It was Absalon's intention to clear the Baltic Sea of the Wendish pirates who inhabited its southern littoral zone which was later called Pomerania.

The climate in this transition zone between the desert and the southern soudanian zone is divided into a rainy season ( from June to early September ) and a dry period ( from October to May ).

The humid soudanian zone includes the southern prefectures of Mayo-Kebbi, Tandjilé, Logone Occidental, Logone Oriental, Moyen-Chari, and southern Salamat.

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.

Copacabana ( or, rarely and in other Brazilian dialects ) is a bairro ( neighbourhood ) located in the Zona Sul ( southern zone ) of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

It runs between the East Anatolian Fault zone in Turkey and the northern end of the Red Sea Rift offshore of the southern tip of Sinai.

The coastal plain of the southern Levant, broad in the south and narrowing to the north, is backed in its southernmost portion by a zone of foothills, the Shephelah ; like the plain this narrows as it goes northwards, ending in the promontory of Mount Carmel.

Most of the country lies in the southern Sahara, which produces a hot, dust-laden Sudanian savanna zone.

The population of metropolitan Khartoum ( including Khartoum, Omdurman, and Khartoum North ) is growing rapidly and ranges from six to seven million, including around two million displaced persons from the southern war zone as well as western and eastern drought-affected areas.

In Canada, Scandinavia and Finland, the boreal forest is usually divided into three subzones: The high boreal ( north boreal ) or taiga zone ; the middle boreal ( closed forest ); and the southern boreal, a closed canopy boreal forest with some scattered temperate deciduous trees among the conifers, such as maple, elm and oak.

* Israeli withdrawal from the Israeli security zone in southern Lebanon – on May 25, 2000 Israel withdrew IDF forces from the Israeli Security Zone in southern Lebanon after 22 years.

A good illustration of this is Australian wheat growing in the southern winter cropping zone, where, despite low rainfall ( 300 mm ), wheat cropping is successful even with relatively little use of nitrogenous fertilizer.

A few species are distributed into the temperate zone, with one species, the Elegant Trogon, reaching the south of the United States specifically southern Arizona and the surrounding area.

Its southern counterpart, the aurora australis ( or the southern lights ), has almost identical features to the aurora borealis and changes simultaneously with changes in the northern auroral zone and is visible from high southern latitudes in Antarctica, South America, New Zealand, and Australia.

As is the case with all north-flowing rivers in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere, snowmelt in southern sections may cause river levels to rise before northern sections have had a chance to completely thaw.

It was not until Prince Henry the Navigator began in 1418 to encourage the penetration of the torrid zone in the effort to reach India by circumnavigating Africa that European exploration of the southern hemisphere began.

Mali is a landlocked nation in West Africa, located southwest of Algeria, extending south-west from the southern Sahara through the Sahel to the Sudanian savanna zone.

Mali's territory encompasses three natural zones: the southern cultivated Sudanese zone, central semiarid Sahelian zone, and northern arid Saharan zone.

The Arctic Circle marks the southern extremity of the polar day ( 24-hour sunlit day, often referred to as the midnight sun ) and polar night ( 24-hour sunless night ).

After his stint as bishop, he spent the remainder of his life partly in retirement in the various houses of his order, yet often preaching throughout southern Germany.

Pork fat was used more often in the southern colonies than the northern colonies as the Spanish introduced pigs earlier to the South.

Those on the “ rice coast ” often ate ample amounts of rice, while the grain for the rest of the southern poor and slaves was cornmeal used in breads and porridges.

White female abolitionists and suffragists were often more comfortable with black male abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, while southern segregationalists and stereotypes of black female promiscuity and immorality caused protests whenever black women spoke.

The southern end is also shallow and often freezes during the winter.

It was suggested that fire suppression activities in southern California allowed more fuel to accumulate, which in turn led to larger fires ( in Baja, fires often burn without active suppression efforts ).

The English Channel (,, ), often referred to simply as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates southern England from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic.

However, kestrels may more often prey on lizards at southern latitudes, in northern latitudes the kestrel is found to more often deliver lizards to their nestlings during midday and also with increasing ambient temperature.

Its boundaries are now often limited only to its southern, smaller part controlled throughout the 19th century by Austria as western Galicia.

In southern Mexico and Central America it is widely used to clear bush and often hundreds of macheteros are contracted to assist in clearing paths for the construction of new roads or structures.

He was often known in later Arabic sources as " the Upper Egyptian ", suggesting he may have had origins in southern Egypt.

From north to south, the country ranges from the northern tip of the Russian Arctic islands at Franz Josef Land to the southern tip of the Republic of Dagestan on the Caspian Sea, spanning about of extremely varied, often inhospitable terrain.

In redrawing the map of Europe, Yugoslavia was created as an intentional coalition state among competing, and often mutually hostile, southern Slavic peoples, and the League of Nations ' mandates were often drawn, not to unify ethnic groups, but to divide them.

* developmental non-rhotic ars ( often called lisps ): Many non-rhotic British speakers have a labialization to of their ars, which is between idosyncratic and dialectal ( southern and southwestern England ), and since it includes some RP speakers, somewhat prestigious.

Warm southern winds blow from the plains and intermontane regions of the Western United States during much of July and August, very cool or hot but changeable airmasses often occur during spring and in September.

