Life in these remote mountains, for centuries pinched tightly between the Ottoman and Persian empires, has shaped the resilient, resistant nature of the Kurdish character.
The animals were forced to leave the park and move into the even more remote Min Shan mountains in search of sustenance.
For much of the past three decades, the army managed to confine the guerrillas to remote jungles and mountains, where they impinged little on the economy and national life.
It was a townland in the Wicklow mountains, remote and bleak, once distinguished by the thriving presence of Oscarey House, of which no trace now remained.
Aguelhok is a remote town close to mountains and the Algerian border -- in a region where many Islamist fighters had regrouped in the face of the French push toward the main cities of the north.
But the action jumps convincingly from Washington, DC, to a remote part of the Caucasus Mountains and builds to an explosive crescendo.
She did not fall more than 100 feet to her death in a remote area of the Hahnenkamm mountains at 4:30 GMT yesterday.
Some are believed to be buried in military compounds, whereas others were probably thrown into the sea or on to remote peaks in the Andes mountains.
This is why I have come here: to ride through the remote Tian-Shan (Celestial Mountains) mountain range along ancient routes and through wide high-altitude pastures, known as jailoos, where shepherds have been grazing livestock for centuries.
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Located 55km north of Graaff-Reinet along a gravel road through the Sneeuberg (Snow Mountains), the remote village of Nieu Bethesda has a spring-fed network of irrigation channels, giving it the appearance of a green oasis.
Well, Alex, this goes back to 2003, to an incident at a remote U.S. army base in the Afghan mountains.
The work is heavily Homeric, remote and noble, full of gloomy gray seas and doomy gray mountains, and ribboned with bardlike epithets.
Overlooked by a crenelated section of the Rocky Mountains known as the Ramparts, the scenery is spectacular, photogenic and remote (the nearest road is 18km away).
The aircraft collided in a remote portion of the Yuma Training Range Complex on the California side of the Chocolate Mountains very close to the Arizona border, Ms. Dooley said.
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