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Definition of Demarcation line
1. Noun. The boundary of a specific area.
Specialized synonyms: Edge, City Limit, City Limits, Upper Limit, Lower Limit, Three-mile Limit
Generic synonyms: Bound, Boundary, Bounds
Derivative terms: Demarcate, Demarcate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Demarcation Line
Literary usage of Demarcation line
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays in Historical Criticism by Edward Gaylord Bourne (1901)
"THE demarcation line OF POPE ALEXANDER VI.1 THE history of the Line of Demarcation
established by Pope Alexander VL, separating the Spanish and Portuguese ..."
2. The Rise of the Spanish Empire in the Old World and in the New by Roger Bigelow Merriman (1918)
"Columbus urged the advisability of a demarcation line; and the sovereigns, acting
on his suggestion, again applied to Rome for an amplification and ..."
3. Hanover and Prussia 1795-1803: A Study in Neutrality by Guy Stanton Ford (1903)
"... led to a violation of the demarcation line in the most ruthless manner.
Eichel- kamp, on the east bank of the Rhine and within the line, was seized, ..."
4. The Diplomatic History of America: Its First Chapter 1452-1493-1494 by Henry Harrisse (1897)
"THE demarcation line IN SPANISH MAPS. FROM what precedes, historians should bear
in mind that the various positions assigned to the demarcation line in all ..."
5. The Philippines to the End of the Military Régime: America Overseas by Charles Burke Elliott (1916)
"... Tordesillas—Ferdinand Magellan —Extension of demarcation line around the
Globe—The Circumnavigation of the Globe—Discovery of the Philippine Islands—The ..."
6. European Treaties Bearing on the History of the United States and Its by Frances Gardiner Davenport, Charles Oscar Paullin (1917)
"1—the meridian of Cape Non "—and the Spanish demarcation line of the bull of May 4,
... For instances of the use of the demarcation line of the treaty of ..."
7. The Cold War in Asia edited by James G. Hershberg (1996)
"13.8.51 If our final goal consists of conducting a struggle for the principle of
the determination of the 38th parallel as the military demarcation line and ..."
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