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Southeast Alaska has a land area of ( sq ), comprising six entire boroughs and three census areas, in addition to the portion of the Yakutat Borough lying east of 141 ° West longitude.
* Native claims to almost all of Alaska were extinguished in exchange for approximately one-ninth of the state's land plus $ 962. 5 million in compensation distributed to 200 local village and 12 Native-owned regional corporations, plus a thirteenth corporation comprising Alaska Natives who had left the state.
of it is land and of it is water, comprising 4. 78 % of the city.
There are three industrial parks within the city limits, comprising 7 % of the total land use in Cadillac and 47 % of the city ’ s tax base.
For example, on the Madagascar high central plateau, comprising approximately ten percent of that country's land area, virtually the entire landscape is sterile of vegetation, with gully erosive furrows typically in excess of 50 meters deep and one kilometer wide.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of, of which is land and is water, comprising 2. 52 % of the town.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of, of which is land and is water, comprising 0. 43 % of the town.
Metro Board of Parks and Recreation owns and manages of land and 99 parks and greenways ( comprising more than 3 % of the total area of the county ).
The Philippines is an archipelago comprising 7, 107 islands with a total land area of 300, 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup >.
Togo is a small black Sub-Saharan nation comprising a long strip of land in West Africa.
Most of the land was owned by small farmers, with peasants comprising 80 % of the population of 3. 8 million in 1900.
In 1962, Community Research and Development board member Melvin Berman took interest in a 1, 032 acre parcel of land assembled by land developer Robert Moxley comprising four farm properties from the Carroll, Kahler, Wix, and his uncle James R. Moxley Sr's families.
The land comprising present-day Memphis remained in a largely unorganized territory throughout most of the 18th century.
Prior to and immediately after European settlement, the land today comprising Lancaster and Fairfield County, Ohio was inhabited variously by the Shawnee, Iroquois, Wyandot, and other Native American tribes.
There are about of pasture land, comprising 2. 7 % of the total land area.
Ownership of 1, 051. 44 acres ( for all practical intents being the exact area of land occupied by the original mission buildings, cemeteries, and gardens ) was subsequently conveyed to the Church, along with the Cañada de los Pinos ( or College Rancho ) in Santa Barbara County comprising, and La Laguna in San Luis Obispo County, consisting of.
Austrasia ( meaning " eastern land ") formed the northeastern portion of the Kingdom of the Merovingian Franks, comprising parts of the territory of present-day France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
In fact, on March 31, 1968, just a month after Clifford arrived at The Pentagon, Johnson, in an effort to get peace talks started, ordered the cessation of bombing north of the 20th parallel, an area comprising almost 80 percent of North Vietnam's land area and 90 percent of its population.
It was listed in the Domesday Book as comprising enough arable land for five ploughs, with meadow land only sufficient for one plough.
" Originally the area comprising Vernon was a part of a tract of land that was in dispute between the United States and Spain, this land was called the " Neutral Strip ".

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And due to modern resource-use and game management practices, there is still game to shoot, even with the ever-expanding encroachment on land and water.
In Roman times, a main route ran south from the Baltic coast in through the land of the Boii ( modern Czech Republic and Slovakia ) to the head of the Adriatic Sea ( modern Gulf of Venice ).
For much of artillery's history during the Middle Ages and the Early modern period, artillery pieces on land were moved with the assistance of horse teams.
Battles can be fought on land, sea and in the modern age, in the air.
Today, direct engagements between aircraft are rare-the most modern fighter-interceptors carry much more extensive bombing payloads, and are used to bomb precision land targets, rather than to fight other aircraft.
Probably in the vicinity of Philippopolis ( modern Plovdiv, Bulgaria ), the Bastarnae broke out of their marching columns and pillaged the land far and wide.
The second article, published in 1938, states that launching a swift strategic knockout has great attractions for Germany but appears to accept that such a knockout will be very difficult to achieve by land attack under modern conditions ( especially in view of the existence of systems of fortification like the Maginot Line ) unless an exceptionally high degree of surprise is achieved.
But only when a more centralized English monarchy emerged following the Norman invasion, and when the kings of England attempted to assert power over the land and its peoples, did the modern concept emerge, namely of a crime not only as an offence against the " individual ", but also as a wrong against the " State ".
In his fictional historical essay " The Hyborian Age ", Howard describes how the people of Atlantis — the land where his character King Kull originated — had to move east after a great cataclysm changed the face of the world and sank their island, settling where Ireland and Scotland would eventually be located, Thus they are ( in Howard's work ) the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish ( the Celtic Gaels ) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work.
In many modern armies, the term cavalry is still often used to refer to units that are a combat arm of the armed forces which in the past filled the traditional horse-borne land combat light cavalry roles.
The region was first referred to as Ma ' ikele Bahr (" between the seas / rivers ," i. e. the land between the Red Sea and the Mereb river ), renamed under Emperor Zara Yaqob as the domain of the Bahr Negash, called Midri Bahri ( Tigrinya: " Sea land ," though it included some areas like Shire on the other side of the Mereb, today in Ethiopia ) until the modern day, when its name was changed to Mereb Mellash ( beyond the river Mereb ) under the rule of Yohannes IV, the locals referred to this area as Midri Bahri.
The legend then states that Chūai died soon after and his widow, Jingū, conquered the promised land, which is conjectured to be part of modern day Korea.
The earliest inhabitants of most of the land area that makes up today's Finland and Scandinavia were in all likehood hunter-gatherers whose closest successors in modern terms would probably be the Sami people ( formerly known as the Lapps ).
God instructs Abram ( the future Abraham ) to travel from his home in Mesopotamia ( modern Iraq ) to the land of Canaan.
The portable cheirosiphōn (" hand-siphon "), the earliest analogue to a modern flamethrower, is extensively attested in the military documents of the 10th century, and recommended for use in both sea and land.
Domesticated horses are also subject to inconsistent movement between stabling and work, they must carry or pull additional weight, and in modern times they are often kept and worked on very soft footing, such as irrigated land, arena footing, or stall bedding.
The land area that now makes up Finland was probably settled immediately after the last ice age ( pre-ice age human life has now been shown to exist in the modern area of Finland as well ), which ended c. 9000 BCE.
The land named Svalbarð (" cold coast ") by the Vikings in the early medieval book Landnámabók may have been Jan Mayen ( instead of Spitsbergen, renamed Svalbard by the Norwegians in modern times ); the distance from Iceland to Svalbarð mentioned in this book is two days sailing, consistent with the approximate to Jan Mayen and not with the approximate to Spitsbergen.
* 1579 – Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion ( modern California ) for England.
* 1811 – Explorer David Thompson posts a sign at the confluence of the Columbia and Snake Rivers ( in modern Washington state, US ), claiming the land for the United Kingdom.
However, he believed that ' a painter must be part of the land and of the life he paints ', and his own artistic development, as a Modernist and Expressionist, helped articulate a modern Dublin of the 20th century, partly by depicting specifically Irish subjects, but also by doing so in the light of universal themes such as the loneliness of the individual, and the universality of the plight of man.
In the early Pleistocene, the forerunners of modern jaguars crept across Beringia, the land bridge that once spanned the Bering Strait and connected Asia and North America.
These Schyres must not be confounded with the shire of the present day ; they were simply divisions of land, similar in extent to an average modern parish.

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