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In 367, the Scots and Picts ignored agreements made with Rome and attacked the frontier.
And for foreign visitors, who have only had access to the country for the last ten years, it might as well be a mapless frontier.
And small wonder it fired the imagination of the sci-fi immigrants, who imagined a new frontier in outer space.
Ming generals, who had been dispatched to the northern frontier to check growing Manchu incursions, defected to the invaders.
Filson depicted the Kentucky frontier as a howling wilderness inhabited by wild beasts and uncivilized savages.
Competing organizations vied for the loyalties of Baptists on the Arkansas frontier.
To understand the attractiveness and influence of the frontier, it is necessary to consider the stories that were told about it.
But agents, both Loyalist and Revolutionary, were stirring up trouble among the Indians, casting the frontier into an uproar.
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman star as two hapless criminals who embark on a land rush on the western frontier.
Alaskans see themselves as rugged individualists living in the last frontier.
For many years this was a dangerous frontier land, where pirates roved and merchantmen ventured at their peril.
He is more likely to be on the north-west frontier of Pakistan, a heavily populated area that the west will be loath to attack.
The real value of the argument from design is that it takes us to the frontier of science and metaphysics.
When the first humans reached our shores, America was the greatest unexplored frontier on earth.
John Wayne plays Captain Kirby York, an experienced frontier officer who clashes with Fonda over the treatment of the Apaches.
As Newry's push for city status reaches fever pitch, a forgotten city lies merely 10 miles away from the frontier town.
Under his leadership in the 1840s, the Swazis expanded their territory to the Northwest and stabilized the southern frontier with the Zulus.
The identification and delineation of an emerging research frontier requires both adequate exposure and strong advocacy.
More than a century after Young founded a new Zion on the western frontier, the region still functions as a quasi-theocracy.
The remnants of the French armies were able to retreat to the frontier but Spain was lost.
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In verity, the foreign debt issue has already put Zambia on a wild economic frontier in this wily world.
It saw the Bread or Blood riots, frontier repressions and concerted anti-Chinese agitation.
Popular culture immortalized the anonymity of that great American identity frontier, the West.
The ranks of the regular army were drawn overwhelmingly from the highly urbanized, heavily garrisoned northern and eastern frontier districts.
If the opportunities to gain advantage from automation are largely gone, the remaining frontier is innovation.
Terahertz radiation represents the last unexplored frontier of the radio wave and light spectrum, Nori said.
It began on the western frontier, at a time when driving cattle was vital to the survival of an expanding nation.
At Lethem on the Brazilian frontier there's a big rodeo every Easter, attended by many rugged vaqueros from both sides of the border.
It is variously a fabulous technical challenge, an extension of the American frontier and the locus for sundry Utopias.
The Arctic is now a resource frontier for the global economy as well as a homeland for its indigenous peoples.
Space may be the final frontier, but what lurks below the waves is one of the last unexplored areas of the planet.
They had no intentions of conforming to frontier stereotypes by living in primitive log cabins and wearing buckskin clothing.
The frontier lands became an area where chivalrous knights could show their prowess and their achievements be recorded in ballads.
While children on the frontier learned how to milk cows and churn butter, parents learned how wise 12-year-olds can be.
Our frontier was not settled by nervous nellies with degrees in Peace Studies.
On the front line of the expanding frontier is an elite of extremely powerful families, closely allied with local politicians.
In the West, Presbyterians, Methodists, and Baptists employed revival meetings to evangelize unchurched frontier families.
From the very beginning, when Alabama was frontier country, Southern cookery was founded on hard-times staples like corn meal and sidemeat.
An eclectic band of researchers is mapping out a new frontier of science known as nanotechnology.
Europe's Slavonic eastern frontier zone was covered by the kingdom of Poland-Lithuania, and the realms of the tsar of Russia.
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The Empire lost its frontier along the Danube River to the Slavs, and it lost Italy to the Normans.
A necessary corollary of the westward expansion of the frontier was the western containment of its indigenous population.
Their geographical contiguity must have come to be regarded as a zone of political proximity if not a frontier or border of some kind.
A treaty dealt with frontier issues and declared that Tibet was to have no dealings with foreign powers without Britain's consent.
