The Akkadian Empire was an empire centered in the city of Akkad and its surrounding region in Mesopotamia.

However, Sargon took this process further, conquering many of the surrounding regions to create an empire that reached westward as far as the Mediterranean Sea and perhaps Cyprus ( Kaptara ); northward as far as the mountains ( a later Hittite text asserts he fought the Hattite king Nurdaggal of Burushanda, well into Anatolia ); eastward over Elam ; and as far south as Magan ( Oman ) — a region over which he reigned for purportedly 56 years, though only four " year-names " survive.

Edmonton, and more so its surrounding region ( Nisku, Leduc, Fort Saskatchewan ), is the site of most oil-and-gas related industry including refining and manufacturing.

The city was referred to as " Hüdavendigar " ( meaning " God's Gift ") during the Ottoman period, while a more recent nickname is " Yeşil Bursa " ( meaning " Green Bursa ") in reference to the parks and gardens located across its urban tissue, as well as to the vast forests in rich variety that extend in the surrounding region.

For example, promoter analysis involves the identification and study of sequence motifs in the DNA surrounding the coding region of a gene.

This upgrade involved two main projects: the 1, 484-kilometer line linking Bogotá to the Caribbean Coast and the 499-kilometer Pacific coastal network that links the industrial city of Cali and the surrounding coffee-growing region to the port of Buenaventura.

The latest Ordnance Survey Ireland " Discovery Series " ( Third Edition 2005 ) 1: 50, 000 map of the Dublin Region, Sheet 50, shows the boundaries of the city and three surrounding counties of the region.

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.

As the water level decreases, the characteristics of the Sea and surrounding region may substantially change.

Considering again an n-channel device, a depletion region exists in the p-type body, surrounding the conductive channel and drain and source regions.

* Gulf Country, the region surrounding the Gulf of Carpentaria in Australia

The history of the Mediterranean region is the history of the interaction of the cultures and people of the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea — the central superhighway of transport, trade and cultural exchange between diverse peoples — encompassing three continents: Western Asia, North Africa, and Southern Europe.

550-330 BC ), the surrounding district was known as Haraiva ( in Old Persian ), and in classical sources the region was correspondingly known as Aria ( Areia ).

For instance, if a particle is in a state | ψ ⟩, the probability of finding it in a region of volume d < sup > 3 </ sup > x surrounding some position x is

Animation showing rainfall estimates for southern Japan and the surrounding region from July 20 – 27, 2009

Of the sources, Coleridge was influenced by the surrounding of Culbone Combe and its hills, gulleys, and other features including the " mystical " and " sacred " locations in the region.

The Lower Mainland is a name commonly applied to the region surrounding and including Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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.

A map of Maine and surrounding region.

The conquest of the whole of Mesopotamia and much surrounding territory by the Assyrians created a larger and wealthier state than the region had known before, and very grandiose art in palaces and public places, no doubt partly intended to match the splendour of the art of the neighbouring Egyptian empire.

In the region behind the shock (" magnetosheath ") the velocity drops briefly to the Alfvén velocity ( and the temperature rises, absorbing lost kinetic energy ), but the velocity soon rises back as plasma is dragged forward by the surrounding solar wind flow.

The area is ecologically important and vital to the huge numbers of birds and animals from the surrounding savannah that gather in the region as summer drought forces them to the scattered waterholes that ring the pan.

Because they were so small, however, they had no separate language or culture: the inhabitants shared the language of the surrounding region.

Under international law, no country currently owns the North Pole or the region of the Arctic Ocean surrounding it.

The region surrounding the puncture rots, becomes brown and takes a bitter taste making the olive unfit for eating or for oil.

The surrounding Kittitas Valley is internationally known for the timothy-hay that it produces.

Active gravitational mass is a property of the mass of an object that produces a gravitational field in the space surrounding the object, and these gravitational fields govern large-scale structures in the Universe.

In contrast to condensed explosive where oxidation in a confined region produces a blast front from essentially a point source, here a flame front accelerates to a large volume producing pressure fronts both within the mixture of fuel and oxidant and then in the surrounding air.

For example, ketamine produces sensations of being disconnected from one's body and that the surrounding environment is unreal, as well as perceptual alterations seen with other psychedelics.

The estate surrounding the castle covers more than and, in addition to parks and gardens, produces several cash crops including lumber and beef.

The sudden increase in pressure and temperature from lightning produces rapid expansion of the air surrounding and within a bolt of lightning.

The surrounding countryside also produces grapes, and is one of the centers of wine production in the Midwest.

The Biefeld – Brown effect is an electrical effect that produces an ionic wind that transfers its momentum to surrounding neutral particles, first discovered by Paul Alfred Biefeld ( Germany ) and Thomas Townsend Brown ( USA ).

NGC 1275, a component of the cluster, has an active nucleus that produces massive bubbles surrounding the galaxy with its jets of material.

After meeting the Musicker, who produces music from his breath, and fighting off the head-throwing Scoodlers, Dorothy and her companions reach the edge of the Deadly Desert surrounding Oz.

During the Premier League term, Fox Soccer also produces and airs a couple of studio-based shows surrounding its game coverage.

Stippling may also be used in engraving or sculpting an object even when there is no ink or paint involved, either to change the texture of the object, or to produce the appearance of light or dark shading depending on the reflective properties of the surface: for instance, stipple engraving on glass produces areas that appear brighter than the surrounding glass.

Then g has a transcendental branch point if z < sub > 0 </ sub > is an essential singularity of g such that analytic continuation of a function element once around some simple closed curve surrounding the point z < sub > 0 </ sub > produces a different function element.

TPT also regularly produces programs exclusively for and about Minnesota and the surrounding region.

The surrounding areas produces fruits and vegetables.

This produces a surrounding portico, the pteron, which offered shelter to visitors of the sanctuary and room for cult processions.

This produces an unobstructed surrounding portico, the peristasis, on all four sides of the temple.

This zone is composed mainly of the peristome, which produces copious amounts of nectar, luring insect prey to land or crawl onto the perilous footing surrounding the pitcher trap.

A gravity hill, also known as a magnetic hill and sometimes a mystery hill, a mystery spot, or a gravity road, is a place where the layout of the surrounding land produces the optical illusion that a very slight downhill slope appears to be an uphill slope.

When glass breaks it produces specific shock frequencies which travel through the glass and often through the window frame and the surrounding walls and ceiling.

GWN7 produces a 30-minute regional news program each weeknight ( broadcast from Bunbury ) with a newsroom based in the town, covering the surrounding areas.

The fertile surrounding countryside produces coffee, cacao, tobacco, sugarcane, and rice.

The local geothermal activity produces many steam vents, visible throughout the surrounding mountains.

The harvested plant stalks are spread evenly in grassy fields, where the combined action of bacteria, sun, air, and dew produces fermentation, dissolving much of the stem material surrounding the fibre bundles.