Assyria or Athura ( Aramaic for Assyria ) was a Semitic Akkadian kingdom, extant as a nation state from the late 25th or early – 24th century BC to 608 BC centred on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia ( present day northern Iraq ), that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history.

In the 19th century there was a province in Afghanistan named Turkestan Province until abolished by Abdur Rahman, and was centred on Mazari Sharif and included territory in the modern provinces of Balkh, Jowzjan, Faryab and Sar-e Pol.

Ordination of a bishop, and thus continuation of apostolic succession, takes place through a ritual centred on the imposition of hands and prayer.

In about 15 BC, the Romans redrew the town as a castrum ( Roman military camp ) centred on the " Mons Taber ", a little hill near the contemporary city hall ( Plaça de Sant Jaume ).

Like Isaiah, the book has a vision of the punishment of Israel and creation of a " remnant ", followed by world peace centred on Zion under the leadership of a new Davidic monarch ; the people should do justice, turn to Yahweh, and await the end of their punishment.

By the 1890s her scientific interests centred on mycology.

The distribution of brochs is centred on northern Scotland.

Until 1997, when the British Library ( previously centred on the Round Reading Room ) moved to a new site, the British Museum was unique in that it housed both a national museum of antiquities and a national library in the same building.

According to David Robinson, unlike in more conventional slapstick comedies, the comic moments in Chaplin's films centred on the Tramp's attitude to the things happening to him: the humour did not come from the Tramp bumping into a tree but from his lifting of his hat to the tree in apology.

His silent films usually centred on the Tramp's plight in poverty and his run-ins with the law, but also explored controversial topics, such as immigration ( The Immigrant, 1917 ), illegitimacy ( The Kid, 1921 ) and drug use ( Easy Street, 1917 ).

Labour campaigned on the theme of " Let Us Face the Future " and positioned themselves as the party best placed to rebuild Britain after the war, while the Conservatives ' campaign centred around Churchill.

Christadelphians believe that the Kingdom will be centred upon Israel, but Jesus Christ will also reign over all the other nations on the earth.

The " Theoxenia " was held each summer, centred on a feast for " gods and ambassadors from other states ".

Buckley writes, " If Ziggy confused both his creator and his audience, a big part of that confusion centred on the topic of sexuality.

Potential for comedy lay in his use of ' contemporary ' characters, in his sophisticated tone, his relatively informal Greek ( see In Greek below ), and in his ingenious use of plots centred on motifs that later became standard in Menander's New Comedy, such as the ' recognition scene '.

Yet it also made clear that the plot was in no way official and that any activity centred on a small group of discontented officers.

* When Flandria appeared in the 8th century, it was a Frankish fief centred on Bruges.

The debate which has been monitored by the Irish Times in its Renewing the Republic opinion pieces, has largely centred on the make up of the Oireachtas, the Irish parliament.

The town is centred on the High Street, which was pedestrianised in the 1990s.

His chief activity, however, centred on the elaboration of his Comparative Grammar, which appeared in six parts at considerable intervals ( Berlin, 1833, 1835, 1842, 1847, 1849, 1852 ), under the title Vergleichende Grammatik des Sanskrit, Zend, Griechischen, Lateinischen, Litthauischen, Altslawischen, Gotischen und Deutschen ( Comparative Grammar of Sanskrit, Zend ( Avestan ), Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Old Slavonic, Gothic and German ).

Ancient Gallifreyans are all telepathic and were ruled by a female cult centred on a figure called the Pythia, who controlled the population through mysticism and prophecies.

The Virgin New Adventures establish a religion on Gallifrey centred around the three main gods, Time, Death and Pain.

The empire's territory was centred on the Kingdom of Germany, and included neighbouring territories, which at its peak included the Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Burgundy.

The Hittite kingdom was centred on the lands surrounding Hattusa and Neša, known as " the land Hatti " ().

In the late 6th century the dominant force was the Kingdom of Fortriu, whose lands were centred on Strathearn and Menteith and who raided along the eastern coast into modern England.

* Upper tangent arc, halo, an atmospheric optical phenomenon which appears over and tangent to the 22 ° halo centred around the sun

Within the United States, the Hmong population is centred in the Upper Midwest ( Wisconsin, Minnesota ) and California.

In this later form, Hathor's cult became centred in Dendera in Upper Egypt and it was led by priestesses and priests who also were dancers, singers and other entertainers.

