All had to be physically and emotionally strong, it was crucial for them to know the borderland area, guarded by the NKVD border troops.

The Skolts are considered to be the indigenous people of the borderland area between present-day Finland, Russia and Norway, i.e. on the Kola Peninsula and the adjacent Fenno-Scandinavian mainland.

Ossowski, who was born and raised in the borderland area (before the war, there had been the Polish - Czechoslovakian border), used his knowledge and skills.

U.S. Special Forces have fought alongside Pakistani soldiers on several occasions, in the borderland areas, and the American security apparatus has been conducting frequent drone attacks in Pakistani territory-more than a hundred such attacks in 2010 alone.

It has long faced complaints of contaminating broad swaths of downtown El Paso and borderland areas of Mexico with lead and other dangerous metals, and it has been the target of federal, state and local complaints involving at least 94 sites in 21 states.

The borderland area to the south-east was in a state of semi-permanent warfare until the 18th century.

Due to the military defeat, the Bolsheviks offered the Poland substantial territorial concessions in the contested borderland areas, including the city of Minsk.

Proudfoot is a name that has its origins in the North Ridings (the borderland area) of north-eastern England and south-eastern Scotland.

In the 16th century, to protect the borderland area from Tatar invasions, Cossacks carried out sentry and patrol duties, guarding from Crimean Tatars and nomads of the Nogai Horde in the steppe region.

Nubia and Ethiopia were also "exporting" regions: in the 15th century, Ethiopians sold slaves from western borderland areas (usually just outside of the realm of the Emperor of Ethiopia) or Ennarea, which often ended up in India, where they worked on ships or as soldiers.