Now it is a frontier town, a burgeoning collection of tents and hastily built breeze-block cantonments.
At the time the Russians said he had been shot by a border guard while crossing the frontier with Finland.
Alaska, the last frontier, is a premier destination for birders, botanists, and wildlife watchers.
This frontier with Belarus was now set to become the eastern frontier of Nato itself.
The best Red Army units were foolishly positioned on the unfortified frontier, where they were overrun.
Hundreds of thousands more are believed to be waiting on the Afghan side of the frontier with no shelter and little food.
The North Korean capital, Pyongyang, was captured a month later, and the UN forces advanced towards the frontier with China.
Nacy rejects the characterization of army officers' wives as either camp followers or women who differed little from other frontier women.
Two border guards patrolling the nearby frontier with Georgia have also been reported missing since Friday night.
The frontier between India and Pakistan ran through the Sikh homeland of the Punjab.
Finally, in the spring of 1860 he sent the bulk of his army north to protect the frontier with the Papal States.
The high Andes peaks constitute its natural frontier with Bolivia and Argentina.
Hard country tends to bring out a frontier mentality in its settlers, and there's not much evidence of concern for the environment in Arizona.
Americans saw little value in pushing this new frontier any further at the time.
But perhaps it would be fairer to suggest that it was the frontier that failed the settlers.
The frontier mentality of moving on to fresh ground remains deeply embedded in the American psyche.
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Settling the American frontier was a matter of private choice, as were decisions about moving on.
Many times public houses were the first erected structures around which frontier towns grew.
I give more credit to the nameless women who settled the frontier and thus earned the right to vote in western states.
Differing colonial experiences and the settlement of the western frontier created strong and persistent regional political interests.
The frontier mentality and adversarial roles are being replaced with new models of sustainability.
Until the 1890s, the black regiments served almost entirely at remote western frontier posts.
After the reductions following that war, the Army returned to its frontier outposts.
The great slogan of the settlement of the western frontier during the middle parts of the 19th century was Get in, Get Rich, Get Out.
Attempts by the British to restrict further expansion into the western frontier constituted one of the factors contributing to the Revolution.
The production possibility frontier has been all but shattered with innovation and continuous improvement.
We want to bring our students as quickly as possible to the frontier of current understanding.
Eight city slickers had come to Montana for a six-day canoe trip down river from Fort Benton, once a frontier town of steamboats and gold miners.
In universities and research institutions around the world, male fertility is marking a new frontier in human biology.
After all, the old-time merry-making of the frontier furnished the best symbol of political action in a democracy.
Having made the decision, the final frontier seemed determined to beat us despite our best efforts.
Most Mormons bore the hardships of the frontier stout-heartedly, even cheerfully.
In their function, however, they're not unlike the general stores of frontier days.
As has been indicated, life on the frontier is productive of individualism.
In short, on the frontier Americans imagined themselves to be on an imperial mission from an aggressive, easily offended, intolerant deity.
The final delineation of the frontier was a compromise more favorable to the Manchus than to the Russians.
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Any dereference of a pointer that causes a fault must be an access to an object on an access frontier page.
She would never regard the frontier as the breeding ground of puritan virtues.
We have always said that our story is like the story of the frontier towns and the hinterland outposts.
It will tell tales of frontier gunfights, buffalo hunts, Indian fights, trail drives, and stagecoaches.
Today more than ever, this last frontier seems spectacularly attractive and remarkably enviable.
At century's end, historian Frederick Jackson Turner saw the closing of the frontier as the end of an epoch in American history.
Pushing the frontier of recombinant DNA technology, Nexia's scientists have inserted DNA from spiders into a breed of African dwarf goats.
By the 1890s the domestic frontier was exhausted, and expansionism took Americans into territories overseas.
As the coffee commodities market hits an all-time low this year, shade grown remains the next urgent frontier in the certification game.
For years, all was quiet as the Western frontier was slowly settled by a trickle of pioneers.
His account of the traversal of the wilderness and the creation of a politics of the frontier surrounding Bingham's practice is rich and varied.
Thompson expertly unravels a tangled tale suffused with Victorian mores, millenarianism and frontier idealism.
He embarks on the four-day drive from Massachusetts to Cheyenne as if to emulate the trailblazers of the frontier.
