1.   A third area of earthquake activity extends as a rather diffuse belt from the Mediterranean region, through the Himalayas and into Burma.

2.   Farro was one of the first grains used in the Mediterranean region.

3.   His additional votes came mainly in the Mediterranean region where there is resentment of the large number of immigrants.

4.   In the fourth century, monks began moving here from Mediterranean regions to escape persecution by the authorities.

5.   It will be part of an interconnection among the electricity grids of five countries in the eastern Mediterranean region, the other three being Egypt, Jordan and Iraq.

6.   OPEC will increase its share of the market and its share in the Mediterranean region, he said.

7.   The area of the study spanned almost the entire width of the northern temperate zone, from the sub-Arctic to the Mediterranean region.

8.   The common name, daffodil, is a corruption of Asphodel, a lily relative that hails from the same Mediterranean region as daffodils.

9.   The European Union and a group of less prosperous countries in the Mediterranean region agreed Tuesday to forge a new political and economic partnership.

10.   This effect was achieved by highly skilled artisans working with a wide palette of tiny pebbles gathered from shores and inland quarries throughout the eastern Mediterranean region.