Carn Dûm, where the Witch-king of Angmar resided for several centuries in the Third Age, lay between a western spur of the northern extreme of the mountains, known as the Mountains of Angmar.

The extreme western section of the county contains the Brushy Mountains, a deeply eroded spur of the much higher Blue Ridge Mountains to the west.

The route narrows to a two-lane, undivided road and heads northwest into the New Jersey Meadowlands, passing under the mainline of the New Jersey Turnpike ( Interstate 95 ) and the western spur of the New Jersey Turnpike a short distance later.

Route 120, County Route 503, and the western spur of the New Jersey Turnpike ( Interstate 95 ) serve Carlstadt.

The industrialization of western Chelsea brought immigrant populations from many countries to work in the factories, including a large number of Irish immigrants, who dominated work on the Hudson River piers that lined the nearby waterfront and the truck terminals integrated with the freight railroad spur.

The western section is on the surface from to, with an underground spur to Heathrow Airport.

The town's highest point is located on a western spur of Mount Cabot at above sea level.

A railroad spur line passed through the western side of the Village of Hammond and was in limited use until the early-mid 1960s.

At Mojarras, Colombia Route 25 splits into two spurs ; the western spur is the preferred road for traveling south toward the Nariño departmental border.

This definition is frequently known as New England North West or less commonly the Northern Region or Northern Inland Region and includes the western valleys of the Gwydir River and Namoi River and their tributaries, and the foothills and spur ranges which generally form the western side of the central Northern Tablelands.

The Nandewar Range is a major western spur of the highlands, culminating in Mount Kaputar near Narrabri.

It is the most northerly motorway in the United Kingdom ; the northernmost point being a spur into the western suburbs of Perth at Broxden.

To the west, a further ditch separated the spur forming a stone-revetted western island ; the defences of which appear never to have been completed.

Examples include Delaware Route 1, Virginia's Pocahontas Parkway, the Hampton toll plaza on I-95 in New Hampshire, the Interstate 78 Toll Bridge, the Atlantic City Expressway, the Newark Toll Plaza on the Delaware Turnpike the express lanes of the Atlantic City Expressway, in two locations on the New Jersey Turnpike, one at the southern end near the Delaware Memorial Bridge and one near the northern end of the western spur ( just north of exit 16W ), the Garden State Parkway, the Pennsylvania Turnpike's Gateway, Warrendale and Mid-County ( I-476 ) toll plazas, new sections of the Mon-Fayette Expressway, and the New York State Thruway at the Woodbury toll barrier.

Interstate 370 ( abbreviated I-370 ) is a Interstate Highway spur route off I-270 in Gaithersburg, Maryland to the western end of toll road MD 200 ( Intercounty Connector ) at an interchange that provides access to the park and ride lot at the Shady Grove station on the Red Line of the Washington Metro.

* Interstate 670 ( Ohio ), a 9. 37-mile ( 15. 08-km ) spur highway that connects I-70 in western Columbus, Ohio to U. S. Highway 62 and Interstate 270 in Gahanna, Ohio

After the western end was truncated to its current location, that business loop was converted to a business spur.

The New Jersey Turnpike, which had been suffering the burden of increased traffic volumes near its northern terminus in Ridgefield Park, built a new alignment, the " western spur ", with an exit, interchange 16W, leading directly to the sports complex as well as to Route 3.

The spur of NY 5 later rejoins its parent yards from where NY 5A departs NY 5 to serve western Utica.

Melungtse lies just north of the Nepal / China border, on a western spur ridge coming out of the main north-south trending ridge of the Rolwaling Himal, in Tingri County, Shigatse Prefecture of Tibet.

Spurs seen in western riding may also have small curved-up hooks on the shank in front of the rowel, called " chap guards ," that were originally used to prevent the rider's chaps from interfering with the rowels of the spur.

In northern Europe, the spur became less elaborate after the 16th century, particularly following the Stuart Restoration, but elaborate spur designs persisted, particularly in the Americas, descendants of which are still seen today, particularly in Mexico and the western United States, where the spur has become an integral part of the vaquero and cowboy traditions.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

The artist was born in Gilbert Mills, New York, in 1886, and until two years ago when he and his wife moved to California, he lived in western New York, in Batavia.

