The town lies on the Abens river, a tributary of the Danube, around eight kilometres from the river's source.

Anbar was adjacent or identical to the Babylonian Jewish center of Nehardea ( Hebrew: ), and lies a short distance from the present-day town of Fallujah, formerly the Babylonian Jewish center of Pumbeditha ( Hebrew: ).

To the south lies the Laurenzenvorstadt, that is, the part of the town formerly outside the city wall.

To the south-west of this peninsula lies the Place Bonaparte, a quarter frequented chiefly by winter visitors attracted by the mild climate of the town.

The town has strong local travel links as Accrington railway station lies on the East Lancashire Line serving trains running locally and trains running from Blackpool to York.

Originally based on the still-existent village of Inverlochy, the town lies at the southern end of the Great Glen, on the shores of Loch Linnhe and Loch Eil.

The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay ( of the Baltic Sea ), in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the Tricity ( Trójmiasto ), with a population near 740, 000.

The town lies on Highway 5 and the CN railway line, between Dauphin and Grandview, or about 250 miles NW of Winnipeg.

The other tradition, first mentioned in an epigram by Chersias of Orchomenus written in the 7th century BC ( within a century or so of Hesiod's death ) claims that Hesiod lies buried at Orchomenus, a town in Boeotia.

While the settlement today referred to as Hedeby / Haithabu lies on the south side of the Schlei inlet, the settlement that grew up at around the same time on the north side has had a continuous history of habitation to modern times, and has now grown into the town known as Schleswig and given its name to the surrounding province.

The town of Benjamin Constant lies at the mouth of the river, on the Brazilian bank.

At the southern edge of the Kambos plain lies the town of Thymiana.

The village lies within the North Dorset administrative district of the county, about south-west of the town of Gillingham.

Lincoln lies almost fully within the Merrimack River watershed, with the western edge of town in the Connecticut River watershed.

The town lies roughly centrally in a basin within the Rhenish Slate Mountains which is surrounded by the low ranges of the Taunus and Westerwald and called the Limburg Basin ( Limburger Becken ).

The most famous of these is the multi-chambered Mammoth Cave, which lies 21 kilometres south of the town and contains fossils dating back over 35, 000 years.

The Nazareth Range, in which the town lies, is the southernmost of several parallel east-west hill ranges that characterize the elevated tableau of Lower Galilee.

Parma is bisected by a township line ; as a result, the town lies in both Parma and Sandstone Townships, an interesting twist in an area where townships tend to be more important than villages, at least as far as government goes.

About one quarter of the Scandinavian Peninsula lies north of the Arctic Circle, its northernmost point being at Cape Nordkyn ( North Cape ), near the town of Hammerfest, Norway.

In Final Fantasy, there is a tombstone in the elven town which reads, " Here lies Link.

The town lies at about 250 metres above sea level ( NN ) on the northeastern flank of the Harz Mountains in central Germany, at the foot of their highest peak, the Brocken, on the B 6 and B 244 federal highways and on the railway line from Halberstadt to Vienenburg that links the cities of Halle ( Saale ) and Hanover.

The town lies on the German-Dutch holiday road known as the Orange Route.

Because the town lies in the rain shadow ( leeward side ) of the Harz, less precipitation falls here than in similar temperate regions without the protection of a mountain range.

The town of Gulf Shores lies just outside of the bay, on the Fort Morgan peninsula.

The town of Sandwich, Massachusetts is near the Massachusetts Bay entrance and the Massachusetts Maritime Academy lies near its entrance to Buzzards Bay.

Driving along the caliche-topped road to town, Howard talked.

Gulf Springs was ten miles inland -- more of a quaint old coast town than those along the beach made garish by tourist attractions.

However, at first, along with everyone else, the danger the town faces seems unreal to him.

Armenia's main rail and road border-crossing with Georgia ( at ) is along the Debed river near the Armenian town of Bagratashen and the Georgian town of Sadakhlo.

Around 890, Wulfstan of Hedeby undertook a journey from Hedeby on Jutland along the Baltic Sea to the Prussian trading town of Truso.

The town includes three schools, Abersychan Comprehensive School and Victoria Primary School along with various shops and other amenities.

He gathers the town, along with the railroad workers, three miles east of Rock Ridge to build a fake town as a diversion.

Generally regarded as Sweden's oldest town, Birka ( along with Hovgården ) has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993.

:" Birka is the main Geatish town ( oppidum Gothorum ), situated in the middle of Sweden ( Suevoniae ), not far ( non longe ) from the temple called Uppsala ( Ubsola ) which the Swedes ( Sueones ) held in the highest esteem when it comes to the worship of the gods ; here forms an inlet of the Baltic or the Barbaric Sea a port facing north which welcomes all the wild peoples all around this sea but which is risky for those who are careless or ignorant of such places ... they have therefore blocked this inlet of the troubled sea with hidden masses of rocks along more than 100 stadions ( 18 km ).

Since it is physically impossible for any Swedish town to face Jumne, the latter being situated along River Oder, Adam's statement is probably a misunderstanding.

Around the turn of the 4th century, as Memphis was continuing to decline in importance, the Romans established a fortress town along the east bank of the Nile.

It was destroyed along with much of the town in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.

With this consolidation, Carson City absorbed former town sites such as Empire City, which had grown up in the 1860s as a milling center along the Carson River and current US 50.

Dartmouth College is situated in the rural town of Hanover, New Hampshire, located in the Upper Valley along the Connecticut River in New England.

On the left of the tree are agricultural instruments and on the right is a factory, showing Dedham's history first as a town of farmers and then a one with a number of mills and factories, particularly along Mother Brook.

These short ( often one small reel ) films were often simple visual aids and accompaniments to live lectures and speeches, and were carried from city to city, town to town, village to village ( along with the lecturers ) to indoctrinate the entire countryside, even reaching areas where film had not been previously seen.

Regularity of housefronts along a street was a desirable feature of Georgian town planning.

Once that move away from the old town had begun, it led to the further expansion along the coast, eventually linking up with the new St Leonards.

Hanover is a town along the Connecticut River in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States.

After a journey along the coast, Ibn Battuta next arrived in the island town of Kilwa in present day Tanzania, which had become an important transit centre of the gold trade.

The primary settlement in town, where 993 people resided at the 2010 census, is defined as the Lincoln census-designated place ( CDP ) and is located along New Hampshire Route 112 east of Interstate 93.

This event, along with another town fire in 1342, the Black Death in 1349, 1356 and 1365, but above all the rise of the Territorial Princes, led to a gradual decline.