Once thought to be a black-sand gulag, the Pacific coast is now shaping up as Latin America's last surfing frontier.
In the vicinity of the Bessarabian frontier, the army was already involved in a series of engagements.
As growth continued, substantial brick and stone buildings replaced frontier tents and shanties.
In the tourism business, holidays in the desert are something of a final frontier.
Cosmopolitans, not tough pioneers, they lacked the grit required to face the hardships of frontier life.
A little over 300 years ago, shrieking war cries and flying tomahawks shattered the summer calm in a frontier town of the Massachusetts Province.
Then, at age eighteen, I thought I had at long last found the final frontier in a now-crunchy, now-melty mouthful of coffee-walnut toffee.
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Here we have another frontier to explore with shamans, channels, mediums, and sundry sensitives.
Is the frontier a little too foreign and rough to your delicate Eastern sensibilities?
The instrument's melancholy tones complement the often sombre frontier folk songs.
This book focuses on the development and evolution of institutions on the western frontier.
The Hundred Years' War rattled through the bastides when the region was frontier territory between English and French.
A thousand kilometers to the west, their armies were massing at the frontier.
It is also, though, a land of an exhilarating beauty, a frontier landscape, where drystone walls separate wild from wild, not wild from cultivated.
On the frontier is the use of neuroimaging in market research.
Vajazzling is the final frontier in personal embellishments.
This is to occupy a 25 kilometre wide buffer zone along the Eritrean side of the border until UN cartographers can demarcate the disputed frontier between the countries.
Randal Stafford, who had returned to his homestead on the 15th, was a well-educated resilient bushman who had experienced over 40 years of frontier life.
They don't call this sleepy frontier town Little Hollywood for nothing.
Under frontier conditions, observes Carver, the distinction, so crucial to George's position, between property in land and property in other things, seems nugatory.
High-class Roman artefacts and coin hoards north of the frontier have been interpreted as such diplomatic gifts or subsidies, but they are few in number.
The restaurant takes its name from a local saloon of the early 1900s, when Winthrop was a thriving frontier town serving trappers, prospectors, and homesteaders.
The Lower East Side is no longer a bourgeoisie frontier but has become the destination for a customer seeking liberation from the confines of New York homogeny.
In the past two years, the Endowment has made a concerted effort to take a leadership position in exploring the new frontier of the digital humanities.
One implication of individual choice is that the American frontier from the Colonial period onward was peopled through a process of self-selection.
These heroes have served culturally and historically to personify and embody Manifest Destiny, the best of America's imaginary frontier in the flesh.
He received a Regular Army commission as lieutenant and assistant surgeon at the end of 1886 and over the next several years served in several frontier posts.
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A collection of beliefs and prejudices, tricks of the trade, fieldcraft, and frontier field doctrine was wholly vocational and often quite ephemeral.
The kitchen was housed in a log cabin, because in 1876 it was believed that New England settlers, like frontier pioneers, had lived in log houses.
The Roman army had hospitals in its frontier forts and along major routes.
The main frontier comprises a stone foundation about 4.3m wide on which stood a turf bank up to 3m high, fronted by a berm and a ditch normally about 12m wide and 3m deep.
The waterway has its source in western Zambia, forming the frontier between Zimbabwe and Zambia and passing through central Mozambique before it empties into the Indian Ocean.
In the main agreement, Germany recognized its frontier with France and Belgium as specified in the Treaty of Versailles, along with the demilitarized status of the Rhineland.
His research has begun to make progress in this area, expanding the frontier of visual neuroscience to the field of decision-making and cognitive neuroscience.
Poland traditionally thinks of itself as the frontier of European civilisation, a bulwark against the east, with its Orthodox church and Cyrillic script.
With Hadrian we see the first steps toward a system of frontier garrison troops, permanently stationed, along with a field army that gets moved from one hot spot to another.
But the new riders are lonely gauchos from Chile and Peru, and their 21 st-century frontier is a place where the cowboy myth meets a harsh reality.
An archeologist and architectural historian, his work has centered on missions, presidios, frontier forts, ranches, settlements, and industrial sites from Texas to California.
