The notion of fringe , which comes from the French word frange , has several meanings. One of the most common uses refers to the elongated and narrow sector that is part of a whole . Fringe can also be strips , lines , or sashes . For example: “A strip of the provincial territory is covered with water due to the floods” , “The dress that my husband gave me is blue with two vertical stripes of white on the sides” , “My son dyed a green stripe on his hair.”
The idea of strip, in this framework, usually refers to portions of territory . The Gaza Strip is a region bordering Israel , Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea . Armed clashes and terrorist attacks often occur in this Palestinian territory due to the conflict between Arabs and Jews.
In Africa , the Aouzou Strip was a source of dispute between Chad and Libya . The International Court of Justice , in 1994 , ended the struggle by recognizing Chad 's sovereignty over the strip.
The Aragon Strip , on the other hand, is a sector of the Autonomous Community of Aragon where Catalan is spoken. This Aragonese area borders Catalonia , and in fact some political movements claim it as part of the Catalan Countries .
Although the eastern area of Aragon began to be related to the concept of strip relatively recently, the origins of this link date back to 1929. At that time, the geographer, pedagogue and writer Pau Vila named the area of Aragon in which Catalan was spoken as Marcas de Poniente . Vila, who years later would design the first regional map of the Catalan community, thus attempted to give a unique name to this territory, which until then was not formally distinguished from the rest.
Years later, several important people used this name to refer to the current Aragon Strip, and among them was the philologist Joan Coromines . Likewise, other names emerged, such as Marcas de Aragón , la Raya de Aragón and Aragonese Catalonia . Although so many different names have been used, they all pointed to the same territory .
It is important to clarify that these names were created by the Catalans to distinguish the area of eastern Aragon in which their language was spoken, so it was not an issue accepted at the national level nor did it have an official nature. It was only during the second half of the 1970s, within the framework of the so-called Spanish transition , that the term fringe was used for the first time to refer to the Catalan-speaking part of Aragon.
Over time, the use of this word to name the aforementioned area of Aragon acquired other meanings beyond that related to the language spoken there. In particular, today it is recognized as the Aragon Strip to distinguish it by its organization in the political, ecclesiastical and socioeconomic spheres, and each of them responds to slightly different groups of municipalities.
Stripe, on the other hand, can be an interval or a band . Each of the areas into which the planet Earth is divided according to the time that governs each territory is called a time zone , or time zone . These bands are determined according to coordinated universal time (known as UTC ), which is centered on the Greenwich meridian . The time zone of Argentina , Chile and Uruguay , to cite one case, is UTC -3:00 (that is, there are three hours less than the Greenwich meridian ).
The electoral strip , finally, is the space that the media must allocate to political parties so that, during campaign time, the candidates can spread their proposals.