to the south
Adverb
Meaning
in a southern direction
Source: WordNetSynonyms
Examples
I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.
In the Third Reich, even schoolchildren knew from their textbooks that this [= the Aryan] race had spread from the north to the south and east, and not the other way around.
[A]ny seagoing vessel-commercial or military, from the Persian Gulf to the South China Sea to the Caribbean-could be monitored by the United States Navy, who could choose to watch it, stop it, or sink it.
I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles – I'll buy a piano and Mozart me that – I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life – This part is my part of the movie, let's hear yours.
For years I have been going to the South of France to cool out.
The war was expensive to the South as well as to the North, both in blood and treasure, but it was worth all it cost.