The area around Abensberg is characterized by the narrow valley of the Danube, where the Weltenburg Abbey stands, the valley of the Altmühl in the north, a left tributary of the Danube, and the famous Hallertau hops-planting region in the south.

However, if we look for the peoples in the region from the upper Main in the north, south to the Danube and east to the Czech Republic where the Quadi and Marcomanni were located, Ptolemy does not give any tribes.

The Black Sea also receives river water from large Eurasian fluvial systems to the north of the Sea, of which the Don, Dnieper and Danube are the most significant.

Persian King Darius I the Great, in an attempt to subdue the Scythian horsemen who roamed across the north of the Black Sea, crossed through the Bosphorus, then marched towards the Danube River.

" In response to Marlborough's manoeuvres, the Elector and Marsin, conscious of their numerical disadvantage with only 40, 000 men, moved their forces to the entrenched camp at Dillingen on the north bank of the Danube.

With Eugene's forces at Höchstädt on the north bank of the Danube, and Marlborough's at Rain on the south bank, Tallard and the Elector debated their next move.

On 9 August, the Franco-Bavarian forces began to cross to the north bank of the Danube.

A branch of the Bastarnae, called the Peucini by Greco-Roman writers, occupied the region north of the Danube river delta.

Two factors had contributed to growing unrest in the area north of Danube.

Uldin, a prince of the Huns, appeared on the Danube about this time and advanced into Thrace, but he was deserted by many of his followers, who joined with the Romans in driving their king back north of the river.

Meanwhile, Diocletian built forts north of the Danube, at Aquincum ( Budapest, Hungary ), Bononia ( Vidin, Bulgaria ), Ulcisia Vetera, Castra Florentium, Intercisa ( Dunaújváros, Hungary ), and Onagrinum ( Begeč, Serbia ).

By the 3rd century, the Goths ruled a vast area north of the Black Sea from where they either through crossing the lower Danube or traveling by sea, raided the Balkan Peninsula and Anatolia as far as Cyprus.

In 332 Constantine helped the Sarmatians to settle on the north banks of the Danube to defend against the Goths ' attacks and thereby enforce the Roman Empire's border.

In 334, Constantine evacuated approximately 300, 000 Sarmatians from the north bank of the Danube after a revolt of the Sarmatians ' slaves.

Prince Menshikov called the attention of the Turks to the fact that during the Russo-Turkish War ( 1768 – 1774 ), the Russians had occupied the Turkish controlled provinces of Wallachia and Moldavia on the north bank of the Danube River, but he reminded them that pursuant to the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, however, the Russians had returned these " Danubian provinces " to Ottoman control in exchange for the right to protect the Christian sites in the Holy Land.

In the first years of the 1st century, Roman legions conducted a long campaign in Germania, the area north of the Upper Danube and east of the Rhine, in an attempt to expand the Empire's frontiers and shorten its frontier line.

During Justinian's reign, the Balkans suffered from several incursions by the Turkic and Slavic peoples who lived north of the Danube.

By the end of the 5th century they had moved into the area roughly coinciding with modern Austria north of the Danube river, where they subdued the Heruls and later fought frequent wars with the Gepids.

Rivalry between him and Arminius, the Cheruscan leader who inflicted the devastating defeat at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest on the Romans under Publius Quinctilius Varus in 9 AD, prevented a concerted attack on Roman territory across the Rhine in the north ( by Arminius ) and in the Danube basin in the south ( by Maroboduus ).

In support of this, Wolfram cites Zosimus as referring to a group of " Scythians " north of the Danube who were called " Greuthungi " by the barbarians north of the Ister.

The Pechenegs ( a semi-nomadic Turkic people of the Central Asian steppes ) occupied the steppes north of the Black Sea ( 8th – 12th century ) and by the 10th century were in control of the lands between the Don and lower Danube rivers.

