WordNet
n. the boundary of a specific area [syn: limit, demarcation]
Wikipedia
A political demarcation line is a geopolitical border, often agreed upon as part of an armistice or ceasefire.
The French Demarcation line was the boundary line marking the division of Metropolitan France into the territory occupied and administered by the German Army (Zone occupée) in the northern and western part of France and the Zone libre (Free zone) in the south during World War II. It was created by the Armistice of June 22, 1940 after the fall of France in May 1940.
The path of the demarcation line was specified in the Articles of the Armistice. It was also called the green line because it was marked green on the joint map produced at the Armistice Convention. In German, the line is known as the Demarkationslinie, often shortened to Dema-Linie or even Dema.
Papers were required in order to cross the line legally, but few had this privilege.
The demarcation line became moot in November 1942 after the Germans crossed the line and invaded the Free Zone in Operation Anton. After this, all of France was under German occupation, and the occupied zone north of the line became known as the "northern Zone" (Zone nord) and the former Zone libre became the "southern zone" (Zone sud). The line was officially annulled on March 1, 1943.
Usage examples of "demarcation line".
When they reach the Military Demarcation Line, they just keep right on going, because all of the South Korean checkpoints are wide open.
Often the Eastern defenses are set so far behind the demarcation line as to be hidden from Western eyes—.
Thereafter they reverted to smaller blocks and in consequence a clear demarcation line is visible between the two types of construction.
There is a demarcation line of morality beyond which no man can cross and still claim membership in the human race and this goes for London or Jadwiga.
Anbyon was a fair-sized city in the mountains south of Wonsan, and the location of an important military reserve depot located on the single highway running south across the Taebaeks toward the Demarcation Line, seventy-five kilometers away.
The prisoners had formed a living wall at an obviously longestablished demarcation line, waiting with surprising decorum while doubleguarded kitchen aides set piles of loafbowls on the tables, then scurried back up the stairs.
He never ceased to be shocked by what a steering-wheel and shattered glass could do to human flesh This case, today, saddened him, as all cases involving children did The Fleming child had been almost unmarked His light had gone out with no visible brutality At the mortuary he had looked asleep As was his practice he kept away from the court until the last possible moment In a small town like Marristone Port everyone knew everyone else and it wasn't easy to draw the demarcation line between friendliness and formality He'd golfed and had drinks with some of the jury, but it would be impossible to whistle up a jury unknown to him Lessing, he believed, was sufficiently professional to act in a professional mariner, and so were the police, but he couldn't vouch for anyone else The courtroom at ten minutes to two was almost full The public tended as a rule to ignore this type of entertainment, but today's inquest was just sufficiently out of the ordinary to pull them in The major .
Monica Mountainway went down it in swinging curves, crossing and recrossing the demarcation line between the burned and the unburned.
Toward the bottom, almost on the demarcation line, it passed three white buildings surrounded by a wide graveled space and a high, wire-mesh fence.
And indeed it had been, for this was the sun's demarcation line, above which the uppermost levels of the last aerie had been bleached white through centuries and even millennia of purifying sunlight.
The participants decided that an armistice would require agreement on a demarcation line and demilitarized zone, impartial supervision of the truce, and arrangements for return of prisoners of war.
The ghetto gentrifies as the blocks march south, and much of Sloane is the demarcation line between the lawless and the law-abiding.
When Jakobowski arrived near this seemingly harmless demarcation line he came to a stop disconcertedly.
We'd been out more than long enough now to achieve the maximum in night sight and I had little difficulty in making out the coastline to my right: even on a darker night than this it would have been difficult not to distinguish the sharp demarcation line between the blackness of the cliffs and the snow-covered hills stretching away beyond them.