The Yezin Dam is farther away in the northeast.

Barcelos () is a city and a municipality in Braga District, in the north of Portugal.

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It is in the north of the country, and its provincial capital is the city of Qom.

In the north of the country, a Syrian based militia, under Fawzi al Kaukji, attacked Jewish villages.

The north of the country is so urbanised that it is considered by some to be one large metropolitan area.

The civil war in Angola had some impact on Namibians living in the north of the country.

In the north, justice is often arbitrarily dispensed by a number of Forces nouvelles commanders.

The Brčko District in the north of the country was created in 2000 out of land from both entities.

The team stopped playing when the North and South united in 1990 to form the modern state of Yemen.

The 1846 Oregon Treaty with Britain led to U.S. control of the present day American Northwest.

It was highest (20.30 ) in the Northeast, which had a large proportion of rural poor.

The Mossi initially defended their religious beliefs and social structure against Islamic influences from Muslims from the northwest.

It is headquartered in northern Amir Abad district in Tehran, but has facilities throughout the country.

Pakistan had changed, as military dictatorship and religious extremism in the north played havoc with the fabric of society.

At the beginning of the fourteenth century, most of what is today called Gambia was part of the Mali Empire.

Its highest point, the Halti at , is found in the extreme north of Lapland at the border between Finland and Norway.

The country s mounting problems rampant official corruption, decaying social and physical infrastructure, and growing ethnic and religious insurgencies in the northeast, central region, the southeast, and Niger Delta are yet to be seriously tackled.

And, as the fate of Mexico s northern towns suggests, emerging economies are not immune from this process.

Today, many Sunni Iraqis aspire to the same autonomy from Baghdad that the Kurds enjoy in the north of the country.

Much of this population is concentrated in the north of the country with the Southern Governorate being the least densely populated part.

After all, the sense of disenfranchisement among voters in the country s populous north and northeast, as well as among the urban poor, is real.

The country has had a limited military partnership with Russian Federation, other CIS countries and a partnership with NATO since 1994.

For Iran, the pipeline allows the country to deal with gas shortages in its northern regions, and to improve its reputation as a trade partner in the Caspian region.

Northern Greece is the country's most visited region, with 6.5 million tourists, while Central Greece comes second with 6.3 million.

In the United States, nearly half the country continues to suffer from drought, while heavy rainfall has broken records in the Northeast, devastated crops in the South, and now is inundating Colorado.

That the elections were held at all and without violent conflict between the country s north and south is a remarkable achievement.

The report of the Secretary General describes the various situations that face UNOCI, particularly in the north of the country and in the confidence zone.

Buhari has wide support in the north and Abubakar has a formidable and well resourced party machine but mutual distrust run deep in both camps.

Yemen s central problems are two the ongoing civil war that the government is waging against the Houthi tribe in the country s north, and the suppression of a secessionist movement in the south.

She was reportedly kidnapped and sent to work as a prostitute in Argentina's northeast. In light of allegations that police and local politicians collaborate with the trafficking rings, the victim's mother, Susana Trimarco, has tirelessly dedicated herself to finding the young woman on her own.

In Thailand, red shirted demonstrators from the country s rural northeast rant and rage against the military, social, and political elites of Bangkok.

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It is in the north of the country, and bordered the Republic of the Congo to the west, the Central African Republic to the north, to the east the Orientale province, and to the south the Kasai Oriental, Kasai Occidental, and Bandundu provinces.

Air and water pollution affects the country, as well as deforestation, and radiation contamination in the northeast stemming from the 1986 accident at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

Artifacts found in the area suggest that an increasing number of travelers from Karelia in the east, Häme in the south and the Arctic Ocean coast in the north must have come there from 500 A.D. onwards.

The US and NATO are caught in a quandary in Afghanistan. They can neither remain in the country indefinitely, nor can they just leave.

With a population of 253,899, Hungarians are the largest ethnic minority in Serbia, concentrated predominately in northern Vojvodina and representing 3.5 of the country's population (13 in Vojvodina).

In North and West Wales, Welsh is widely spoken as a first language, but much less so in the South East of the country, where English is the predominant language.

After the collapse in 1945 of the Japanese empire, which had ruled quite brutally over the whole of Korea since 1910, the Soviet Red Army occupied the north, and the US occupied the south.

Stripped of his Ivorian citizenship in 1999, Ouattara is popular in the north of the country, which has been held by the New Forces rebels since 2002.

The capital and largest city is Pyongyang other major cities include Kaesong in the south, Sinuiju in the northwest, Wonsan and Hamhung in the east and Chongjin in the northeast.

The Second Liberian Civil War began in 1999 when Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy, a rebel group based in the northwest of the country, launched an armed insurrection against Taylor.

Islam was first adopted by Indonesians in northern Sumatra in the 13th century, through the influence of traders, and became the country's dominant religion by the 16th century.

The Duke of York left London later that year with the Earl of Salisbury to consolidate his position in the north against the Lancastrians who were reported to be massing near the city of York.