Many frontier inhabitants had perished, some cities had experienced food shortages, several colonies had been plunged into debt, and the citizenry groaned under heavy taxes.
Advertising and PR strategists regard astroturfing as the next frontier.
One role the desert-dwelling Bedouin and Berbers would be perfectly suited to is aiding the army in its frontier patrols.
The Persian frontier was the only firmly delineated border, asserted by mountains.
At a minimum it could boost the number of troops it has patrolling the 900-kilometer frontier, Yavuz told The Daily Beast.
The stunt motorcyclist hero of his black-and-white video Wall of Death relentlessly dares the crash-and-burn of his trade in an assault on the frontier of centrifugal force.
While most of the captives were eventually ransomed, the raid stood as a clear reminder to all the colonies and to Britain as well of how dangerous was frontier life.
Afrikaans, the language spoken by Afrikaners, evolved as a dialect of Dutch spoken by settlers on the frontier during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Rather, they propose to cross the frontier for no better reason than to aggrandize themselves and to prolong the subjection of their own population.
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Nothing but watch, that is, and prevent Kurdish reinforcements from crossing the frontier to help defend Kobani.
Although there are millions of pages of material on the web, it's an uncharted frontier of rumour, speculation, wild theories and baseless postulation.
Associates, who said he had probably been procuring medical supplies, later confirmed he had recrossed the frontier and was heading back to Kandahar.
Where the author lets readers down is in her too often reductionist effort to have the frontier wars be the explanation of the 1692 witchcraft outbreak.
The religioner is not exempt from suspicion at the frontier station.
Mr. Netanyahu has pledged to erect a similar barrier along the Syrian frontier, with changes to suit the topography.
She went ahead and flew on frontier Flight 1143 from Cleveland back to Dallas.
A guy with a baseball cap tells me that the frontier one closed last month.
They said that on August 23 they had arrived by train in the Rostov region of Russia near the Ukraine frontier.
In 1218, a caravan of merchants arrived at Utrar, on the Persian frontier.
Every now and then you still get a glimpse of the old frontier sassiness.
In this environment the subtle yet unmistakable frontier, where the manicured lawn brushes against the unkempt one, is enough to disturb the peace of the neighbourhood.
Eventually, he discovered a home for his talents in the world of frontier journalism, where balderdash in the cause of boosterism was rarely considered a vice.
Chairman Rupert Murdoch is a brave new frontier for the insatiably expansionist Murdoch.
The countries have massed about one million troops at their frontier.
He was troubled by the barbarity of manners on the frontier.
Some truckers have been known to convey cargo up to the Zambian frontier in small loads to respect the stipulated tonnage allowed on the road in the neighbouring countries.
When she died, aged 75, she was still prospecting, close to the Arctic circle, having benevolently spent much of her fortune on schools and frontier hospitals.
Polish border police fighting smugglers of people, drugs, tobacco, nuclear material and weapons are employing American Indian trackers to guard the frontier with Ukraine.
These frontier wilderlands are the retreat of a nostalgic whimsy, and the drawing rooms of the nascent American metropolis are now invested with a minatory playfulness.
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We cast the film at the Shamshatoo refugee camp in Peshawar, on Pakistan's north-western frontier, and at the various markets and schools in the area.
A mixture of tension, anger and fear has gripped the Pakistan north-west frontier town of Peshawar, which sits at the foot of the Khyber Pass leading into Afghanistan.
They left France's frontier with Belgium unfortified, and the assumption was that the Germans would attack, as in 1914, through north and central Belgium.
To say that bookmen existed on the Montana frontier is not to say that the emerging culture was always comfortable with or accepting of their presence.
In 1537, Gonzalo de Mendoza traversed through Paraguay to about the present Brazilian frontier.
The present county is the core of that former land, and has long been a frontier zone between England and Scotland.
In 122, the province was visited by Hadrian, who approved a plan to build a wall the length of the frontier.
In 1707 an act of union was passed between England and Scotland, creating Great Britain, and Carlisle ceased to be a frontier town.
As a frontier town for over a millennium and a half, Carlisle is a military city.
The region was on the frontier of the Roman Empire during the Roman period.
Although acutely conscious of living in a 'wilderness,' they stoutheartedly refused to yield an inch to pioneer prejudices or frontier values.
