* 1944 – World War II: Operation Dragoon – Allied forces land in southern France.

conversion of the cleared land in the southern part of the city into the Southwest Corridor linear park and a new right of way for the Orange Line subway and Amtrak.

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.

In the southern part of the Sahel, rainfall is sufficient to permit crop production on unirrigated land, and millet and sorghum are grown.

Higher land to the northeast and to the east merges into the Central Highlands of southern Vietnam.

From the forested southern plateau the land rises northward to the grassy, rugged Adamaoua ( Adamawa ) highlands.

Newspapers have reported that the Ministry of Mercantile Marine is ready to support the agreement between Greece, South Korea, Dubai Ports World and China for the construction of a large international container port and free trade zone in southern Crete near Tympaki ; the plan is to expropriate 850 ha of land.

Widespread decrease in elm pollen across Europe between 8400 – 8300 BC and 7200 – 7000 BC, starting in southern Europe and gradually moving north to Great Britain, may represent land clearing by fire at the onset of Neolithic agriculture.

Egypt has fairly good relations with Sudan, its southern neighbor, although it has a land dispute with Sudan over the Hala ' ib Triangle, a small area of land on the Egypt-Sudan border on the Red Sea coast.

From around 1000 AD, Flanders historically meant to English-speaking peoples the land situated along the North Sea from the Strait of Dover to the Scheldt estuary with ill-defined southern borders.

From there they entered the land of the " Ulmerugi " ( Rugii ) who were spread along the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, expelled them, and also subdued the neighboring Vandals.

The territory of what is now Albania was invaded by Serbia in the north and Greece in the south, restricting the country to only a patch of land around the southern coastal city of Vlora.

Orthodox peasants in Albania's southern lowlands loathed Zogu because he supported the Muslim landowners ' efforts to block land reform ; Shkodër's citizens felt shortchanged because their city did not become Albania's capital, and nationalists were dissatisfied because Zogu's government did not press Albania's claims to Kosovo or speak up more energetically for the rights of the ethnic Albanian minorities in present-day Yugoslavia and Greece.

A disastrous attempt to drain the southern marshes and introduce irrigated farming to this region merely destroyed a natural food producing area, while concentration of salts and minerals in the soil due to the draining left the land unsuitable for agriculture.

Italy is located in southern Europe and comprises the long, boot-shaped Italian Peninsula, the land between the peninsula and the Alps, and some islands including Sicily and Sardinia.

In contrast to the Northern Italian language, southern Italian dialects and languages were largely untouched by the Franco-Occitan influences introduced to Italy, mainly by bards from France, during the Middle Ages but, after the Norman conquest of southern Italy, Sicily became the first Italian land to adopt Occitan lyric moods ( and words ) in poetry.

A drop in the level of the sea has caused the former Lisan Peninsula to become a land bridge dividing the sea into separate northern and southern basins.

Latveria was formed out of land annexed from southern Hungary centuries before, and possibly land from Serbia as well.

The Lombards of southern Italy were thereafter in the anomalous position of holding land claimed by two empires: the Carolingian Empire to the north and west and the Byzantine Empire to the east.

In 1649 – 1650 the Diggers squatted on stretches of common land in southern England and attempted to set up communities based on work on the land and the sharing of goods.

Explosive land mines were being used in 1277 AD by the Song Dynasty Chinese against an assault of the Mongols, who were besieging a city in southern China.

The southern section, extending down from the Winter Garden, is the more densely populated region, containing Gateway Plaza, and Rector Place apartment buildings.

The Museum Campus joins the southern section of Grant Park, which includes the renowned Art Institute of Chicago.

While the Spanish made significant conquests in the southern half of the area, they had less success in the Caribbean section, on the north.

At the end of the 9th century the northern and southern parts of the town were abandoned for the central section.

In the northern section, few villages are on the western slopes, but in the southern section, featuring Mount Hermon ( 2860 meters ), the western slopes have many villages.

Lazio (, ) is one of the 20 administrative regions of Italy, situated in the central / southern peninsular section of the country.

The southern portion of this east coast range is broader and even more rugged than the northern section.

The southern section consists of two islands called Woody and Rocky Islands lying very near each other.

The former located approximately southwards from the southern tip of the east extremity of the northern section.

The smaller Cybina river flows through eastern Poznań to meet the east branch of the Warta ( that branch is also called Cybina – its northern section was originally a continuation of that river, while its southern section has been artificially widened to form a main stream of the Warta ).

Though the Egyptians maintained control of most of the east bank of the Canal, in the later stages of the war, the Israeli military crossed the southern section of Canal, cutting off the Egyptian 3rd Army, and occupied a section of the west bank.

This section was also in response to the Black Codes that southern states had passed in the wake of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery in the United States.

Finally, this section was in response to violence against black people within the southern states.

* 1622, in Turkey, the Golden Horn and southern section of Bosphorus froze over.

** The addition of a new section of the Outer City fortifications is completed in southern Beijing, bringing the overall size of Beijing to 18 square miles ( 4662 hectares ).

This includes its expansion on the southern side of the Finglas Road with the section called St. Paul's.

Blanca Peak is prominent in the Sierra Blanca at the southern end of the northernmost section of the mountains, which is known as the Sangre de Cristo Range.

Anderson carried Chicago and Rockford ( the state's two largest cities at the time ), but he was clobbered in the southern section of the state.

The commercially advantageous location of Corcyra on the way between Greece and Magna Grecia, and its fertile lowlands in the southern section of the island favoured its growth and, influenced perhaps by the presence of non-Corinthian settlers, its people, quite contrary to the usual practice of Corinthian colonies, maintained an independent and even hostile attitude towards the mother city.

Although the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn, in New York City, was named after the fish, it is almost entirely a southern species: its range extends from the Mid-Atlantic to Texas.

Its southern section, running between Hangzhou and the Yangtze, was named the Jiangnan River ( the river ‘ South of the Yangtze ’).

This, the grand canal's first true summit section, was engineered by the Mongol Oqruqči in 1238 to connect Jining to the southern end of the Huitong Canal.