Demons, fairies, angels, and a host of other spiritual beings were as much a part of the experiential world of western man as were rocks and trees and stars.

Asia Minor ( from, Mikrá Asía, small Asia ) is a geographical location at the westernmost protrusion of Asia, also called Anatolia, and corresponds to the western two thirds of the Asian part of Turkey.

Anatolia corresponds to the western two-thirds of the Asia n part of Turkey.

Traditionally, Anatolia is considered to extend in the east to a line between the Gulf of Iskenderun and the Black Sea, approximately corresponding to the western two-thirds of the Asian part of Turkey.

Turkey's First Geography Congress in 1941 created two regions to the east of the Gulf of Iskenderun-Black Sea line named the Eastern Anatolia Region and the Southeastern Anatolia Region, the former largely corresponding to the western part of the Armenian Highland, the latter to the northern part of the Mesopotamian plain.

In general, rivers have not cut valleys to the sea in the western part of the region.

When the Germanic peoples entered the Roman Empire and founded successor-kingdoms in the western part, most had been Arian Christians for more than a century.

In other words, Alfred succeeded to Ceolwulf ’ s kingdom, consisting of western Mercia ; and Guthrum incorporated the eastern part of Mercia into an enlarged kingdom of East Anglia ( henceforward known as the Danelaw ).

The Berber peoples of the Maghreb in the early Middle Ages could be roughly classified into three major groups-the Zenata across the north, the Masmuda concentrated in central Morocco and the Sanhaja, clustered in two areas-the western part of the Sahara and the hills of the eastern Maghreb.

At the end of the story in Chapters 40 – 42, Vortigern hands over to Ambrosius " the fortress, with all of the kingdoms of the western part of Britain.

Some have understood Ammianus's testimony as a claim that at the time of Atlantis's actual sinking into the sea, its inhabitants fled to western Europe ; but Ammianus in fact says that “ the Drasidae ( Druids ) recall that a part of the population is indigenous but others also migrated in from islands and lands beyond the Rhine " ( Res Gestae 15. 9 ), an indication that the immigrants came to Gaul from the north ( Britain, the Netherlands or Germany ), not from a theorized location in the Atlantic Ocean to the south-west.

It is located in the western part of the Nova Scotia peninsula, formed by a trough between two parallel mountain ranges along the shore of the Bay of Fundy.

Some also include the western part of Hants County, including the towns of Hantsport and Windsor even further to the east, but geographically speaking they are part of the Avon River valley.

Long settled by the Mi ' kmaq Nation, the valley experienced French settlement at the Habitation at Port-Royal, near modern day Annapolis Royal in the western part of the valley, beginning in 1605.

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.

With the end of western Roman power, the islands, to the extent that they were governed at all, were part of territories of Goths, Vandals, Saracens, before the Normans fortified Favignana in 1081.

He conquered the Mixtec, Zapotec, and other peoples from Mexico's Pacific coast down to the western part of Guatemala.

Тhe Aleut people were distributed throughout the Aleutian Islands, the Shumagin Islands, and the far western part of the Alaska Peninsula, with an estimated population of around 25, 000 before contact with Europeans.

Besides Turkic people, large part of the Ghaznavid Empire was made up of local Muslim Afghans from what is now Afghanistan and western parts of Pakistan.

Berlin is situated in northeastern Germany, approximately west of the Polish border, in an area of low-lying marshy woodlands with a mainly flat topography, part of the vast Northern European Plain which stretches all the way from northern France to western Russia.

Much of the western part of Vancouver Island and the rest of the coast is covered by temperate rainforest.

* The Una in the northwest part of Bosnia flows along the northern and western border of Bosnia and Croatia and through the Bosnian city of Bihać.

The Bastarnae or Basternae () were an ancient Germanic tribe, who between 200 BC and 300 AD inhabited the region between the eastern Carpathian mountains and the Dnieper river ( corresponding to the modern Republic of Moldova and western part of southern Ukraine ).

The first systematic population on the European continent was taken in 1719 in Prussia ( roughly corresponding to today's northern Germany and western Poland ).

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.

These can be transferred onto a nitrocellulose or PVDF membrane to be probed with antibodies and corresponding markers, such as in a western blot.

