In those days would-be thieves would have been hard-pressed to spirit stolen art across the heavily defended border to Thailand.
Some archaeological evidence, the Roman Rig dyke, near modern Sheffield, appears to show that it was a defended border, with large earthworks set back from the frontier.
In the period of French intervention in the 1540s and 1550s, Scotland was given a defended border of a series of earthwork forts and additions to existing castles.
The Kaesong Industrial Complex is just on the North Korean side of the two Koreas' heavily defended border and is one of the few examples of cooperation between the rivals.
Song armies led by general Bi Zaiyu (; d. 1217) captured the barely defended border city of Sizhou (on the north bank of the Huai River across from modern Xuyi County) but suffered large losses against the Jurchens in Hebei.
In Israel, the early Zionists argued, Jews would till the fields, defend borders and cast off the sheepishness of the galut (the exile) and its ghetto Jews.
Many of Jamaica's low-income communities are still led by dons, whose organizations act like miniature states: allocating benefits, defending borders, and extracting taxes.
In a determinedly rightwing speech in Longjumeau, outside Paris, Sarkozy said he understood the suffering of FN voters and set out his key themes: security, immigration and defending borders against foreigners.
Nationalism is being touted as defending borders and preserving a nation's sovereignty against outside enemies (real or perceived) only.
The arguments defending border restrictions concern the sanctity and necessity of maintaining national order.
They defend border guards and those who clamber into busses to scream violence and hate at asylum-seeking children.
