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.

In addition, 20px U. S. Route 302 has its western terminus in Montpelier, connecting it with the nearby city of Barre and points east.

Route 90, part of which is named after Rehavam Zeevi, connects the northern and southern tips of Israel and parallels the Jordan River on the western side.

The Pony Express built many of their eastern stations along the Oregon / California / Mormon / Bozeman trails and many of their western stations along the very sparsely settled Central Route across Utah and Nevada.

Between the intersection with State Route 112, on the western edge of the Olympic Mountains, U. S. 101 is signed east / west, and roughly south of the intersection with State Route 20, U. S. 101 is signed north / south but having turned around 180 degrees.

McLoughlin Boulevard ( Oregon Route 99E ) runs north-south through the western side of the city.

Its western terminus is at U. S. Route 22 in Bridgewater Township, Somerset County while its eastern terminus is at Route 27 in Elizabeth, Union County.

From its western terminus, Route 28 heads east through Raritan, intersecting County Route 567 and then U. S. Route 202 and U. S. Route 206 at the Somerville Circle before heading through the central part of Somerville.

In 1953, the western terminus of Route 28 was moved to its current location to avoid the concurrencies with U. S. Route 22 and U. S. Route 22 Alternate while the portion of the route in Elizabeth was realigned to replace Route 27-28 Link, with the former route becoming Route 439.

In the 1953 renumbering of state highways, which eliminated long concurrencies between U. S. and state highways, the western terminus of Route 28 was cut back to its current location with U. S. Route 22 in Bridgewater Township, with the designation west of there dropped in favor of U. S. Route 22 and U. S. Route 22 Alternate.

Most of U. S. Route 30 from Philadelphia to western Wyoming, portions of Interstate 80 in the western United States, most of U. S. Route 50 in Nevada and California, and most of old decommissioned U. S. Route 40 in California are alignments of the Lincoln Highway.

In 2005, the PDS, renamed The Left Party. PDS ( Die Linkspartei. PDS ), entered an electoral alliance with the western Germany-based Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative ( WASG ) and won 8. 7 % of the vote in Germany's September 2005 federal elections ( more than double the 4 % share achieved by the PDS alone in the 2002 election ).

It is not known when life originated, but carbon in 3. 8 billion year old rocks from islands off western Greenland may be of organic origin.

On 8 November 1760, Clement XIII issued a Papal bull Quantum ornamenti, which approved the request of King Charles III of Spain to invoke the Immaculate Conception as the Patroness of the Spanish Kingdom, along with its eastern and western territories, while also maintaining Saint James the Greater be given a distinguished honor as co-patron.

When Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, in Operation Barbarossa, the Red Army's ground forces had 303 divisions and 22 separate brigades ( 4. 8 million soldiers ), including 166 divisions and 9 brigades ( 2. 9 million soldiers ) garrisoned in the western military districts.

Palaeo-drainage network formed by several palaeochannels has been worked out by different researchers in western Rajasthan and neighbouring states, which is mainly buried under sand cover of the Thar Desert and parallel to the Aravalli Hills 6 – 8.

* June 8 – The discovery of the Comstock Lode in the western Utah Territory setting off the Rush to Washoe

* July 8 – July 16-Massive flooding caused by 2 different hurricanes devastates western North Carolina.

* October 8 – The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River.

* 1288 – August 8 – Pope Nicholas IV proclaims a crusade against King Ladislaus IV of Hungary, who had lost credibility by favoring his semi-pagan Cuman subjects and in general refusing to conform to the social standards of western Europe.

* August 8 – Pope Nicholas IV proclaims a crusade against King Ladislaus IV of Hungary, who had lost credibility by favoring his semi-pagan Cuman subjects and in general refusing to conform to the social standards of western Europe.

It is a part of the Kuroshio Current, which diverges near the western part of Japan and flows northward into the Yellow Sea at the speed of below 0. 8 km / h ( 0. 5 mile / h ).

It is 5. 9 % abv in the eastern United States, 7. 5 % abv in most western U. S. states and 8. 0 % abv in Canada.

These bus services were improved in frequency and spread in 2007 to complement the western extension of the London congestion charge area, which required vehicles driving into or around Kensington in charging hours Monday-Friday to pay a daily fee of £ 8.

" 801 " can be read as " yaoi " in the following form: the " short " reading of the number 8 is " ya ", 0 can be read as " o " – a western influence, while the short reading for 1 is " i " ( see Japanese wordplay ).

) Water temperature peaks at 8 °- 9 ° C ( 46 °- 48 ° F ) on the western side of the bay in late summer.

Jules Sébastien César Dumont d ' Urville ( 23 May 1790 – 8 May 1842 ) was a French explorer, naval officer and rear admiral, who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica.

Perhaps originating north of the River Main, the Quadi and Marcomanni migrated into what is now Moravia, western Slovakia and Lower Austria where they displaced Celtic cultures and were first noticed by Romans in 8 – 6 BC, briefly documented by Tacitus in his Germania.

The Treaty of Bretigny, signed on 8 May 1360, ceded a third of western France — mostly in Aquitaine and Gascony – to the English, and lowered the King's ransom to 3 million ecus.

Its present boundaries were set on February 8, 1917, when a western portion became Camas County.

In the Romanian general election of November 1946 that the Soviets had promised the western allies, the Romanian Communist Party ( PCR ) was trounced, with U. S. embassy estimates of the bloc receiving only about 8 % of the vote compared to 70 % for the rival Peasant Party.

On April 8, 1998, an F2 tornado struck north of the city limits after the F5 tornado expired in western Jefferson County.

Plant Bowen is a coal-fired power station located just inside Taylorsville, Georgia, United States, approximately 14 km ( 8. 7 mi ) west-south-west from Cartersville in western Bartow County.

Its population grew by 80. 8 % and had the fastest population growth of any single town in western Anne Arundel County from 2000-2010.

The village is within Westphalia Township in the western portion of Clinton County, about 8 miles north of Interstate 96 on county roads and about 25 miles northwest of Lansing.

Image: Ltspkr. pngOuderkerk ( population: 8, 100 in 2005 ) is a municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland.