This lack of media-consciousness marks out these small girls living on the borders of the old and modern worlds.
Elegant residential districts have grown up on the borders of the old city, particularly toward the south, and low-cost housing units have been constructed in various parts of the urban area.
Since there was never any plan for the Crusade to go beyond the far-flung borders of the old Roman Empire, this would effectively give all conquests to the emperor.
Similarly, culture disseminated itself from Lisbon to the borders of the old Soviet Union, enabled by the dropping of barriers to trade and travel, but also driven by people's desire to try the new things they were suddenly exposed to, to dance to a hit record, read that new book that everyone is talking about.
The Congress paid lip service to Poland by enjoining the partitioning powers to respect the national rights of their Polish subjects (insofar as was compatible with the partitioners' state interests) and by providing for free trade and communications within the borders of the old Commonwealth.
Most of the ruined town has been restored in exquisite detail, and what it reminds the visitor is how fluid the borders of the old empires were.
While the Serbian nationalism espoused by Milosevic had fascistic elements, and his government and allied militias certainly engaged in serious war crimes throughout the Balkans that decade, comparisons to Hitler were hyperbolic, certainly in terms of the ability to threaten any nation beyond the borders of the old Yugoslavia.
"I" starts in the wild border areas of the old Han empire, with their spectacular mountains and indigenous peoples.
The Guyana-Venezuela border largely follows the so-called Schomburgk Line, so called after the German-born British naturalist and explorer who sketched it in 1840, tracing what he presumed to be the western border claim of the old Dutch colony of Essequibo [11].
"The refugee crisis is happening all over the world," says Moffatt. "My work is symbolic of borders; the old world is out and the new world is in and borders are going to be smashed open".
