heartland
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The rise of Catholicism in the continent is accelerating the shift away from the church’s traditional European heartland and toward the global south.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
Southern Lebanon is the heartland of Lebanon's Shia Muslim community, Hezbollah's main support base.
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026
Dakota Media, the creative and production studio co-founded in 2020 by North Dakota-born actor Josh Duhamel, is registered in Venice, Calif.—but pitches itself as an expert in the heartland.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026
The community is otherwise mostly present across their coastal heartland in Latakia and Tartus provinces.
From Barron's • Dec. 28, 2025
Between 800 and 830 a.d., most of the main dynasties fell; cities winked out throughout the Maya heartland.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Political Geography - Middle School
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