“Zayandeh-rud” is the largest river on the Iranian Plateau in central Iran. In this mill, the wheel’s bottom is submerged in flowing water, where there are no head differences. In some parts of Dezful, these are locally known as “Louvineh.” The “Sassanid Bridge” is located in ...
To the north, the rolling hills and rapid streams of the south and east are gradually transformed into the forested lowlands and deep waterways that define the heart of the Empire. The vast forests that comprise the central and northern Imperial lands stretch almost unbroken across the countless ...
The lowlands of Scotland entered a time of relative stability by the mid-14th century, having dealt with England’s incursions, and over the next two centuries, the Scottish crown was occupied with fending off pretender heirs, securing lands through marriage, and the weakening of highland nobles...
Swampland to Farmland: The Little River Drainage District and the Transformation of the Southeast Missouri LowlandsFISHER, JOHN C.Missouri Historical Review
Such diversity may have contributed to the historical development of field pattern types. Within the last millennium, the cultural landscape of Central Europe has undergone several dramatic transformations that have changed the settlement structure: medieval colonization and field pattern redesign86,131,132...
1). The Plateau (Swiss lowlands) is a partly flat, partly hilly major landscape in Switzerland with an average height between 400 and 600 m a.s.l. The region is characterized by a cool-temperate climate. The mean temperature in Bern in the centre of the study area is -0.4 °C in ...
Excellent grassroots farmer initiatives to prevent soil erosion, such as ramp pay (see above), have not been widely scaled up. Part of the disconnection between foreign NGO interventions and farmers’ needs may be due to language barriers, as Haitians speak French and Haitian Creole, whereas ...
the area bears more resemblance to the hot and dense Caribbean lowlands than the plains of the north and, despite large-scale deforestation, still shelters some of the best-preserved premontane rainforest in the country. The Sarapiqui region is made up of three districts; La Virgen, Horquetas...
While the impacts of modern farming and land use practices on climate and biodiversity since 1900 are well-studied in Western and Central Europe, less is k
Plains occur as lowlands along valleys or at the base of mountains, as coastal plains, and as plateaus or uplands.In a valley, a plain is enclosed on two sides, but in other cases a plain may be delineated by a complete or partial ring of hills, by mountains, or by cliffs. Flat ...