Perhaps the distinctions between dragons of western origin and Chinese dragons are arbitrary, since the later Roman dragon was certainly of Iranian origin: in the Roman Empire, where each military cohort had a particular identifying signum, ( military standard ), after the Parthian and Dacian Wars of Trajan in the east, the Dacian Draco military standard entered the Legion with the Cohors Sarmatarum and Cohors Dacorum ( Sarmatian and Dacian cohorts )— a large dragon fixed to the end of a lance, with large gaping jaws of silver and with the rest of the body formed of colored silk.

The western Buteo group is mainly resident or short-distance migrants.

Around 60 BC, a group of Boians joined the Helvetians ' ill-fated attempt to conquer land in western Gaul and were defeated by Julius Caesar, along with their allies, in the battle of Bibracte.

Later on, they attacked the city of Noreia ( in modern Austria ) shortly before a group of Boii ( 32, 000 according to Julius Caesar-the number is probably an exaggeration ) joined the Helvetii in their attempt to settle in western Gaul.

Nevertheless, the usage of Treptichnus pedum, a reference ichnofossil for the lower boundary of the Cambrian, for the stratigraphic detection of this boundary is always risky because of occurrence of very similar trace fossils belonging to the Treptichnids group well below the T. pedum in Namibia, Spain and Newfoundland, and possibly, in the western USA.

As to the Treptichnus pedum, a reference ichnofossil for the lower boundary of the Cambrian, its usage for the stratigraphic detection of this boundary is always risky because of the occurrence of very similar trace fossils belonging to the Treptichnids group well below the T. pedum in Namibia, Spain and Newfoundland, and possibly, in the western United States.

The Basque language of the western Pyrenees is an isolate unrelated to any other group, while Maltese is the only Semitic language in Europe with national language status.

The northern group consists of the keskmurre or middle dialect that is also the basis for the standard language, the läänemurre or western dialect, roughly corresponding to Läänemaa and Pärnumaa, the saarte murre ( islands ') dialect of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa and the idamurre or eastern dialect on the northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.

* Frisians, the medieval and modern ethnic group inhabiting Frisia, a region on the western coasts of Germany and the Netherlands

A group of " warrior " horse-nomads would conquer and / or be joined by other warrior groups throughout western Eurasia, and in turn extracted tribute over a territory that included other social and ethnic groups, including sedentary agricultural peoples.

In 1871 a group of Japanese politicians known as the Iwakura Mission toured Europe and the USA to learn western ways.

The Gilgit – Baltistan, formerly called Northern Areas, are a group of territories in the extreme north, bordered by the Karakoram, the western Himalayas, the Pamir, and the Hindu Kush ranges.

June 1991, former Liberain army fighters formed rebel group United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy ( ULIMO ), entered western Liberia in September ’ 91, and gained territories from the NPFL.

A group of reformers known as the Young Ottomans, primarily educated in western universities, believed that a constitutional monarchy would give an answer to the Empire's growing social unrest.

Since inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, assassinations, kidnappings, and extortion in their fight for an independent Islamic state in western Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago.

The genus is thought to have originated in present-day western China in the foothills of the Tian Shan, a mountain range of Central Asia, and to have spread to the north and south along mountain chains, evolving into a diverse group of over 20 widely recognized primary species.

I. Bymoviruses, comoviruses, nepoviruses, nodaviruses, picornaviruses, potyviruses, sobemoviruses and a subset of luteoviruses ( beet western yellows virus and potato leafroll virus )-the picorna like group ( Picornavirata ).

The Tripartite Convention of 1899 partitioned the Samoan Islands into two parts: the eastern island group became a territory of the United States ( the Tutuila Islands in 1900 and officially Manu ' a in 1904 ) and is today known as American Samoa ; the western islands, by far the greater landmass, became known as German Samoa after Britain vacated all claims to Samoa and accepted termination of German rights in Tonga and certain areas in the Solomon Islands and West Africa.

Many visiting dignitaries toured the Palace, and it also hosted performances by notable international artists, such as a 1967 concert by the Rolling Stones, the first by a major western rock group behind the Iron Curtain.

* A group of Muzaffarids under Zafar Khan Muzaffar establish a new Sultanate at Gujarat in western India.

In current scholarship, the standard assumption is to group the Ionic together with the Arcadocypriot group as the successors of a single Middle Bronze Age migration in dual opposition to the " western " group of Doric.

The group left Virgin in 2003 with the independent release Countrysides, composed of eight country and western covers and one new, original song.

The Outlaw Josey Wales ( 1976 ), a western inspired by Asa Carter's 1972 novel of the same name, has lead character Josey Wales ( Eastwood ) as a pro-Confederate guerilla who refuses to surrender his arms after the American Civil War and is chased across the old southwest by a group of enforcers.

*** Copper Mines ( lived southwest of the Gila River, centered around the Santa Lucia Springs in the Little Burro and Big Burro Mountains, controlled the Pinos Altos Mountains, Pyramid Mountains and the vicinity of Santa Rita del Cobre along the Mimbres River in the east-hence called Copper Mine Apaches, western local group )

The Sakā paradraya were the western Scythians or Sarmatians, the Sakā haumavargā and Sakā para Sugdam were likely Scythian tribes associated with or split-of from the original Saka.

