Borders

1 ‘Border’ has several connotations. It points to the ‘line’ separating ‘one country from another’; it also indicates a tract of territory laying ‘along its boundary’ or at ‘the edge of a country or territory’ (Oxford English Dictionary; see Nicolini (2022) 193). It then refers to territories across the frontier line; the latter extends over, and includes, the lands laying on both its sides. The Scottish border provides an example: it designates the line, and its adjoining districts, suppressed by the Union with Scotland Act 1706 (in force from 1707) and...