The Outback is the vast, remote, arid area of Australia ; the term colloquially can refer to any lands outside the main urban areas.

The Huns returned to their lands with a vast train full of plunder.

It also has considerable agricultural potential with its vast steppe lands accommodating both livestock and grain production, as well as developed space infrastructure, which took over all launches to the International Space Station from the Space Shuttle.

The death of her brother made the eight-year-old Matilda the sole heiress of the vast lands of her father, under her stepfather's guardianship.

With Constantinople as its capital and vast control of lands around the Mediterranean basin, the empire was at the center of interactions between the Eastern and Western worlds for over six centuries.

In 1876 the first international mailing network between Istanbul and the lands beyond the vast Ottoman Empire was established.

Determined to resist Philip's designs on contested Angevin lands such as the Vexin and Berry, Richard poured all his military expertise and vast resources into war on the French King.

As well as the language materials, these include Deeds of the Ever Glorious — a History of the Tsolyani Legions, The Tékumel Bestiary, and The Book of Ebon Bindings, a guide to the demonic beings that are known to the Tsolyáni, and a six volume series of booklets that details the armies of each of the Five Empires as well as surrounding states and the vast lands of the reptilian Shén.

He saw a vast expanse of fertile lands, clear ponds, mulberry trees, bamboo groves, and the like with a community of people of all ages and houses in neat rows.

Because of its potential for the ' devastation of enemy lands and the destruction of industrial and populous centres on a vast scale ', he recommended a new air service be formed that would be on a level with the Army and Royal Navy.

Grand Duchy of Lithuania to which Jogaila succeeded in 1377 was a political entity composed of two leading but very different nationalities and two political systems: ethnic Lithuania in the north-west and the vast Ruthenian territories of former Kievan Rus ', comprising lands of modern Ukraine, Belarus, and parts of western Russia.

They establish a regular and recurring presence on a vast amount of public lands, roads, and recreation sites.

Castilian ethnicity is the product of the conquest, by a small kingdom in northern Spain, of vast tracts of sparsely populated lands ( the central " mesetas ").

In the Western world, belief in a Cold Land — a vast continent located in the far south of the globe to " balance " out the northern lands of Europe, Asia and North Africa — had existed for centuries.

The vast grassland steppes of Asia enabled merchants to travel immense distances, from the shores of the Pacific to Africa and deep into Europe, without trespassing on agricultural lands and arousing hostility.

Their principal tribe, the " Royal Scyths ", ruled the vast lands occupied by the nation as a whole ( Herodotus 4. 20 ), calling themselves Σκώλοτοι ( Scōloti, Herodotus 4. 6 ).

His letters show him laying claim to a vast array of lands around Austrasia, including Byzantine lands.

Whilst the vast majority of urban lands were colonised by traders, rural estates were soon formed by crusaders and their descendants.

Philip ceded Navarre to Joan II, but regarding the counties in Champagne, they struck a deal: Joan II received vast lands in Normandy ( adjacent to her husband's fief in Évreux ) in compensation, and Philip got to keep Champagne as part of the Royal Domain.

In time, Assur was promoted from being the local deity of Assur to the overlord of the vast Assyrian domain, with worship being conducted in his name throughout the lands of the Assyrians.

The county was one of the first counties established out of the vast non-agricultural lands in the more eastern part of the state.

In return he received lands and was married to Matilda in 1125, the daughter and only heiress of the Count of Boulogne, who owned the important continental port of Boulogne and vast estates in the north-west and south-east of England.

Following Mexico's independence from Spain in 1821, those who had served in the government or who had friends in authority, were given vast lands for cattle grazing.

Founded August 24, 1690 by Job Charnock of the East India Company, and commonly called `` The City of Palaces '', it seemed a vast and elegant place to Ann Hasseltine Judson.

Octavian was not present, but at the next meeting made a reply of such a nature that the consuls both left Rome to join Antony ; and Antony, when he heard of it, after publicly divorcing Octavia, came at once to Ephesus with Cleopatra, where a vast fleet was gathered from all parts of the East, of which Cleopatra furnished a large proportion.

The Chaldeans, like the rest of Mesopotamia and much of the ancient Near East and Asia Minor, from the 10th to late 7th centuries BC, came to be dominated by the vast Assyrian Empire, based in northern Mesopotamia.

In the Dutch East Indies ( now Indonesia ) the vast majority of Dutch settlers were in fact Eurasians known as Indo-Europeans, formally belonging to the European legal class in the colony.

Then followed the vast clipper trade of tea, opium, spices and other goods from the Far East to Europe, and the ships became known as " tea clippers ".

However, the plantations, both under their previous private ownership and under government administration, proved consistently unprofitable due to the introduction of new oils and lubricants in the international marketplace, and the establishment of vast coconut plantations in the East Indies and the Philippines.

The number of Druze people worldwide exceeds one million, with the vast majority residing in the Levant or East Mediterranean.

Since reunification, the German government has spent vast amounts of money on reintegrating the two halves of the city and bringing services and infrastructure in the former East Berlin up to the standard established in West Berlin.

Although the London County Council had been created as a London-wide authority covering the County of London in 1889, the county did not cover all the built-up area of London, particularly West Ham and East Ham ; and many of the LCC housing projects, including the vast Becontree Estate, were outside its boundaries.

The vast wealth of Bengal was depleted and brought East giving Sher Shah a substantial war chest.

Between the 1870s and the beginning of World War I in 1914, the United Kingdom, France, and the Netherlands — the established colonial powers in Asia — added to their empires vast expanses of territory in the Middle East, the Indian Subcontinent, and South East Asia.

Between 3000 – 2000 BC, the cord-ware culture people spread over a vast region of eastern Europe, between the Baltic Sea and the Vistula River in the West and the Moscow-Kursk line in the East.

* the vast majority of Asia, except East Timor and Indonesia ( mainly in Southern Hemisphere )

Palaces in East Asia, such as the imperial palaces of Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, largebrick and wooden structures in Philippines and China's Forbidden City, consist of many low pavilions surrounded by vast, walled gardens, in contrast to the single building palaces of Medieval Western Europe.

The dynasty's interference with the Assyrian sphere of influence in the Near East caused a confrontation between Egypt and the powerful Assyrian Empire, which controlled a vast empire comprising much of the Middle East, Asia Minor, Caucasus and East Mediterannean from their Mesopotamian homeland.

His first major act is to change the official language of the East Roman Empire from Latin to Greek ( already the language of the vast majority of the population ).

His first major act is to change the official language of the East Roman Empire from Latin to Greek ( already the language of the vast majority of the population ).

The two million Portuguese people ruled a vast empire with many millions of inhabitants in the Americas, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

The area is an important part of the Asian continent and plays a critical geopolitical role of the Middle East and Arab World due to its vast reserves of oil and natural gas.

To give one example, in 1875, the Delegates approved the series Sacred Books of the East under the editorship of Friedrich Max Müller, bringing a vast range of religious thought to a wider readership.

A vast network of additional railway lines within East Africa and others linking the region to neighbouring Ethiopia, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo is on the cards.

Between the 17th and 19th century, migrants settled eastwards in the vast, sparsely inhabited areas of Siberia and the Russian Far East.