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Warrumbungles

The Warrumbungles is a mountain range in the Orana region of New South Wales, Australia. The nearest town is Coonabarabran. The area is easiest accessed from the Newell Highway which is the major road link directly between Melbourne, Victoria and ...

Yorke Peninsula

The Yorke Peninsula is a peninsula located north-west and west of Adelaide in South Australia, between Spencer Gulf on the west and Gulf St Vincent on the east. The peninsula is separated from Kangaroo Island to the south by Investigator Strait. ...

Hudson Bay Lowlands

Hudson Bay Lowlands is a vast wetland located between the Canadian Shield and southern shores of Hudson Bay and James Bay. Most of the area lies within the province of Ontario, with smaller portions reaching into Manitoba and Quebec. Many wide an ...

Kazan Region

The Kazan Region is a physiographic province of Canada and the part of the Canadian Shield that is located in extreme northeastern Alberta, northern Manitoba, and Saskatchewan, and also in parts of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Not to be ...

Saint Lawrence Lowlands

The Great Lake St. Lawrence Lowlands is a bowl-shaped landform located near to the Great Lakes. The Great lakes region became a lake after the last ice sheet melted. Due to the presence of a deep fault line, the water eventually settled in the oc ...

Omagua

Omagua or low jungle is one of the eight natural regions of Peru. It is located between 80 and 400m above sea level in the Peruvian Amazonia. In this region, there are a lot of rivers that create meanders, swamps and lagoons. Flora includes trees ...

Intermontane Plateaus

The Intermontane Plateaus of the Western United States is one of eight U.S. Physiographic regions of the physical geography of the contiguous United States. The region is composed of intermontane plateaus and mountain ranges. It is subdivided int ...

Ozarks

The Ozarks, also known as the Ozark Mountains or Ozark Plateau, is a physiographic region in the U.S. states of Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and extreme southeastern Kansas. The Ozarks cover a significant portion of northern Arkansas and most of ...

Alsace independence movement

Alsace autonomist movement is a cultural, ideological and political regionalist movement for greater autonomy or outright independence of Alsace. The goals usually include opposition to the centralist territorial, political and legal claims of th ...

Alsace First

Alsace First is a political party based in Alsace, France, established in 1989. It promotes autonomy for Alsace in France. The party is considered far-right by many observers because of its strong stance against immigration, against Turkish acces ...

Chateau de Hunebourg

Chateau de Hunebourg lies to the west of Neuwiller-les-Saverne in the French departement of Bas-Rhin on a 425-metre-high sandstone rock outcrop. It is accessible from the valley of the Zinsel du Nord. The original castle was built in the 12th-13t ...

Popular Republican Union (1919–1946)

The Popular Republican Union was a Christian democratic party in Alsace, France during the Third Republic. The UPR became the dominant party in Alsace during the period between the two world wars. In Lorraine, the Lorrain Republican Union address ...

Madras Manade

Madras Manade was a movement launched by the Telugu people residing in Madras to create a separate state for their community with Madras as its capital city. Although the demand for a separate state have existed as early as 1913 and possibly earl ...

Marathwada Statutory Development Board

Marathwada Statutory Development Board is a constitutional body created by Presidential Order in 1994 to develop Marathwada region of Maharashtra and to decrease regional imbalance in development within the state. Msdb releases annual report eval ...

Tulu Nadu state movement

The Tulu Nadu state movement is aimed at increasing Tulu Nadus influence and political power through the formation of a separate Tulu Nadu state from Karnataka and Kerala. Tulu Nadu is a region on the south-western coast of India. It consists of ...

Ako Bicol

Ako Bicol Political Party is a political party in the Philippines participating in the party-list elections in the Philippines. It represents the Bicol Region and the Bicolano people. In the 2016 elections, AKB was the top partylist with 1.664.97 ...

