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Noun Concept
Categories: Marquisates, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference, Borders, Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, All articles that may have off-topic sections
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borderland  border district  march  marchland  mark
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District consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area WordNet 3.0
English:
territory
state
territorial entity
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District consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In medieval Europe, a march or mark was, in broad terms, any kind of borderland, as opposed to a national "heartland". Wikipedia
A medieval European term for any kind of borderland Wikipedia Disambiguation
Administrative territorial entity Wikidata
A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary. Wiktionary
Border region. Wiktionary (translation)
Land comprising the marches of a territory; borderland. Wiktionary
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The Welsh marches between England and Wales WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet