He was born in Monticello in 1916, when the region was still a sleepy little mountain enclave of rooming houses where Jews in the garment trade could escape the summer heat of the city for "the good air."
Our nearest neighbor did rule his own mountain enclave of villages in loyalty to the Duke of Milan.
Underlying all this is the ancient dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, the large Armenian mountain enclave within Azerbaijan, which, in the Gorbachev era of openness, has been pushing for incorporation with Armenia.
Like Israel, another small country surrounded by enemies with a hauntingly similar character and history, Armenia puts its single-minded goal - the rugged mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, in Azerbaijan - ahead of everything.
He also negotiated a cease-fire in the war with neighboring Armenia over the mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, although the Armenians still occupy a fifth of Azerbaijan's territory and a peace settlement remains elusive.
Armenians stayed away from work by the thousands today and rallied to press for the transfer to their republic of a mountain enclave that has been part of neighboring Azerbaijan since 1923.
For more than six years, Armenia has been unofficially at war with Azerbaijan over the ethnic Armenian mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, which is in Azerbaijan.
The mountain enclave was in Boulder County, and Sam was a city cop, not a sheriff's deputy, so I suspected that his business was personal, not professional.
And I had no trouble conjuring the devastation that fierce wind and abundant fuel could cause to that mountain enclave after a solitary spark.
Under their rule, the Astur-Leonese kingdom went from a small mountain enclave to one of the dominant powers in Hispania, only to be eclipsed and conquered by the Banu Sancho (Jiménez dynasty) of Navarre.