Al-Hadba

The al-Hadba party is a political party formed to contest the 2009 Iraqi governorate elections in Ninawa province. It is mostly made up of Sunni Arabs. Its leading member Atheel al-Nujaifi is brother of Usama al-Najafi who is part of the Iraqi Na ...

An Waray

An Waray is a party-list in the Philippines, mainly based on the islands of Leyte, Samar and Biliran. In the 2004 elections to the House of representatives Waray got 268.164 votes 2.1079% of the nationwide vote and one seat Florencio Noel. In War ...

Anak Mindanao

Anak Mindanao is a party-list in the Philippines, based in Mindanao In the 2004 elections for the House of Representatives the party-list got 269.750 votes and one seat. In the May 14, 2007 election, the party won 1 seat in the nationwide party-l ...

Association for Somogy

The Association for Somogy is a local political party in the county of Somogy in Hungary, allied with the Hungarian Socialist Party. At the legislative elections, April 9 and 23, 2006, the party won 1 constituency seat. It was created on 25 may 1 ...

Bagong Lakas ng Nueva Ecija

The Lapiang Bagong Lakas ng Nueva Ecija is a Nueva Ecija regional political party in the Philippines, which was formerly affiliated with the Nationalist Peoples Coalition, then the Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino and finally back to NPC when KAMPI ...

Bando Osmeña – Pundok Kauswagan

Bando Osmeña Pundok Kauswagan commonly known as BOPK is a regional political party based in Cebu City, Philippines. It is a political party run by the Osmeña family of Cebu. BOPK is currently associated with the Laban NG Demokratikong Pilipino fr ...

Bornholms Self-Government Party

Bornholms Self-Government Party is a local political party in Denmark, which seeks to establish the independence or autonomy of Bornholm, a small island in the Baltic Sea with a population of slightly below 40.000 people. Founded in the 1990s, th ...

Light of Latgale

The Light of Latgale was a Latgalian regionalist political party in Latvia. The light of Latgale was founded in the city of Daugavpils and Daugavpils headed businessman Rihards Eigims. The party won the municipal elections of 2001 in Daugavpils, ...

Nonpartisan local government activists

Nonpartisan Local Government Activists is a Polish political movement. Operating mainly at a regional level in a decentralised manner, it participates in elections as a national committee joining the individual regional counterparts. The organisa ...

Paglaum Party (Negros Occidental)

Paglaum Party, officially the Partido Paglaum sang Banwa, is a provincial political party in Negros Occidental, Philippines based in Bacolod.

Partido Barug

Partido Barug, commonly known as BARUG, is a regional political party based in Cebu City, Philippines. Cebu City Vice Mayor and former Mayor Michael Rama is its founding president. Currently BARUG tied to PDP–Laban in 2018.

Partido Magdalo

Partido Magdalo is one of the political parties in the Philippines founded by Former Governor Juanito Remulla Sr. and Former Congressman Renato P. Dragon. It is a local political party in Cavite.The new leaders of this party is Former Cavite Gove ...

Regionalism in Somogy County

Regionalism in Somogy County is a political phenomenon that focuses on the normative interests of Somogy County and its citizens in Hungarian politics. This can be derived from the former independent Duchy of Somogy and the administrative divisio ...

Somogy County Christian Coalition

The Somogy County Christian Coalition was a short-lived regional electoral coalition in Hungary, formed by minor right-wing conservative parties and organizations in early 1990 to jointly contest the 1990 parliamentary election in Somogy County.

Southern Funens List

Southern Funens List is a regional political party set in the municipalities on the southern parts of Funen, more specifically Faaborg-Midtfyn and Svendborg.

United Negros Alliance

United Negros Alliance, abbreviated as UNA, is a provincial political party in Negros Occidental, Philippines based in Bacolod.

Vojvodinas Party

VP calls for a change of the Constitution of Serbia, which would reform the current republic with two autonomous provinces, into a state with at least two federal units - Vojvodina and Serbia Proper.

