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Torne Valley
Torne Valley (Tornedalen, Tornionlaakso): cross-border region along the 510 km Torne River on the Sweden-Finland border; 21 municipalities, 80,000 inhabitants; Meänkieli-speaking; border drawn 1809; closed by Finland in 2020.
Tri-Valley
Tri-Valley: East Bay, California region of Amador, Livermore, and San Ramon valleys; cities San Ramon, Dublin, Danville, Pleasanton, Livermore; wine country, fast growth, BART and Valley Link transit.
Trossachs
The Trossachs is a wooded, craggy glen-and-loch district of the Scottish Highlands between Loch Achray and Loch Katrine, famed through Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake and Rob Roy and now within Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park.
Valley
Valley: low-lying land between hills or mountains, often drained by a stream. V-shaped when river-carved, U-shaped when glacial, rift valleys where crust splits; example Grand Canyon.
Valley of Elah (עמק האלה)
Valley of Elah (עמק האלה, Emek HaElah), also Wadi es-Sant, a fertile valley in Israel's Shephelah about 14 miles southwest of Jerusalem, the biblical setting of David and Goliath and a Judah-Philistia borderland with sites such as Azekah and Khirbet Qeiyafa.
Wadi (وادي)
Wadi (وادي), Arabic for a dry valley or riverbed, is the Middle Eastern and North African term for an ephemeral stream channel that flows after rain, recharges alluvial aquifers through its bed, and carries destructive flash floods.
Wadi N'f'd
Wadi N'f'd (Wadi Nafed or Nefed) is a dry valley in the pre-desert of Tripolitania, Libya, tributary to the Wadi Sofeggin, with Romano-Libyan farms, Gasr Isawi, the Msletten tombs, and UNESCO Libyan Valleys Survey monuments Nf 30-31, 37-39.
Willamette Valley
Willamette Valley: broad river valley in western Oregon between the Coast Range and Cascades, extending about 150 miles from the Columbia River to the Calapooya Divide; Oregon's population and agricultural heartland, shaped by Missoula Floods, Kalapuyan burning, wheat and grass seed farming, and Pinot Noir wine.