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  Encyclopedia of Japanese History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ugo bordered on Mutsu, Rikuchū, Rikuzen, and Uzen Provinces.
A province in the area that is today Yamagata Prefecture.
Uzen bordered on Echigo, Iwaki, Iwashiro, Rikuzen, and Ugo Provinces.
www.openhistory.org /jhdp/encyclopedia/u.html   (326 words)

  
 Read about Provinces of Japan at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Provinces of Japan and learn about Provinces of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Under the rule of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the provinces as administrative units were totally replaced with daimyos' territorries.
Provinces as part of the address system, meanwhile, were not abolished but, on the contrary, augumented.
These province names are considered to be mainly of historical interest; however, there is no record that these names were ever officially abolished.
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Provinces_of_Japan   (732 words)

  
 JAPAN - LoveToKnow Article on JAPAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The provinces of Hida and Etchiu are bounded on the east by a chain of mountains including, or having in their immediate vicinity, the highest peaks in Japan after Fuji.
In the province of Settsu granite everywhere predominates, which may be observed also in the railway cuttings between Hiogo and Osaka, as well as in the temples and walls of these towns.
But in the mountainous provinces of the interior and in those along the western coast, deep snow covers the ground throughout the whole winter, and the sky is usually wrapped in a veil of clouds.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JA/JAPAN.htm   (19610 words)

  
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It bordered on Uzen, Iwashiro, Kōtsuke, Shinano, and Etchū.
Etchū Province A province in central Honshū, on the Sea of Japan side.
Higo Province A province in the area that is today Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyūshū.
www.openhistory.org /jhdp/download/encyclopedia/0.3.3/ejh.txt   (16714 words)

  
 Kazakstan
Kazakstan is divided into nineteen provinces, and the city of Almaty has administrative status equal to that of a province.
In turn, the provinces are divided into regions that consist of a number of settlement points.
Province and regional "heads of administration," known by the Russian term glav or the Kazak term hakim, are presidential appointees.
www.mongabay.com /reference/country_studies/kazakstan/all.html   (17620 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Under the rule of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the provinces as administrative units were totally replaced with daimyos' fiefs.
As of 1871, the number of prefectures was 304, while the number of provinces was 68, not including Hokkaido and Ryukyu Province.
Provinces are classified into kinai (within the capital), and seven or eight do (routes, or circuits).
www.everybase.com /Provinces_of_Japan   (772 words)

  
 Estimated Petroleum Resources in the Former Soviet Union   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Our assessment for this province is based on the presumption that the major source rocks occur in the Triassic section of the depressions and that the Upper Jurassic source rocks are immature over the shelf.
Precambrian (Vendian) to lowermost Cambrian clastic and carbonate rocks on the Nepa-Botuoba arch on the southeast, and Precambrian (Riphean) carbonate rocks beneath the pre-Vendian unconformity on the Baykit arch on the southwest.
The onshore areas of the province are maturely explored; gas dominates in hydrocarbon reserves of the Azov-Kuban basin, whereas most of the Middle Caspian basin is oil-prone.
energy.er.usgs.gov /products/papers/world_oil/FSU   (2141 words)

  
 Kawachi Province -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kawachi (河内国; -no kuni) was a (The proper sphere or extent of your activities) province of (A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building) Japan, which today composes the south-eastern part of (additional info and facts about Osaka Prefecture) Osaka Prefecture.
Kawachi's ancient capital is believed to have been near (additional info and facts about Fujiidera, Osaka) Fujiidera, Osaka, but this is not known for certain.
Kawachi was a relatively small province and was usually dominated by whoever ruled (additional info and facts about Osaka Castle) Osaka Castle and (additional info and facts about Settsu Province) Settsu Province.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ka/kawachi_province.htm   (116 words)

  
 Echigo Province - TheBestLinks.com - Japan, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, TheBestLinks.com:Perfect stub article, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Echigo (越後国; -no kuni) was an old province in north-central Japan, on the Sea of Japan side.
It bordered on Uzen, Iwashiro, Kozuke, Shinano, and Etchu provinces.
Today the area is known as Niigata prefecture combined with Sado province.
www.thebestlinks.com /Echigo_Province.html   (120 words)

