Abyei, an area of 10,460 square kilometres, was a major battleground between north and south.
The south-west of England has long been a battleground between Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.
But the microbiome is never static or simple; often it's a battleground between species.
But the Iranian court system is also a battleground between conservatives and reformers.
Hitchcock's films, he continued, "are a kind of battleground between these two positions".
The protests are also a battleground between the mostly rural poor and the middle-class establishment.
This sort of conservative didn't see society as a battleground between government and the private sector.
He left, he said, when his building became a battleground between government tanks and rebel snipers.
Unfortunately, many of them involve crawling around the primary battleground between pet and owner: the floor.
But as in China, cyberspace has become a battleground between free speech and censorship.
Yemen has become a battleground between the international jihad and the West.
