The territory the tribes covered came to be known as Illyria to Hellenistic and Roman authors, corresponding roughly to the area between Adriatic sea in west, Drava river in North, Morava river in east and the mouth of Vjosë river in south.

Lesotho can be roughly divided into three geographic regions: the lowlands, following the southern banks of the Caledon River, and in the Senqu river valley ; the highlands formed by the Drakensberg and Maloti mountain ranges in the east and central parts of the country ; and the foothills that form a divide between the lowlands and the highlands.

By the end of the 5th century they had moved into the area roughly coinciding with modern Austria north of the Danube river, where they subdued the Heruls and later fought frequent wars with the Gepids.

The river then follows a roughly southwest and then west-northwest course until Cincinnati, before bending to a west-southwest course for most of its length.

The city's main thoroughfare, which roughly follows the river, changes names over its length, but the central tree-lined section running through the downtown core is called the Prado.

Seabed survey shows that when the sea level was lower in the Ice Age the River Solent continued the line of the eastern Solent ( Spithead ) to a point roughly due east of the east end of the Isle of Wight and due south of a point about 3 km west of Selsey Bill, and then south-south-west for about 30 km, and then south for about 14 km, and then joined the main river flowing down the dry bed of the English Channel.

In the 15th century the Conté of Provence was bounded by the Var river on the east, the Rhone river to the west, with the Mediterranean to the south, and a northern border that roughly followed the Durance river.

Vanderbilt decided to use paddle wheel steam ships from the U. S. to the San Juan river, small paddle wheel steam launches on the San Juan river, boats across Lake Nicaragua, and a stage coach to the Pacific where connections could be made with another ship headed to California, Oregon, etc .. Vanderbilt, by undercutting fares to the Isthmus of Panama and stealing many of the Panama Railroad workers, managed to attract roughly 30 % of the California bound steam boat traffic.

The capital Tunis is located near the coast, roughly between the mouth of the Medjerda river to the north and Cap Bon ( Watan el-Kibli ).

The course of the Orinoco forms a wide ellipsoidal arc, surrounding the Guiana Shield ; it is divided in four stretches of unequal length that roughly correspond to the longitudinal zonation of a typical large river:

Between Maquaqua / Wyandotte and Detroit ( a distance of roughly ) there were numerous settlers living along the river who inhabited their ancient " Ribbon Farms ", some dating back to the time of Antoine Cadillac's founding of " Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit ", in July 1701.

The southern coast runs roughly northwest-southeast, connects these two river mouths and is punctuated by the mouth of a third river, the River Nene.

You begin at an elevation of roughly 640 m and descend to 93 m which is the altitude of the river.

* The Shepaug River flows north to south, roughly through the center of Washington, through a winding, largely undeveloped river valley.

It has featured events, musical entertainment, sporting events, traveling exhibits, cultural and historical activities, plays, interactive children's events, a flea market, river events, a parade, block parties, a food court, fireworks and souvenirs for the roughly 370, 000 + patrons who attend each year.

The one metre above mean sea level contour line runs roughly parallel to the river ; the municipality's interior is characterised by flat or gently rolling grasslands and woodlands at about 10 – 15 metres above mean sea level.

Four major federal highways pass through Lenoir City: U. S. Route 11, which runs roughly parallel to the river shore, traverses the city east-to-west ; U. S. Route 321, which crosses Fort Loudon Dam south of the city, traverses the city north-to-south.

The district was situated roughly between the river Elbe and the city of Schwerin.

The mouth and estuary of the Congo was now discovered ( perhaps in August 1482 ), and marked by a Padrão, or stone pillar ( still existing, but only in fragments ) erected on Shark Point, attesting the sovereignty of Portugal ; the great river was also ascended for a short distance, and intercourse was opened with the natives of the Bakongo kingdom.

Extreme northern point of the province is marked by the Liwiec river, with both Siedlce, and Łuków being part of Lesser Poland.

One of its marked features is the five parallel furos which from the north-west at almost regular intervals the Amazon sends to the Purus ; the most south-westerly one being about 150 miles ( 240 km ) above the mouth of the latter river.

This inland sea of some is connected to the Gulf of Oman in the east by the Strait of Hormuz ; and its western end is marked by the major river delta of the Shatt al-Arab, which carries the waters of the Euphrates and the Tigris.

The eastern slopes are less steep and are marked by dry river beds ( wadis ) that trace the courses of ancient rivers and continue to lead the rare rainfalls down to the plains.

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.

Lyon went down river to Portland, Oregon, a trip marked by the alleged theft of the treasury from his steamship cabin.

Inasmuch as the eastern banks of the Rhone marked the edge of his kingdom, when the river flooded up into the city of Avignon, Phillip taxed the city since during periods of flood, the city technically lay within his domain.

In the 1800s, the river marked the disputed border between Mexico and the nascent Republic of Texas ; Mexico marked the border at the Nueces River.

They became reconciled, and upon Henry's death in 1024, Conrad appeared as a candidate before the electoral assembly of princes at Kamba, an historical name for an area on the East banks of the river Rhine and opposite to the German town Oppenheim ( Today the position of Kamba is marked by a small monument, which displays Conrad on a horse ).

