Sixty years ago most archaeologists believed that brochs, usually regarded as castles, were built by immigrants who had been displaced and pushed northward, first by the intrusions of Belgic tribes into what is now south-east England towards the end of the second century BC and later by the Roman invasion of southern Britain from AD 43 onwards.

The attack was aimed at capturing the German second defensive position which ran along the crest of the ridge from Pozières, on the Albert – Bapaume road, south-east towards the villages of Guillemont and Ginchy.

The Old City ( in the south-east area of Palma behind the Cathedral ) is a fascinating maze of streets clearly hinting towards an Arab past.

After several weeks in Hong Kong, the expedition departed in early January 1875 to retrace their route south-east towards New Guinea.

The expedition left Tahiti in early October, swinging to the west and south of the Tubuai Islands and then heading to the south-east before turning east towards the South American coast.

The next stage of the journey commenced the following month, with the route taking the ship south-westward back out into the Pacific, past the Juan Fernández Islands, before turning to the south-east and back towards South America, reaching Port Otway in the Gulf of Penas on 31 December 1875.

Turnpike Lane, looking south-east towards Ducketts Common

* cuts through the middle of Troy from the north-west corner bordering Bloomfield Township, and continuing southward towards the south-east border of the city entering Madison Heights.

By 12 June, his forces were across the Marne and advancing south-east towards Alsace.

On 10 July Brauchitsch arrived at Rundstedt's headquarters at Brody, with instructions from Hitler that Kleist was turn south towards Vinnitsa and link up with Schobert's army there, rather than continue south-east to Kirovograd.

Reichenau advanced east towards Kharkov and Kleist and Stülpnagel headed south-east towards the lower Donets.

Instead, von Kluck turned south-east towards Compiègne, showing his flank to the Garrison of Paris under Gallieni, making possible the " Miracle of the Marne ".

The plateau is tilted towards the south-east, and drained by the Mun and Chi rivers, tributaries to the Mekong that forms the north eastern boundary of the area.

It stands alone at Hyde Park Corner, on the south-east corner of Hyde Park, facing south towards the busy traffic roundabout in the centre of which stands the Wellington Arch.

The intersections route traffic arriving from and heading to the south-east of England along the A2 — called here the New Kent Road and then the Old Kent Road — and towards the south of England on the A3 as well as splitting traffic into the West End via St George's Road, and the City of London via London Road and Newington Causeway at the northern intersection.

Geological forces lifted and tilted the strata a little towards the south-east, producing many small fractures, or faults.

After the M271, the road becomes a dual four lane motorway and passes Rownhams services, it then meets the M3, becoming a dual three lane motorway as it passes to the north of Southampton, passes Southampton Airport, meeting Junction 7 and becoming dual four lanes again, then becoming dual three lanes after Junction 8, it then runs alongside the West Coastway Line as it heads south-east towards Fareham.

Between these two escarpments the anticline has been subject to differential erosion so that geologically distinct areas of hills and vales lie in roughly concentric circles towards the centre ; these comprise the Greensand Ridge, most prominent on the north side of the Weald, where it includes Leith Hill, the highest hill in south-east England, the low-lying clay vales of the Low Weald, formed of less resistant Weald Clay, and finally the more highly resistant sandstones of the High Weald at the centre of the anticline, whose elevated forest ridge includes most notably Ashdown Forest.

Some trackside structures on the south-east side of the North Circular Road which were visible until at least the 1980s were suggestive of the existence of platforms on a separate site further along the line towards Euston ; however, 1920s Ordnance Survey maps show the same location occupied by the original and current / post-war stations.

On 3 August landings were successful some 10 km south-east of the town and by the evening Swedish forces were advancing towards Frederikshamn.

From there it flows into Kidderminster where at the Spennels Vally Nature Reserve where it is joined by the Hoo Brook, ( a stream that supply a complex of lakes and pools towards Stone, to the south-east of Kidderminster ).

