Nearly every single recent terrorist plot in this country can be traced back to this rugged borderland next to Afghanistan.

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The war began as a clash over an obscure sliver of borderland.

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The company is a major publisher, developer, and distributor of video games such as Grand Theft Auto, the Civilization series, and the Borderland series.

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But if enlargement has been the EU's most successful foreign-policy tool, the attempt to promote reform in borderland countries with little hope of joining has largely been a failure.

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It glorified Eliseg and Cyngen, proclaiming their lineage from the Roman Emperor Magnus Maximus and his son Vortigern (or Gwrtheyrn), and asserted that Eliseg drove the English from the area after they had laid this borderland waste for nine years.

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