To the southwest of the range is the Armenian Plateau, which slopes southwestward toward the Araks River on the Turkish border.

By 1980 the infrequency of sightings of Mount Ararat, which looms about sixty kilometers across the Turkish border, became a symbol of worsening air pollution in Yerevan.

A 114-kilometer link between eastern Bulgaria and the Turkish border is scheduled for completion in 2013.

As the Turkish incursion into Europe started, Croatia once again became a border area.

From Keban to the Syrian – Turkish border, the river drops another over a distance of less than.

However, these averages mask the high inter-annual variability in discharge ; at Birecik, just above the Syro – Turkish border, annual discharges have been measured that ranged from a low volume of in 1961 to a high in 1963.

These rivers rise in the foothills of the Taurus Mountains along the Syro – Turkish border and add comparatively little water to the Euphrates.

Ephrem was born around the year 306 in the city of Nisibis ( the modern Turkish town of Nusaybin, on the border with Syria, which had come into Roman hands only in 298 ).

Sarkel ( a Turkish word meaning White Fortress ) was built in 830s by a joint team of Greek and Khazar architects to protect the north-western border of the Khazar state.

Turkish intelligence took them to a border crossing into Georgia but soon afterwards shots were heard.

* Ani – Medieval Armenian capital, located in Turkish side of Armenia-Turkey border.

Along the Mediterranean, a narrow coastal plain stretches south from the Turkish border to Lebanon.

Syrian – Turkish relations have long been strained even though Turkey shares its longest common border with Syria and various other geographic, cultural, and historical links tie the two neighboring states together.

The Treaty of Lausanne ended the conflict and defined the borders of the modern Turkish state except for details of the border with Iraq.

When Emir Osman I was appointed commander of the Turkish army on the Byzantine border in the late 13th century, he was symbolically installed via a handover of musical instruments by the Seldjuk sultan.

All Greek-speaking enclaves in Anatolia were exchanged for Turkish speakers in Greece during the final settlement of the border with Greece at the beginning of the Turkish Republic in 1923.

Later in 1957, Turkish troops massed along the border with Syria, accusing it of harboring Communist rebels.

As a result of both Maasmechelen ’ s location near the border and its coalmining history quite a few of its current inhabitants are from Dutch, German, Eastern European ( e. g., Polish ) or Mediterranean ( among others Italian and Turkish ) origin.

In August 1957, 4, 000 Egyptian troops landed in Latakia under orders from Gamal Abdel Nasser after Turkish troops massed along the border with Syria, accusing it of harboring Turkish Communists.

Fearing a massacre like what had happened during the 1988 Anfal campaign, millions of Kurds fled towards the Turkish border.

Today's modern highway, Egnatia Odos, runs in parallel with the Via Egnatia between Thessaloniki and the Turkish border on the Evros river.

The Moglen region ( Turkish: Karacaova ) is located in the north of Greece at the border with Macedonia.

The last obstacle in Mrs. Geraghty's globe-girdling trip was smoothed out when a representative of Syria called upon her to explain that his brother would meet her at the border of that country -- so newly separated from Egypt and the United Arab Republic that she hadn't been able to obtain a visa.

The Araks forms most of Armenia's border with Turkey and Iran while the Zangezur Mountains form the border between Armenia's southern province of Syunik and Azerbaijan's adjacent Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic.

The country has of land border: of which is shared with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with Rwanda and with Tanzania.

In 2007, the first case of bluetongue in the Czech Republic was detected in one bull near Cheb at the Czech-German border.

It is delimited in the north by the Guéra Massif, in the south by highlands 250 kilometers south of the border with Central African Republic, and in the southwest by the Mandara Mountains.

* Southernmost point-unnamed location on the border with Central Africa Republic at a confluence in the Lébé river, Logone Oriental region

* Easternmost point-unnamed location on the border with the Republic of Congo in the Sangha River opposite the Congolese town of Bomassa, East region

* Westernmost point-unnamed location on the border with Cameroon west of the town of Koundé in Central African Republic near Cameroon's Lokoti to Garoua Boulai road, Nana Mambéré province

* Northern-most point-unnamed location on the border with the Central African Republic in the Bomu river immediately west of the town of Mbaga in CAR, Orientale Province

The land border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, which occupies the western one-third of the island, is 388 km long.

Satellite image of Haiti's border with the Dominican Republic ( right ) shows the amount of deforestation in Haiti | deforestation on the Haitian side

Lowland gorillas live in dense forests and lowland swamps and marshes as low as sea level, with western lowland gorillas living in Central West African countries and eastern lowland gorillas living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo near its border with Rwanda.

It is spoken more frequently near the border with the Dominican Republic.

Heading east, it passes through Croix-des-Bouquets, skirts the southern shore of Etang Saumâtre, and terminates at the Malpasse border crossing with the Dominican Republic.

Through the defections of some princes, border skirmishes, and a long war with the Novgorod Republic, Ivan III was able to annex Novgorod and Tver.

The Line of Actual Control ( LAC ) is the effective border between India and the People's Republic of China.

border countries: the People's Republic of China 858 km, Kazakhstan 1, 051 km, Tajikistan 870 km, Uzbekistan 1, 099 km

Although the Mekong was established as a border by French colonial forces, travel from one side to the other has been significantly limited only since the establishment of the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( LPDR, or Laos ) in 1975.

border countries: Burma 235 km, Cambodia 541 km, the People's Republic of China 423 km, Thailand 1, 754 km, Vietnam 2, 130 km

The Amnok River and the Tumen River together form the international border between North Korea and the People's Republic of China.

Nigeria maintains close relations with the Republic of Niger, in part because both nations share a large Hausa minority on each side of their 450-mile ( 1500 km ) border.

* Western-most point-unnamed location on the border with Benin Republic immediately east of the Beninoise town of Jabata, Oyo State.

Nigeria maintains close relations with the Republic of Niger, in part because both nations share a large Hausa minority on each side of their 1500 km border.