borderers
Those inhabiting edges
Borderers are people who live in or near a border region, particularly along the boundary between two countries or territories.
The term most often refers historically to inhabitants of the Anglo-Scottish border, where families on both sides developed distinct customs and a reputation for raiding and feuding.
The borderers maintained their own rough justice for centuries.
More generally, it can describe anyone residing in frontier or boundary areas.
Land-claiming rural settlers
- pioneersFirst to explore territory
- colonistsSettlers in new territory
- frontiersmenSettlers of unsettled land
- squattersUnauthorized occupants of property
inhabitants · residents · dwellers · community · folk · neighbors · land claims · clearing
Line marking a limit
- marchlandFrontier boundary zone
- buffer zoneNeutral area between rivals
- demarcationFormal boundary setting
- no-man's-landUnclaimed disputed territory
outpost · watchtower · patrol · skirmish · raid · incursion · defense · fortification
homesteaders
Land-claiming rural settlers
- pioneersFirst to explore territory
- colonistsSettlers in new territory
- frontiersmenSettlers of unsettled land
squatters · inhabitants · residents · dwellers · community · folk · neighbors · land claims · clearing · outpost
boundary
Line marking a limit
- marchlandFrontier boundary zone
- buffer zoneNeutral area between rivals
- demarcationFormal boundary setting
no-man's-land · outpost · watchtower · patrol · skirmish · raid · incursion · defense · fortification · crossing
Marches
Frontier boundary territories
- NorthumbrianOf northeast England
- CumbrianFrom northwest England's lakes
- kinshipState of being related
loyalty · dialect · customs · heritage · lineage · allegiance · divided · dual · contested · liminal
cattle raiding
Stealing livestock from ranches
- blackmailCoercion through damaging threats
- feudingSustained hostile conflict
- wardenSupervisory custodian of place
blood feud · Armstrong · Elliot · Nixon · Scott · Maxwell · Johnstone · Robson · Charlton · Forster
borderersheartlanders
Interior region inhabitants
inlanders · mainlanders · metropolitans · urbanites · countrymen
borderersnomads
Unsettled, roving people
wanderers · migrants · itinerants · vagrants · stateless persons
- bordered onApproached the edge of