frontier province
C19044
concept
A frontier province is a border region of a state or empire where central authority, culture, and control meet and interact with external or less-governed territories, often marked by strategic, economic, and cultural significance.
Observed surface forms (11)
- military frontier ×10
- colonial frontier ×2
- frontier administrative region ×2
- frontier principality ×2
- frontier march ×1
- frontier provinces ×1
- imperial Russian frontier region ×1
- imperial frontier ×1
- imperial frontier province ×1
- medieval frontier region ×1
- strategic frontier zone ×1
Instances (33)
- Anxi Protectorate via concept surface "frontier administrative region"
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Roman province of Germania Inferior
surface form: Germania Inferior
- Ottoman Beylik via concept surface "frontier principality"
- Novorossiya (historical) via concept surface "imperial Russian frontier region"
- Piedmontese frontier via concept surface "military frontier"
- Spanish Texas
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Spain (part – Spanish March)
via concept surface "medieval frontier region"
surface form: Spanish March
- eastern frontier of the Cape Colony via concept surface "colonial frontier"
- Banat of Temeswar
- NATO external border during Cold War via concept surface "military frontier"
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Roman province of Arabia Petraea
surface form: Arabia Petraea
- Great Wall region via concept surface "strategic frontier zone"
- Danubian provinces of the Roman Empire via concept surface "frontier provinces"
- Margraviate of Istria via concept surface "frontier march"
- Militärgrenze via concept surface "military frontier"
- Vojna krajina via concept surface "military frontier"
- Confiniaria militare via concept surface "military frontier"
- Banat Military Frontier via concept surface "military frontier"
- Transylvanian Military Frontier via concept surface "military frontier"
- Russian Empire in the Caucasus via concept surface "imperial frontier"
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Roman province of Moesia
surface form: Moesia
- Söğüt principality of Ertuğrul via concept surface "frontier principality"
- New England–New France borderlands via concept surface "colonial frontier"
- Zhao–Qin frontier via concept surface "military frontier"
- Danubian frontier via concept surface "military frontier"
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Roman province of Germania Superior
via concept surface "imperial frontier province"
surface form: Germania Superior
- Roman province of Scythia Minor
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Roman province of Moesia Superior
surface form: Moesia Superior
- Upper March of al-Andalus
- Orenburg defensive line via concept surface "military frontier"
- Roman Mesopotamia
- Washington District, North Carolina via concept surface "frontier administrative region"
- Spanish Arizona