In the Sacramento valley in California, for instance, it has been observed that there was not one day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins.

The shelter provided by these two mountainous ridges has produced a " micro climate " which provides relatively mild temperatures for the region and, coupled with the fertile glacial sedimentary soils on the valley floor, the region is conducive to growing vegetable and fruit crops.

The arch of the Friedensbrücke, which was built in the same year, has the span of and crosses the valley of the Syrabach River.

Evidence of Archaic Indian burial mounds and other ceremonial sites existing in the St. John River valley has been uncovered.

Located in the Arno valley near the town of Pontassieve, the Rufina region includes much area in the Pomino region, an area that has a long history of wine production.

Since these geographic considerations imply that, not including the hill within, the walls would be willfully making the city prone to attack from it, some scholars, including the late 19th century surveyors of the Palestine Exploration Fund, consider it unlikely that a wall would ever have been built that would cut the hill off from the city in the valley ; archaeological evidence for the existence of an earlier city wall in such a location has never been found.

Belgian journalist Jo Gérard has claimed that a family manuscript dated 1781 recounts that potatoes were deep-fried prior to 1680 in what was then the Spanish Netherlands and is now present-day Belgium, in the Meuse valley: " The inhabitants of Namur, Andenne, and Dinant, had the custom of fishing in the Meuse for small fish and frying, especially among the poor, but when the river was frozen and fishing became hazardous, they cut potatoes in the form of small fish and put them in a fryer like those here ".

Tegucigalpa, in a sheltered valley and at an elevation of, has a pleasant climate, with an average high temperature ranging from in April, the warmest month, to in January, the coolest.

Alexander the Great explored the Kabul valley after his conquest of the Achaemenid Empire in 330 BC but no record has been made of Kabul, which may have been only a small town and not worth writing about.

In Sinazongwe, an irrigated garden has grown a prodigious crop of pawpaws, bananas, oranges, lemons, and vegetables, and shown that the remains of the valley could be made prolific if only money could be found for irrigation.

Immediately above it, the river has been dammed to form a hydroelectric reservoir extending some up the valley.

Since 2006, the Piedmont region has benefited from the start of the Slow Food movement and Terra Madre, events that highlighted the rich agricultural and viticultural value of the Po valley and northern Italy.

Speyside, encompassing the Spey river valley in north-east Scotland, once considered part of the Highlands, has almost half of the total number of distilleries in Scotland within its geographic boundaries ; consequently it is officially recognized as a region unto itself.

Shei-Pa National Park has alpine ecosystems, geological terrain, and valley streams.

The inferior zone of the river, as far up as the first fall, the Porteira, has but little broken water and is low and swampy ; but above the long series of cataracts and rapids the character and aspect of the valley completely change, and the climate is much better.

* A new high-tech program has been initialed in Nanjing, China, called ' China Wireless valley '.

A gifted inventor and tinkerer, he has wired the old ghost town in the valley below so that he can make it come alive at night with lights and sounds as if it were still inhabited.

The higher land on either side of the valley – the Western Heights and the eastern high point on which Dover Castle stands – has been adapted to perform the function of protection against invaders.

The town has gradually extended up the river valley, encompassing several villages in doing so.

The deeper confined aquifer also has sufficient hydrological connection with the surface waters of the valley that they are not considered for the purposes of Colorado water law " nontributary " waters which could legally be mined.

Music in the valley has two well known sponsors in the South Fork Music Association and the Alamosa Live Music Association.

Opposition to a proposed transmission line has resulted in possible delay in development of solar facilities by Xcel Energy which together with Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association serves the valley.

Originally a river valley, the Solent has gradually widened and deepened for many thousands of years.

As it has done before for hundreds of years, the lowest spot in the valley filled with a wide, shallow lake, but the extreme heat and aridity immediately began sucking the ephemeral lake dry.

Since 2000, a small amateur experimental planting has been underway in the Lake Champlain valley of Vermont at the Vermont Experimental Cold-Hardy Cactus Garden where winter temperatures can reach − 37 ° C with variable snowcover.

The Duke of Marlborough had intended the 1705 campaign – an invasion of France through the Moselle valley – to complete the work of Blenheim and persuade King Louis XIV to make peace, but the plan had been thwarted by both friend and foe alike.

This name refers to a valley in which much blood had been shed in Israel's history, especially by the kings of the Northern Kingdom.

It may be mentioned that cotton textiles have always been a hallmark of craft of Indus valley civilization.

The more extensive forest regions of the central cuvette and of the Ubangi River valley have increasingly been tapped.

Inscriptions have been found in north-west and west-central Italy, in the region that even now bears the name of the Etruscans, Tuscany ( from Latin tuscī " Etruscans "), as well as in modern Latium north of Rome, in today's Umbria west of the Tiber, around Capua in Campania and in the Po valley to the north of Etruria.

Various Honduran governments have done little to encourage oil exploration, although substantial oil deposits have long been suspected in the Río Sula valley and offshore along the Caribbean coast.

