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Admiral Horthy was advised that the Germans might be open to having more of Hungary restored to former borders, and that the Hungarians should best start concentrating troops on their northern border at once if they were serious about changing the frontiers.
The Goths, though partly tamed by Valens ' successor Theodosius I ( who accepted them once more as allies ), were to remain as a distinct entity within its frontiers ; sometimes allies ; other times enemies.
The tribes of the north were mlecchas either because they were located on the frontiers such as Gandhara, Kashmira and Kambojas and therefore both their speech and culture had become contaminated and differed from that of Aryavarta, or else, as in the case of South Indians, they were once Aryas but having forsaken the Vedic rituals were regarded to mleccha status.
On May first the Balkan frontiers were once again reshuffled, with the creation of several puppet states, such as Croatia and Montenegro, the Albanian expansion into Greece and Yugoslavia, Bulgarian annexation of territories in the Greek North, creation of a Vlach state in the Greek mountains of Pindus and the annexation of all the Ionian and part of the Aegean islands into Italy.
Bartlett describes the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust thus: " Tod, I hope you live a long life and never know the blistering forces that sear and destroy, turn men into enemies and sweep past the last frontiers of compassion " and " once you've seen that dark, unceasing tide of faces ... of the victims ... the last spark of dignity so obliterated that not one face is lifted to heaven, not one voice is raised in protest even as they died ..." ( from episode # 4, " The Man on the Monkey Board ").
Through as late as July 27th, Jagow expressed the view that Russian partial mobilization against the frontiers of Austria-Hungary was not a casus belli, Moltke instead argued that Germany should mobilize at once and attack France.

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There is not anywhere on the frontiers of freedom a more highly mobilized force for liberation.
Despite continuous wars or imperial expansion on the Empire's frontiers and one year-long civil war over the imperial succession, the Mediterranean world remained at peace for more than two centuries.
The early Church in the post-apostolic period was much more involved in " defending its frontiers against alternative soteriologies — either by defining its own position with greater and greater exactness, or by attacking other religions, and particularly the Hellenistic mysteries.
This was the high water mark of Roman territory in Britain: shortly after his victory, Agricola was recalled from Britain back to Rome, and the Romans retired to a more defensible line along the Forth-Clyde isthmus, freeing soldiers badly needed along other frontiers.
States would encourage ( or require ) people on their frontiers to form more clearly bounded and centralized polities, because such polities could begin producing surpluses and taxes, and would have a leadership responsive to the needs of neighboring states ( the so-called " scheduled " tribes of the United States or of British India provide good examples of this ).
The Nova Scotia and Ontario frontiers were rather more democratic than the rest of Canada, but whether that was caused by the need to be self-reliant at the frontier itself, or the presence of large numbers of American immigrants is debated.
With the revolution for independence from Spanish crown during the 19th century, South America underwent yet more social and political changes among them nation building projects, European immigration waves, increased trade, colonization of hinterlands, and wars about territory ownership and power balance, the reorganization of Indian rights and duties, liberal-conservative conflicts among the ruling class, and the subjugation of Indians living in the states frontiers, that lasted until the early 1900s.
In the 1st century BC, according to Roman written sources, the Quadi were migrating alongside the more numerous Marcomanni, whose name simply means the " men of the borderlands " living on the frontiers of Germany, where it was bordered by the River Danube, south of which lay Roman territory.
Their frontiers for the next 350 years or more were the Marcomanni to the west, proto-Slavic tribes to the north, Sarmatian Iazgyians and Asding Vandals arriving to the east somewhat later, and the Roman Empire to the south.
In 1967 the redrawing of local government frontiers led to the creation of the Urban Community of Lyon ( more recently known simply as Greater Lyon / Grand Lyon ).
At that time intercommunal groupings of this nature were not permitted to straddle departmental frontiers, and accordingly 23 more Isère communes ( along with 6 communes from Ain ) found themselves transferred to Rhône.
* Relationship of the site to migration routes or its role as part of an ecosystem on both sides of one or more Community frontiers ;
* Race hatred has reached its climax ; peoples are more divided by jealousies than by frontiers ; within one and the same nation, within the same city there rages the burning envy of class against class ; and amongst individuals it is self-love which is the supreme law over-ruling everything.
Haushofer defined geopolitik in 1935 as " the duty to safeguard the right to the soil, to the land in the widest sense, not only the land within the frontiers of the Reich, but the right to the more extensive Volk and cultural lands.
Though by no means as diverse as the Timaliidae ( Old World babblers ) ( another " wastebin taxon " containing more thrush-like forms ), the frontiers between the former " pan-Muscicapidae " were much blurred.
Millions of peasants are robbed of their farms and sent trudging along the roads with no more than they can carry: this is called transfer of population or rectification of frontiers.
In the following months, several more Polish follow-up victories saved Poland's independence and led to a peace treaty with Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine later that year, securing the Polish state's eastern frontiers for the next twenty years.
However, the benefits of international trade are generally demonstrated through allowance of a shift in the consumption-possibility frontiers of each trade partner which allows access to a more appealing indifference curve.
In addition, the rise of the service sector, at the expense of industry and manufacturing, facilitated demographic shifts to the " frontiers " from the more industrialized states in the Northeast and Midwest.
Of other major research frontiers are homological algebra, and more recently-grounds have been laid for a boost in the research of algebraic topology.
They inherited the large kingdom of Magadha and wished to extend it to yet more distant frontiers.
The British long exaggerated the strength of the relatively backward sprawling Russian empire, which according to the Wisconsin school was more concerned with the security of its frontiers than conquering Western spheres of influence.

