Sentence examples for present-day border from inspiring English sources

One of them was Azaz, a town of thirty-five thousand situated just a few miles from the present-day border with Turkey.

Some Africans, such as the Maasai, were confined to reserves; by 1911 the Maasai reserve extended south of the railway to the present-day border with Tanzania.

MONG HPEN, Myanmar — Conquering armies of centuries past avoided this remote, mountainous area along the present-day border with China, a place once described by a British colonial official as "an unpenetrated enclave of savage hills".

The present-day border between the two countries is a remnant of this outcome.

Khrushchev was born in the village of Kalinovka in 1894, close to the present-day border between Russia and Ukraine.

Aleksander Głowacki was born 20 August 1847 in Hrubieszów, now in southeastern Poland, very near the present-day border with Ukraine.

As well he should -- Mexican culture existed within the present-day borders of the United States for decades before the English established their first North American settlement in 1607.

When it comes to the present-day borders of Germany, Graf maintains that these "were drawn arbitrarily; German nationals should be able to express their nationalism freely in Europe".

By 1616, several subtribes of the Wampanoag (Pokanoket) Nation were living between the present-day borders of eastern Rhode Island and southeastern Maine.

The Pleistocene Mekong river flowed West, along the present day border between Thailand and Cambodia, then southwards along the Tonle Sap river of today, from where it flowed across the exposed Sunda shelf towards Malaysia [ 59].

Indigenous, European, and European American traders helped spread Chinook Jargon from areas around the Columbia River north to southern Alaska and south almost to the present-day California border.