The dynasty originated amongst the Lamtuna and the Gudala, which were nomadic Berber tribes of the Sahara traversing the territory between southern Morocco, the Niger river and the Senegal river.

In the late 19th century, hostilities broke out between the Shona inhabitants of Botswana and Ndebele tribes who were migrating into the territory from the Kalahari Desert.

In the late 2nd century, the Historia Augusta mentions that in the rule of Marcus Aurelius ( 161-80 ), an alliance of lower Danube tribes including the Bastarnae, the Sarmatian Roxolani and the Costoboci took advantage of the emperor's difficulties on the upper Danube ( the Marcomannic Wars ) to invade Roman territory.

Over the next four years, the territory was consolidated and the future emperor Vespasian led a campaign into the Southwest where he subjugated two more tribes.

At the same time, some Gallic Celtic tribes penetrated some parts of the current territory of France, but this occupation spread in the rest of France only between the 5th and 3rd century BC.

In the westernmost parts of the territory of Albania along with the Illyrian tribes lived the Bryges, a Phrygian people, and in the south lived the Greek tribe of the Chaonians.

In 55 BC, Caesar repelled an incursion into Gaul by two Germanic tribes, and followed it up by building a bridge across the Rhine and making a show of force in Germanic territory, before returning and dismantling the bridge.

Britain also armed Indian tribes in the Northwest Territory and encouraged them to attack settlers, even though Britain had ceded this territory to the United States by treaties in 1783 and 1794.

In the early 19th century, the construction of Russian forts began to have a destructive effect on the Kazakh traditional economy by limiting the once-vast territory over which the nomadic tribes could drive their herds and flocks.

* Split Rock Lighthouse, NY south of Essex, NY, near a natural boundary of the territory between the Mohawk and Algonquin tribes.

The first area colonized by the Lusitani was probably the Douro valley and the region of Beira Alta ( present day Portugal ); in Beira, they stayed until they defeated the Celtici and other tribes, then they expanded to cover a territory that reached Estremadura before the arrival of the Romans.

In antiquity, most of the territory that is now the Republic of Macedonia was included in the kingdom of Paeonia, which was populated by the Paeonians, a people of Thracian origins, but also parts of ancient Illyria and Dardania, inhabited by various Illyrian peoples, and Lyncestis and Pelagonia populated by the ancient Greek Molossian tribes.

South Slavic tribes settled in the territory of the present-day Republic of Macedonia in the 6th century.

Rome controlled the vast, ill-defined territory through alliances with the tribes rather than through military occupation, expanding its authority only to those areas that were economically useful or that could be defended without additional manpower.

Micronations are also distinguished from imaginary countries and from other kinds of social groups ( such as eco-villages, campuses, tribes, clans, sects, and residential community associations ) by expressing a formal and persistent, even if unrecognized, claim of sovereignty over some physical territory.

The territory of New Netherland, containing the Northeast's largest rivers with access to the beaver trade, was originally a private, profit-making commercial enterprise focusing on cementing alliances and conducting trade with the diverse Indian tribes.

In 259, Alamanni tribes overran the Limes, putting the settlements on Swiss territory on the frontier of the Roman Empire.

Decebalus, though, after being left to his own devices, in 105 undertook an invasion against Roman territory by attempting to stir up some of the tribes north of the river against the empire.

In 1750 Christopher Gist, acting on behalf of both Virginia and the company, explored the Ohio territory and opened negotiations with the Indian tribes at Logstown.

Although the Spanish takeover of the Louisiana territory ( which was not completed until 1769 ) had only modest repercussions, the British takeover of Spanish Florida resulted in the westward migration of tribes that did not want to do business with the British, and a rise in tensions between the Choctaw and the Creek, historic enemies whose divisions the British at times exploited.

The Obotrites (, ), also commonly known as the Obodrites, Abotrites, or Abodrites, were a confederation of medieval West Slavic tribes within the territory of modern Mecklenburg and Holstein in northern Germany ( see Polabian Slavs ).

