| 1. | The frontier zone was fiercely contested between the Arabs and the Byzantines.
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| 2. | The frontier zone has probably always had these characteristics.
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| 3. | This frontier zone, too, was seeing repopulation in light of militarisation.
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| 4. | It was both a frontier zone and an essential link between England and Normandy.
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| 5. | It served chiefly as a defence of the frontier zone in front of Castile.
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| 6. | The region became an important frontier zone after the Battle of Nicopolis in 1396.
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| 7. | The newly acquired frontier zones were divided into smaller " Iberia was established in 1022.
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| 8. | Gelembe ) as the northernmost point of the theme, at the Nicaean frontier zone with the Latins.
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| 9. | Albright urged Beirut and Damascus to do more to pacify the frontier zone that Hezbollah guerrillas now largely govern.
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| 10. | While forced into exile and with his forces confined to the frontier zones of Darfur, Habr?remained defiant.
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