The military base, situated on a grassy hilltop overlooking the town of Gyumri, is ringed by a snow-capped garland of mountain peaks. |
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The Sicilian town is perched on a rocky hilltop on the meandering road from Palermo. |
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The passage tombs are most often set on a hilltop inside a large circular mound surrounded by kerbstones. |
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On the book's cover, we see Riel on that same hilltop, staring raptly into the sky. |
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The palace is in the centre of the acropolis which is situated at the top of Perperikon and served to protect the hilltop. |
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All this plus extensive hilltop gardens with cross-London views, and it's all free. |
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If you want to perform extreme sports yourself, paragliding from a windy hilltop in Salta is an option. |
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Set on a hilltop, it is the northernmost of the the four churches in the parish. |
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He was exhausted from his expenditure of energy on the hilltop so he decided that sleep was probably best. |
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No sooner had he done this than it was decided to move the Academy from the damp riverside to the hilltop. |
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In the forty miles of landscape visible from the hilltop, those two towers were the only buildings in sight. |
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From Angouleme, a hilltop town crowned with medieval ramparts and dominated by a magnificent 12 th-century cathedral, the river is your guide. |
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He was then able to manoeuvre some of his cavalry on to the hilltop and fight the Saxons on level ground. |
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He has us marching down box canyons, firing to hilltop greens and putting beneath balancing rocks. |
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From the hilltop temple we heard the muezzin calling for noon prayers below in the bustling city of Bergama. |
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In the midpoint of the large plateau at the hilltop are two enormous stone monoliths, stretching like limestone skyscrapers into the crimson sky. |
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Shrubs and bushes will be used to create the hilltop wetlands by blocking drainage ditches dug by sheep farmers. |
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They sit beside every road junction, crown every hilltop, lie deep in the bottom of the island's wildest ravines. |
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When St George finally struck the fatal blow, the dragon's blood gushed out onto the hilltop and the grass has refused to grow there ever since. |
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We will also be offering an optional 3-day pre-trip excursion to Delphi and the hilltop monasteries of Meteora with accommodation on half board. |
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From the hilltop, we could see Lake Nicaragua and the twin-coned volcanic island of Ometepe. |
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In 1067-8 an impressive Norman castle was built on the hilltop east of the River Ouse. |
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The estate of Eusebi Guell was originally to become a hilltop garden city in the early twentieth century. |
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Kammu houses are built close together in the village, located on a hilltop or halfway up a mountain. |
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The hilltop site has been under examination by the archaeological teams for the past month. |
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Alexander the Great was unsuccessful in his aims to capture the hilltop fortress here, the ruins of which remain to be explored. |
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It tests every shot, from uphill and downhill to sidehill, and offers both hilltop panoramas and dense glades. |
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Cedar cladding and roofing echo the wooded surroundings, while sharply pitched gables keep the home's scale from overwhelming the hilltop. |
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From the hilltop, a spectacular panorama of the surrounding countryside unfolds above the enchanting town. |
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In ancient times this was done by carrying the body to a high hilltop, leaving it bare for nature's scavengers to feed on. |
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Atop the squared hilltop we spy the silhouetted form of a stag with magnificent antlers. |
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A hilltop Mesolithic hunting camp has been excavated in an unpopulated area of Perthshire west of Aberfeldy. |
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We hurried out into the roasting midday sun, squinting through the haze at the stand-off on the next hilltop. |
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From a hilltop, Bill Adams points to the next ridge, which is now heavily wooded. |
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A BEER never tastes as good as when you drag yourself over a hilltop to get it. |
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His hilltop castle commands the only broad gap through the Purbeck hills. |
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The picturesque hilltop town exploded into celebration with news of the win, with locals buying bottles of Prosecco and toasting each other on the street. |
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It is a region rich in art and Roman and Etruscan history, with a spectacular landscape of rolling green hills and mountains, trees, vineyards and hilltop villages. |
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Negriel Dumas built a roughhewn shack for his family on the barren hilltop. |
