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.

He was said to have been born in c. 525 BC in Eleusis, a small town about 27 kilometers northwest of Athens, which is nestled in the fertile valleys of western Attica, though the date is most likely based on counting back forty years from his first victory in the Great Dionysia.

* United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, a sovereign state in western Europe

The Canadian Great Lakes region has similarities to that of the Upper Midwest & Great Lakes region and / or Yooper dialect ( in particular Michigan which has extensive cultural and economic ties with Ontario ), while the phonological system of western Canadian English is virtually identical to that of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, and the phonetics are similar.

The area is located just east of the foothills of the Front Range, aligned in a north-south configuration on the western edge of the Great Plains, where they meet the Rockies.

In 899 Alfred the Great, king of Wessex, died leaving his son Edward the Elder as ruler of Britain south of the River Thames and his daughter Æthelflæd and son-in-law Æthelred ruling the western, English part of Mercia.

King Herod the Great built or rebuilt several fortresses and palaces on the western bank of the Dead Sea.

Seabirds include the second largest colony in the western Indian Ocean of Great Frigatebirds ( with up to 1100 pairs ), Audubon's Shearwaters ( up to 100 pairs, probably of the subspecies Puffinus lherminieri bailloni previously considered endemic to the Mascarene Islands ), Dimorphic Egrets and Caspian Terns.

It was the first transportation system between the eastern seaboard ( New York City ) and the western interior ( Great Lakes ) of the United States that did not require portage, was faster than carts pulled by draft animals, and cut transport costs by about 95 %.

Hamilton and Washington designed the Jay Treaty to normalize trade relations with Great Britain, remove them from western forts, and resolve financial debts left over from the Revolution.

Pinguinus alfrednewtoni lived in the western Atlantic while the Great Auk lived in the eastern Atlantic, but after the former died out after the Pliocene, the Great Auk replaced it.

The Huns may have stimulated the Great Migration, a contributing factor in the collapse of the western Roman Empire.

Average rainfall is high compared to the majority of the British Isles, due to its location to the western side of Great Britain and sufficient distance from Ireland for moisture to be accumulated by the prevailing south-westerly winds.

The western Khanates, however, eventually adopted Islam ( under Berke and Ghazan ) and the Turkic languages ( because of its commercial importance ), although allegiance to the Great Khan and limited use of the Mongolian language can be seen even in 1330's.

The Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan in Tunisia, was built in 670 and is the most prestigious mosque in the western Islamic world.

Built soon after the conquest of northwest Africa, the first mosque built in this region is the Great Mosque of Kairouan ( in Tunisia ) founded by the Umayyad general Uqba Ibn Nafi during the second half of the 7th century and considered as the oldest place of worship in the western Islamic world.

Mormonism, originated in the 1820s in western New York during a period of religious excitement known as the Second Great Awakening.

Areas south of the Great Basin are located within the Mojave Desert, while Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada mountains lie on the western edge.

The western half of the state consists of the hilly Great Plains, and the northern part of the Badlands to the west of the Missouri River.

Cassiodorus, a Roman in the service of Theodoric the Great, invented the term " Visigothi " to match that of " Ostrogothi ", which terms he thought of as " western Goths " and " eastern Goths " respectively.

In 1845, a plant disease known as late blight, caused by the fungus-like oomycete Phytophthora infestans, spread rapidly through the poorer communities of western Ireland, resulting in the crop failures that led to the Great Irish Famine.

In the centuries following the conquest of western Asia by Alexander the Great, each story was retold to more closely resemble the other.

The Saint Lawrence Seaway ( St. Lawrence Seaway ), (), is the common name for a system of locks, canals and channels that permits ocean-going vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, as far inland as the western end of Lake Superior.