Due to its alluvial lands, the inhabitants of this area were entirely devoted to agricultural pursuits for about 150 years.
12.
The village's name derives from the Old English for " clearing near alluvial land growing with alders ".
13.
The Jat and Yadav villages sprung up in the plains adjoining the Yamuna, because the alluvial land was appropriate for agriculture.
14.
Under the Qing Dynasty, embankments were built to prevent flooding in the new alluvial lands, and the area of cultivation was extended.
15.
During the 17th century the alluvial land was converted into arable land by means of systematic drainage using a collection of drains and river diversions.
16.
Opposite, on the west of Dainz?is a farming alluvial land; where Rosario Phase ceramic found confirms a Dainz?occupation from 750 BCE.
17.
It lies near the head of the Cromarty Firth where the valley of the Peffery unites with the alluvial lands at the mouth of the Conon, northwest of Inverness.
18.
The luxuriant and vigorous character of the brush, on alluvial land, in the northern part of the territory of New South Wales, cannot be surpassed in any tropical region.
19.
Chaldea generally referred to the low, marshy, alluvial land around the estuaries of the Tigris and Euphrates, which in ancient times discharged their waters through separate mouths into the sea.
20.
The town is located on the flat alluvial land called B�deli between the two Lakes of Thun to the west and alongside the river Aare, which flows from one to the other.
