus and Amanus, they proceeded along Asia, as far as the river Tanais ( Don ), and along Europe to Cadiz ; and settling themselves on the lands which they light upon, which none had inhabited before, they called the nations by their own names.
The Mississippi River flows along a ridge formed by its own deposits ( known as a levee ), from which the lands decline toward a river beyond at an average fall of six feet per mile ( 3 m / km ).
The plateau lands west of the escarpment are of moderate elevation-perhaps averaging It is, however, only along the Zambezi and north of that river that Mozambique's territory reaches to the continental plateau.
Agriculture throughout the region has been supplemented by nomadic pastoralism, where tent-dwelling nomads herded sheep and goats ( and later camels ) from the river pastures in the dry summer months, out into seasonal grazing lands on the desert fringe in the wet winter season.
:: Meanwhile, the noble Margrave Hodo, having collected his army attacked Mieszko, who has been faithfully paying tribute to the Emperor ( for the lands ) up the Warta river.
The archbishops played a prominent role in the German colonisation of the Slavic lands east of the Elbe river.
The connection to the Nile River was made not simply because this was then known as the great river of " Aethiopia " ( by which all lands south of the desert were called by Classical writers ), but because the Nile flooded every summer.
In, attributed to the time of the Persian Empire in about 450 BC, it is said that Nehemiah, an official serving King Artaxerxes I of Persia, asked leave to travel to Judea, and the king granted leave and gave him a letter " to the governors beyond the river " requesting safe passage for him as he travelled through their lands.
Occasionally a cliff touches the river, but in general the lands are subject to yearly inundations throughout its course, the river rising at times above 50 feet ( 15 m ), the numerous lakes to the right and left serving as reservoirs.
The river marked the boundary between the lands of the Etruscans to the west, the Sabines to the east and the Latins to the south.
He knew that the Dutch had established deeds for the lands east of the river ( New Jersey ), but not for the lands to the west ( Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania ).
Around the time of Alexander I of Macedon, the Argead Macedonians started to expand into Upper Macedonia, lands inhabited by independent Macedonian tribes like the Lyncestae and the Elmiotae and to the West, beyond Axius river, into Eordaia, Bottiaea, Mygdonia, and Almopia, regions settled by, among others, many Thracian tribes.
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On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.
The grass and fields of rice are perfectly green, and herds of cattle are everywhere feeding on the banks of the river, and the natives are scattered about differently employed.
Some are fishing, some driving the team, and many are sitting indolently on the banks of the river.
Bridges, tunnels and ferries are the most common methods of river crossings.
The big factories which are relatively near the centers of our cities -- the rubber factories in Akron, Chrysler's Detroit plants, U.S. Steel's Pittsburgh works -- often began on these sites at a time when that was the edge of the city, yet close to transport ( river ), storage ( piers ) and power ( river ).
Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues ( Cicero described his literary style as " a river of gold "), it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.
These materials are found mostly on the continental shelves and are thickest near large river mouths or off desert coasts.
North of the mineral region is the Cereal Belt, embracing the Tennessee Valley and the counties beyond, whose richest soils are the red clays and dark loams of the river valley ; north of which are less fertile soils, produced by siliceous and sandstone formations.
There are ten species of salmon inhabiting the Anadyr river basin.
Although the Caiman has not been studied in-depth, scientists have learned that their mating cycles ( previously thought to be spontaneous or year-round ) are linked to the rainfall cycles and the river levels, which increases chances of survival for their offspring.
The lake absorbs huge amounts of eroded gravel and snowmelt that the river brings from the Alps, and the former swamps have become fruitful plains: they are known as the " vegetable garden of Switzerland ".
There are for example fragments in ' Sapphic ' meter praising the Dioscuri, Hermes and the river Hebrus ( a river significant in Lesbian mythology since it was down its waters that the head of Orpheus was believed to have floated singing, eventually crossing the sea to Lesbos and ending up in a temple of Apollo, as a symbol of Lesbian supremacy in song ).
The Black Sea also receives river water from large Eurasian fluvial systems to the north of the Sea, of which the Don, Dnieper and Danube are the most significant.
On the coastlines, Harbor Seals and river otters are common.
The caissons or cofferdams are implanted deep into the floor of a lake or river.
Sections of the Una river and villages at the base of Mount Plješevica are in Croatia, while some are in Bosnia, which causes an excessive number of border crossings on a single route and impedes any serious development in the region.
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Caesar occupied the town first and defeated the Germans before its walls, slaughtering most of the German army as it tried to flee across the river ( 1. 36ff ).
A branch of the Bastarnae, called the Peucini by Greco-Roman writers, occupied the region north of the Danube river delta.
Kinshasa, with 7 km of river frontage occupied by wharfs and jetties, is the largest inland waterways port on the continent.
The Po river is first certainly identified in the Graeco-Roman historians and geographers of the late Roman Republic and the early Roman Empire, long after the valley had been occupied successively by prehistoric and historic peoples: Ligures, Etruscans, Celts, Veneti, Umbri, and Romans.
The Southern Transvaal Ndebele occupied the river valley, which was to become the location of the city of Pretoria, by around 1600.
Gen. Charles F. Smith's division and occupied Fort Heiman across the river from Fort Henry.
They occupied the summit of a low hill, directly abutting on the sea, and bounded on the west by the marshy valley through which flows the river Madiuni, the ancient Selinus ; on the east by a smaller valley or depression, also traversed by a small marshy stream, which separates it from a hill of similar character, where the remains of the principal temples are still visible.
For 10, 000 years they occupied the bluffs along the river, building a large mound on the bluff.
This occupied land at the corner of the modern Whitehall and into the centre of Northumberland Avenue, running down to a wharf by the river.
Lower plains along the river have also been occupied.
They mainly occupied the flat banks of the river Bistriţa.
Once the Yuan forces occupied Xiangyang, they could travel by ships down the Han river into the Yangtze river.
A number of Mongol and Turkic peoples occupied the river banks for many centuries.
Situated on a promontory by the Ebre ( Ebro ) river, the town occupied an important strategic position.
Here stood Ur ( Mugheir, more correctly Muqayyar ) the earliest capital of the country ; and Babylon, with its suburb, Borsippa ( Birs Nimrud ), as well as the two Sippars ( the Sepharvaim of Scripture, now Abu Habba ), occupied both the Arabian and Chaldaean sides of the river.
Royal letters from the city of Mari on the middle of the Euphrates, have confirmed that the area around the Balikh river remained occupied in ca.
At the time of European contact, the Chowanoke occupied most of the territory along the river.
The land adjacent to the river, from Strawberry Hill in the south to Marble Hill Park in the north, is occupied by a mixture of luxury dwellings, formal gardens, public houses and a newly built park and leisure facility.
When the tunnel valley was free of ice and seawater, it was occupied by the river.
The term " Massaco " may refer to the indigenous peoples, the river itself, the village occupied by the indigenous peoples, and the land adjacent to the river.
The Rangers burned cotton gins, plantation houses, and Negro quarters on the estates along the river and in the back country which were occupied by federal lessees and scalawags, the term heaped on those southerners who pledged loyalty to the Union.
It is believed that the town, as well as the river that runs along its southern border, are both named for the American Indian tribe that occupied the region.
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