During World War II, many industrial factories were evacuated from Ukraine and western borderlands to Udmurtia, considerably increasing the ethnic Russian population in Udmurtia.

Practitioners of traditional religions mainly reside in the nation's far southwestern and western rural borderlands, in the SNNP, Benishangul-Gumuz and Gambela regions.

He received combat intelligence training in Maryland, then in Wales, before late wartime deployment in western and southern borderlands of Germany that had been conquered.

Hitler's 1938 annexation of the Sudetenland (the western borderlands of Czechoslovakia) triggered the final slide towards WWII.

Following the war, whole new categories of inmates flooded into the camps: German P.O.W.'s, anti-Communists from the western borderlands or from the new Soviet empire in Eastern Europe.

India is in turmoil now, nowhere more so than the western borderlands.

To these oppressions, the First World War added unforeseen horrors, particularly where, in the western borderlands, actual fighting took place.

The complexity of social forces - from the quasi-independent states of the western borderlands, to the anti-colonial ferment of Central Asia - belied the simplicity of the slogans.

There are numerous indigenous African religions in Ethiopia, mainly located in the far southwest and western borderlands.

He asserted that the hilly western borderland that appears as a boundary to the external eye is actually a network of hill plateaus where the local people have always moved freely.