The region is one of the nation's most concentrated population centers of Arab Americans.
Europe's strategy had failed; by 2013, smuggling networks connected most major population centers in the northern half of Africa to Tripoli's coast.
The main goal for American forces, then, would be to protect the 10 most important population centers in Afghanistan and keep the Taliban isolated long enough to train Afghan security forces to take over the fight.
Most major population centers had fallen, and General Lee's defense of Richmond was faltering against massive Union forces.
In addition, there are still no effective ground forces to challenge ISIS control of the most important population centers of Raqqa and Mosul cities, as well as the majority of Deir az-Zor province and the towns of western Anbar province and eastern Aleppo province.
Mr. Davis, 42, as the mayor of a town in Mississippi's fastest-growing county, DeSoto, was able to draw on the district's most dynamic population center, scoring the biggest county vote total.
The Wolfs' sawmill and the land they cleared for farming helped establish the unincorporated village of Waterville, which became the most significant population center in Cummings Township, and is about 2.5 mile southeast of Upper Pine Bottom State Park.
Most of the population centers are located in areas of former prairies, grasslands, forests, and the coastline.
In Iraq there are about 2200 Primary Health Care Clinics (PHCCs), most located in population centers, but some in rural and peri-urban areas.
There are similar units in most major cities and population centers; premature babies born in rural hospitals are quickly transferred.