:" When the German and Scythian nations overran the western provinces of the Roman empire, the confusions which followed so great a revolution lasted for several centuries.

The mummies are buried in long barrows ( or " kurgans ") similar to the tomb mounds of western Scythian culture in modern Ukraine.

Hippostratos seems to have fought rather successfully against the Indo-Scythian invaders, led by the Scythian king Azes I, but was ultimately defeated and became the last western Indo-Greek king.

Taxila in western Punjab was reconquered from nomad Scythian rule, and according to Bopearachchi, eastern territory was taken back from Indian kingdoms.

A kurgan or burial mound near the village of Ryzhanovka in Ukraine, south of Kiev, found in the 1990s has revealed one of the few unlooted tombs of a Scythian chieftain, who was ruling in the forest-steppe area of the western fringe of Scythian lands.

had migrated to south-western India in the wake of Scythian invasion of India and had established their respective principalities in western / south-western parts of India in post-Christian times.

A blight in the early 20th century wiped out nearly every American Chestnut tree, but those in western Michigan developed a mysterious resistance and survived.

It became very popular in the Roman world, and survived, with many copies being made and distributed in the western world.

On September 27, 2009, Ismail Khan survived a suicide blast that killed 4 of his bodyguards in Herat, in western Afghanistan.

The Khmer Rouge survived into the 1990s as a resistance movement operating in western Cambodia from bases in Thailand.

Against overwhelming odds, Greece survived, and classical Greek culture, so influential in ' western civilization ' was able to develop unabated.

As his biographer, R. A. Gilbert described him, " Waite's name has survived because he was the first to attempt a systematic study of the history of western occultism — viewed as a spiritual tradition rather than as aspects of proto-science or as the pathology of religion.

Its highest parts survived as the island Tol Fuin ( Isle of Night ), part of the western isles.

During the Long March, Zhu and Zhang Guotao commanded the " western column " of the Red Army, which barely survived the retreat through Sichuan Province.

Many remains of Roman hypocausts have survived throughout Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa.

The instrument was practically extinct by the middle of the 20th century ; the instrument that today is referred to as Swedish bagpipes is a construction based on instruments from the western parts of the district called Dalarna, the only region of Sweden where the bagpipe tradition survived into the 20th century.

The western areas were growing, and had few slaves or plantations ; the east survived by selling its slaves to the cotton states further south.

Blister rust is less severe in California, and western white and whitebark pines have survived there in great numbers.

After the end of the First Age, when the ancestral homes of the Broadbeams and Firebeards were ruined, many dwarves from these clans crossed Eriador and merged with Durin's Folk in Khazad-dûm, although remnants of these two western nations may well have survived as independent entities in the Ered Luin ; seven rings were given to ' the Dwarf Lords ' by Sauron in the Second Age, for example, and certainly the Blue Mountains remained permanently inhabited by dwarves of one clan or another throughout the history of Middle-earth: Thorin Oakenshield, for example, grew up there as an exile from his homeland Erebor, and several of his companions on his quest to reclaim that realm were not related to him ( Bifur, Bofur and Bombur ).

Recent radiocarbon dating indicates that populations survived as recently as 8, 000 BC in western Siberia.

Despite the resurgence of paganism in England, Christian communities still survived in more western areas such as Gloucestershire and Somerset.

Apart from Dover, the only castle to hold out against Louis was that at Windsor, where 60 loyalist knights survived a two-month siege, despite severe damage to the structure of its lower ward ( immediately repaired in 1216 by Henry III, who further strengthened the defences with the construction of the western curtain wall, much of which survives today ).

As one newspaper critic noted in 1885, "... red, yellow, chocolate, orange, everything that is loud is in fashion ... if the upper stories are not of red or blue ... they are painted up into uncouth panels of yellow and brown ..." While many of the mansions of Nob Hill were destroyed by the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, thousands of the mass-produced, more modest houses survived in the western and southern neighborhoods of the city.

Few of the mathematicians survived World War II, but after the war a group including some of the original community carried on their work in western Poland's Wrocław, the successor city to prewar Lwów ; see Polish population transfers ( 1944 – 1946 ).

This meant the loss of the Main Magazine ( which was to have been in the western corner ) and one quarter of this structure survived, much modified to become the above ground water tank.

The Royal Opera Arcade, on the western side, survived with only superficial damage.

Ancient customs survived in the rural parts of Austria, Switzerland, Bavaria, Slovenia, western Croatia and Italy in the form of dance, art, processions, rituals and games.

The eastern part of this area, between the bridge and Bristol Castle, was destroyed in 1940 during the Bristol Blitz, but the western part largely survived, and contains many historic buildings.

Around 750 BC, peoples of the Halstatt culture occupied gradually the western parts of Transdanubia, but the earlier population of the territory also survived and thus the two archaeological cultures existed together for centuries.

According to genetic research, the Norwegian lemming survived the Pleistocene glaciation in western Europe, inhabiting various refugia which were not covered by ice.