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In Gubden, a mountanous village of 16,000, even small girls wear headscarves, and alcohol is strictly prohibited.
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Iran has 66 million people, mountanous terrain, and a land mass larger than Alaska.
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There is a stunningly beautiful bay (estuary, actually) there and for miles south of there there are coves and estuaries with quaint villages and beautiful mountanous terrain.
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Although it is a mountanous area, it has everything necessary to make the inhabitants 'working and spiritual lives pleasant.
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"There is a kinde of nagge," he says, "bred upon a mountanous and spatious peece of grounde, called Goon-hillye, lyinge between the sea-coaste and Helston; which are the hardeste naggs and beste of travaile for their bones within this kingdome, resembling in body for quantitie, and in goodness of mettle, the Galloway naggs."
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It is seldom found in the plains but inhabits the Timbered and mountanous districts They are not very numerous and their habits are too well known to need a detailed description here
Journal of a Trapper 1914
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The real powers in the region, China and India, should be the ones to worry about this, rather than the virtually bankrupt U.S. spending trillions of dollars trying to police the mountanous regions of a country halfway around the world.
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The Next day Wednesday May 27th I arrived at the place appointed to meet the men sent to kill Buffaloe, as well as The band of Indians & late in the afternoon two Indians arrived to inform me that in consequence of the mountanous situation of the Country that the
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Westerly to a mountanous country That lay in that direction Fitzpatrick with 6 men southwardly & myself with 7 men Embarked on board the boat with all my goods and the extra baggage of the men, we decended the River a short distance and Encamped -
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There have been heretofore some Discoveries of rich Mines in the mountanous Part of this Country; but being remote from the present Settlement, and the Inhabitants not well vers'd in ordering Minerals, they have been laid aside 'till a more fit Opportunity happens.
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