  
 China is the new behemoth on the global oil market
In June, the Chinese outbid U.S. oil companies, in a $4 billion deal, to become partners in one of the richest oil fields in Kazakhstan, which is at the center of the enormous Caspian Sea oil pool in the former Soviet Central Asia.
China's involvement in what is shaping up as the last great oil rush of the 20th century is part of an emerging geopolitical scenario that has considerable political risk potential for the United States in its relations with its allies.
The second-richest Kazakh field is Novy Uzen, on the east Caspian Sea, with an estimated 1.5 billion barrels in oil reserves.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/editorial/97/10/07/20468443.0-0.html   (1025 words)

  
 Iranian Peoples: Kurish Group - KURDISH TRIBES - (The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies - CAIS) ©
In Khalkhâl, that is, the region between the Bozghuš mountains and the Qezel Uzen (owzan) river, there are seven Shi'ite, Turki-speaking tribes of Kurdish origin: Delikânlu, Kolukjânlu (an offshoot of the Shekkâk), Shatárânlu (also an offshoot of the Shekkâk), Ahmadlu, Shâdlu, Rašvand, and Mâmânlu.
There are three major Kurdish tribes in the province: Modânlu (north of Sâri), Jahânbeglu (north of Sâri), and Khvâjavand (south of Nowšahr).
The Pâzuki tribe is the principal Kurdish group in the province.
www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/Anthropology/Kurds/kurdish_tribes.htm   (1894 words)

  
 Dewa Province - Wikpedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Dewa (出羽国; -no kuni) is an old province of Japan, which today composes Yamagata prefecture and Akita prefecture, except for the city of Kazuno and the town of Kosaka.
In the Sengoku period the southern region around Yamagata was held by the Mogami clan and the northern part by the Akita clan, both of which fought for Tokugawa Ieyasu at the Battle of Sekigahara.
Dewa was divided into Uzen and Ugo in the Meiji Period before being reorganized into prefectures.
www.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Dewa_Province   (146 words)

  
 Mints
Vigone and Pancalieri are the centres of the cultivation and distillation of Peppermint in the province of Turin.
The whole of the Peppermint cultivation is confined to the north-east portion of the United States, and the extreme south of Canada, where some is grown in the province of Ontario.
Peppermint is chiefly cultivated in the province of Kiang-si.
www.v72.org /medicinal_mints.htm   (9835 words)

  
 Iranica.com - KURDISH TRIBES
In K¨alkòa@l, that is, the region between the Bozg@uæ mountains and the Qezel Uzen (owzan) river, there are seven Shi¿ite, Turki-speaking tribes of Kurdish origin: Delika@nlu, Kolukja@nlu (an offshoot of the ˆekka@k), ˆatára@nlu (also an offshoot of the ˆekka@k), Ahámadlu, ˆa@dlu, Raævand, and Ma@ma@nlu.
There are three major Kurdish tribes in the province: Moda@nlu (north of Sa@ri), Jaha@nbeglu (north of Sa@ri), and K¨va@javand (south of Nowæahr).
The Pa@zuki tribe is the principal Kurdish group in the province.
www.iranica.com /articles/ot_grp5/ot_kurdish_tribes_20040616.html   (1803 words)

  
 Alternate Washington Naval Treaty - AlternateHistory.com Discussion Board
Please bear in mind that some provincial names may not be considered suitable for naming for various reasons, such as auspiciousness, previous ships that still exist with the name (such as some pre-dreadnoughts) and other considerations.
P.S. Yes, I know 'Fuso' is mssing from the list, this is due to it not being a province, instead it is an old name for Japan meaning "Land of Divine Mulberry Trees".
Also the 'Kongo' class were BCs and so were named after mountains not provinces, except for 'Kongo' herself, the name of which had Buddhist meanings.
www.alternatehistory.com /discussion/showthread.php?t=2347   (303 words)

