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    geographical body of the administrative unit. In American English, the term panhandle is often used to describe a relatively long and narrow salient,...
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  • feature that projects into enemy territory Salient (geography), an elongated protrusion of a territory Salient (heraldry), an adjective describing a heraldic...
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  • Mendicant, mendicant orders may authorize "begging" in some societies Salient (geography) or panhandle This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...
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  • The Ypres Salient, around Ypres, in Belgium, was the scene of several battles and a major part of the Western Front during World War I. Ypres lies at...
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    The Wadi Halfa Salient, named after Wadi Halfa, a nearby Sudanese city 22 kilometers south of the border, is a salient of the international border between...
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  • This glossary of geography terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in geography and related fields, including Earth science, oceanography...
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    The eastern salient of Java (Indonesian: ujung timur, "eastern end" or Tapal Kuda, "The Horseshoe" – referring to the region's shape on the map; Javanese:...
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    certainly change the geography". In December 1916, Oberstleutnant Füßlein (also Füsslein), commander of German mining operations in the salient, had recorded...
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    The Leipzig Salient was the British term for a German defensive position built in 1915 on the Somme in France, during the First World War, opposite the...
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    its eastern end, the corridor forks into two prongs that wrap around a salient of Chinese territory, forming the 92 km (57 mi) boundary between the two...
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  • List of peninsulas (category Coastal geography)
    and Fire novels by George R. R. Martin Cape (geography) Headland Isthmus Promontory Salient (geography) Spit (landform) Tombolo Word Histories and Mysteries:...
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  • This glossary of geography terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in geography and related fields, including Earth science, oceanography...
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    Peninsula (redirect from Point (geography))
    also serve as markers of a nation's borders. Geography portal Barrier island Cape Headland Promontory Salient Spit Tidal island (from Latin paeninsula; from...
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  • previously Lurucina or Luricina) is a village in Cyprus, located within the salient that marks the southernmost extent of northern Cyprus. It was one of the...
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    Java (redirect from Geography of Java)
    parts and Sundanese in the western parts. The Madurese in the Eastern salient of Java are migrants from Madura Island, while the Betawi in the capital...
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    Mount Lister (redirect from Salient Ridge)
    north and Mount Hooker, Salient Peak and Mount Rücker to the south. McConchie Ridge and Salient Ridge extend east from Salient Peak. Armitage Saddle connects...
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    SVO syntax. Focus constructions emphasise a particular piece of new or salient information within a sentence, generally through allocating the main sentence...
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    November 10, 1975. Alberta clipper Colorado low Gulf low Nor'easter Salient (geography), official name for panhandle "Jet Stream - Weather Glossary: P's"...
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  • org. Retrieved 2023-08-20. "Salient Mountain". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2023-08-20. "Salient Mountain (Alberta)". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources...
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    Roia basin to the east from the Varo and Paglione basins to the west. The salient created by the side valley of the Bevera including the Mentone basin is...
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    shrublands on the shallow stony loams of the ranges. For the Carnegie Salient, in the east, it is characterised by extensive salt lake features supporting...
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    "H-Hour" by the Americans. [citation needed] The attack at the Saint-Mihiel salient was part of a plan by Pershing in which he hoped that the Americans would...
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    Lima (redirect from Geography of Lima)
    in households that earn less than 2000 soles (or US$612) monthly. Other salient differences between socioeconomic levels include levels of higher education...
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    human-dominated environments including agricultural and urban settings. The most salient characteristics of landscape ecology are its emphasis on the relationship...
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    Eastern Front of World War I in 1915. The Imperial Russian Army gave up the salient in Galicia and the Polish Congress Kingdom. The Russian Empire's critically...
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    The Attack on the Gommecourt Salient was a British operation against the northern flank of the German 2nd Army. The attack took place on 1 July 1916,...
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    doi:10.1126/science.1120176. PMID 16439647. Cooper, Zarine (1996). "The Salient Features of Site Location in the Andaman Islands, Indian Ocean" (PDF)....
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    Drummully (redirect from Clonoony salient)
    the Sixteen Townlands to locals and as Coleman's Island or the Clonoony salient to the security forces, it is a pene-enclave almost completely surrounded...
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  • short treatise The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 was salient in creating the socialist impetus in British politics. Marx's most important...
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    Noyon salient after the French town at the maximum point of the German advance near Compiègne. Joffre's plan for 1915 was to attack the salient on both...
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