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What Sisyphus might have felt if one fine day his boulder stopped, rested on the hilltop and failed to roll back down. |
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Covering 55 hectares, it has numerous doglegs and hilltop tee shots with panoramic views over the course. |
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His hilltop foxhole gave him a 360-degree view unavailable to any of the allied or German generals. |
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The wife of guillotined Equality Philip chose this hilltop for the family graves. |
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All this, in the invigorating hilltop air, resembles a lonely farm untouched by the miasmas of modern life? |
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Clustered tightly around a central, baronial castle on a hilltop, Torraca is accessible via the provincial road which heads inland from Sapri. |
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The fighting spilled into Thailand as the Shan State Army retreated to a hilltop and Burmese troops crossed the border to attack from behind. |
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Outstanding hilltop Caribbean style villa kissed by trade winds with magnificent views of the sea and surrounding islands. |
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In the distance, one can clearly see the sea from our hilltop vantage point at 65 Delmas. |
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The hilltop lockmaster's house has been restored to give you a glimpse of the life of a lockmaster in the 19th century. |
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Soils of the shallow, stony Lomond Unit belong to this category, and cover hilltop sites in the extreme northwest part of the ecodistrict. |
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Parque Municipal do Monte the most popular and visited place located in the hilltop village of Monte overlooking the beautiful bay of Funchal. |
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Built on the hilltop at Montmartre, famous for its painters, the Sacré-Coeur basilica is one of the most visited monuments in Paris. |
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Modern concrete fortifications were poured on top of the old fortifications and a Greek temple that once crowned the hilltop at Karkum. |
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Monte Palace Tropical Gardens situated on the beautiful hilltop of Monte surrounded by stunning views over Funchal's bay. |
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An official photographer was with the battalion as it fought up to the summit of another valley hilltop capturing German guns and infantry. |
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The hilltop spur has stunning views across the Severn valley. |
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On a hilltop at the edge of town, a bunch of drunken hunters were target-shooting at the ceramic insulators on Bishkek's primary high-voltage lines. |
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Eight years earlier Edward I had been persuaded to help resite the borough, and by 1283 his town planners had laid out a grid of streets on a hilltop at a place called Iham. |
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Especially the bit where Achilles has sacked the temple of Apollo and goes out onto the hilltop to raise his sword to the cheers of the army on the beach below. |
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On a visit to China three years ago, I was taken to a hilltop park in a small city in Guangdong province. |
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Striving in every frame for scientific legitimacy, Gilbert opens the film standing on a hilltop addressing the audience. |
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The chapel's hilltop position in the village graveyard has prompted objections on the grounds that its use as a home would harm the ambience of the burial ground. |
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Everything that has life, from the bird song that wakes us at dawn to the philosophy that stirs our minds as we linger by moonlight on a beach or a hilltop, is built of the product of green plants. |
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He described a scene in which he sat on a hilltop in a cemetery, reflecting on the loss of a loved one to AIDS and the indifference, hate and greed that has fuelled the epidemic and so many deaths. |
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The following day hundreds of troops closed in on the holdout, the Kachin soldiers firing at them, in short bursts to conserve their limited ammunition, as they tried to storm the hilltop. |
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An unsurpassed place for dreamy days in rejuvenating hilltop air. |
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You could discover in the second case that the top three are the library, the hilltop, and a bar on Broadway that hosts local bands, and that the arena ranks eighth. |
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When some event of importance occurs, a birth or a death, a quarrel of proportions, or the visit of a government patrol, there are drum beats from hilltop to hilltop. |
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Tournon-d'Agenais, a most picturesque little fortified town clinging to a high hilltop, and Penne-d'Agenais, another medieval village home to many craftspeople, are both worth a visit. |
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You should also note, that there may be inverse wind shear on hilltops because of the hill effect, i.e. the wind speed may actually decline with increasing height during a certain height interval above the hilltop. |
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The wreckage was found on a hilltop 1.2 nm northeast of the airport. |
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This picturesque hilltop town was founded in the early 16th century above the valley of the Metuje River. Its beauty and unity of architectural styles make it an appealing destination. |
