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backlands

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backlands [′bak‚lanz]
(geology)
A section of a river floodplain lying behind a natural levee.


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But, it is all about the number of backlands you can gain from each article.
SA Isabel, her brother Isaac and their parents live in a primitive village in the backlands of a fictional far country.
Born Virgulino Ferreira da Silva in 1898 in the impoverished backlands of the state of Pernambuco, the man who would become known around the world by his nom de guerre, Lampiao (the Portuguese word for lantern), grew up in a region long known for a paucity of social justice and periodic convulsions of violence.
 
 
 
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