Three years later they crossed the Pyrenees into Iberia and divided the Western parts, roughly corresponding to modern Portugal and western Spain as far as Madrid, between them.

In the Book of Jubilees, when the world was divided among Noah's sons and grandsons, Madai initially received the region east of " Lud " ( Lydia ) and north of Tubal ( Tabal, corresponding to Lycia and western Pamphylia ).

Etruscan civilization is the modern English name given to a civilization of ancient Italy in the area corresponding roughly to Tuscany, western Umbria, and northern Latium.

Canaan ( Northwest Semitic ; Phoenician: ; Biblical Hebrew: / ; Masoretic: / ; / Kan ‘ ān ) is a historical Semitic-speaking region roughly corresponding to the Levant ( modern-day Israel, Palestinian territories, Lebanon, and the western parts of Jordan and Syria ).

Mecklenburg-Strelitz was a duchy in northern Germany, consisting of the eastern fifth of the historic Mecklenburg region, roughly corresponding with the present-day Mecklenburg-Strelitz district ( the former Lordship of Stargard ), and the western exclave of the former bishopric of Ratzeburg in modern Schleswig-Holstein.

This " bank " or kisad, together with the corresponding western bank of the Tigris ( according to Fritz Hommel the modern Shatt el-Uai ), gave its name to the land of Chesed, whence the Kasdim / Kasdin of the Old Testament.

Their territory was known as Sarmatia to Greco-Roman ethnographers, corresponding to the western part of greater Scythia ( modern Ukraine, Southern Russia, and the eastern Balkans ).

Slavonia () is a historical region in eastern Croatia, roughly corresponding with five Croatian counties: Brod-Posavina, Osijek-Baranja, Požega-Slavonia, Virovitica-Podravina and Vukovar-Syrmia, although the territory of the counties includes Baranja, and the definition of the western extent of Slavonia as a region varies.

" The Navy used this authority to shut down amateur radio in the western part of the US ( the US was divided into two civilian radio " districts " with corresponding call-signs, beginning with K in the west and W in the east, in the regulatory measures ; the Navy was assigned call-signs beginning with N ).

It has been suggested that Pantherophis guttatus can be split into three species: Pantherophis guttatus, Pantherophis emoryi ( corresponding with the subspecies Pantherophis guttatus emoryi ) and Pantherophis slowinskii ( occurring in western Louisiana and adjacent Texas ).

This is suggested by, among other things, an admittedly corrupt late copy of the Hittite laws in which the geographical term Luwiya is replaced with Arzawa, a western Anatolian kingdom corresponding roughly with Mira and the Seha River Land ( although one scholar has argued that a chain of scribal error and revision led to this substitution, and that Luwiya was not coterminous with Arzawa but was further east in the area of the Konya plain ).

It was once divided into two sections ruled by different feudal lords: the western Brie française, corresponding roughly to the modern department of Seine-et-Marne in the Île-de-France region ; the eastern Brie champenoise, forming a portion of the modern department of Marne in the historic region of Champagne ( part of modern-day Champagne-Ardenne ); and the northern Brie pouilleuse, forming part of the modern department of Aisne in Picardy.

The West Country is an informal term for the area of south western England roughly corresponding to the modern South West England government region.

Throughout this period, the Maghreb most often was divided into three states roughly corresponding to modern Morocco, western Algeria, and eastern Algeria and Tunisia.

Argyll (), archaically Argyle ( Earra-Ghàidheal in modern Gaelic ), is a region of western Scotland corresponding with most of the part of ancient Dál Riata that was located on the island of Great Britain, and in a historical context can be used to mean the entire western coast between the Mull of Kintyre and Cape Wrath.

Thus disturbances emanating from the western Pacific Ocean ( such as El Niño ) may propagate across the basin on time scales of weeks compared to years for corresponding basin-wide propagation at higher latitudes.

The second is the sakkos, which is more elaborately decorated and more amply cut, worn as an outer vestment by the bishops in place of a presbyter's phelonion and, like the phelonion, corresponding to the western chasuble, derived from Byzantine imperial dress, and hence identical in origin to the Western Dalmatic.

There are now only two main branches, due to flood control, silting and changing relief: The Damietta ( corresponding to the Phatnitic ) to the east and the Rosetta ( corresponding to the Bolbitine ) on the western part of the delta.