The Upper Lars border crossing ( at Darial Gorge ) between Georgia and Russia across the Caucasus Mountains served as Armenia's sole overland route to the former Soviet Union and Europe.

Nelson was already interested in moving further west when in 1870 he was invited by Lars K. Aaker to set up a practice in Alexandria, Minnesota, in Douglas County, part of the state's " Upper Country.

In Michigan, there is fine color on route 27 up to the Mackinac Straits, while the views around Marquette and Iron Mountain in the Upper Peninsula are spectacular.

Its chemical composition makes it difficult to match the amber to its producers – it is most similar to the resins produced by flowering plants ; however, there are no flowering plant fossils until the Cretaceous, and they were not common until the Upper Cretaceous.

His sacral masterpiece and one of the most famous religious works of art of the later Middle Ages is The Legend of St. Sebastian and The Passion of Christ of the so called Sebastian Altar in St. Florian's Priory ( Stift Sankt Florian ) near Linz, Upper Austria.

He ordained further that some should be called " Abbreviators of the Upper Bar " ( Abbreviatores de Parco Majori ; the name derived from a space in the chancery, surrounded by a grating, in which the officials sat, which is called higher or lower ( major or minor ) according to the proximity of the seats to that of the vice-chancellor ), the others of the Lower Bar ( Abbreviatores de Parco Minori ); that the former should sit upon a slightly raised portion of the chamber, separated from the rest of the hall or chamber by lattice work, assist the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, subscribe the letters and have the principal part in examining, revising, and expediting the apostolic letters to be issued with the leaden seal ; that the latter, however, should sit among the apostolic writers upon benches in the lower part of the chamber, and their duty was to carry the signed schedules or supplications to the prelates of the upper bar.

The weir across the Yamuna was the first attempted in Upper India upon a foundation of fine sand ; it is about 800-yard long, and rises seven-feet above the summer level of the river.

Berlin's best preserved medieval Church of St. Mary's is the 1 < sup > st </ sup > preaching venue – Memorial Church being the 2 < sup > nd </ sup > – of the Bishop of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia ( EKBO ), a Protestant regional church body.

Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church is the 2 < sup > nd </ sup > preaching venue of the Bishop of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia | Regional Protestant Church ( EKBO ).

Burkina Faso ( formerly Upper Volta ) is a landlocked Sahel country that shares borders with six nations.

Brandenburg (;, Lower Sorbian: Bramborska ; Upper Sorbian: Braniborska ) is a city in one of the sixteen federal-states of Germany.

His mother, Paula ( born Paula Voit ), had German as a mother tongue, but was ethnically of " mixed Hungarian " origin: Her maiden name Voit is German, probably of Saxon origin from Upper Hungary ( Since 1920 in Czechoslovakia, since 1993 in Slovakia ), though she spoke Hungarian fluently.

Gate House is one of the four Upper Houses of the Burwash Hall residence.

Bamberg () is a city in Bavaria, Germany, located in Upper Franconia on the river Regnitz close to its confluence with the river Main.

The Upper Snake ecoregion is defined as the Snake River watershed above Shoshone Falls, which totally blocks fish migration.

The Central African Republic is Known to have been settled from at least the 7th century on by overlapping empires, including the Kanem-Bornu, Ouaddai, Baguirmi, and Dafour groups based on the Lake Chad region and along the Upper Nile.

The Cretaceous is divided into Early and Late Cretaceous epochs or Lower and Upper Cretaceous series.

Clausewitz's family claimed descent from the Barons of Clausewitz in Upper Silesia, which was eventually confirmed, but now is doubted by scholars.

The Canadian Great Lakes region has similarities to that of the Upper Midwest & Great Lakes region and / or Yooper dialect ( in particular Michigan which has extensive cultural and economic ties with Ontario ), while the phonological system of western Canadian English is virtually identical to that of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, and the phonetics are similar.

It is the largest single donation in the history of CUNY and has been used to buy a landmark building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that is to become the permanent home of the Honors College, and will add support to its endowment.

Christianity spread throughout Egypt within half a century of Saint Mark's arrival in Alexandria, as is clear from the New Testament writings found in Bahnasa, in Middle Egypt, which date around the year AD 200, and a fragment of the Gospel of John, written in Coptic, which was found in Upper Egypt and can be dated to the first half of the 2nd century.

