Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 2841
Land area (2000): 12.299952 sq. miles (31.856728 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.022496 sq. miles (0.058265 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 12.322448 sq. miles (31.914993 sq. km)
FIPS code: 30282
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 35.145680 N, 118.494549 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Golden Hills
Wikipedia
Golden Hills is a place-name that can refer to:
- Golden Hills, California
- Golden Hills (Russia), a Saltovo-Mayaki archaeological site in southern Russia, near Rostov
Golden Hills (in Russian, Zolotiye Gorki) is an archaeological site in southern Russia. It is located in the region of the lower Don River, on the Aksay River about east of Rostov-on-Don.
Golden Hills was the site of a fortress during the early Middle Ages. It appears to have been part of a chain of fortifications erected or maintained by the Khazar Khaganate. Artifacts from the site conform to those found at other Saltovo-Mayaki settlements from the Khazar period (c. 8th-10th centuries CE)
The site was excavated beginning in June 2002 by a group of Russian, American, and British scholars from the Rostov State University and the Center for the Study of Eurasian Nomads. They carried out a geomagnetic survey and excavated approximately
Usage examples of "golden hills".
When Pan Xichun's assignment in Beijing ended and she went back home, Bao made arrangements to join the Chinese embassy in Fangzhang, and flew across the Dahai to the dramatic green coastline and golden hills of Yingzhou.
Fairhaven had faded into the low fall-golden hills behind them early on the first day, and since then they had ridden through low hills and valleys, and more low hills and valleys, each browner than the one before, as though drought and the coming winter had taken their toll.
It stretched eastwards from the Khami river, almost as far as the Zembesi crossing and southwards to the outskirts of Gubulawayo, an area the size of the county of Surrey, rich grasslands with stretches of parklike forests and low golden hills.
The camp was ringed with a trashy gaggle of raw stumps of the oaks common to these golden hills.
Instead, she stepped toward the wide glass wall and looked at the golden hills along the horizon.