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By 980 Vladimir had consolidated the Kievan realm from modern day Ukraine to the Baltic Sea and had solidified the frontiers against incursions of Bulgarian, Baltic, and Eastern nomads.
The real significance of the battle was political and strategic: the Roman defeat left a large and hostile foreign force within the frontiers of the Eastern Roman Empire but surprisingly and finally, only the Western Roman Empire will suffer.
As the American historian Gerhard Weinberg noted, German demands for territorial revision went beyond merely regaining land lost under the Treaty of Versailles, and instead embraced calls for the German conquest and colonization of all Eastern Europe, regardless of whether the land in question had belonged to Germany before 1918 or not Likewise, the British historian Hugh Trevor-Roper argued that the goal of overthrowing Versailles was only a prelude to seizing Lebensraum in Eastern Europe for Germany with no regard as to where Germany's 1914 frontiers had been.
The document was seen both as a significant step toward reducing Cold War tensions and as a major diplomatic boost for the Soviet Union at the time, due to its clauses on the inviolability of national frontiers and respect for territorial integrity, which were seen to consolidate the USSR's territorial gains in Eastern Europe following the Second World War.
So, the Byzantine commander, the Lombard Catepan of Italy Argyrus, offered money to disperse as mercenaries to the Eastern frontiers of the Empire, but the Normans rejected the proposal, explicitly stating that their aim was the conquest of southern Italy.
With the limited communications of the time, both the European and the Eastern frontiers needed the attention of their own emperor.
Poland's Eastern frontiers used to mark the outermost boundary of the influences of

frontiers and Europe
In the 13th century the order reached all classes of Christian society, fought heresy, schism, and paganism by word and book, and by its missions to the north of Europe, to Africa, and Asia passed beyond the frontiers of Christendom.
Portugal is a coastal nation in southwestern Europe, located at the western end of the Iberian Peninsula, bordering Spain ( on its northern and eastern frontiers: a total of ).
War also erupted against the Serbians, who were at that time establishing an extensive empire on the north-western frontiers ; and there was a hazardous alliance with the Ottoman Turks, who made their first permanent settlement in Europe, at Gallipoli in Thrace, towards the end of his reign.
Alongside fellow prescient acts like Björk, Orbital and Future Sound of London, they are known as one of the pioneers of IDM in Europe, having pushed the frontiers of their unique brand of electronica in the early 1990s, before the genre was even officially fathered later in the decade.
Considering objections from Canada, Spain, Ireland and other states, the Final Act simply stated that " frontiers " in Europe should be stable but could change by peaceful internal means.
Louis XIV wanted a short defensive war, yet by crossing the Rhine that summer he began a long war of attrition ; a war framed by interests of the state, its defensible frontiers, and the balance of power in Europe.
From this view, Western policymakers misinterpreted postwar Soviet policy in Europe as expansionism, rather than a policy, like the territorial growth of imperial Russia, motivated by securing vulnerable Russian frontiers.
On the Volga stood the Ordu, or camp, of Batu, the famous conqueror of eastern Europe and supreme Mongol commander on the western frontiers of the empire.
Leopold noted, " Our frontiers can never be extended into Europe.
* Alinei, Mario ( fc. a ), Continuity from Paleolithic of Indo-European and Uralic populations in Europe: the convergence of linguistic and archaeological frontiers, in Proceedings of the XIVth Congress of the UISPP ( Liège: 2-8 / 9 / 2001 ), BAR International Series.
The now fully professional navy had its main duties consist of protecting against piracy, escorting troops and patrolling the river frontiers of Europe.

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