These comprised one public territory ( today known as St. George's ) and eight " tribes " ( today known as " parishes ").

In 214 BC Qin Shihuang secured his boundaries to the north with a fraction ( 100, 000 men ) of his large army, and sent the majority ( 500, 000 men ) of his army south to conquer the territory of the southern tribes.

The territory of North Ossetia was first inhabited by Caucasian tribes.

The livestock will naturally remain within the territory in which they are released, although walls and cattle grids ( a pit in the road covered with metal bars-impassable to hoofed animals ) provide an additional level of control.

The desert's Jilf al Kabir Plateau, at a mean altitude of some 1000 m, constitutes an exception to the uninterrupted territory of basement rocks covered by layers of horizontally bedded sediments forming a massive plain or low plateau.

It was founded in the 6th century and covered the territory later occupied by the counties of Essex, Hertfordshire, Middlesex and ( for a short while ) Kent.

In Paleozoic, 300 – 400 million years ago, the entire territory of the modern Gulf of Finland was covered by a sea.

About 83 % of the country's total territory is suitable for cultivation ; of this portion, 75 % ( around 50 % of the country's area ) is covered by arable land, which is an outstanding ratio compared to other EU countries.

France in the Ancien Régime covered a territory of around.

About 10 % of Latvian territory consists of peat bogs, swamps, and marshes, some of which are covered by stunted forest growth.

In the territory now covered by the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, there is evidence of primitive inhabitants right back to the Paleolithic or old stone age over 35, 000 years ago.

In the Paleozoic, 300 – 400 million years ago, the entire territory of the modern delta of the Neva River was covered by a sea.

The climate of New Mexico is generally semi-arid to arid, though there are areas of continental and alpine climates, and its territory is mostly covered by mountains, high plains, and desert.

The Romanian expression România Mare ( literal translation " Great Romania ", but more commonly rendered " Greater Romania ") generally refers to the Romanian state in the interwar period, and by extension, to the territory Romania covered at the time ( see map ).

However, it is known that the Finnish language area ( Meänkieli and Kven dialects of Finnish ) in the past covered a much larger territory of the modern area of Sweden than it does today.

Although the territory of the foreign concessions was excluded from their control, this new Chinese municipality still covered an area of 828. 8 square kilometers, including the modern-day districts of Baoshan, Yangpu, Zhabei, Nanshi, and Pudong.

On the other hand, the expected huge expansion of the town soon effectively covered the distance from the central town, and now those suburbs are completely engulfed by the main territory of the town.

The territory of Si Khottaboon covered mostly in northern Isan and central Laos.

Also Poland got a piece of new territory ( which included Warsaw ), but by no means covered all the areas where Polish speaking people were in the majority.

When the Supreme Court revisited some of the territory covered by Luther v. Borden in cases like Baker v. Carr,, the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause was the basis of its changed decisions.

At its height it covered the territory of modern-day Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Transnistria, and portions of modern-day Poland and Russia.

While its earliest boundaries will never be known, there is general agreement that the territory that was called " the first of the Mercians " in the Tribal Hidage covered much of south Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire and northern Warwickshire.

During the Migration Period, the Slavic tribe of the Carantanians migrated into the Alps in the wake of the expansion of their Avar overlords during the 7th century, mixed with the Celto-Romanic population, and established the realm of Carantania, which covered much of eastern and central Austrian territory.

Since much of the territory they covered was around the Mediterranean region, they became notable seamen.

Its territory allegedly covered the northern part of Borneo and the southern Philippines.

During the late Roman Empire, several Roman provinces covered the territory that comprises present-day Bulgaria: Scythia ( Scythia Minor ), Moesia ( Upper and Lower ), Thrace, Macedonia ( First and Second ), Dacia ( Coastal and Inner, both south of Danube ), Dardania, Rhodope ( Roman province ) and Haemismontus, and had a mixed population of Byzantine Greeks, Thracians and Dacians, most of whom spoke either Greek or variants of Vulgar Latin.

22 % of the republic's territory is covered by forests.