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Standing on the hilltop, Richard had a wide, unobstructed view of the area. |
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The system was supported by a communication network based on hilltop beacons to provide early warning. |
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The reason for this change from hilltop fortresses to farms amongst the Caledonians and their neighbours is unknown. |
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Dundurn was Bridei's main powerbase in the south, a great 'nuclear' hilltop fortress. |
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Housing was originally built in a series of satellite neighbourhoods clustered around the hilltop town centre. |
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He was a striking figure of great stature and powerful build, with a loud, melodious voice which could be heard from one hilltop to another. |
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A single rampart encloses three acres of hilltop, and would have dominated the approach to the area from the east. |
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Its hilltop location means less pooling of cold air on calm clear nights, and lower maxima during summer. |
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The hilltop church of St Michael and All Angels has views of nearby Kerridge Hill. |
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The intention medium term is to stop the continued cutting of hilltop forest for the making of new farm plots, thereby retaining habitats for key bird and mammal species. |
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The Benedictine Archabbey of Pannonhalma sits on a hilltop overlooking the Lesser Hungarian Plain. |
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The distance is about the same, and there seemed little point in risking being on an exposed hilltop at 1200' in a thunderstorm, especially as the reward would have been panoramic 360 degree views of the inside of a cloud. |
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Flop into it after a day exploring the Riviera beaches, or the inland villages of Provence, such as the picture-perfect hilltop settlement of Fayence. |
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On the same day this video appeared on YouTube, giving a tour of the hilltop battlegroup with English subtitles. |
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In this hilltop village, there is a fine collection of medieval buildings and each one has been pitilessly molested by either the tourist authorities or middle-brow junk art galleries. |
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Even so, Wiggins will need to be vigilant on the tough twin climbs of Caerphilly mountain on Thursday – when the weather is again expected to deteriorate – or on the hilltop finish at Haytor on Friday. |
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I was staying at the Nonsuch Bay Resort in one of its gorgeous hilltop apartments overlooking the emerald waters of the east coast. |
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She had been sharing a house with Knox, who was also a student, on her year abroad in the Umbrian hilltop town. |
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The hilltop located outside Verulamium eventually became a cult centre devoted to Alban. |
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A WALKER wants to put a 30ft stair lift on Dartmoor so disabled people can reach a hilltop. |
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But hilltop was running out of money to pay Young for the no-show job. |
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The territory should be small enough to be surveyed in its entirety from a hilltop. |
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This was a hilltop belvedere, or summer house, with a view, of completely symmetrical plan with hexastyle, or porticoes on each of four sides and central circular halls surmounted by domes. |
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On the skyline, the hilltop gilt of the Shwedagon pagoda still gleams, but cranes loom above rows of rusty, tin roofs. Some worry about what might be lost. |
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They would also be able to go off to peer over a hilltop on a spotter mission, for instance, or if in a hurry jumped on and driven away like a normal vehicle. There are, of course, lots of details still to be dealt with. |
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Most areas were probably controlled by tribal chiefs living in hilltop forts, while the bulk of the population lived in small villages or farmsteads in the countryside. |
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King Andrianjaka founded Antananarivo as the capital of his Imerina Kingdom around 1610 or 1625 upon the site of a captured Vazimba capital on the hilltop of Analamanga. |
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The latter surrounded his army on a hilltop for two agonizing weeks. |
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Nestled in the Bernese Alps, The Alpina Gstaad is set among five acres in the exclusive hilltop area of Oberbort, five minutes from the village center. |
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It seemed to me like I either had to radically reunderstand the men on this hilltop or I had to acknowledge the power of a place like this to change men. |
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The village did not have a sewage system and the well water was contaminated by faecal matter and the decomposition of bodies in the cemetery on the hilltop. |
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La Residencia set in the hilltop village of Deia, the Mallorcan cradle of art, has gorgeous individual villas set amidst lush orange orchards and olive groves. |
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The British tradition of afternoon tea is still observed on the last Friday of each month, from January to August, at the hilltop mansion of the governor-general in Nassau. |
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