Therefore each DMU that is placed above the frontier is efficient otherwise it is inefficient.
The defection of these peoples in the year 89 during Domitian's war against the Dacians modified the whole frontier policy of the Empire.
Russell painted the cowboys of the frontier West, Grace Carpenter Hudson painted portraits of the Pomo Indians in Ukiah, California.
This appears to have been an attempt to advance the frontier south from the River Tweed to the River Tees.
Most of the frontier movement was east to west, but there were other directions as well.
Early frontier areas east of the Appalachian Mountains included the Connecticut River valley.
If all or most East European states become members, the frontier may be the boundaries with Russia and Turkey.
In the European Union, the frontier is the region beyond the expanding borders of the European Union itself.
Risk is varied parametrically, so that, a risk-return frontier is traced out.
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A frontier is the political and geographical area near or beyond a boundary.
Europe's eastern frontier was defined in the 1st century by geographer Strabo at the River Don.
The sexual frontier that once beckoned to adventurers as unalike as Gianni Versace and Michel Foucault has largely shifted to the cybersphere.
Here he was put in a caleche, and transported forthwith to the nearest frontier.
Fort Niagara and Fort Carillon on 8 July 1758 fell to sizable British forces, cutting off French frontier forts further west.
At the frontier of digital commerce, autolearning software can generate both descriptive and prescriptive knowledge for action.
Of course, the description of minstrelsy's particular form of braggadocio as a surrogation of frontier identity is intriguing, to say the least.
The Lawmen by western author Alton Pryor is an engaging focus on law enforcers that plied their trade on the western American frontier.
The 6ft-6in Parker was quickly embraced by youngsters as the man in a coonskin cap who stood for the spirit of the American frontier.
The cult of Mithra had been spread by soldiers and had thrived particularly in the frontier provinces of the empire.
By contrast, the Habsburg frontier had settled somewhat, a stalemate caused by a stiffening of the Habsburg defences.
On the Alpine frontier, there was little change, with the French invasion of Piedmont failing.
So, once more, when we search below the negations and repudiations of the frontier we come upon a germinal positivism and affirmativism.
They were sent on an expedition to explore the western frontier.
Customs controls were introduced on the frontier on 1 April 1923, shortly after the establishment of the Irish Free State.
Since then, the frontier generally moved westward and eventually lands west of the Mississippi River came to be referred to as the West.
The advent of flavored whiskies several years ago breached a new frontier, allowing for the current flavor craze even among brown goods.
Prior to about 1800, the crest of the Appalachian Mountains was seen as the western frontier.
The western frontier with Wales was not finally determined until the 14th century.
The main reasons for this growth in the number of bushfires are the expansion of the agriculture frontier and, occasionally, droughts.
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She admits to having slept seven-in-a-bed with Tadjik nomads and even with the Chinese Army at a frontier post in the Pamirs.
The attacks also claimed the life of Private First Class Ali Saeed al-Zahrani from frontier corps in the monarchy's Southwestern Asir region.
The Tribal Areas comprise seven tribal agencies and six small frontier regions detached from neighbouring districts.
Called CrystalView, it addresses crystallinity management as the new frontier in optimizing bottle quality at ever-lighter weights.
The people of Rome were appalled and appealed to the frontier legions to save them.
Forgive the mixed metaphor, but it looks the final frontier of live television might have a new hope.
Vespasian sent legions to defend the eastern frontier in Cappadocia, extended the occupation in Britain and reformed the tax system.
Ducal authority was the strongest on the frontier near the Capetian royal demesne.
The company said it ran into a 656-net foot column of natural gas in its Leapord-1 frontier exploration well off the Gabonese coast.
His novels are unreadable, but he was the first great mythologizer of the frontier.
Olaf seized the east midlands, leading to the establishment of a frontier at Watling Street.
He therefore commanded one of the largest Roman armies, stationed along the important Rhine frontier.
Three young women in a small Nebraskan frontier community become mentally disturbed after suffering devastating losses and hardships.
There is evidence that the Emperor Hadrian visited in 122 on his way north to plan his great walled frontier.
Oates is a member of a worldwide cadre working with such devices at the frontier of clockmaking.
