Here the peoples spoke the tongue of Iceland because that island had gotten the jump on the Hawaiian-Americans who were busy resettling North America and the western half of South America after the Apocalyptic War.

Eastern Anatolia roughly coincides with the western half of the Armenian Highland.

In the Coastal Plain are the Tombigbee River in the west, the Alabama River ( formed by the Coosa and Tallapoosa ) in the western central, and in the east the Chattahoochee River, which forms almost half of the Georgia boundary.

Alfred's relations with the Celtic princes in the western half of Britain are clearer.

Farther north the western depression, known as the Albertine Rift is occupied for more than half its length by water, forming the Great Lakes of Tanganyika, Kivu, Lake Edward and Lake Albert, the first-named over 400 miles ( 600 km ) long and the longest freshwater lake in the world.

It is the majority language of the western half of South Africa — the provinces of the Northern Cape and Western Cape — and the primary language of the coloured and white communities.

* 1956 – Hudsonville-Standale Tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.

What remains of it today are the sacristy, added by Abbot Paniter in the 15th century, the southern transept, which features Scotland's largest lancet windows, part of the choir and presbytery, the southern half of the nave, parts of the western towers and the western doorway.

Native speakers are concentrated in a contiguous area including parts of the Spanish Autonomous Communities of the Basque Country and Navarre and in the western half of the French Département of Pyrénées-Atlantiques.

The Troodos Mountains cover most of the southern and western portions of the island and account for roughly half its area.

While western Cairo is dominated by wide boulevards, open spaces, and modern architecture of European influence, the eastern half, having grown haphazardly over the centuries, is dominated by small lanes, crowded tenements, and Islamic architecture.

The A-baulk coincides with the western half of the yard line along the south boundary ; the B-baulk occupies the eastern half of the north boundary yard line.

It originally ranged primarily in the western half of North America, but it has adapted readily to the changes caused by human presence and, since the early 19th century, has been steadily and dramatically extending its range.

However, it remained poor and neglected, particularly in contrast with its western, French neighbor Saint-Domingue, which became the wealthiest colony in the New World and had half a million inhabitants.

A similar prophecy is stated in, which says that " Living waters will go out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea ( likely the Dead Sea ) and half to the western sea ( the Mediterranean )..."

There are also several man-made fresh-water ponds resulting from excavations made during construction of the airfield and road on the western half of the atoll rim.

Rhenish Franconia ( Rheinfranken ) was the western half of the historic duchy of Franconia, immediately east of the Rhine.

It originated as a Phoenician colony in Africa, near modern Tunis, and gradually became the center of a civilization whose hegemony reached along the North African coast and deep in its hinterland, and also included the Balearic Islands, Sardinia, Corsica, a limited area in southern Spain, and the western half of Sicily.

At 17: 00, Gott ordered 5th Indian Infantry Division to execute a night attack to capture the western half of Ruweisat ridge and Deir el Shein.

For years in a manner similar to what befell the Roman provinces under the Germans or the Irish under the Normans, the chieftains and their war bands ravaged the western half of Asia Minor, as allies of one or other of the warring princes, without any serious check, until they sided with the renegade Seleucid prince Antiochus Hierax, who reigned in Asia Minor.

The Turkish government owned the western half.

When the Lord Curzon ( Viceroy 1899-1905 ) took control of higher education and then split the large province of Bengal into a largely Hindu western half and " Eastern Bengal and Assam ," a largely Muslim eastern half.

El Dorado Hills ( EDH ), as defined by the 2010 Census Designated Place ( CDP ), is at the western border of El Dorado County, between the City of Folsom and the unincorporated community of Cameron Park.

In 1971 the Cameron Langston Bridge was opened to provide access from Cedar Point to the western end of Bogue Banks and Emerald Isle.

Montez also appeared in the Technicolor western Pirates of Monterey ( 1947 ) with Rod Cameron and the sepia-toned swashbuckler The Exile ( 1948 ), directed by Max Ophüls and starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Cameron was in charge of the admissions unit in Brandon, Manitoba and he organized the structure of mental health services in the western half of the Canadian province.

Despite its western end being on the continental divide itself, Route 14 through Cameron Pass can be one of the more reliable routes across the Front Range mountains in stormy winter weather.

The route of the highway provides the principal vehicle access to the canyon and furnishes a road link between Fort Collins and North Park on the western side of Cameron Pass, which is accessible from the upper canyon.

Cameron was appointed to John Bracken's cabinet on August 8, 1922 as Minister of Agriculture and Immigration, and as the cabinet representative of farming interests in the western part of the province.

Throughout the early part of the 19th century, the European-American population of the western portion of Carroll Parish continued to grow ; its economy was based mainly on cotton production and timber.

The western eye wall passed directly over St. Tammany Parish as a Category 3 hurricane at about 9: 45 AM CST, August 29, 2005.

It was created from Natchitoches Parish with the Sabine River as the international boundary between the United States and the Republic of Texas as the western boundary.

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Loggy Bayou flows south from Lake Bistineau in southern Bossier Parish, traverses western Bienville Parish, and in Red River Parish joins the Red River.

Beauregard Parish in western Louisiana is named for general Beauregard, as is Camp Beauregard, a National Guard camp near Pineville in central Louisiana.

The western half where the Town of Olla is situated became La Salle Parish, named for French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle.

Simsboro is a village in western Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, United States.

16, the major north-south artery in western Livingston Parish.

Robeline is a village in western Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States.

Pleasant Hill is a village in Sabine Parish in western Louisiana, in the United States.

The term Redbone became disfavored in the late 1960s, as it was a pejorative nickname applied by others to the geographically and socially isolated light-complexioned populations in most western Louisiana parishes, from Sabine Parish in the northwest and Rapides Parish near the center of the state down to Calcasieu Parish in the southwest.

Caddo Lake () is a lake and wetland located on the border between Texas and Louisiana, in northern Harrison County and southern Marion County in Texas and western Caddo Parish in Louisiana.

The Supreme Parish and Cathedral Church faced at its southern façade the Berlin Castle, the palace of the Hohenzollern ( destroyed in World War II ), and the Lustgarten park at its western front, which is still there.

Rumpo is a village in Vormsi Parish, Lääne County in western Estonia.

According to another account, after his parole in April 1865 and following the surrender of the western Confederate forces, White ended his military career by walking ( his clothing in rags ) to a comrade's family home in Livonia in Pointe Coupee Parish.

Slaughter was born on October 2, 1841, in Sabine Parish near Many in western Louisiana, to Benjamin Slaughter and the former Minerva Mabry.

The Parish is for the greater part enclosed in a bend in the Ouse, and it touches the parishes of Oakley, Biddenham, Kempston, Stagsden, Stevington and at its western point, Turvey.

The River Loddon flows north along the western side of the Parish and a substantial proportion of the parish lies within the alluvial flood plain of this river and its tributaries.

Allihies Parish is located on the western tip of the Béara Peninsula and stretches between Cod's Head to the North West and Dursey Island to the South West.