Slovenia's relations with Croatia have long been strained on account of a rumbling dispute over sea and land borders dating back to the break-up of Yugoslavia.
A dispute with Slovenia over sea and land borders dating back to the break-up of Yugoslavia was resolved in June 2010, when a Slovene referendum cleared another obstacle to Croatia's EU accession.
Niger's justice minister and government spokesman, Marou Amadou, said the borders dated from 1926.
The plan for sealing the borders, dated Oct. 22 and signed by Bulent Ecevit, who was then prime minister, envisions the establishment of 18 camps -- 12 of them in Iraq -- designed to hold about 275,000 refugees.
Its modern borders date only to the end of World War II, and except for a brief period between World War I and the consolidation of the Bolshevik revolution, it has known independence only since 1991, when the demise of the Soviet Union was officially declared — in Belarus, in fact.
Much of the border with Hungary follows the Drava River or its former river bed; that part of the border dates from the Middle Ages.
Disputes over the border date back to the 14th century, when Finland was part of Sweden, and more recently during the Cold War the border formed part of the Iron Curtain, with the Soviet Union setting up border surveillance 75 miles out to prevent escapes.
The Bolivians refuse to sell gas to Chile because of a border dispute dating back to the 19th century.Chile has hydro-electricity in abundance but has been hit by severe droughts in recent years.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — This city, sharing a name with one state but settled in another, has a long history of ugly border skirmishes dating back to the Civil War.
But it has suddenly taken on geopolitical importance, thanks to a border dispute dating back to the collapse of Yugoslavia in the 1990s that now threatens to stall the eastward push of both the European Union and NATO.