Thus, at the beginning of the 17th century, the Rhine lands and those south to the Danube were largely Catholic, while Lutherans predominated in the north, and Calvinists dominated in certain other areas, such as west-central Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

Roman provinces along the Ister ( Danube ), showing Dacia, Moesia and Thrace, with Sarmatia to the north and Germania to the northwest.

Sis Castle ( modern Kozan, Adana ) lies to the north while Tumlu Kale ( Tumlu Castle ) lies to the southwest and Amouda Castle to the Southeast.

Aalen is situated on the upper reaches of the river Kocher, at the foot of the Swabian Jura which lies to the south and south-east, and close to the hilly landscapes of the Ellwanger Berge to the north and the Welland to the north-west.

It lies about east of Blackburn, west of Burnley, north of Manchester city centre and is situated on the mostly culverted River Hyndburn.

The North Atlantic Ocean lies to the north of the islands, and the Caribbean Sea lies to the south.

Burkina Faso lies mostly between latitudes 9 ° and 15 ° N ( a small area is north of 15 °), and longitudes 6 ° W and 3 ° E.

N ' Djamena, the capital, is located more than 1, 100 kilometers northeast of the Atlantic Ocean ; Abéché, a major city in the east, lies 2, 650 kilometers from the Red Sea ; and Faya-Largeau, a much smaller but strategically important center in the north, is in the middle of the Sahara Desert, 1, 550 kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea.

The Columbia Glaciated ecoregion, making up about a third of the total watershed, lies in the north and was covered with ice sheets during the Pleistocene.

A short distance away from the square lies the Cambridge Common, while the neighborhood north of Harvard and east of Massachusetts Avenue is known as Agassiz in honor of the famed scientist Louis Agassiz.

The DRC lies on the Equator, with one-third of the country to the north and two-thirds to the south.

An accessible portion of the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge lies immediately north of the western bridge terminus, where the Ravenswood trail runs.

Seafloor spreading at the boundary between the Indian and African Plates subsequently pushed India north over the plume, which now lies under Réunion island in the Indian Ocean, southwest of India.

The village lies at the north end of an arm of Chichester Harbour, a large but shallow inlet of the English Channel.

To the north of the city lies the Atlantic Ocean ; to the south are the municipalities of Pacatuba, Eusébio, Maracanaú and Itaitinga ; to the east is the municipality of Aquiraz and the Atlantic Ocean ; and to the west is the municipality of Caucaia.

The Western Australia Mallee shrub ecoregion lies to the west, the Little Sandy Desert to the northwest, the Gibson Desert and the Central Ranges xeric shrublands to the north, the Tirari and Sturt Stony deserts to the east, while the Nullarbor Plain to the south separates it from the Southern Ocean.

Hilversum lies south-east of Amsterdam and north of Utrecht.

While the settlement today referred to as Hedeby / Haithabu lies on the south side of the Schlei inlet, the settlement that grew up at around the same time on the north side has had a continuous history of habitation to modern times, and has now grown into the town known as Schleswig and given its name to the surrounding province.

The most characteristic differences, for instance, between Roman Italian and Milanese Italian are the gemination of initial consonants and the pronunciation of stressed " e ", and of " s " in some cases: e. g. va bene " all right ": is pronounced by a Roman ( and by any standard-speaker ), by a Milanese ( and by any speaker whose native dialect lies to the north of La Spezia-Rimini Line ); a casa " at home " is for Roman and standard, for Milanese and generally northern.

The Firth of Clyde lies between 55 and 56 degrees north, at the same latitude as Labrador in Canada and north of the Aleutian Islands, but the influence of the North Atlantic Drift — the northern extension of the Gulf Stream — ameliorates the winter weather and the area enjoys a mild, damp oceanic climate.

To the north of the Blue Mountains lies the strongly tilted limestone plateau forming the John Crow Mountains.

Zuoying Military Harbor lies to the north of Kaohsiung Harbor and the city center.

The village of Kourounia lies north of Volissos in the northwestern part of the island.

It lies north of the Equator, from Sydney, and from San Francisco.