Among these was that these dynasties all controlled most of the traditional Chinese heartland.

After the last shortage, new farmers emerged overnight, cultivating blue agave far from its traditional heartland here in the state of Jalisco.

Much of the Alliance advance occurred in its traditional heartlands of the north, where it successfully exploited economic and political insecurities of the local bourgeoisie.

It is also close to the M62 corridor that has been the traditional heartland of league in England.

Rugby league is a well-established sport and the town is considered as one of the game's traditional heartlands at professional and amateur levels.

One is that they all ruled the traditional Chinese heartland.

Those members who were elected were in heavily divided ridings mostly in the party's traditional Western heartland.

Labour went into these elections with a majority in two regions, its traditional heartlands of Strathclyde and Fife.

Most opponents of HS2 live in the South East, with the proposed route cutting through some traditional Conservative heartlands.

In fact, it is the state's most Republican area outside the party's traditional heartland in East Tennessee.