The discovery during the Second World War that guar gum was similar to imported locust gum increased its cultivation in western Asia and initiated it in the United States.

Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated, and became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator during the 1830s, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives during the 1840s.

It was made capable of making war and peace, negotiating diplomatic and commercial agreements with foreign countries, and deciding disputes between the states, including their additional and contested western territories.

The Assuwa league was a confederation of states in western Anatolia concluding a wide-ranging array of minor Anti-Hittite powers across the region.

Gen. Beauregard arrived at Johnston's headquarters at Bowling Green on February 4, 1862 and was given overall command of Polk's force at the western end of Johnston's line at Columbus, Kentucky.

Later, the Anatolian peninsula was given the name Asia ( Ἀσία ), presumably after the name of the Assuwa confederation in western Anatolia.

In the Byzantine Empire, Anatolikon called also Theme of the Anatolics ( ανατολικόν θέμα ) was a theme covering the western and central parts of Turkey's present-day Central Anatolian Region.

In the Byzantine Empire, Anatolikon called also Theme of the Anatolics ( ανατολικόν θέμα ) was a theme covering the western and central parts of Turkey's present-day Central Anatolian Region.

The general consensus amongst scholars is that Luwian was spoken — to a greater or lesser degree — across a large area of western Anatolia, including ( possibly ) Wilusa (= Troy ), the Seha River Land ( to be identified with the Hermos and / or Kaikos valley ), and the kingdom of Mira-Kuwaliya with its core territory of the Maeander valley.

Due to his western successes, Ulysses S. Grant was given command of all Union armies in 1864, and organized the armies of William Tecumseh Sherman, George Meade and others to attack the Confederacy from all directions, increasing the North's advantage in manpower.

Anti-slavery Northerners mobilized in 1860 behind moderate Abraham Lincoln because he was most likely to carry the doubtful western states.

In addition to promoting physical exercise, Isamu Kurosawa was open to western traditions and considered theater and motion pictures to have educational merit.

Most of the population lives in the western and northwestern parts of the country, where the two major cities, Yerevan and Gyumri ( which was called Aleksandropol ' during the tsarist period ), are located.

In western Europe Arianism, which had been taught by Ulfilas, the Arian missionary to the Germanic tribes, was dominant among the Goths and Lombards ( and, significantly for the late Empire, the Vandals ); but it ceased to be the mainstream belief by the 8th century.

In addition to this, the land the Ainu lived on was distributed to the Wajin who had decided to move to Hokkaido, who had been encouraged by the Japanese government of the Meiji era to take advantage of the island ’ s abundance of natural resources, and to create and maintain farms in the model of western industrial agriculture.

Several attempts to find a new home failed ; one such stop was on Sicily where in Drepanum, on the island's western coast, his father, Anchises, died peacefully.

Inheriting a collapsing empire and faced with constant warfare during his reign against both the Seljuq Turks in Asia Minor and the Normans in the western Balkans, Alexios was able to halt the Byzantine decline and begin the military, financial, and territorial recovery known as the Komnenian restoration.

He came from Antioch and served under Constantius II and was probably appointed to ensure that nobody with western associations was serving in Britain during a time of mistrust, rebellion and suppression symbolised by the brutal acts of the imperial notary Paulus Catena.

So strong was Ambrose's hostility to some of the delegates that he described Basel as a western Babylon.

Andriscus, (-Andriskos ) and often called the " pseudo-Philip ", was the last King of Macedon ( 149 BC – 148 BC ), and ruler of Adramyttium in Aeolis ( in western Anatolia ).

At the same time, the most western island of the Juan Fernández Islands was renamed Alejandro Selkirk Island although Selkirk probably never saw that island ( 97 miles west ).

Actium ( Greek: Ἄκτιον ) was the ancient name of a promontory of western Greece in northwestern Acarnania, at the mouth of the Sinus Ambracius ( Gulf of Arta ) opposite Nicopolis, built by Augustus on the north side of the strait.