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Mon 08 Aug 2008Georgia recklessly miscalculated balance of forces
ANALYSIS:The break-up of the Soviet empire left a legacy of contested borders in the Caucasus, writes Tony Kinsella
TRAVEL A few hundred metres west out of Clones and you find yourself in Fermanagh. The processes and influences which fixed that Monaghan-Fermanagh boundary are lost in the mists of the late 16th century. It would be little more than a line on a map for some 335 years, but in the fraught 1921 settlement of the Irish War of Independence it became an international border.
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