Sentence examples for river frontier from inspiring English sources

With the disappearance of river frontier conditions in the 1900s and with the coming of better roads, automobiles, and motion pictures, the number of showboats declined.

With a Saxon dynasty on the throne, Saxon nobles gained office and power, with opportunities for conquest along the eastern river frontiers and marches of their homeland.

Showboat, floating theatre that tied up at towns along the waterways of the southern and midwestern United States, especially along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, to bring culture and entertainment to the inhabitants of river frontiers.

A conquering and colonizing movement burst across the river frontiers into the swamps and forests from Holstein to Silesia and overwhelmed the Slavic Wendish tribes between the Elbe and the Oder.

Meanwhile, the river became a frontier that separated paisas – the inhabitants of Medellín – from themselves.

Less than 10 miles (16 km) downstream the river becomes the frontier between Spain and Portugal for 27 miles (43 km).

Friends of a Cincinnati cousin provided a letter of introduction to two doctors who owned an apothecary in the frontier river town of Helena, Ark.

The Syrian Kurds effectively control 250 miles of the Syria- Turkey border from the Euphrates river to the frontier with Iraq.

After 1948 the river marked the frontier between Israel and Jordan from just south of the Sea of Galilee to the point where the Yābis River flows into it from the east (left) bank.

In 37 a meeting with a representative of Rome on a bridge in the middle of the Euphrates allowed an agreement to be reached that maintained the status quo in Armenia and recognized Parthian sovereignty with the river as the frontier.

Syrian Kurds effectively control an uninterrupted stretch of 250 miles along the Syrian-Turkish border from the Euphrates river to the frontier with Iraq, where Iraqi Kurds have enjoyed autonomy since the early 1990s.