Later that year Severus waged a short punitive campaign beyond the eastern frontier, annexing the Kingdom of Osroene as a new province.
By 210 Severus had returned to York, and the frontier had once again become Hadrian's Wall.
The Roman frontier between Britannia and Pictland is likely to have increased the split.
The Quebec frontier showed little of the individualism or democracy that Turner ascribed to the American zone to the south.
Kenya is usually classified as a frontier market or occasionally an emerging market, but it is not one of the least developed countries.
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Luxury ingredients were brought by the fleet from the far reaches of empire, from the Parthian frontier to the Straits of Gibraltar.
The traditional theory is that the Ninth was destroyed in a war on Britain's northern frontier against the indigenous Celtic tribes.
Although the Gask Ridge was not a wall, it may be Rome's earliest fortified land frontier.
Recent research suggests that the three elements are part of the same frontier system, stretching roughly from Loch Lomond to Montrose.
The first Roman frontier in the north and west of the island was marked by watchtowers and military camps, or castra, along the Fosse Way.
In August 1330 the Scots contingent formed part of the Castilian army besieging the frontier castle of Teba.
Dumfries was very much on the frontier during its first 50 years as a burgh and it grew rapidly as a market town and port.
Large numbers of Irish and German Protestants had settled in the frontier districts, often moving down from Pennsylvania.
The new frontier in Dacia was along the Brazda lui Novac line supported by new castra.
Alexander married Henry's sister Joan in 1221, and after he and Henry signed the Treaty of York in 1237, Henry had a secure northern frontier.
The Battle of the Lys and the Fifth Battle of Ypres were fought before the Allies occupied the Belgian coast and reached the Dutch frontier.
When founded in 1833, fewer than 200 people had settled on what was then the American frontier.
The challenge for early writers was that Chicago was a frontier outpost that transformed into a global metropolis in the span of two generations.
Alfred and his successors continued to drive back the Viking frontier and take York.
The northern section of this frontier, where the Rhine is deep and broad, remained the Roman boundary until the empire fell.
For example, the Roman Empire played a vital role in building up barbarian groups along its frontier.
The French Army would defend on the right and advance into Belgium on the left, to fight forward of the French frontier.
Once the trip ended, slaves faced a life on the frontier significantly different from most labor in the Upper South.
The harsh conditions on the frontier increased slave resistance and led owners and overseers to rely on violence for control.
For more complete details on the development of the limes, or frontier, see under Limes Germanicus.
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The Treveri suffered from their proximity to the Rhine frontier during the Crisis of the Third Century.
The choicest Vandal warriors were formed into five cavalry regiments, known as Vandali Iustiniani, stationed on the Persian frontier.
As a young man, he rose through the ranks of the Roman army, serving in some of the most contested parts of the Empire's frontier.
Even after the Dacian wars, the Danube frontier would permanently replace the Rhine as the main military axis of the Roman Empire.
Numerous Germans settled in frontier regions like Dacia, Pannonia, Germany and Italy itself.
The word limes was utilized by Latin writers to denote a marked or fortified frontier.
After the conquest of Nordalbingia, the Frankish frontier was brought into contact with Scandinavia.
However, Alfred and his successors eventually drove back the Viking frontier and retook York.
This frontier remained for about 100 years, and no doubt in that long period much was done to it to which precise dates are difficult to fix.
It cannot even be absolutely certain when the frontier laid out by Pius was equipped with the manpitts and other special fortifications.
Around 260 AD, the fall of the Agri Decumates territory north of the Rhine transformed today's Switzerland into a frontier land of the Empire.
Alfonso II assured Valencia by renouncing the Aragonese rights of annexing Murcia in exchange for securing the Aragonese frontier with Castile.
Though Tiberius' general, Maurice, led an effective campaign on the eastern frontier, subsidies failed to restrain the Avars.
This victory restored the Danube frontier, which had not been held since the days of the emperor Heraclius.
During World War II, the Empire of Japan demanded the right to move troops across Thailand to the Malayan frontier.
Tokhta of the Golden Horde, also seeking a general peace, sent 20,000 men to buttress the Yuan frontier.
Ceuta is dominated by Monte Anyera, a hill along its western frontier with Morocco.
