In northern Europe, wheat, rye, and fats of animal origin predominate, while in southern Europe olive oil is ubiquitous and rice is more prevalent.

Despite the abundance of well-known seeps in southern California, the first commercial oil well in California was drilled in Humboldt County, northern California in 1865.

A Russian sea captain noted oil seeps along the shore of the Cook Inlet as early as 1853, and oil drilling began in 1898 in a number of locations along the southern coast of Alaska.

Imports to Britain included: coin ; pottery, particularly red-gloss terra sigillata ( samian ware ) from southern, central and eastern Gaul, as well as various other wares from Gaul and the Rhine provinces ; olive oil from southern Spain in amphorae ; wine from Gaul in amphorae and barrels ; salted fish products from the western Mediterranean and Brittany in barrels and amphorae ; preserved olives from southern Spain in amphorae ; lava querns from Mayen on the middle Rhine ; glass ; and some agricultural products.

In 1942, Hitler shifted his primary goal from an immediate victory in the East, to the more long-term goal of securing the southern Soviet Union to conquer oil fields vital to a long-term German war effort.

* 1979 – A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.

Beer, salt, honey, wool and flour were exported, while merchants imported textiles from England, southern fruits, and cod liver oil.

However, substantial investments have been made in building new railway lines since 2003, with the goal of connecting Chişinău to southern Moldova and eventually to the Giurgiuleşti oil terminal.

Finally, the Italian sandwich is popular in Portland and southern Maine — Portland restaurant Amato's claims to have invented the Italian sandwich ( specifically, a submarine sandwich made with ham, cheese, tomato, raw peppers, pickles and cheese, served with or without oil, salt and pepper ) in 1902.

Spindletop is a salt dome oil field located in the southern portion of Beaumont, Texas in the United States.

In 1938 oil was discovered in Kuwait's southern Burqan fields, and both countries contracted with foreign oil companies to perform exploration work in the Divided Zone.

Most of these southern impediments have been eliminated by Chevron, who as part of their oil exploration and development program dredged the White Nile shoals and established navigational beacons from Kusti to Bentiu.

* April 25 – 26 – WWII: Last major strategic bombing raid by RAF Bomber Command, the destruction of the oil refinery at Tønsberg in southern Norway by 107 Avro Lancasters.

** A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 600, 000 tons ( 176, 400, 000 gallons ) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill to date.

Villas specializing in the sea-going export of olive oil to Roman legions in Germany were a feature of the southern Iberian province of Hispania Baetica.

In southern Europe and the Mediterranean, oil lamps predominated.

Once the observations were completed, Cook opened the sealed orders which were additional instructions from the Admiralty for the second part of his voyage: to search the south Pacific for signs of the postulated rich southern continent of Terra Australis.

These contain a rich southern biota ; typical examples include birds such as ibis and egrets.

In spite of its unprecedented macroeconomic stability, which has reduced inflation and interest rates to record lows and has increased per capita income, enormous gaps remain between the urban and the rural population, the northern and southern states, and the rich and the poor.

The region is rich in timber, iron and copper with the best farmland in southern Sweden.

The southern part of Slovakia ( bordering with Hungary ) is known for its rich farmland.

Within the southern portion of Vietnam is a plateau known as the Central Highlands ( Tây Nguyên ), approximately 51, 800 square kilometers of rugged mountain peaks, extensive forests, and rich soil.

Areas around the southern part of Lake Maracaibo are swampy, and, despite the rich agricultural land and significant petroleum deposits, the area was still thinly populated in 1990.

As other southern African countries, Zimbabwean soil is rich in raw materials.

Perthshire was known as the " big county " and had a wide variety of landscapes, from the rich agricultural straths in the east, to the high mountains of the southern Highlands.

This is attributed to the fact that while his first wife was finally pregnant after six years of childless marriage, the Duke sent rich gifts to the Benedictine monastery of Saint Gilles in southern France, begging for a healthy child.

The terrain of McCurtain county varies from the mountainous northern part of the county to the rich Red River bottoms of the southern part.

This part of the state is extremely rich in Cherokee history as well as classic southern heritage that is complemented by the foliage of Georgia and Tennessee.

The Savanna Portage was a major route for transportation in the southern Arrowhead, but its importance was magnified greatly with the arrival of European fur traders, who used the route to access rich resources of beaver and other fur animals in the upper Mississippi valley.

