At this time the first line, or continuous fortified border, was constructed.

As early as January 1953, he had obtained permission to create a fortified border between East and West Berlin.

As early as the mid 4th century, the Franks broke through the fortified Roman border at the Rhine, winning themselves a new homeland in so doing.

With this approach in mind, the French army was sent to man France's heavily fortified border with Germany, the Maginot Line, and to await a German attack.

But in 2005, alternative, or renewable, energy vaulted the highly fortified border separating cottage industry and big business.

In replying to a question, however, Mr. Schabowski abandoned the customary East German reference to the barrier as an "anti-fascist protection wall," and instead called it a "fortified border."

It has been more or less the same since Friday, when the brigade finished rehearsing a breach of a fortified border exactly like the one between Kuwait and Iraq.

Limes was in fact not used to indicate the imperial frontier or a fortified border.

Extend the Berlin fence to form a fortified border - a new wall, made in the West?

Moreover, an attempt to flee via East Germany's fortified borders involved considerable personal risk of injury or death.