Many Berbers were settled in what were then the frontier lands near Toledo, Talavera, and Merida.
Berbers were not settled in the major cities of the south, and were generally kept in the frontier zones away from Cordoba.
However, they were also difficult to control, and by the end of the ninth century the Berber frontier garrisons disappear from the sources.
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It was established in the 900s as a frontier town for Berbers, probably of the Nafza tribe.
The Emirate's attack on the Castilian frontier town of Zahara in December 1481 led to a prolonged war.
All the remaining villages, as far up as Tabatinga, on the Brazilian frontier of Peru, were relatively small.
This is due in large measure to the difficulty the Church had in establishing itself in its western frontier.
Alexander Spotswood made further advances in policy with the Virginia Indians along the frontier.
The Zaporozhian Cossacks, warriors organized in military formations, lived in the frontier areas bordering Poland, the Crimean Tatar lands.
He was originally a military commander but on the frontier, civil and military could not easily be separated.
The Manchus also wanted a delineated frontier to keep nomads and outlaws from fleeing across the border.
Since then, the Ming became on the defensive on the northern frontier, which led to the Ming Great Wall being built.
The British provided arms to Indians who were led by Loyalists in war parties to raid frontier settlements from the Carolinas to New York.
They killed many settlers on the frontier, especially in Pennsylvania and New York's Mohawk Valley.
Britain wanted to develop the frontier of Upper Canada on a British colonial model.
Especially on the United States frontier, a judge might travel on horseback along with a group of lawyers.
The backcountry remained largely undeveloped frontier until it was cleared by freedmen during Reconstruction and later.
Since then, the frontier generally moved westward and eventually, the regions west of the Mississippi River came to be referred to as the West.
Protected areas of Swaziland include seven nature reserves, four frontier conservation areas and three wildlife or game reserves.
The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their own disputes, and regulated their own police.
In the months running up to the war, British diplomats attempted to defuse tensions on the frontier.
Lawrence where it formed the frontier between Upper Canada and the United States.
The plan for 1814 to invade Upper Canada via the Niagara frontier while sending another force to recapture Mackinac.
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General Phineas Riall rushed towards the frontier and unaware of Fort Erie's fall or the size of the American force chose to engage in battle.
The Indian frontier of western Georgia was the most vulnerable but was partially fortified already.
At that time the entire frontier was being fortified for the first time.
Their overall abundance makes them one of the most common, and least understood, marine structures and biomes on Earth, a sort of exploratory frontier.
The point of tangency of the indifference curve and the efficient frontier represents the locus of the optimal portfolio at the given risk preference.
Americans on the western frontier demanded that interference be stopped.
Thousands more died as a result of frontier conflict with settlers.
Fierce government repression, philosophical individualism, and the myth and transient reality of the frontier have played bit parts in stifling American leftism, Iton admits.
Tiberius denied the request of Germanicus to launch an additional campaign for AD 17, however, having decided the frontier with Germania would stand at the Rhine river.
Lawrence frontier and helped secure British communications with Montreal.
Following the Race to the Sea, both sides dug in along a meandering line of fortified trenches, stretching from the North Sea to the Swiss frontier with France.
At times, they apparently moved to the Danube frontier with Rome.
The first sporadic references to them, which were recorded in the late 3rd century, show that they lived north of the frontier of the Roman Empire.
Nevertheless, several important wars were fought in Gaul, against the Chatti, and across the Danube frontier against the Suebi, the Sarmatians, and the Dacians.
Some of the English migrants were settled in Byzantine frontier regions on the Black Sea coast, and established towns with names such as New London and New York.
Early in July 1776, a major action in the fledgling conflict occurred when the Cherokee allies of Britain attacked the western frontier areas of North Carolina.
The fact that these former Danubian outposts had ceased to be frontier basis and were now in the deep rear acted as an inducement to their urbanization and development.
The area between the Khabur River and the mountains around Singara seems to have been considered as the new frontier, and as such received a road surrounded by fortresses.
However, while the Roman army was entangled in this campaign, making little headway, several tribes used the opportunity to cross the frontier and raid Roman territory.
While his professional academic publications primarily focus upon the late Roman frontier of Central Greece, his articles have appeared in Egyptological publications as well.

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