He became commander of the Confederacy's western armies in the area often called the Western Department or Western Military Department.

About 90 % of the world's extractable amber is still located in that area, which became the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia in 1946.

* 1893 – Ibadan area became a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton.

Taking the title " Margrave of Brandenburg ", he pressed the " crusade " against the Wends, extended the area of his mark, encouraged German migration, established bishoprics under his protection, and so became the founder of the Margraviate of Brandenburg in 1157, which his heirs — the House of Ascania — held until the line died out in 1320.

No larger settlements, however, have been found to have existed in this remote rural area, located at least 15 km from the nearest road even in Roman times, up to the early medieval period when the place is mentioned as a king's mansion for the first time, not long before Charlemagne became ruler of the Germanic Franks.

This area later became the Southwest Territory ( 1790 ), the precursor to the state of Tennessee.

However, he became gravely ill during the 1918 flu pandemic and, since Spain was neutral and thus under no wartime censorship restrictions, his illness and subsequent recovery were covered worldwide, giving the false impression ( in the absence of real news from anywhere else ) that Spain was the most-affected area.

Commercial farming became viable in the area once the grain trade had developed technologies to handle the bulk export of grain, especially hopper cars and grain elevators.

Although Grothendieck himself never published his work in this area, the proposal became the inspiration for work by other mathematicians and the source of the theory of dessins d ' enfants.

Louisiana Creole ( also called French Créole ) refers to native born people of the New Orleans area who are descended from the Colonial French and / or Spanish settlers of Colonial French Louisiana, before it became part of the United States in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase.

The area thrived during the Ottoman Empire, as the centre of opium production and Afyon became a wealthy city with the typical Ottoman urban mixture of Turks, Armenians and Greeks.

In 1974 the area became part of the borough of Torfaen, in the new local government county of Gwent.

The area became the number one place for electrical supplies.

Roman neglect of this area allowed Aquitanian to survive while the Iberian and Tartessian languages became extinct.

Nevertheless, the Knickerbocker Rules were rapidly adopted by teams in the New York area and their version of baseball became known as the " New York Game " ( as opposed to the " Massachusetts Game ", played by clubs in the Boston area ).

Many refugees from areas captured by Israeli forces in 1947 – 48 fled to the Bethlehem area, primarily settling in the what became the official refugee camps of ' Azza ( Beit Jibrin ) and ' Aida in the north and Dheisheh in the south.

They became an increasing area of interest for scholars in the 19th century and most were recorded or catalogued by George Malcolm Laws, although some have since been found to have British origins and additional songs have since been collected.

That plan became complicated when Governor Nelson Rockefeller announced his desire to redevelop a part of the area as a separate project.

San Francisco from Indian RockPolitically, the area that became Berkeley was initially part of a vast Contra Costa County.

" The area near the university became known for a time as " East Berkeley.

In 1934, the McDaniel family moved to the largely black South Side area of Chicago, where the young man dropped the name Otha and became known as Ellas McDaniel, until his musical ambitions demanded that he take on a more catchy identity.

As the Turkish incursion into Europe started, Croatia once again became a border area.

The area became rather deserted and was subsequently settled by Serbs, Vlachs, Croats and Germans and others.

Over decades, the size of daily strips became smaller and smaller, until by the year 2000, four standard daily strips could fit in an area once occupied by a single daily strip.

An RDW will be of the form Af, where xxxx is the starting location of the area and yyyy is its ending location.

The location of the oxidation pond in a high-value residential area makes odor nuisances a sensitive problem for the developer.

This led the government to propose reconstruction of the Armenian Atomic Power Station at Metsamor, which was closed after the 1988 earthquake because of its location in an earthquake-prone area and which had the same safety problems as reactors listed as dangerous in Bulgaria, Russia, and Slovakia.

Colonel William Light, one of Adelaide's founding fathers, designed the city and chose its location close to the River Torrens in the area originally inhabited by the Kaurna people.

Although these effects may be either beneficial or detrimental, the location of the area is crucial in determining the extent of the impact that abiotic stress will have.

More recently, a discovery of Roman artefacts in Kings Norton close to Metchley Camp has suggested another possibility, and a thorough examination of a stretch of Watling Street between St. Albans, Boudica's last known location, and the Fosse Way junction has suggested the Cuttle Mill area of Paulerspury in Northamptonshire, which has topography very closely matching that described by Tacitus of the scene of the battle.

Far from his grave being kept clean, it was unmarked until 1967, when a Texas Historical Marker was erected in the general area of his plot, the precise location being unknown.

This area deals with enabling clinicians to directly or indirectly " view " things not visible in plain sight ( such as due to their size, and / or location ).

* Cortical magnification, describes how many neurons in an area of the visual cortex are ' responsible ' for processing a stimulus of a given size, as a function of visual field location

The area around present-day Cairo, especially Memphis, had long been a focal point of Ancient Egypt due to its strategic location just upstream from the Nile Delta.

In Lois & Clark, Clark's usual method of changing was to either " suddenly " remember something urgent that required his immediate attention or leave the room / area under the pretense of contacting a source, summoning the police, heading to a breaking story's location, etc.

The queries on such data include location based queries, like " where is the closest hotel in my area ".

A precise search area was difficult to define, as even small differences in estimates of the aircraft's speed, or the environmental conditions along the flight path ( which varied significantly by location and altitude ), changed Cooper's projected landing point considerably.

* Rangitata River-The location of the Erewhon sheep station, named by Butler who was the first white settler in the area and lived at the Mesopotamia Sheep Station.

This area would be the location of many new hominin fossils particularly those uncovered by the teams of Tim White in the 1990s, such as Ardipithecus ramidus.

The location of the tissue determines its metabolic profile: " visceral fat " is located within the abdominal wall ( i. e., beneath the wall of abdominal muscle ) whereas " subcutaneous fat " is located beneath the skin ( and includes fat that is located in the abdominal area beneath the skin but above the abdominal muscle wall ).

The park's location in the Kenmore Square area includes many buildings of similar height and architecture and thus it blends in with its surroundings.

A franchise usually lasts for a fixed time period ( broken down into shorter periods, which each require renewal ), and serves a specific territory or geographical area surrounding its location.

The village of Madina do Boé in the southeasternmost area of the territory, close to the border with neighbouring Guinea, was the location where PAIGC guerrillas declared the independence of Guinea-Bissau on September 24, 1973.

With the bulk of hedge fund investment coming from the US East coast – principally New York City and the Gold Coast area of Connecticut – this has become the leading location for hedge fund managers.

The area ’ s notoriously harsh weather, dramatic underwater topography, the island ’ s central location on historic shipping routes, and the cold, fresh water have culminated in largely intact, well preserved wrecks throughout the park.

This identification would agree well with the later location of the Jutes in Kent, since the area just opposite of Kent on the European mainland ( present-day Flanders ) was part of Francia.

Lost city is a term that is generally considered to refer to a well-populated area which fell into terminal decline, became extensively or completely uninhabited, and whose location has been forgotten.