Meaning of Marches | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Synonym of Marche: An administrative region in central Italy.
2. The lands in the vicinity of the Welsh-English border.
3. The lands in the vicinity of the Scottish-English border.

Equivalents

Examples

“They settled in the border marches.”

“A good example is Wales and the Marches where most of the great landlords were absentees who, by the mid-fifteenth century, had allowed their administrative and judicial powers to slip into the hands of a corrupt squirearchy.”

“The Marches also have areas of intensive farming, as well as extensive forestry plantations where nature is struggling to thrive.”

“[…] sets forth the romantic story of 'the Laws of the Marches,' […] if a quarrel takes place on the Marches between the two countries [and someone dies], his body shall be brought to the Marches at the day and place within the appointed parts, […]”

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