Lower Palatinate centred on Heidelberg, while Upper Palatinate centred on Amberg.

Likewise, Córdoba set up its own marches as a buffer to the Christian states to the north: the Upper March ( al-Tagr al-A ' la ), centered on Zaragoza and countering the eastern Marca Hispanica ; the Middle March ( al-Tagr al-Awsat ), centred on Toledo and later Medinaceli, which faced the western Pyrenees and Asturias ; and the Lower March ( al-Tagr al-Adna ) or Distant March ( al-Tagr al-Aqsa ), centred on Mérida, and created to protect Córdoba from Asturias.

Concurrent to the conflict centred on South Ossetia, targets were bombed elsewhere in Georgia, including the Upper Kodori region of Abkhazia.

After his death, the inheritance was divided between Otto, who received Upper Hesse ( Oberhessen ) around Marburg, and John, who received Lower Hesse ( Niederhessen ), centred around Kassel.

# Haut-Nyong ( Upper Nyong ) occupies the southwestern portion and is centred on Abong-Mbang.

With the large studio at Llandaff being used for Pobol y Cwm, BBC Wales invested into Upper Boat Studios in Pontypridd to house several productions, notable centred around Doctor Who and its sister productions Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Grants along the Williams followed to men such as Duncan Mackay, John Verge, James Dowling ( later Chief Justice of NSW ) and others, who, with their assigned convicts, began clearing land and building houses around a district that was by the early 1830s centred on a small settlement first known as Upper William.

The Upper School site of Hessle High School situated on Heads Lane is centred around a building donated to the Education Authority by Algernon Barkworth, a survivor of the Titanic disaster.

The earliest documentary reference to Easton is Chester and Master's 1610 Map of Kingswood, which depicts three settlements: Upper Easton, which was centred on Easton Road in the area now occupied by the Queens Head Public House, Lower Easton, which was centred around St Marks Road and Stapleton Road railway station area, and Baptist Mills, on the east bank of the River Frome.

Upper Holloway is a district in the London Borough of Islington, London, centred around the A1 Holloway Road.

In Egyptian mythology, Anti ( Antaeus in Greek, but probably not connected to the Antaeus in Greek mythology ) was a god whose worship centred at Antaeopolis, in the northern part of Upper Egypt.

The Geography of Mesopotamia, encompassing its ethnology and history, centred around the two great rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates.

The Goths are mainly centred in the river valleys south of the Balkan Mountains, around the towns of Beroea, Cabyle and Dibaltum.

Buller's subordinate, Major General Charles Warren, successfully crossed the river, but was then faced with a fresh defensive position centred on a prominent hill known as Spion Kop.

Montparnasse () is an area of Paris, France, on the left bank of the river Seine, centred at the crossroads of the Boulevard du Montparnasse and the Rue de Rennes, between the Rue de Rennes and boulevard Raspail.

Inland, many of the attractions are centred around small towns and villages or linked to the river valleys, such as the ancient clapper bridge at Tarr Steps and the Snowdrop Valley near Wheddon Cross, which is carpeted in snowdrops in February and, later, displays bluebells.

Plans for a flood relief channel centred at first on the Bridgwater to Taunton Canal, which follows a slightly higher course to the west, and does not run through peat, but the estimated cost of £ 1. 7 million was prohibitive, and so a scheme to upgrade the river costing around one third of that was implemented.

Force was the dominant element in the empire's relations with rival river systems such as the Batang Hari, which centred in Jambi.

The southern part of Stare Miasto district is occupied by Poznań's city centre – the Old Town itself ( centred on Stary Rynek, the Old Market Square, with the Old Town Hall or Ratusz ), the main street Święty Marcin ( St. Martin ), the old district of Chwaliszewo next to the river, the oldest buildings of Adam Mickiewicz University, and numerous other historic and modern buildings.

Even through the flood a small but viable sugar industry remains today on the south side of the river, centred on the Rocky Point Mill.

However, eventually they had to recognize that such development would be futile in a context where Berbice's economic activity was centred on the lower river, and in 1785 they took a decision to relocate the town to the mouth of the Canje.

The story is centred around the Aymanam village through which the Meenachil river flows.

Around the industrial region centred at Webuye, the river absorbs a lot of effluent from the paper and sugar factories in the area.