10 sentences with “north”

The compass is a very useful tool for finding north.

To the north of the sunny peninsula, we find beautiful hills, picturesque little towns, and lovely rivers.

One Sunday the boy left home to run an errand in a quiet north London suburb; he never returned.

In time, Greek colonies spread across the Mediterranean to Spain in the west and the shores of the Black Sea in the north.

In medieval London, the area to the north of the city, outside the city walls, was intended for displaying the corpses of criminals.

However, from the early 1400 BCE onwards, a wave of invasions by the Mycenaeans to the north eventually extinguished Minoan independence.

The Spartans took the lead in the land army blockading the Persians in the north, while the Athenians attacked the Persian army in the south.

Rameses campaigned against the growing power of an empire in the north called the Hittites, one of the major empires of the Bronze Age period.

To the north, beyond Mesopotamia itself (the land between the rivers), a rival state known as Assyria traded and fought against Kassite-controlled Babylon.

The Assyrians adopted the horseback archery of the barbarians they fought from the north, which together with swords and short spears wielded on horseback made chariots permanently obsolete.