West March

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West March was a historically contested frontier district along the Anglo-Scottish border, notorious for lawlessness and raiding during the era of the Border Reivers.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
West March canonical 6

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Statements (28)

Predicate Object
instanceOf border district
frontier
historical region
abolishedAfterEvent Union of the Crowns of England and Scotland
linked to: Union of the Crowns
activePeriod early modern period
late Middle Ages
associatedWith Border Reivers era
borderFunction defensive frontier
zone of military responsibility
borderSystem Anglo-Scottish Marches
characterizedBy cattle raiding
feuding clans
weak central authority
countryDuringPeriod Kingdom of England
Kingdom of Scotland
hasCounterpart East March
Middle March
historicallyContested true
historicalStatus abolished
knownFor Border Reivers
lawlessness
raiding
locatedInPresentDay England
Scotland
locatedOnBorderWith Kingdom of England
Kingdom of Scotland
partOf Anglo-Scottish border
timeOfAbolition early 17th century

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Border Reivers operatedInRegion West March
Clan Johnstone borderMarch West March
Border Reivers areaOfActivity West March
subject linked to: border reivers
Middle March hasCounterpart West March
Musgrave family borderRegion West March