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The consequent blockade along both the Azerbaijani and Turkish borders has devastated the economy, because of Armenia's dependence on outside supplies of energy and most raw materials.
The conflict in the border region of Darfur has become an increasingly bi-national affair as increasing numbers of Sudanese flee to refugee camps in Chad, and Sudanese government troops and militias cross the borders to strike at both these camps and specific ethnic groups.
Recently, after so many years of waiting, the construction of this route has been realized, in addition to the extension of the A3 so it connects Zagreb to Croatian borders with both Serbia ( near Lipovac ) and Slovenia ( near Bregana ).
The drawing of borders was accomplished at the cost of large-scale population movements and heavy communal bloodshed on both sides.
Denmark borders both the Baltic and North Seas along its tidal shoreline.
Earlier this month Sudan and Eritrea agreed to abolish entry visa requirements, opening their common borders for free movement of both nationals.
Gang members use graffiti to designate membership throughout the gang, to differentiate rivals and associates and, most commonly, to mark borders which are both territorial and ideological.
Within five years the Rainey Committee, a Special Committee on Investigation appointed by Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo and led by Congressman T. Rainey, reported in June, 1919 that drugs were being smuggled into the country by sea, and across the Mexican and Canadian borders by nationally established organisations and that the United States consumed 470, 000 pounds of opium annually, compared to 17, 000 pounds in both France and Germany.
The Revisionists, committed to a Jewish state on both sides of the Jordan River ( that is, including Transjordan ), wanted the phrase " within its historic borders " included but were unsuccessful.
It took several weeks for both sides to evacuate territory to honour pre-war international borders between the two nations set by the 1975 Algiers Agreement.
The war cost both sides in lives and economic damage: half a million Iraqi and Iranian soldiers, as well as civilians, are believed to have died in the war, with many more injured ; however, it brought neither reparations nor changes in borders.
Their children were at an advantage since they could speak both languages and they worked as agents for the revolutionaries and spread ideologies across borders.
From northwest to southeast, Russia shares borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland ( both via Kaliningrad Oblast ), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, and North Korea.
Mountain ranges are found along the southern borders, such as the Caucasus ( containing Mount Elbrus, which at is the highest point in both Russia and Europe ) and the Altai ( containing Mount Belukha, which at the is the highest point of Siberia outside of the Russian Far East ); and in the eastern parts, such as the Verkhoyansk Range or the volcanoes of Kamchatka Peninsula ( containing Klyuchevskaya Sopka, which at the is the highest active volcano in Eurasia as well as the highest point of Asian Russia ).
* The west-central region, known as Transylvania, is delimited by the arc of the Carpathians, which separates it from the Maramureş region in the northwest ; by the Crişana area, which borders Hungary in the west ; and by the Banat region of the southwest, which adjoins both Hungary and Serbia.
In the southeast is Guinea ( 330 km border ) and to the southsouthwest is Guinea-Bissau ( 338 km ), both borders running along the Casamance River.
* Before 3: 00 PM, Colin Powell says both Pakistan and Iran have closed their borders with Afghanistan.
Silesia's borders and national affiliation have changed radically over time, both when it was a hereditary possession of noble houses and after the rise of modern nation-states.
Silesian Voivodeship borders both the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south.
The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan which currently holds the Iraqi presidency and the Kurdistan Democratic Party which governs the Kurdistan Regional Government both explicitly commit themselves to the development of Kurdish self-determination, but opinions vary as to the question of self-determination sought within the current borders and countries.
* Border security, including both land, maritime and country borders ;
This left many ethnic Bulgarians out of the borders of the new state, which defined Bulgaria's militaristic approach to regional affairs and its allegiance to Germany in both World Wars.
Paul Kruger, the President of the South African Republic, issued an ultimatum on 9 October 1899, giving the British government 48 hours to withdraw all their troops from the borders of both the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, failing which the Transvaal, allied to the Orange Free State, would declare war on the British government.
The Estonian government decided, given the overwhelming Soviet force both on the borders and inside the country, not to resist, to avoid bloodshed and open war.