* 1900 – The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook Narrow-gauge ( 2 ft 6 in or 762 mm ) Railway ( now the Puffing Billy Railway ) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.

Dartmouth is located on a rural campus in the Upper Valley region of New Hampshire.

Dartmouth College is situated in the rural town of Hanover, New Hampshire, located in the Upper Valley along the Connecticut River in New England.

It is here that the Upper Jordan River / Sea of Galilee / Lower Jordan River water system comes to an end.

Once the Euphrates enters the Upper Mesopotamian plains, its grade drops significantly ; within Syria the river falls while over the last stretch between Hīt and the Shatt al-Arab the river drops only.

According to John Iliffe, " The worst crises were in the 1680s, when famine extended from the Senegambian coast to the Upper Nile and ' many sold themselves for slaves, only to get a sustenance ', and especially in 1738 – 56, when West Africa's greatest recorded subsistence crisis, due to drought and locusts, reportedly killed half the population of Timbuktu.

In African archaeology, which applies only from the Sahara southward, Lower Paleolithic is replaced by " Early Stone Age ," Middle Paleolithic is replaced by " Middle Stone Age " and Upper Paleolithic by " Later Stone Age.

At over it is the largest art gallery on campus and the only art museum with a permanent collection in the Upper Peninsula.

Although fishing only became common during the Upper Paleolithic, fish have been part of human diets long before the dawn of the Upper Paleolithic and have certainly been consumed by humans since at least the Middle Paleolithic.

The Upper Peninsula Luge Club in Negaunee, MI is home to one of only five lighted natural track luge runs in the world, and the only natural track in the United States.

According to Dimitrie Cantemir, the name originally applied only to the part of the territory south of the Upper Trajan Wall, somewhat bigger than current Budjak.

* 1550 BC — Ahmose I becomes Pharaoh of Egypt ( although only de facto ruler of Upper Egypt ) according to the Low Chronology.

Like other examples of Old Rus ' literature ( for example, Byliny, the Primary Chronicle ), which survived only in Northern Russia ( Upper Volga belt ) and was probably created there.

On the arrival of the railway it served as a rail gateway for the Mitta and Upper Murray valleys ( the Upper Murray only until the railway was extended to Cudgewa ).

Afterwards it was again invaded by the Avars in the 560s, the Slavs, who first settled c. 480s but became independent only since the 7th century, the Franks, who named a frontier march the March of Pannonia in the end of the 8th century, while terms Lower and Upper Pannonia were also used in the 9th century as a designations for a Slavic principality and a Frankish province.

After the duchy of the Moselle came into the possession of René of Anjou the name " Duchy of Lorraine " was adopted again, only retrospectively called " Upper Lorraine ".

* Full ( clear ) text of The Quebec Act-Law Society of Upper Canada ( Ontario ) ( English only )

When the northern Netherlands revolted against King Philip II of Spain in the Dutch Revolt, the three northern quarters of Gelderland joined the Union of Utrecht and became part of the United Provinces upon the 1581 Act of Abjuration, while only the Upper Quarter remained a part of the Spanish Netherlands.

Unlike Lords Temporal, who can be appointed from any of the four constituent nations of the UK, only bishops with English Sees are eligible to sit in the Upper Chamber.

Saint Anthony Falls in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota is the only major waterfall on the Upper Mississippi River.

The city of Rybnik has a population of about 141, 410 ( December 2010 ) and remains the only powiat grodzki ( urban county ) in Upper Silesia which population increases.

The gain of the Milanese in 1859 by the future king of Italy ( 1861 ) meant that Italy then won the valley of Livigno ( between the Upper Engadine and Bormio ), which is the only important bit it holds on the non-Italian slope of the Alps, besides the county of Tenda ( obtained in 1575, and not lost in 1860 ), with the heads of certain glens in the Maritime Alps, reserved in 1860 for reasons connected with hunting.

This small rectangular church on the southern shore of the Upper Lake is accessible only by boat, via a series of steps from the landing stage.

At the west end of the Upper Lake lie the ruins of an abandoned miners ' village normally accessible only by foot.

It is bordered by the Hudson River and Upper New York Bay to the east ; Kill van Kull to the south ; Newark Bay and the Hackensack River or the Passaic River to the west ; its only land border is shared Bergen County to the north and west.