Pressing further inland, troops from the 6th Battalion had attempted to reach the ridge, crossing a wide valley ( later known as " Legge Valley "), but they were pushed back when a Turkish regiment, the 27th, had launched a counterattack from the south-east towards Lone Pine at 10: 00 a. m., with the objective of retaking the 400 Plateau.

To the South, Nesmond, with six ships, was heading south-east towards the Normandy coast.

After Kırıkkale, the train heads south-east towards Kayseri.

There are also quality ham products from Stara Planina region in the south-east Serbia, on the border with Bulgaria.

His funds came with some stipulations: he must travel around the Kainuu border regions and then on to the north and finally from Kainuu to the south-east along the border.

The Nordic union was in a way formalized on June 17, 1397 by the Treaty of Kalmar, signed in the Swedish castle of Kalmar, on Sweden's south-east coast, in medieval times close to the Danish border.

The River Moselle forms a 42 km natural border between Luxembourg and Germany in the south-east of the country.

) between a Russian army of 18, 000 men commanded by the Princes Repnin and Menshikov, and a Swedish force of about 13, 000 men, under the command of General Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, at the village of Lesnaya, located close to the border between the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia ( now the village of Lyasnaya, south-east of Mogilev in Belarus ).

Author and local resident, Stan Barstow said that Ossett and Horbury were the " border country " where the north-west of the coalfield merged with the south-east of the wool towns.

Schwerte is situated in the Ruhr valley, at the south-east border of the Ruhr Area.

The western grey is not found in the tropical north or the fertile south-east of Australia, and the eastern grey does not extend beyond the NSW – South Australia border, but the two species are both common in the Murray – Darling Basin area.

The battle consisted of a series of engagements that lasted for six days in August 636, near the Yarmouk River, along what is today the border between Syria and Jordan, south-east of the Sea of Galilee.

The municipality of Priboj is located between municipality of Čajetina in the north, municipality of Nova Varoš in the east, municipality of Prijepolje in the south-east, border with Montenegro in the south-west, and border with Bosnia and Herzegovina in the north-west.

The Stalinist measures of the Communist government included deportation of peasants from the Banat ( south-east Transylvania, at the border with Yugoslavia ), started on 18 June 1951.

Lake Lugano ( or ) is a glacial lake which is situated on the border between south-east Switzerland and Italy.

Hasselgård comes from Norway's sixth largest city, Fredrikstad which has more than 60, 000 inhabitants and lies 90 km south-east of Oslo, close to the border with Sweden.

Located in the south-east of County Dublin, close to the border with County Wicklow, it has a population of 13, 242 ( 2006 census ).

There are 115 such mesas in the Gran Sabana in the south-east of Venezuela on the border with Guyana and Brazil, where the highest concentration of tepuis is found.

In Janakpur, an industrial hub on the Indian border 260 kilometres south-east of Kathmandu, the Maoists under the direct command of Prachanda carried out five early morning bombings that disrupted telephone service and power, police said.

Epping Forest is an area of ancient woodland in south-east England, straddling the border between north-east Greater London and Essex.

Tuningen is located at the east border of the Black Forest about 14 km south-east of the district town Villingen-Schwenningen, 6 km east of Bad Dürrheim and 5 km south-west of Trossingen.

It is located to the south-east of Lublin, north of Zamość and south of Biała Podlaska, some 25 kilometres from the border with Ukraine.

Călărași (), the capital of Călărași County and Sud-Muntenia Region in the Wallachia region, is situated in south-east Romania, on the bank of Danube's Borcea branch, at about 12 kilometers from the Bulgarian border and 125 kilometers from Bucharest.

The parish is bounded to the north-east by V4 Watling Street, to the north-west by the border with Calverton parish, to the south-west by the borough boundary with Aylesbury Vale ( at Whaddon ) and to the south-east by H6 Childs Way.

A small group of paratroopers under the command of Captain Pierre Sicaud were dropped in south-east Friesland close to the border of Drenthe.