borders and Caribbean
Honduras borders the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean.
The west side of the island borders the Caribbean Sea, and the eastern coast faces the Atlantic Ocean.
It borders the Caribbean Sea to the east, with 386 km of coastline.
Antioquia () is one of the 32 departments of Colombia, located in the central northwestern part of Colombia with a narrow section that borders the Caribbean Sea.
Antioquia borders with the Córdoba Department and the Caribbean Sea to the north, Chocó to the west, to the east it borders the departments of Bolivar, Santander and Boyaca, and to the south the departments of Caldas and Risaralda.
The geographical synods do not necessarily fall within state borders as some synods encompass more than one state while other states have several synods within their borders. The ELCA is divided into 65 synods, one of which is non-geographical ( the Slovak Zion Synod ) and 64 regional synods in the United States and the Caribbean, each headed by a synodical bishop and council.
Aragua borders the Caribbean Sea to the north, with its coastline backed by the fast-rising central Cordillera mountain range.
Today it borders the municipalities of Benito Juárez, Lázaro Cárdenas to the north and Tulum to the south ; and is separated in most places from its neighboring municipality to the east ( Cozumel ) by a stretch of the Caribbean Sea known as the Cozumel Channel.
The National Audubon Society also has many global partners to help birds that migrate beyond our borders, including BirdLife International based in England, Bird Studies Canada, and many partners in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Bocas del Toro borders the Caribbean Sea to the north, Limón Province of Costa Rica to the west, Chiriquí Province to the south, and Ngöbe-Buglé Comarca to the east.
Roughly 3. 2 million square kilometers ( 1. 2 million square miles ) in area, the Caribbean Plate borders the North American Plate, the South American Plate, the Nazca Plate and the Cocos Plate.
Today, there is an avenue in Santo Domingo that bears the name Presidente Caamaño ( the avenue borders the western bank of the Ozama River harbor, near its outlet to the Caribbean sea ).

borders and Sea
To Serenissimus such tribes as the Cossacks of the Don or those ex-bandits the Zaporogian Cossacks ( in whose islands along the lower Dnieper the Polish novelist Sienkiewicz would one day place With Fire And Sword ) were just elements for enforced resettlement in, say, Bessarabia, where, as `` the faithful of the Black Sea borders '', he could use their presence as bargaining points in the Czarina's territorial claims against Turkey.
The western coast of Anatolia that borders the Sea of Marmara consists mainly of rolling plateau country well suited to agriculture.
It borders the Adriatic Sea along its 20 km ( 12. 42 mi ) coastline.
The second noteworthy characteristic is that the country borders on very different parts of the African continent: North Africa, with its Islamic culture and economic orientation toward the Mediterranean Basin ; West Africa, with its diverse religions and cultures and its history of highly developed states and regional economies ; Northeast Africa, oriented toward the Nile Valley and Red Sea region ; and Central or Equatorial Africa, some of whose people have retained classical African religions while others have adopted Christianity, and whose economies were part of the great Congo River system.
Egypt currently disputes sovereignty of the Hala ' ib Triangle with Sudan, an area of land located on the Red Sea coast, between the political borders ( at the 22nd circle of latitude ) and the administrative boundary between the two countries.
From around 1000 AD, Flanders historically meant to English-speaking peoples the land situated along the North Sea from the Strait of Dover to the Scheldt estuary with ill-defined southern borders.
The Gaza Strip (, ) is a strip of land on the Eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea that borders Egypt on the southwest ( 11 km ) and Israel on the east and north ().
The country borders Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan to the south ; Russia to the north ; Russia and the Caspian Sea to the west ; and China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to the east.
Kazakhstan borders the Aral Sea, now split into two bodies of water ( 1, 070 km ), and the Caspian Sea ( 1, 894 km ).
Lithuania is situated on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea and borders Latvia on the north, Belarus on the east and south, and Poland and the Kaliningrad region of Russia on the southwest.
Lazio comprises a land area of and it has borders with Tuscany, Umbria, and Marche to the north, Abruzzo and Molise to the east, Campania to the south, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west.
By the middle of the 6th century, there were three major settlements in northern Arabia, all along the south-western coast that borders the Red Sea, in a habitable region between the sea and the great desert to the east.
It also has maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk, and the U. S. state of Alaska by the Bering Strait.
Even then the borders were still fluid, with Finland gaining access to the Barents Sea in 1920, but ceding this territory to Russia in 1944.
The municipality borders Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces to the west, and is bounded to the east by the East China Sea.
The northern tip of Sumatra borders the Andaman islands, while on the lower eastern side are the islands of Bangka and Belitung, Karimata Strait and the Java Sea.
Terrain: flat-to-rolling sandy desert with dunes rising to mountains in the south ; low mountains along border with Iran ; borders Caspian Sea in west.
Note: Turkmenistan borders the Caspian Sea.
It borders the Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Tonkin, and South China Sea, alongside China, Laos, and Cambodia.
The borders of Lycia varied over time but at its centre was the Teke peninsula of southwestern Turkey, which juts into the Mediterranean Sea in a north-south direction, is bounded on the west by the Gulf of Fethiye, and on the east by the Gulf of Antalya.
Thessaly lies in central Greece and borders the regions of Macedonia on the north, Epirus on the west, Central Greece on the south and the Aegean Sea on the east.

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