Regionalism in Ukraine

Regionalism in Ukraine has been a significant force during the building of an independent state after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. While most acutely this issue manifested itself during the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine, other ethnic ...

Great Western Cities

Great Western Cities is an initiative launched jointly in February 2015 by the cities of Bristol, in England, and Cardiff and Newport, in Wales, to improve cooperation across the area as a city region, and to develop economic and environmental pa ...

Northern Powerhouse

The Northern Powerhouse is a proposal to boost economic growth in the North of England by the 2010–15 coalition government and 2015–2017 Conservative government in the United Kingdom, particularly in the "Core Cities" of Manchester, Liverpool, Le ...

Regional assembly (England)

The regional chambers of England were a group of indirectly elected regional bodies that were created by the provisions of the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998. There were eight regional chambers, one for each of the regions of England exce ...

Swansea Bay City Region

The Swansea Bay City Region, is a city region in Wales. It is a partnership between the local authorities of Carmarthenshire, Neath Port Talbot, Pembrokeshire and Swansea, local businesses in south west Wales and other organisations with the supp ...

Wessex Constitutional Convention

The Wessex Constitutional Convention is an all-party pressure group, in the United Kingdom, devoted to pursuing a degree of self-government for Wessex. It has the following stated aims: To promote as Wessex the area comprising the eight tradition ...

Battle of the Waters of Merom

According to the Bible, the Battle of the Waters of Merom was a battle between the Israelites and a coalition of Canaanite city-states near the Waters of Merom. Archaeologist Nadav Naaman has suggested that this battle may never have taken place, ...

Ben-Azen

Ben-Azen was an Asiatic official in the 19th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt at the court of Pharaohs Ramses II and his son, Merneptah. Ben-Azens was titled: "Cup Bearer" - meaning he was in a high position stationed next to the kings themselves despite ...

Jarmuth

Jarmuth was the name of two cities in the land of Canaan. One was moraski city in Canaan during the Israeli settlement recorded in the Hebrew Bible. According to Joshua 10:3-5, its king, Piram, was one of five kings who formed an Alliance to atta ...

Prehistory of the Levant

The prehistory of the Levant includes the various cultural changes that occurred, as revealed by archaeological evidence, prior to recorded traditions in the area of the Levant. Archaeological evidence suggests that Homo sapiens and other hominid ...

Aishanids

Aishani or Aisani, or Aishiya was a Kurdish dynasty that ruled 912–961 A.D. in parts of Kurdistan in areas such as Dinawar, Hamadan, Samghan, Sharizur etc. as far as Azerbaijan and South Turkmenistan. Among its best known rulers are Wandad, Ghani ...

Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies

Established in 2000, the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies is a U.S. Department of Defense institution for building relationships and understanding in the NESA region. The NESA Center supports the theater security cooperation effo ...

Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy

The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness of democratic transitions in the Middle East through analysis, advocacy, and action.

The Wilder Shores of Love

The Wilder Shores of Love is a work of creative non-fiction by British journalist, historian and travel writer Lesley Blanch. Her most famous book, it has remained in print in the English language ever since it was first published in 1954. Blanch ...

Northern Greece

The term "Northern Greece" is widely used to refer mainly to the two northern regions of Macedonia and Western Thrace, thus the Thessaloniki-based Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace was known as "Ministry for Northern Greece" Υπουργείο Βορείου Ελλά ...

Macedonia (Greece)

Macedonia, Greek: Μακεδονία, Makedonia) is a geographic and administrative region of Greece, in the southern Balkans. Macedonia is the largest and second-most-populous Greek region, with a population of 2.38 million in 2017. The region is highly ...

Western Thrace

Western Thrace or West Thrace is a geographic and historical region of Greece, between the Nestos and Evros rivers in the northeast of the country, East Thrace, which lies east of the river Evros, forms the European part of Turkey, and the area t ...