Other historic buildings, such the Atkinson Historical Society and Library, Rockwell School ( current police station ), and many more, grace this southern New Hampshire town with their rich historical value and education of the history of the area.

The community has always been largely a farming community with rich clay soils in the north and sandy soils in the southern part of the town.

The southern division is one mass of rugged granitic sierras, interspersed, however, with sheltered and well-watered valleys, abounding with rich vegetation.

Geographer Li Daoyuan, six centuries after the death of the First Emperor, recorded in Shui Jing Zhu that Mount Li was a favoured location due to its auspicious geology: "... famed for its jade mines, its northen side was rich in gold, and its southern side rich in beautiful jade ; the First Emperor, covetous of its fine reputation, therefore chose to be buried there ".

The wealth divide between the rich southern regions and the more rural north, however, remains a prominent issue.

In the 1930s C. Vann Woodward stressed the southern base, seeing the possibility of a black-and-white coalition of poor against the overbearing rich.

The municipality can be roughly divided into two areas: the northern area, with rich and fertile agricultural land ; and a southern area with craggy, forested area ( the Stange Commons ).

The municipality consists of two fjords, Malangen and Balsfjorden, surrounded by comparatively rich farmlands under majestic peaks including the southern end of the Lyngen Alps.

In the subtropical southern parts of China and, the Palearctic temperate forests transition to the subtropical and tropical forests of Indomalaya, creating a rich and diverse mix of plant and animal species.

Birds breeding in western Alaska winter along the Pacific coast from southern Alaska to California ; they often move inland – particularly to the rich feeding grounds in the Californian Central Valley – and some cross the Rocky Mountains again and winter as far east as Utah and south to Texas and northern Mexico.

In the second half of the twentieth century, however, there has been a gradual shift of political and economic power to Flanders, which, having modernized its economy, is now more wealthy and prosperous than its southern counterpart .< ref >" Belgium.

The most populous and prosperous urban center in this new county was George Town, but its location at the far southern edge rendered it worthless as a seat of local government.

Crane focused particularly on the Bowery, a small and once prosperous neighborhood in the southern part of Manhattan.

Though from the point of view of an increasing majority of archaeologists, there were always two distinct cultures in Canaan, a strong and prosperous northern kingdom and a weaker and poorer southern one, in the Biblical account the Israelite tribes were initially united in a single kingdom, and only later fractured into the northern and southern kingdoms ; this fracture is blamed by the Bible on the jealousy of Ephraim over the growing power of Judah.

Metter is relatively prosperous as compared to other towns its size in southern Georgia.

Suzhou and Wuxi, two southern cities of Jiangsu in close proximity to neighboring Shanghai, have since become particularly prosperous, being among the top 10 cities in China in gross domestic product and outstripping the provincial capital of Nanjing.

As a result, the northern section is dominated by large, prosperous farms ; the southern part by small, marginal farms.

However, it was reported in October 2006, after plans were revealed of Saudi plans to build another fence along its border with Iraq that the Saudis have enjoyed " relative success by building a similar, though shorter, security barrier-fence along their southern border with Yemen to cut down on the 400, 000 illegal immigrants who cross it every year looking for work in the far more prosperous Saudi state.

The song has historically become one that bonds the two prosperous southern nations of Australia and New Zealand, with great honorary ceremonies occurring both from and to each of the nations as a sign of togetherness and strength during the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Though initially the most prosperous residences of peers were located on the northside, in places like Henrietta Street and Rutland Square, the decision of the Earl of Kildare ( Ireland's premier peer, later made Duke of Leinster ), to build his new townhouse, Kildare House ( later renamed Leinster House after he was made Duke of Leinster ) on the southside, led to a rush from peers to build new houses on the southside, in or around the three major southern squares.

Today, southern China remains economically more prosperous than northern China.

However, in the 2000s, a strong upturn in employment in the nearby business parks on the southern side of the motorway ( connected to the area with a pedestrian overbridge ), as well as a long-term strategy by a local business association, helped revive the area-which is now increasingly becoming oriented to lunchtime crowds and again has many prosperous smaller businesses.

In general, they quickly became prosperous ; many had entered the learned professions, and they built synagogues and hospitals in the southern portion of the city, where most of them resided.