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In the Spanish-speaking world, a neighborhood or community within a larger urban area, generally with informal boundaries, though in some places the term may refer to a formal subdivision of a municipality. barrow See tumulus. barysphere The Earth's core and mantle considered together, i.e. all of the Earth's interior beneath the lithosphere ...
The far-flung coastal town of Santa Ana in the northeastern tip of the Philippine mainland has long been known by tourists for its beaches, waterfalls, fireflies and a few casinos. The United ...
A place in Barbados populated by zombies, mummies, the walking dead, and Michael Jackson. Gravity: A very down-to-earth city in Iowa. Great Cockup: A fell in northern England. Also a Little Cockup. Great Kills: A New York City neighborhood. Kill is another word for creek. Great Snoring: A village in Norfolk. Also see Little Snoring. Greece, New ...
Duitsland (common, Dutch), Allemagne (common, French), Alemania (common, Spanish), Germania (common, Italian, Latin name), Německo (common, Czech), Niemcy (common, Polish), Németország (common, Hungarian) [the common name for Germany in some Romance languages is a variant of the place name Alemannia and in many Slavic languages is a variant ...
Japanese accused of war crimes, including atrocities and abuse of prisoners of war, were subject to post-war trials (see International Military Tribunal for the Far East and Yokohama War Crimes Trials for American-led trials; additional trials were held by the British, Australians, Dutch, Chinese and the USSR); most ended by the turn of the decade.
The policy coerced inhabitants of several far-flung and scattered barangays to move into a centralized cabecera (town) where a newly built church was situated. This allowed the Spanish government to control the movement of the indigenous population, to easily facilitate Christianization , to conduct population counts , and to collect tributes .
A road in the boondocks of Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 13, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania. The boondocks is an American expression from the Tagalog (Filipino) word bundók ("mountain").
Because of its far-flung outlying islands, Japan's exclusive economic zone is the eighth-largest in the world, covering 4,470,000 km 2 (1,730,000 sq mi). [83] [84] The Japanese archipelago is 67% forests and 14% agricultural. [85] The primarily rugged and mountainous terrain is restricted for habitation. [86]