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Clayton is with him, takin him out of the valley.
On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.
There are several UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Algeria including Al Qal ' a of Beni Hammad, the first capital of the Hammadid empire ; Tipasa, a Phoenician and later Roman town ; and Djémila and Timgad, both Roman ruins ; M ' Zab Valley, a limestone valley containing a large urbanized oasis ; also the Casbah of Algiers is an important citadel.
To the southeast, it is bounded by the ranges that separate it from the Orontes valley in Greater Syria and the Mesopotamian plain.
Flat or gently sloping land is rare and largely confined to the deltas of the Kızıl River, the coastal plains of Çukurova and the valley floors of the Gediz River and the Büyük Menderes River as well as some interior high plains in Anatolia, mainly around Tuz Gölü ( Salt Lake ) and the Konya Basin ( Konya Ovasi ).
The drier and more continental climate is beneficial for steppe-forests dominated by deciduous oaks, with areas of shrubland, montane forest, and valley forest.
The general consensus amongst scholars is that Luwian was spoken — to a greater or lesser degree — across a large area of western Anatolia, including ( possibly ) Wilusa (= Troy ), the Seha River Land ( to be identified with the Hermos and / or Kaikos valley ), and the kingdom of Mira-Kuwaliya with its core territory of the Maeander valley.
Terrain is most rugged in the extreme southeast, which is drained by the Bargushat River, and most moderate in the Araks River valley to the extreme southwest.
North of the mineral region is the Cereal Belt, embracing the Tennessee Valley and the counties beyond, whose richest soils are the red clays and dark loams of the river valley ; north of which are less fertile soils, produced by siliceous and sandstone formations.
The area around Abensberg is characterized by the narrow valley of the Danube, where the Weltenburg Abbey stands, the valley of the Altmühl in the north, a left tributary of the Danube, and the famous Hallertau hops-planting region in the south.
Towards the south the two lines converge and give place to one great valley ( occupied by Lake Nyasa ), the southern part of which is less distinctly due to rifting and subsidence than the rest of the system.
The Annapolis Valley is a valley and region in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
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.
They continued throughout the Annapolis Valley until the British-ordered expulsion of Acadians in 1755 which is memorialized at Grand Pré in the eastern part of the valley.
Aarau is situated on the Swiss plateau, in the valley of the Aar, on the river's right bank, and at the southern foot of the Jura mountains, and is west of Zurich.
The old city of Aarau is situated on a rocky outcrop at a narrowing of the Aar river valley, at the southern foot of the Jura mountains.
A major road, Route N194, travels up the valley of the Gravona River leading to Corte and is paralleled by a scenic narrow-gauge railway.
It is bordered by the Rhine valley to the west and south.
A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle.
An example is the Aran Valley ( now a Gascon-speaking part of Catalonia ), for ( h ) aran is the Basque word for " valley ".

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The valley was only a few hundred yards wide with just about room enough for a properly performed hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.
The oldest indication for its use in Europe comes from the Stellmoor in the Ahrensburg valley north of Hamburg, Germany and dates from the late Paleolithic, about 10, 000 – 9000 BCE.
In February 1809 one Thomas Windeatt, from Bridgetown, Totnes, took over the lease of a plot of land ( a " newtake ") of about 582 acres in the valley of the River Swincombe.
North of Isna ( 160 km north of Aswan ), the plateau on both sides of the valley rises to as much as 550 m above sea level ; at Qina ( some 90 km north of Isna ) the 300-m limestone cliffs force the Nile to change course towards the southwest for about 60 km before it turns northwest for about 160 km to Asyut.
Researchers have estimated that beneficial silt deposits in the valley began about 10, 000 years ago.
Once this came about the expansion of the town took place, to the west, since there was little space left in the valley.
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.
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.
The Marañón River (, ) rises about 160 km to the northeast of Lima, Peru, flows through a deeply-eroded Andean valley in a northwesterly direction, along the eastern base of the Cordillera of the Andes, as far as 5 degrees 36 ' southern latitude ; then it makes a great bend to the northeast, and cuts through the inland Andes, until at the Pongo de Manseriche it flows through the plains.
The Mindanao River and its main tributaries, the Catisan and the Pulangi, form a valley with a maximum length of and a width which varies from at the river mouth to about in central Cotabato.
The Tibetans also initiated propaganda about having constructed a new road through the Tigri valley and establishing a post at the front.
It is navigable for a period of about five months of the year, when the Purus valley is inundated ; and, for the remaining seven months, only canoes can ascend it sufficiently high to communicate overland with the settlements in the great India-rubber districts of the Mayutata and lower Beni ; thus these regions are forced to seek a canoe outlet for their rich products by the very dangerous, costly and laborious route of the falls of the Madeira River.
It lies at an altitude of about 1, 350 m ( 4, 500 ft ) above sea level, in a warm, sheltered, fertile valley, surrounded by the hills of the Magaliesberg range.
This is rather high considering its relatively high altitude of about 1350 metres and is due mainly to its sheltered valley position, which acts as a heat trap and cuts it off from cool southerly and south-easterly air masses for much of the year.
The highest point is at about above sea level near Bebenhausen in the Schönbuch forest, while the lowest point is in the town's eastern Neckar valley.
The broad, cultivated valley lowlands contain about half of the country's richest farmlands.
A very simple adventure where the player explores a valley and picks up many magical amulets laying about.
Between the Käferberg and the Zürichberg is located the saddle of the Milchbuck ( about ), an important passage from the Limmat valley to the Glatt valley.
He simply stated the " Journal of Lewis and Clark " talked about being in the valley.
The French population numbered about 75, 000 and was heavily concentrated along the St. Lawrence River valley, with some also in Acadia ( present-day New Brunswick and parts of Nova Scotia ), Île Royale ( present-day Cape Breton Island ).
A more exact and more commonly used description, however, limits it to the great plateau valley in which the city of Mexico is located, between 18 ° 40 ' and 20 ° 30 ' N latitude, about long by wide, with an average elevation of 2300 meters ( 7500 feet ), and a mean temperature of 17 ° C ( 62 ° F ).
About 50 miles from east to west and about 150 miles from north to south, the valley is bounded on the east by the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and on the west by the San Juan Mountains.
During the height of the Indus valley civilization about 2000 BC, the Harappan colony now known as Shortugai was established near the lapis mines.

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