They would have to go west through the narrow river valley that separated Leyte from Samar and hope that it didn't close in before they returned.

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.

Mynheer, Sir Francis, the valley society, the very smell of the river on his right purling along to the bay past fish weirs and rocks, and ahead the sleepy ribbon of moon-drenched road.

In 1992 – 1993 a research team headed by Tim White discovered the first A. ramidus fossils — seventeen fragments including skull, mandible, teeth and arm bones — from the Afar Depression in the Middle Awash river valley of Ethiopia.

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 western Sanhaja were divided into several tribes-the Gazzula and the Lamta in the Draa valley and the foothills of the Anti-Atlas range, further south, encamped in the western Sahara desert, were the Massufa, the Lamtuna and the Banu Warith, and most southerly of all, the Gudala ( or Judala ), in littoral Mauritania down to the borderlands of the Senegal river.

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.

The city is along the Nile River, immediately south of the point where the river leaves its desert-bound valley and branches into the low-lying Nile Delta region.

Fremont named the river flowing through the valley Carson River in honor of Christopher " Kit " Carson, the mountain man and scout he had hired for his expedition.

The city is situated in a high desert river valley approximately above sea level.

There, in the valley of the river Copiapó, Almagro took official possession of Chile and claimed it in the name of King Charles V.

It is situated at an altitude of 482 meters above sea level by the river Amper, with a boundary demarcated by lateral moraines formed during the last ice age and the Amper glacial valley.

The average annual deposit of arable soil through the course of the river valley amounted to some nine metres.

alt = A river flowing through a wide valley

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 ".

Surrounded by hills in a river valley, Florence can be hot and humid from June to August.

Like the Douro bridge, the project involved a lengthy viaduct crossing the river valley as well as the river crossing, and Eiffel was given the job without any process of competitive tendering due to his success with the bridge over the Douro.

The broadest river valley, along the Río Ulúa near the Guatemalan border, is Honduras's most developed area.

While the river valley civilizations always had larger populations, the trading societies on the coast of the sea soon became the most prosperous, and rose to power.

The town is generally built upon a series of low hills rising to above sea level at " The Ridge " before falling back in the river valley further to the north.

In between the two lies a large plain in the valley of the Po, the largest river in Italy, which flows eastward from the Cottian Alps to the Adriatic.

The aridization period that lasted for a millennium from the end of the 2nd millennium to the beginning of the 1st millennium BCE caused depopulation of the arid belts and river valley oasis areas, their population moved north to the forest-steppe zone.

Lesotho can be roughly divided into three geographic regions: the lowlands, following the southern banks of the Caledon River, and in the Senqu river valley ; the highlands formed by the Drakensberg and Maloti mountain ranges in the east and central parts of the country ; and the foothills that form a divide between the lowlands and the highlands.

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

Summers are subtropical so it is not uncommon to see temperatures of above during this season, especially in the plains along the valley of the Vardar river.

The Vardar valley consists primarily of hills and mountains.

At first it descends along the " canal " of the Vardar valley, usually as a breeze.

The tension soon was expressed in a series of hostile incidents between the two armies along their common line of occupation across the Vardar valley.

After his victory, Basil II advanced towards Strumitsa, which was key to holding the whole Vardar valley.

* The valley of the Vardar River from Skopje to the sea is in the rain shadow of the Prokletije, which on its windward side has the highest rainfall in Europe at around with small glaciers even at mean annual temperatures well above, but on its leeward side receives as little as.

Both to secure the southern stretch of the Vardar-Morava highway and to establish a firm base for permanent expansion westward to the Adriatic coast, Bayezid settled large numbers of ‘’ yürüks ’’ along the Vardar River valley in Macedonia.

In the time of Classical Greece, Paeonia might have later included the whole Vardar River valley and the surrounding areas, in what is now a small strip along the northern part of the Greek region of Macedonia, most of the present-day Republic of Macedonia, and a small part of southwestern Bulgaria.

They occupied the entire valley of the Axios ( Vardar ) as far inland as Stobi, the valleys to the east of it as far as the Strymon and the country round Astibus and the river of the same name, with the water of which they anointed their kings.

The eastern frontier of Serbia was drawn from the summit of Patarika, on the old frontier, and followed the watershed between the Vardar and the Struma rivers to the Greek-Bulgarian boundary, except that the upper valley of the Strumica remained in the possession of Bulgaria.

The border passes near the Vardar spring called Vrutok and enters near the valley of Mavrovo.

Its proximity to the junction of the Erigón and Axiós rivers as well as its position in the fertile central Vardar valley allowed it quickly to develop a flourishing economy and to establish trade.

the 2nd Panzer Division ( which had started from the Strumica Valley in Bulgaria, advanced through Yugoslav territory and turned south along the Vardar / Axios River valley ) to bypass the defenses and capture the vital port city of Thessaloniki on April 9.

At this point some Serbs wanted the 1st Army to continue its advance down the valley of the Vardar to Thessaloniki.

The land over which he sped was the land he had created and lived in: his valley.

For everyone involved knew that the whole valley was a powder keg, and Mitchell Barton the fuse which could send it into explosive violence.

Between the ponderous hulk and himself, in the valley over which Papa-san reigned, men had hidden high explosives, booby traps, and mines.

Modern Armenia term means Republic of Armenia which occupies part of historical Armenia, whose ancient centers were in the valley of the Araks River and the region around Lake Van in Turkey.

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.

Ibn Idhari wrote that the name was suggested by Ibn Yasin in the " persevering in the fight " sense, to boost morale after a particularly hard-fought battle in the Draa valley c. 1054, in which they had taken many losses.

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.

In Lake Victoria, an isolated lake which formed recently in the African rift valley, over 300 species of cichlid fish adaptively radiated from one parent species in just 15, 000 years.

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.

Within the valley itself are two " major " rivers, the Annapolis River which flows west from the Caribou Bog in the central part of the valley into the Annapolis Basin, and the Cornwallis River which flows east from Caribou Bog into the Minas Basin.

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.

Agriculture in the Annapolis valley boomed in the late 19th century with the arrival of the Windsor and Annapolis Railway, later the Dominion Atlantic Railway, which developed large export markets for Annapolis Valley apples.

The south-west monsoon sweeps up the Narmada valley from Bombay and crossing the tableland at Neemuch gives copious supplies to Malwa, Jhalawar and Kota and the countries which lie in the course of the Chambal River.

Gobannium was a Roman fort guarding the road along the valley of the River Usk which linked the legionary fortress of Burrium ( Usk ) and later Isca Augusta or Isca Silurum, ( Caerleon ) in the south with Y Gaer, Brecon and Mid Wales.

* The lower Valdarno, with the valley of important tributaries such as the Pesa, Elsa and Era and in which, after Pontedera, the Arno flows into the Ligurian Sea.

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

Crossing the Aniene and turning to the right, the path rises along the left face off the ravine and soon reaches the site of Nero's villa and of the huge mole which formed the lower end of the middle lake ; across the valley were ruins of the Roman baths, of which a few great arches and detached masses of wall still stand.

* The valley of bones, in which the prophet sees the dead rise again ( Ezekiel 37: 1-14 );

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.