On September 10, 1861, Johnston was assigned to command the huge area of the Confederacy west of the Allegheny Mountains, except for coastal areas.

Stretching inland from the Aegean coastal plain, the Central Anatolian plateau occupies the area between the two zones of the folded coastal ranges in the north and south, extending east to the point where the two ranges converge.

Typical landscape for the Antarctic Peninsula area, with fjords, high coastal mountains and islands.

He extended Roman territory to the sea, founding the port of Ostia, establishing salt-works around the port, and taking the Silva Maesia, an area of coastal forest north of the Tiber, from the Veientes.

The former settled in the eastern coastal regions, while the latter settled primarily in the area known today as the Highveld — the large, relatively high central plateau of South Africa.

The Costa Smeralda (, ) is a coastal area and tourist destination in northern Sardinia, long and covering more than.

In fisheries issues, the United States claims jurisdiction for the management of coastal fisheries up to 200 mile ( 370 km ) from its coast, but excludes highly migratory species ; Ecuador, on the other hand, claims a 200-mile ( 370-km ) territorial sea, and imposes license fees and fines on foreign fishing vessels in the area, making no exceptions for catches of migratory species.

Cultivation of crops is limited to the coastal area, where the population is largely concentrated ; rice and manioc are the major crops.

By the first century BC Germanic languages had become prevalent, and the inhabitants were called Belgæ while the area was the coastal district of Gallia Belgica, the most northeastern province of the Roman Empire at its height.

Seafood proliferates throughout the coastal area.

A century before that, during the 15th century, the three colours were mentioned as the coastal signals for this area, with the 3 bands straight or diagonal, single or doubled.

There are traditional Greek-speaking settlements in the neighbouring countries of Albania, Bulgaria and Turkey, as well as in several countries in the Black Sea area such as Ukraine, Russia, Romania, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and around the Mediterranean Sea, Southern Italy, Israel, Egypt, Lebanon and ancient coastal towns along the Levant.

Ferry services link the primary roads in the coastal area, and Guyana with Suriname.

Honduras has three distinct topographical regions: an extensive interior highland area and two narrow coastal lowlands.

This area of river valleys and coastal plains, which most Honduras call " the north coast ," or simply " the coast ," has traditionally been Honduras's most exploited region.

On 5 November, Major Spyros Spyromilios led a revolt in the coastal area of Himarë and expelled the Ottoman garrison without facing significant resistance, while on 20 November Greek troops from western Macedonia entered Korçë.

The Cuban Exile journalist and author John O ' Donnell-Rosales, who was born in the area of Cuba with the last confirmed sightings, reported sightings near the Alabama coastal delta in 1994, but these were never properly investigated by state wildlife officials.

In Cyrenaica there are fewer coastal oases, and the Marj Plain – the lowland area corresponding to the Jifarah Plain of Tripolitania – covers a much smaller area.

Through this coastal area, the Chewa traded ivory, iron, and slaves with the Portuguese and Arabs.

Hence, Roman administration never extended outside the restricted area of the northern coastal plain and valleys.

Most marine life is found in coastal habitats, even though the shelf area occupies only seven percent of the total ocean area.

Nova Scotia is the second-smallest province in Canada, with an area of, including Cape Breton and some 3, 800 coastal islands.

Only a few interior valleys and coastal strips are flat enough for soil accumulations of consequence, however.

Several major Māori tracks were known, such as the western coastal track was used along the whole length of the North Island, and the track on the East Coast, which however left the coast near Castlepoint and rejoined it near Napier.

Before being elected President, Jefferson had opposed funds for a Navy to be used for anything more than a coastal defense, however the continued pirate attacks on American shipping interests in the Atlantic and Mediterranean and the systematic kidnapping of American crew members could no longer be ignored.

Their importance for trade with the Slavic world however was limited to the coastal regions and their hinterlands.

Wrecking is no longer economically significant ; however, as recently as the 19th century in some parts of the world, it was the mainstay of otherwise economically marginal coastal communities.

The name was not attached to Cornish legends of lost coastal lands until the reign of Elizabeth I of England, however ..

Large males of up to have been documented in Kruger National Park in South Africa ; however, males in South Africa's coastal mountains average and the females from the desert-edge in Somalia average.

Most of the genetic makeup of the average Malagasy, however, reflects an almost equal blend of Austronesian and Bantu influences ( especially on coastal regions ).

Certain higher areas in the north, however, record more than a year, as do some coastal sites.

The topography is coastal plain ; however there are some rolling hills.

Beachberry or Inkberry ( Scaevola plumieri ) is widespread along the Atlantic coast of the tropical Americas and Africa ; however, it is becoming rarer in areas where S. taccada is displacing native coastal plants.

Native plant communities include: coastal sage scrub, California Annual Grassland, and Coastal Dune Scrub species ; however, most native plants have been eliminated from within the city limits to make way for agriculture and urban and industrial development.

One nexus of carved iconographic traditions, the " yoke-palm-axe " complex, was found from Jaina Island in coastal Campeche to the Huasteca ( and in between, in Aparicio, Veracruz ), in association with the pelota ballgame, decapitation, and tooth mutilation ; however, this may reflect coastal trade contacts after the Huastecs were established in the Huasteca.

The Allies planned to next besiege Cambrai, however the British government ordered the Duke of York's Anglo-Hanoverian corps to instead seize the coastal port of Dunkirk, the possession of which they believed would be a valuable military base and bargaining counter.

Conventional beach and water-sports tourism is largely in the south-west around the airport and the coastal strip ; however, ecotourism is growing in significance, and much of it focuses on the large area of protected forest in the centre and north of the main island and on Little Tobago, a small island off the north-east tip of the main island.

Currently however, Trenitalia, the state railway system, highly developed on the coastal plain, traverses the mountains routinely through a number of railway tunnels, such as the one at Giovi Pass.

The shorelines of the estuarine portion of the Miramichi River exposes newer rocks belonging to the Carboniferous period and underlay the sandy topsoil, however some coastal land is low lying and suffers poor drainage.

The seaducks commonly found in coastal areas, such as the Long-tailed Duck ( formerly known in the US as Oldsquaw ), scoters, goldeneyes, mergansers, bufflehead and eiders, are also sometimes colloquially referred to in North America as diving ducks because they also feed by diving ; their subfamily ( Merginae ) is a very distinct one however.

It was a fragile peace, however, as the Seljuks wanted to push from the arid central plateau of Asia Minor into the more fertile coastal lands, while the Byzantines wanted to recover the Anatolian territory they had lost since the Battle of Manzikert one hundred years earlier.

Despite its coastal location presenting a danger however, large numbers of children and young mothers from Dundee were evacuated there during the period of the Phoney War.

It has however recently become a regular breeding species and is commonly present, often in large numbers, at favoured coastal sites.

All young tulip trees and most mature specimens are intolerant of prolonged inundation ; however, a coastal plain swamp ecotype in the southeastern United States is relatively flood-tolerant.

The Main North railway line following the same route as the New England Highway to Wallangarra, Queensland was the first railway link between the states, however the coastal railway is now used and the New England line is disused north of Armidale.