  
 The Perils and Prospects of the Kazakhstan-China Pipeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Commitment to the construction of two pipelines, including a 2,000-km pipeline from China to the Uzen field, and the Aktyubinsk oil pipeline from Aktyubinsk, Western Kazakhstan, to the Xinjiang region in China, was a precondition for the CNPC’s participation in the Uzen joint venture.
China’s north-west provinces of Shanxi, Gansu, Qinghai and the autonomous regions of Ningxia and Xinjiang together possess one third of the country’s total oil reserves.
CNPC’s original idea was to pipe Tarim’s oil to Luoyang in Henan province in central China, where the pipeline was to be connected with an existing one leading to the port Lianyungang, a city in eastern China.
www.cornellcaspian.com /pub/19_0108Kazakh-China.htm   (4674 words)

  
 AQUASTAT - FAO's Information System on Water and Agriculture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It is located in Central Asia, bordered in the northwest and north by the Russian Federation, in the east and southeast by China, in the south by the Kyrgyz Republic and Uzbekistan, and in the southwest by Turkmenistan and the Caspian Sea.
The average population density is 6 inhabitants/km², but varies from 2 inhabitants/km² in the central province of Jeskazgan to 20 inhabitants/km² in Almaty province.
Almost all the drained areas (99%) are located in the five southern provinces of the country.
www.fao.org /ag/agl/aglw/aquastat/countries/kazakhstan/print1.stm   (3688 words)

  
 Uzen Province - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Uzen Province   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Uzen Province - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Uzen Province.
The list of the Uzen Province Authors is
The orginal Uzen Province article can be editet
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Uzen-Province.html   (96 words)

  
 Kazakhstan, China Revive Pipeline Deal
CNPC was willing to bid far more than western competitors thought some of these projects were worth, and on the whole, the investments did not pan out.
CNPC said it needed to merge volumes from its other fields with those from the Uzen field, while Kazakh officials would not give them permission to develop Uzen until they made good on the pipeline project.
Other refineries in the province to be served include those at Karamay and the capital Urumqi.
www.mees.com /postedarticles/oped/a47n29d01.htm   (2064 words)

  
 Bulletin of Moscow Society of Naturalists (MW)
Haematopus ostmlegus is a not numerous spesies inhabited the river valleys of Saratov province.
The breeding is reliably detected for Gallinago media only at the two points of Saratov province (the flood-lands of the river Medveditsa and flood-lands of the river Volga to the north of Saratov).
The settlements of Gallinago gallinago at the north of Lower Volga region are relatively stable.
herba.msu.ru /russian/journals/bmsn/105/2000_1.html   (1908 words)

  
 Monthly Chronology
Several deadly mine collapses have been reported in the province, mostly at private operations where support systems were poorly equipped.
Brooke was taken at an oilfield run by the American Halliburton oil company in the Marib province, 105 miles southeast of the Yemeni capital of Sanaa.
The sales are to be completed in the third and fourth quarters of 1999, and resulted from a strategic review by the company of its properties worldwide to prioritize the demand for investment capital.
www.eia.doe.gov /emeu/cabs/chrn1999.html   (13323 words)

  
 Geology and Petroleum Potential of Central Asia
It includes the northern part of the Caspian Sea and the territory north of it, and is adjacent to the Volga-Ural province.
The early series is dominated by quartz and minor sedimentary rock fragments typical of the Paleo-Volga province to the north.
This play is assessed as containing 15% of the undiscovered resources of the province and essentially is unexplored.
www.bakerinstitute.org /Pubs/studies/gppca/gppca.html   (6769 words)

  
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Tho most important of all were the two Ecbatanas--the northern and the southern--which seem to have stood respectively in the position of metropolis to the northern and the southern province.
The great horse pastures, from which the Medes first and the Persians afterwards, supplied their numerous and excellent cavalry, were in this quarter; and the troops which it furnished--hardy mountaineers accustomed to brave the severity of a most rigorous climate--must have been among the most effective of the Median forces.
He had a distinct sphere or province assigned to him in Ahura-mazda's kingdom, which was the maintenance of life in animals and of goodness in man. Asha-vahista (Ardibehesht) means "the Highest Truth"--"Voritas optima," or rather perhaps "Veritas lucidissima." He was the "Light" of the universe, subtle, all-pervading, omnipresent.
www.gutenberg.org /files/16163/16163-8.txt   (19192 words)

