Sentence examples for present-day borders from inspiring English sources

Palestinians would get their capital in Jerusalem, as they demand, except the capital would, in fact, be located in the Arab village of Abu Dis, just outside the present-day borders of Jerusalem.

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".

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.

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

Brazil had secured most of its present-day borders by 1750 and was regarded by Portugal as the most important part of its far-flung maritime Empire.

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.

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

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 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].

Kayser M, Lao O, Anslinger K et al: Significant genetic differentiation between Poland and Germany follows present-day political borders, as revealed by Y-chromosome analysis.

Kayser M, Lao O, Anslinger K, Augustin C, Bargel G, Edelmann J, et al. Significant genetic differentiation between Poland and Germany follows present-day political borders, as revealed by Y-chromosome analysis.