It is not uncommon for a traditional southern meal to consist of only vegetables with no meat dish at all, although meat or meat products are often used in the cooking process.

House pioneered an innovative style featuring strong, repetitive rhythms, often played with the aid of slide guitar, and his singing often incorporated elements of southern gospel and spiritual music.

Taoist temples in southern China and Taiwan may often be identified by their roofs, which feature Chinese dragons and phoenix made from multi-colored ceramic tiles.

Taiwanese cuisine itself is often associated with influences from mid to southern provinces of Mainland China, most notably from the province of Fujian ( Hokkien ), but influences from all of Mainland China can easily be found.

As a result, foods in southern Vietnam are often vibrant and flavorful with liberal uses of garlic, shallots, and fresh herbs.

* Old Bulgarian ( 9th to 11th century, also referred to as Old Church Slavonic ) – a literary norm of the early southern dialect of the Common Slavic language from which Bulgarian evolved.

During this same time, sections of southern and western China were occupied by ten, more stable, regimes so the period is also referred to as the Ten Kingdoms.

Much of southern and western Connecticut ( along with the majority of the state's population ) is part of the New York metropolitan area ; three of Connecticut's eight counties are statistically included in the New York City combined statistical area, the same area is widely referred to as the Tri-State area.

Nevertheless, before the establishment of a literary standard of Macedonian in 1944, in most sources in and out of Bulgaria before the Second World War, the southern Slavonic dialect continuum covering the area of today's Republic of Macedonia were referred to as Bulgarian dialects.

Northern style dolmens are above ground with a four sided chamber and a megalithic roof ( also referred to as table type ), while southern style ( usually but not always underground ) are made up of a stone chest or pit covered by a slab.

In 17th and 18th century, king Louis XIV of France captured more French-speaking areas in southern Flanders around Lille, referred to as Lilloise Flanders or la Flandre Lilloise, but also Maritime Flanders, where originally Dutch was spoken, and to this day, a Flemish dialect persists in some rural areas near Dunkirk.

He concluded that, in the relatively recent past, Switzerland had been another Greenland ; that instead of a few glaciers stretching across the areas referred to, one vast sheet of ice, originating in the higher Alps, had extended over the entire valley of northwestern Switzerland until it reached the southern slopes of the Jura, which, though they checked and deflected its further extension, did not prevent the ice from reaching in many places the summit of the range.

It may mean " rock people ", ( from the Old Norse grjut huningi ) to distinguish the Ostrogoths from the Geats ( referred as Goths in Scandinavia ) from Götaland ( Gothland ) in southern Sweden.

When he was seven years old, Israel invaded southern Lebanon, a fact he referred to later in life.

The heavily residential southern half of the city is referred to as " The Orchards ".

This is the traditional style of Châteauneuf-du-Pape of southern Rhône, and this blend is often referred to as GSM in Australia.

Through the early Middle Ages, the northern part of present-day Belgium ( now commonly referred to as Flanders ) had become an overwhelmingly Germanized and Germanic language-speaking area, whereas in the southern part people had continued to be Roman and spoke derivatives of Vulgar Latin.

When describing the geology of Calabria it is commonly referred to " The Calabrian Arc ", the arc-shaped geographic domain extending from the southern part of the Basilicata Region up to the northeast of Sicily, the Peloritano Mountains ( although some authors extend this domain from Naples in the North up to Palermo in the Southwest ).

The Fraterculini fossil record in the Pacific extends at least as far back as the middle Miocene, with three fossil species of Cerorhinca, and material tentatively referred to that genus, in the middle Miocene to late Pliocene of southern California and northern Mexico.

* Oman – Sultan of Oman ( authentically referred to as Hami ), on the southern coast of the Arabian peninsula, still an independent sultanate, since 1744 ( assumed the formal title of Sultan in 1861 )

Although often referred to as the Dark Ages, the period after the end of Roman rule in southern Scotland, while poorly understood, is considerably less dark than the Roman period.

* Flavius Josephus ( Antiquitates Iudaicae i. 6, § 1 ) reads " Tarshush ", identifying it as the city of Tarsus in southern Asia Minor, which was referred to in Assyrian records from the reign of Esarhaddon as Tarsisi.

Under the Köppen climate classification, a cool summer version of the dry-summer subtropical ( Csb ) designation, typically referred to as " Mediterranean ", is assigned to many areas of the Pacific Northwest as far north as southern Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, including cities such as Victoria, British Columbia, Seattle, and Portland.

Tarascon (), sometimes referred to as Tarascon-sur-Rhône, is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in southern France.

Its northern half is referred to as the Sacramento Valley, and its southern half as the San Joaquin Valley.

In the period of tsarist administration ( 1876 – 1917 ), the Kazakhs and the Kyrgyz both were called Kyrgyz, with what are now the Kyrgyz subdenominated when necessary as Kara-Kyrgyz " black Kyrgyz " ( Turkic groups often used color terms to show division of the same group based on geography ; black referred to southern groups ).

These attributes of kudzu made it attractive as an ornamental plant for shading porches in the Southeastern United States, but they facilitated the growth of kudzu as it became a “ structural parasite ” of the southern states, enveloping entire structures when untreated and often referred to as “ the vine that ate the south ”.