Pompeii was probably founded by the Oscans around the 8th century BC. This ancient Italic people settled on the southern slopes of Mount Vesuvius along the banks of the Sarno River, which was navigable at the time. Pompeii became an important commercial center early on, catching the interest ...
and Google LLC (Greenville, SOUTH CAROLINA, US) Claims: 1. 1-20. (canceled) 21. A computer-implemented method of updating a map interface for display on a display device, the map interface including a plurality of map tiles, each map tile associated with a portion of a geographic area...
Attempts to restore the canal to navigable standards have been dogged with financial problems and the need to protect and preserve the habitat for wildlife. In 1980 the Montgomery Waterway Restoration Trust was formed, and the membership includes the Inland Waterways Association, the Montgomeryshire ...
Jiangxi has an abundance of inland waterways. Most of the rivers flow diagonally, from east and west toward the centre, emptying into the Gan River and Lake Poyang; many are navigable. On many shallow streams, as well as on the headwaters of the Gan, navigation is by junk. Thus, there ...
was once commercially important as anexusfor interisland trade but is no longer navigable except by small craft; heavy pollution has required significant cleanup efforts. Most of the Bicol Peninsula lies in the Bicol basin. On Mindanao the Agusan drains the fertile lands of the island’s northeas...
About 130 miles (210 km) long, the Maumee is navigable for about 12 miles (19 km) from its mouth and serves as the harbour of Toledo. It receives the Auglaize River, its chief tributary, at Defiance. The name Maumee is a derivative of Miami, in reference to the Native American tribe...
was once commercially important as anexusfor interisland trade but is no longer navigable except by small craft; heavy pollution has required significant cleanup efforts. Most of the Bicol Peninsula lies in the Bicol basin. On Mindanao the Agusan drains the fertile lands of the island’s northeas...
into which it drains through theNetherlands. The length of the Rhine was long given as 820 miles (1,320 km), but in 2010 a shorter distance of about 765 miles (1,230 km) was proposed. An international waterway since theTreaty of Viennain 1815, it is navigable overall for some 540 mil...
of a unified nation in 1394 by Gen.Yi Seong-Gye, the founder of the Joseondynasty. The site was a militarily defensible natural redoubt that was also an especially suitable site for a capital city, lying at the center of the peninsula and adjoining the navigable Han River, one of the ...
navigable throughout its length, except during the dry season.Riversdraining the area north of the Niger-Benue trough include theSokoto, theKaduna, theGongola, and the rivers draining intoLake Chad. The coastal areas are drained by short rivers that flow into the Gulf of Guinea. River basin...