There is evidence of prehistoric settlements at the site of the town: flint arrowheads and Bronze Age artefacts have been found ; Iron Age forts have been excavated on both the East and West Hills suggests an early move to the safety of the valley in between, so that the settlement was already a port when the Romans arrived in Britain for the first time in 55 BC.

However, four chimpanzee teeth, about 500, 000 years old, have recently been discovered in the rift valley, where many fossils from the human lineage ( hominins ) have previously been found.

" Finally, it was recorded that the Pathans " who are more numerous than the Mughals, ... are found chiefly in the south-west of the valley, where Pathan colonies have from time to time been founded.

In 1911, Melchor Arteaga led the explorer Hiram Bingham to Machu Picchu, which had been largely forgotten by everybody except the small number of people living in the immediate valley.

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.

Historic Nazareth was essentially constructed in the valley ; the windy hilltops in the vicinity have only been occupied since the construction of Nazareth Illit in 1957.

The Po river is first certainly identified in the Graeco-Roman historians and geographers of the late Roman Republic and the early Roman Empire, long after the valley had been occupied successively by prehistoric and historic peoples: Ligures, Etruscans, Celts, Veneti, Umbri, and Romans.

During World War I an aerodrome had been built on the downs just to the west of the circle and, in the dry valley at Stonehenge Bottom, a main road junction had been built, along with several cottages and a cafe.

Examples have been found along the Dniepr river valley of Ukraine, including near Chernihiv, in Moravia, Czech Republic and in southern Poland.

Prior to the Fremont expedition, the Washoe people inhabited the valley and surrounding areas.

Archeological evidence indicates the valley of the river was inhabited as far back as 12, 000 years ago.

Though the Teton Range was never permanently inhabited, pioneers began settling the Jackson Hole valley to the east of the range in 1884.

Death Valley is home to the Timbisha tribe of Native Americans, formerly known as the Panamint Shoshone, who have inhabited the valley for at least the past 1000 years.

According to the descriptions of Strabo, Dio Cassius and other Graeco-Roman geographers, the lands of Asturias were inhabited in the beginning of the Christian era by several peoples, amongst whom the more important were: From the Cantabrians, the Vadinienses, who inhabited the Picos de Europa region and whose settlement gradually expanded southward during the first centuries of the modern era ; the Orgenomesci, who dwelled along the Asturian eastern coast ; and from the Astures, the Saelini, whose settlement extended through the Sella valley ; the Luggones, who had their capital in Lucus Asturum and whose territories stretched between the rivers Sella and Nalón ; the Astures ( in the strictest sense ), who dwelled in inner Asturias, between the current councils of Piloña and Cangas del Narcea ; and the Paesici, who had settled along the coast of Western Asturias, between the mouth of the Navia river and the modern city of Gijón.

Clough is a northern dialect word for a steep sided, wooded valley ; a large part of Boggart Hole Clough is made up of these valleys and is said to be inhabited by boggarts.

The Cherusci were a Germanic tribe that inhabited parts of the northern Rhine valley and the plains and forests of northwestern Germany, in the area between present-day Osnabrück and Hanover, during the 1st century BC and 1st century AD.

The original idea was to set the film in China, with a hidden valley inhabited by dinosaurs.

In addition Indiana discovered a " Lost World pastiche with a hidden valley inhabited by dinosaurs ".

Notable for its historic towns, architecture and wines, the valley has been inhabited since the Middle Palaeolithic period.

Before European settlers arrived in the Tulpehocken Creek valley, the area was inhabited by the Lenape.

The name of the borough is derived from the pictographs that were left by some of the Native Americans that a previously inhabited the Muncy Creek valley.

The Derwent River valley was inhabited by the Mouheneener people for at least 8, 000 years before British settlement.

Before then, says Polybius, " These plains were anciently inhabited by Etruscans ", before the Gauls took the entire Po valley from them.

Like much of the mountainous areas of Colorado, the valley was inhabited by Utes before the arrival of white settlers in the middle 19th century.

* At " the broken bridge site ", researchers used radiocarbon dating of artifacts to identify it as inhabited about 3280 BCE, the oldest human-inhabited site in the valley.

Archeological findings from the multi-layer sites indicate that the Scordisci and Triballi inhabited the Leskovac valley before the Roman conquest in the 1st century BC.

Screech noted that Paiutes had formerly inhabited Hetch Hetchy and still gathered seeds, roots and acorns in and around the valley.

The valley was inhabited in late prehistoric times by the Timbisha ( also called Panamint or Koso ) in the extreme south end around Owens Lake and by the Mono tribe ( also called Owens Valley Paiute ) in the central and northern portions of the valley.

Stone Age and Bronze Age finds show that the Sarnen valley was inhabited from the earliest times.

Due to the extreme cold conditions, Milam and other villages of the upper Johar valley are inhabited only for a few months from June to October.