And if the linguist William Shakespear had lived beyond 1915, this might also be how far north the modern Saudi state stretched.
At Mieszko's death the Polish state stretched from the Baltic Sea to the Carpathian Mountains, resembling in shape post-World War II Poland.
And the official spokesman for Indiana said that his state stretched "from the shores of polluted Lake Michigan in the north to the clear-cut banks of the Ohio River in the south, with many other sins in between".
It is no wonder that French political leaders get sucked into such matters: the tentacles of the French state stretch deep into the country's industry.
The construction and development of these outposts have essentially allowed Israel to create the infrastructure of one state, stretching from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River.
The roots of their welfare state stretch all the way back to the 1880s, when under the Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, Germany introduced health insurance, accident insurance and old-age and invalid pensions.
For Padam Singh, the head of the RSS in Vrindavan, today's India is a stunted colonial creation and a mere shadow of "Greater Bharat", a civilisation-based state stretching from Afghanistan to Indonesia.
In multiple letters to the secretary of state, stretching back to 2010, we have joined with our colleagues in the House to call for an immediate suspension of security aid to Honduras.
Cumings suggests that "a civil conflict purely among Koreans might have resolved the extraordinary tensions generated by colonialism, national division and foreign intervention" — a resolution that would almost surely have ended with mass murder and a ruthless totalitarian state stretching across all of Korea.
Khaled Meshal, the political leader of Hamas, said in a defiant speech on Saturday that he would never recognize Israel, calling for a Palestinian state stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and saying the path to liberation was through resistance, not negotiation.
On 29 June, IS said it had created a caliphate, or Islamic state, stretching from Aleppo in Syria to the province of Diyala in Iraq.