  
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Novy Uzen is a town in the Guryev province of Kazakhstan.
The police eventually contained the riots, but the town remained very tense, so for the next few days all Caucasians were removed from the city limits for their own protection.
Although the Novy Uzen riots were not as widespread or as devastating as the Alma-Ata riots, they spurred long needed debates in Moscow on how to revamp the Soviet Union's nationalities policy.
kucukcoban.8m.com /YAZILAR/kazakh_paper.html   (3138 words)

  
 The Columbia Caspian Project: Kazakhstan's Economic Development After the Russian Crisis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Then in August 1997, CNPC was awarded rights to the 1.5 billion barrel Uzen field (currently Kazakhstan’s second largest oil field after Tengiz, with 54,000 b/d of output), pledging to spend between $400 million and $1 billion (and raise output to 140,000 b/d).
In 1997, Uzen’s production was being shipped to Kazakhstan’s Atyrau refinery and to Russia and Ukraine.
The Uzen field was much contested by Amoco, which only recently abandoned its ongoing expressions of interest, following the merger with BP.
www.columbia.edu /cu/sipa/RESOURCES/CASPIAN/ked_p43.html   (3084 words)

  
 World Bank/IMF Agenda
Another loan, for $109 million, was offered in early July to help rehabilitate the country 's second largest oil field, the Uzen fields.
Division Manager Harold Rosen told the newspaper that only one or two other private sector projects were in the pipeline for the bank for the next few years, although it hoped management training initiatives would help smaller nonstate firms.
China will meet its growing demand for skilled labor through a vocational education reform project to be supported by a $10 million World Bank loan and a $20 million credit from the International Development Association (IDA).
www.worldbank.org /html/prddr/trans/j&a96/art9.htm   (2216 words)

  
 China's Changing Oil Strategy and its Foreign Policy Implications -- Sergei Troush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It was a moderate oil exporter during the 1980s, but now, its three main oil producing zones—Daqing, Shengli and Liaohe, situated in the northern and north-eastern parts of the country—are considered to be nearing depletion, and can sustain their current level of production only with additional, sound investments.
The growth of the domestic supply of oil is primarily associated with the development of oilfields in Xinjiang province in western China, and the exploitation of offshore oil ranges in the East China Sea.
This climate remains unsatisfactory as a result of the unresolved territorial dispute over the so-called "northern territories." Russia's long term priority is to involve both China and Japan in the economic development of the Far Eastern territories without completely loosing its political and administrative clout with the two.
www.brook.edu /printme.wbs?page=/fp/cnaps/papers/1999_troush.htm   (8139 words)

  
 CHINA
Their major apprehensions ranged from ideological and political problem to practically deal with the security challenges along China’s northern frontier provinces.
The Soviet collapse came as a vindication of the tough line followed by the Western world against China in the wake of the 1989 Tiananment massacre.
Thus the province was converted into a new prosperity zone that would attract the foreign investments.
www.emu.edu.tr /~eefegil/china.htm   (2515 words)

  
 Kazakh-Chinese Pipeline Merits / Western Sources / Research and Reports / UAA - Uyghur American Association (UAA)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It is true that the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region-where the Kazakh pipeline would enter China-is sparsely populated.
However, with the total Chinese population expected to peak at 1.3 billion within the next 10-15 years, the province and much of inland China will have a significantly increased population, with energy needed to serve this population.
If Okioc finds significant reserves, and its work can be linked with other projects, such as successful oil exploration and development at Uzen and Aktyubinsk and in central Kazakhstan, a rationale for its construction can be justified.
www.uyghuramerican.org /research_and_reports/western_sources/kazakh_chinese_pipeline_merits   (1001 words)

  
 Japanese Warship Names
Capital ships were mostly named after provinces, although Kongo-class, being battlecruisers, were named after mountains.
Shinano: A province, containing Nagano City (Shinano was originally laid down as a battleship); also the longest river in Japan
Mogami: A river, divides the Ugo and Uzen provinces
www.combinedfleet.com /ijnnames.htm   (737 words)

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