Surviving documents attest that around 1437 a representative of the Raczków family, Jakub Tabutowicz of the coat of arms Łabędź, received from Michael Žygimantaitis son of Sigismund Kęstutaitis, Duke of Lithuania, a wilderness area located along the river Biała that marked the beginning of Białystok as a settlement.

The Mattagami then flows into the Moose ; it is at the meeting of the Missinaibi and Mattagami rivers that the Moose river begins, marked by an island known as Portage Island.

Because its demarcation line was midway between Cape Saint Roque ( northeast cape of South America ) and the mouth of the Amazon River ( its estuary is marked Todo este mar he de agua doçe ( All of this sea is fresh water ) and its river is marked Rio grande ( great river )), Harrisse concluded that the line was at 42 ° 30 ' W on our sphere.

The recorded history of the village dates back nearly 2000 years, when the Romans constructed a fort at Fectio ( now Vechten ) with a harbour facing the river Rhine, which marked the border of the Roman Empire.

The city sits on a high bluff above the Mississippi River ; to reach the riverbank, one must travel down a steep road to the landing called Silver Street, which is in marked contrast to the flat " delta " lowland found across the river surrounding the city of Vidalia, Louisiana.

The north town line is the border of Ulster County, New York, partly marked by the Shawangunk Kill, a small river.

In the original charter of 1664, Cochecton marked the border between New York and New Jersey. along the Delaware river, a spot was marked named " station rock ".

Its twin city is McCaysville, Georgia, with the two situated as a single town aligned along the northwestward-flowing river rather than the east / west state line, which cuts diagonally across streets ( where it is marked with a blue line ) and through buildings.

The border between Upper and Lower Lusatia is roughly marked by the course of the Schwarze Elster river at Senftenberg and its eastern continuation toward the Silesian town of Przewóz on the Lusatian Neisse.

But it had, as was usual in southern cities of this sort, a Black Bottom, a low region near the river where the Negroes lived -- servants and laborers huddled together in a region with no sewage save the river, where streets and sidewalks were neglected and where there was much poverty and crime.

Under Lincoln's leadership, the Union set up a naval blockade that shut down the South's normal trade, took control of the border slave states at the start of the war, gained control of communications with gunboats on the southern river systems, and tried repeatedly to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia.

The dynasty originated amongst the Lamtuna and the Gudala, which were nomadic Berber tribes of the Sahara traversing the territory between southern Morocco, the Niger river and the Senegal river.

Around 1511 or earlier, he travelled down the river and south into the Alps, where the scenery moved him so deeply that he became the first landscape painter in the modern sense, making him the leader of the Danube School, a circle that pioneered landscape as an independent genre, in southern Germany.

The old city of Aarau is situated on a rocky outcrop at a narrowing of the Aar river valley, at the southern foot of the Jura mountains.

The border on the Una river between Hrvatska Kostajnica on the northern, Croatian side of the river, and Bosanska Kostajnica on the southern, Bosnian side, is also being discussed.

* the southern and southwestern regions, which are the driest of all, are drained by the Molopo river along the South African border and the Nossob river through the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, and are technically part of the basin of the Orange river.

The Bastarnae or Basternae () were an ancient Germanic tribe, who between 200 BC and 300 AD inhabited the region between the eastern Carpathian mountains and the Dnieper river ( corresponding to the modern Republic of Moldova and western part of southern Ukraine ).

The border on the Una river between Hrvatska Kostajnica on the northern, Croatian side of the river, and Bosanska Kostajnica on the southern, Bosnian side, is also being discussed.

The climate is hot and humid in the river basin and cool and dry in the southern highlands, with a cold, alpine climate in the Ruwenzori Range.

tropical ; hot and humid in equatorial river basin ; cooler and drier in southern highlands ; cooler-cold and wetter in eastern highlands and the Ruwenzori Range ; north of Equator-wet season April to October, dry season December to February ; south of Equator-wet season November to March, dry season April to October

Most of the islands in the Detroit River are in the southern portion of the waterway near Grosse Ile and close to where the river empties into Lake Erie.

In its course from Lake Victoria to Juba in southern Sudan, the White Nile's channel drops more than 600 m. In its 1, 600-km course from Juba to Khartoum, Sudan's capital, the river descends just 75 m. In southern and central Sudan, the White Nile passes through a wide, flat plain covered with swamp vegetation and slows almost to the point of stagnation.

Here the river splits into two, with the northern part being the Nordre älv and the southern part keeping the name Göta älv.

Originating about 1800 BC from the Corded Ware Culture on the North German plain, the Germanic peoples expanded into southern Scandinavia and toward the Vistula river during the Nordic Bronze Age, reaching the lower Danube by 200 BC.

Afraid to return to Delhi and be seen as a failure, he stayed for a time in southern India under the protection of Jamal-ud-Din, ruler of the small but powerful Nawayath sultanate on the banks of the Sharavathi river next to the Arabian Sea.

The Juruá River ( Portuguese Rio Juruá ; Spanish Río Yurúa ) is a southern affluent river of the Amazon River west of the Purus River, sharing with this the bottom of the immense inland Amazon depression, and having all the characteristics of the Purus as regards curvature, sluggishness and general features of the low, half-flooded forest country it traverses.

Latvia's principal river, the Daugava River, was at the head of an important mainland route from the Baltic region through Russia into southern Europe and the Middle East used by the Vikings and later Nordic and German traders.