Champlain's success in the region, which came to be called Acadie, led to the fertile tidal marshes surrounding the southeastern and northeastern reaches of the Bay of Fundy being populated by French immigrants who called themselves Acadien.

The Palatine Hill and hills surrounding it presented easily defensible positions in the wide fertile plain surrounding them.

Rivers bring rich soil deposits into the Fergana Valley from the surrounding mountains, creating a series of fertile oases that have long been prized for agriculture.

This is about the same as the dry farming country surrounding the park, but the Little Desert has very deep sandy soils, which are much lower in essential nutrients than the ( only moderately fertile ) clay soils used for agriculture.

The surrounding fertile plains produce an abundance of grain, wine and fruit.

Other economic activities include fishing in the lake and agriculture, particularly bananas, in the fertile belt of land surrounding it.

King Louis XI also greatly contributed to its prosperity, revitalising agriculture in the surrounding area ( particularly the exceptionally fertile land around Beauce ) and relaunching saffron farming at Pithiviers.

His father, Federico García Rodríguez, was a landowner with a farm in the fertile vega surrounding Granada and a comfortable villa in the heart of the city.

The settlers of Oregon Hill were surprised to find that the land in the area was fertile unlike much of the surrounding land.

The beauty of the surrounding area, pleasant communities, fertile farmlands, business opportunities, outdoor sports and activities, local recreational areas and community organizations caused it to be

The fertile plains surrounding the city have grow an abundance of stone fruit, vegetables, and more recently has become the base of New Zealand's Red Wine industry.

Due to its exceptionally fertile soil, market gardening is carried out on a commercial scale in the surrounding area, known as the Vale of Evesham, which is known for its production of fruit and vegetables.

The annual, several weeks-long event, was held in the springtime at various fertile hot springs surrounding the desert.

The fertile valley surrounding The Hacienda was documented by Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portolà in 1769.

The surrounding area is fertile, benefiting from streams and abundant rainfall.

At the time of its founding, the area surrounding the city was a fertile agricultural area, about 1000 meters above sea level.

The land surrounding Lake Volta is not nearly as fertile as the formerly cultivated land residing underneath the lake, and heavy agricultural activity has since exhausted the already inadequate soils.

There are a total of 26 inhabited islands with landscapes of the fertile agricultural islands of Orkney contrasting with the more rugged Shetland islands to the north, where the economy is more dependent on fishing and the oil wealth of the surrounding seas.

The dense jungle covering most of the mountain and surrounding peaks supported the hunter-gathering Aeta, while on the surrounding flatter areas, the abundant rainfall of almost annually ) provided by the monsoon climate and the fertile volcanic soils provided excellent conditions for agriculture.

From its beginnings the city constituted an important market for the surrounding countryside, which provided it with a regular supply of food: from the fertile valleys came the precious saffron ; the surrounding mountain pastures provided summer grazing for numerous transhumant flocks of sheep, which in turn supplied abundant raw materials for export and, to a lesser extent, small local industries, which in time brought craftsmen and merchants from outside the area.

Lubango's economy is based on agriculture, especially meat products, cereals, sisal, tobacco, fruits and vegetables produced in the surrounding fertile region.

The central section of the region is occupied by the Roman Campagna, a vast alluvial plain surrounding the city of Rome, with an area of approximately.

The lush primeval forest which once covered the eastern coastal plain, where the Amerindians built their first settlements during the Aceramic period, is gone forever, and so is a large portion of the ecosystem surrounding the coral reef just offshore.

* Kuyunjik-The ruin mound rises about above the surrounding plain of the ancient city.

However even corpus linguists who work with ' unannotated plain text ' inevitably apply some method to isolate terms that they are interested in from surrounding words.

In some cases this can result in the channel bed eventually rising above the surrounding floodplains, penned in only by the levees around it ; an example is the Yellow River in China near the sea, where oceangoing ships appear to sail high above the plain on the elevated river.

Should a flood occur, the river may break out of the levees into the surrounding lower flood plain and adopt a new course.

Lake Chiuta and the surrounding plain is drained by the Lugenda river, which is part of the Ruvuma River drainage system.

The city lies on a mostly flat plain which encompasses much of the surrounding countryside.

Ba included the land in eastern Sichuan along the Yangtze and some tributary streams, while Shu included today Chengdu, its surrounding plain and adjacent territories in western Sichuan.

The ridge was prominent during the time of the Indus Valley Civilization, allowing the city to stand above the surrounding plain, but the flooding of the river has since buried most of the ridge in deposited silt.

This planned structural life cycle gradually raised the level of cities, so that they came to be elevated above the surrounding plain.

This constant rebuilding gradually raised the level of cities, which thus came to be elevated above the surrounding plain.

The highest point of these ruins, a conical hill rising about 30 m above the level of the surrounding plain, northeast of the canal bed, is called by the Arabs Bint el-Amiror " prince's daughter.

Terminal moraine s, such as this one in central Kendall County, rise dramatically from the surrounding plain.

Mount Augustus is an inselberg that stands 1106 m above sea level, or approximately 860 m above the surrounding plain, and covers an area of 4, 795 ha.

The highest point in the Porongurup Range is Devils Slide at 670 metres ( 2, 200 ft ) whilst there are several other peaks above 600 metres ( 1, 970 ft ), which is about 400 metres above the surrounding plain.

It stands in sharp contrast to the surrounding delta-like plain.

Village of Plandome, incorporated in 1911, as well as surrounding villages Plandome Manor and Plandome Heights, derive their name from the Latin ' Planus Domus ', meaning plain, or level home.

The plain is actually reclaimed fenland out of which the Tor once rose like an island, but now, with the surrounding flats, is a peninsula washed on three sides by the River Brue.

Nevertheless, Berthelot rushed two newly-arrived British infantry divisions, the 51st ( Highland ) and 62nd ( West Riding ), through the Italians straight into attack down the Ardre Valley ( the Battle of Tardenois ()— named after the surrounding Tardenois plain ).

By the end of the 4th century, the Yamato clan was well settled on the Nara plain with considerable control over the surrounding areas.

The city is on the Bluff Hill headland and the surrounding plain at the southeastern edge of Hawke Bay, a large semi-circular bay that dominates the east coast of New Zealand's North Island.