So Rome shaped its hinterland through its appetite.

In the provinces of Gaza for example, the coastal districts accommodate three times the population of the districts of the hinterland.

Difficulties in gaining access to production areas, owing to the poor condition of rural roads and security problems in the hinterland, also affected export production.

In that sense, the global economy has always been Singapore's hinterland and the country has always been a key player in the globalization of economic activities.

Acting on these principles, Turkey is following a proactive foreign policy stretching from the Balkans to the Middle East and the Caucasus. This geography is Turkey s natural historical and cultural hinterland.

I bring to you a message from tens of thousands of people in the villages, in the slums, in the hinterland of the country who have solved problems through their own genius, without any outside help.

Recalling also the report of the Meeting of the Littoral and Hinterland States of the Indian Ocean held in July 1979,Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty fourth Session, Supplement No. 45 and corrigendum (A 34 45 and Corr.1).

Recalling also the report of the Meeting of the Littoral and Hinterland States of the Indian Ocean held in July 1979,Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty fourth Session, Supplement No. 45 and corrigendum (A 34 45 and Corr.1).

Recalling also the report of the Meeting of the Littoral and Hinterland States of the Indian Ocean held in July 1979,Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty fourth Session, Supplement No. 45 and corrigendum (A 34 45 and Corr.1).

Doing nothing would mean Syria s disintegration, divided in blood, with the countries around it destabilized and waves of terrorism rolling over the region. Assad would remain in power in the richest part of the country, with bitter sectarian fury reigning in the country s eastern hinterland.

Syrian militants, including Islamic State fighters, have penetrated Lebanon, threatening to rekindle the country s ethnic war and undermining Hezbollah s legitimacy as the guarantor of its security. Assad s fall would deny the organization its vital logistic hinterland in Syria, making it vulnerable to challenges by insurgent Sunni militias.

For Russia, a new treaty would allow it to live with the hitherto nightmare scenario of Ukrainian accession to NATO as long as the pact remained in force, Ukraine s membership would have no military consequences. NATO, at least in the Russian hinterland, would become first and foremost a political organization.

Barring an accident like the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, Germany is likely to do enough to hold the euro together, but the EU will become something very different from the open society that once fired people s imagination. The division between debtor and creditor countries will become permanent, with Germany dominating and the periphery becoming a depressed hinterland.

At the same time, Libya s leaders must recognize and build upon the few positive aspects of Qaddafism. For starters, Qaddafi managed to unify a country that, since the Greek invasion in the seventh century BC, had been divided between a coastal strip linked to the larger Mediterranean basin and an isolated hinterland that even Benito Mussolini s brutal regime could not secure.