When the French frontier roads were finally opened, about 300,000 Spaniards-soldiers, civilians women and children, all hungry, exhaused, and in panic swept down on 200,000 French inhabitants of the Pyrenees-Orientales who, found themselves living in what was practically occupied territory.
A frontier road from Lhasa, in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, to Kashgar skirts the eastern and northern margins of the Karakorams in China.
A major frontier road facilitates the movement of military garrisons in the Tajik and Kyrgyz portions of the Pamirs and links Tajikistan with the city of Osh in Kyrgyzstan.
The Israeli government has pledged to retaliate in force if anyone fires over the border something any one of the thousands of armed and jubilant men driving along the frontier road could easily do.
"With a fresh round of fighting flaring all along the frontier, the roads in and out are often sealed for hours at a time; earlier this month a public bus was hit by grad rocket fire at a checkpoint in Volnovakha killing 12 people onboard".
Lille, city, capital of Nord département and of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais région, northern France, on the Deûle River, 136 miles (219 km) north-northeast of Paris, and 9 miles (14 km) from the Belgian frontier by road.
The expansion of the agricultural frontier and road building projects, which began in the 1970s in the Brazilian Amazon, resulted in massive deforestation and human rights abuses against local people.
Amazonia (sensu lato) is by far the largest tropical forest region, but has succumbed to the highest absolute rates of tropical deforestation and forest degradation, driven by rapid frontier expansion, road-building, and spontaneous or government-subsidized migration.
There are now incipient signs of a coca comeback in this frontier village of clay roads and thatched-roof huts slashed out of the jungles of the Huallaga Valley and in a number of surrounding towns in the central and northern parts of the region.
To the modern eye, used to the cheap and functional cartography of roads and frontiers, the very question is absurd.
They hold out the promise of something different, something that connects the jaded traveler to either a personal or a collective American past — the past of the frontier, of "On the Road," of backyard tree forts.
