The modern Assyrian Christian minority in northern Iraq, north east Syria, south east Turkey and north west Iran are the descendants of the ancient Assyrians ( see Assyrian continuity ).

The confrontation between the PPT and UDT was more than simply ideological ; it represented different regional identities, with the PPT representing the Christian and animist south and the UDT the Islamic north.

In the 13th century the order reached all classes of Christian society, fought heresy, schism, and paganism by word and book, and by its missions to the north of Europe, to Africa, and Asia passed beyond the frontiers of Christendom.

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.

Geneva College is a Christian liberal arts college in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, United States, north of Pittsburgh.

Meanwhile the Christian kingdoms in the north began the long and slow recovery of the peninsula, a process called the Reconquista, which was concluded in 1492 with the fall of Granada.

A decisive victory for the Christian took place at Covadonga, in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, in the summer of 722.

The Taifa kingdoms lost ground to the Christian realms in the north and, after the loss of Toledo in 1085, the Muslim rulers reluctantly invited the Almoravides, who invaded Al-Andalus from North Africa and established an empire.

When the Christian church split in 1054 between the East and Rome, the region of southern Albania retained its ties to Constantinople while the north reverted to the jurisdiction of Rome.

* 1991 – Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.

Besides the barbarian threat from the north, internal divisions within the empire, especially within the Christian Church, caused troubles.

Disgruntled Tumbuka, Ngoni and Nkhonde Christian tribes dominant in the north were irritated by the election of Muluzi, a Muslim from the south.

This split into the taifa states caused Islamic presence to be greatly weakened in the face of the strengthening Christian kingdoms to the north.

The city is the oldest seat of a Christian bishop north of the Alps.

Christian states based in the north and west slowly extended their power over the rest of Iberia.

After this Asuristan-Assyria was also dissolved as a geo-political entity, and the native Aramaic speaking and largely Christian populace gradually underwent a process of Arabisation and Islamification, with only the Assyrians / Chaldo-Assyrians of the north ( known as Ashuriyun by the Arabs ) and Mandeans of the south retaining their religions and a distinct Mesopotamian identity and language, which they still do to this day.

The renewed domination of the central andalusian authorities on the north of the Gharb al-Andalus, leads to the submission of the Christian counts of Portugal to Cordoba.

The location and time of " greatest eclipse " will be on the western edge of Christian County, Kentucky, at 36. 9715 degrees north and 87. 6559 degrees west, occurring at 18: 25 UTC.

He was allegedly a native of Kodiak Island ( Aleutian Islands ), and is said to have received the Christian name of Peter when he was baptized into the Orthodox faith by the monks of St. Herman's missionaries operating in the north.

Before the creation of Llandaff Cathedral it became established as a Christian place of worship in the 6th century AD, probably because of its location as the first firm ground north of the point where the river Taff met the Bristol Channel, and because of its pre-Christian location as a river crossing on an east west trade route.

The third-largest university in the state, the University of Central Oklahoma, is located just north of the city in the suburb of Edmond, as is Oklahoma Christian University, one of the state's private liberal arts institutions.

* Christian County, Kentucky ( north )

The Battle of Kosovo in 1389 ( see Ottoman wars in Europe and Serbian – Ottoman wars ) marked the beginning of the fall of the Serbia, and prompted several migrations of Serbs from their lands in the south towards the Christian lands in the north of the Ottoman borders, crossing the Danube and Sava rivers to Central Europe ( today's Vojvodina, Slavonia, Transylvania and Hungary proper ).

The islands situated between 60 ° S latitude parallel to the south and the Antarctic Convergence to the north, and their respective Exclusive Economic Zones fall under the national jurisdiction of the countries that possess them: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ( United Kingdom ; also an EU Overseas territory ), Bouvet Island ( Norway ), and Heard and McDonald Islands ( Australia ).

The Macedonian Kingdom in the north, on the other hand, developed a strong cavalry force that culminated in the hetairoi ( Companion cavalry ) of Philip II and Alexander the Great.

The Inca civilization expansion northward from modern-day Peru during the late 15th century met with fierce resistance by several Ecuadorian tribes, particularly the Cañari, in the region around modern-day Cuenca ; the Cara in the Sierra north of Quito along with the Quitu, occupants of the site of the modern capital, with whom they had formed the Kingdom of Quito.

The kingdom was bounded to the north by the River Stour and the Kingdom of East Anglia, to the south by the River Thames and Kent, to the east lay the North Sea and to the west Mercia.

The earliest text which is believed to include a description of the Faroe Islands, was written by an Irish monk in the Frankish Kingdom named Dicuil, who wrote about the countries in the north.

* Freehold, a Victorian terraced area in the north east of Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom

He established the Zulu Kingdom, asserting authority over the Ndwandwe and pushing the Swazi north.

After Solomon's reign the nation split into two kingdoms, the Kingdom of Israel ( in the north ) and the Kingdom of Judah ( in the south ).

Migration was initially to north African countries ( particularly Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt ); later Maltese migrants headed towards the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Australia.

There is little trace left of the Maltese communities in north Africa, most of them having been displaced, after the rise of independence movements, to places like Marseille, the United Kingdom or Australia.

Malcolm's Kingdom did not extend over the full territory of modern Scotland: the north and west of Scotland remained in Scandinavian, Norse-Gael and Gaelic control, and the areas under the control of the Kings of Scots would not advance much beyond the limits set by Malcolm II ( Máel Coluim mac Cináeda ) until the 12th century.

The state was formed by secession from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1830, whose neutrality and integrity was protected by the Treaty of London 1839 ; thus it served as a buffer state between the European powers France, Prussia ( after 1871 the German Empire ), the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of the Netherlands until World War I. Belgium is divided between the Flemings in the north and the French-speaking or the German-speaking population in the south.

The northernmost olive grove is placed in Anglesey, an island off the north west coast of Wales, in the United Kingdom: but it is too early to say if the growing will be successful, having been planted just five years ago.

By 961, Otto had conquered the Kingdom of Italy and extended the his Kingdom's borders to the north, east, and south.

There was peace with the Kingdom of Judah to the south, and even cooperation between the two rival states, while relations with neighboring Sidon to the north were bolstered by marriages negotiated between the two royal courts.

Pergamon ( or ἡ Πέργαμος ), or Pergamum, was an ancient Greek city in modern-day Turkey, in Aeolis, today located from the Aegean Sea on a promontory on the north side of the river Caicus ( modern day Bakırçay ), that became the capital of the Kingdom of Pergamon during the Hellenistic period, under the Attalid dynasty, 281 – 133 BC.

In the 2nd century the Lakhum tribe, who lived in what is now Yemen, migrated north and founded the Lakhmid Kingdom along the southern coast.

Padstow () is a town, civil parish and fishing port on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

With the Kingdom of Loango in the north and the Kingdom of Mbundu in the south being tributary states.

The Kingdom of Kongo was reduced to a small enclave in the north of Angola with King Pedro V in 1888 finally accepting to become a vassal of the Portuguese.