No Man's Land
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No man's land
No man's land
No man's land is a term for land that is unoccupied or is under dispute between parties that leave it unoccupied due to fear or uncertainty. The term was originally used to define a contested territory or a dumping ground for refuse between fiefdoms...

is an unoccupied area between two opposing positions.

No Man's Land may also refer to:

Places

In the United Kingdom
  • No Man's Land, Cornwall
    No Man's Land, Cornwall
    No Man's Land is a crossroads hamlet in south-east Cornwall, United Kingdom. It is situated approximately two miles northeast of Looe on the B3253 road to Widegates....

    , England
  • No Man's Land Fort, off the coast of England
  • Nomansland, Devon
    Nomansland, Devon
    Nomansland is a hamlet in Devon, England, with a population of about 150. It is eight miles west of Tiverton along the B3137 road and is served by the No.155 bus, which runs between Exeter and Barnstaple via Tiverton...

    , England
  • Nomansland, Hertfordshire, England
  • Nomansland, Wiltshire, England


In the United States
  • No Man's Land, Illinois
    No Man's Land, Illinois
    No Man's Land, Illinois was never an official place name, but has been used to refer to at least two areas that fit the broader meaning of No man's land.-Wilmette:...

    , United States
  • No Man's Land Navy Airfield
    No Man's Land Navy Airfield
    No Man's Land Navy Airfield was an operational United States Navy airfield from 1943 to 1950s. The airfield is located on Nomans Land island, about three miles off the southwest corner of the island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. When it was rarely used, it was only to support propeller...

    , United States
  • Nomans Land (Massachusetts)
    Nomans Land (Massachusetts)
    Nomans Land is an uninhabited island 612 acres in size, located in the town of Chilmark, Dukes County, Massachusetts, USA...

    , United States
  • Oklahoma Panhandle
    Oklahoma Panhandle
    The Oklahoma Panhandle is the extreme western region of the state of Oklahoma, comprising Cimarron County, Texas County, and Beaver County. Its name comes from the similarity of shape to the handle of a cooking pan....

    , United States
  • The Neutral Ground (Louisiana), a former No Man's Land between American Louisiana & Spanish Texas in the 19th century


Elsewhere
  • No Man's Land, Falkland Islands
    No Man's Land, Falkland Islands
    No Man's Land is an area on East Falkland island, in the Falkland Islands.It probably derives its name from the fact that it is extremely rough ground, and is partly co-extensive with the Wickham Heights. It is to the north west of RAF Mount Pleasant, on the northern half of East Falkland....


General arts

  • No Man's Land (comics), a Batman comic book crossover storyline
  • No Man's Land (OEM comic), an English language manga series
  • No Man's Land (play)
    No Man's Land (play)
    No Man's Land is a play by Harold Pinter written in 1974 and first produced and published in 1975. Its original production was at the Old Vic Theatre in London by the National Theatre on 23 April 1975, and it later transferred to Wyndhams Theatre, July 1975 - January 1976, the Lyttelton Theatre...

    , by Harold Pinter
  • No Man's Land, a sculpture by Charles Sargeant Jagger
    Charles Sargeant Jagger
    Charles Sargeant Jagger MC was a British sculptor who, following active service in the First World War, sculpted many works on the theme of war...


Film and television

  • No Man's Land (1962 film), a film staring Roger Moore
    Roger Moore
    Sir Roger George Moore KBE , is an English actor, perhaps best known for portraying British secret agent James Bond in seven films from 1973 to 1985. He also portrayed Simon Templar in the long-running British television series The Saint.-Early life:Moore was born in Stockwell, London...

    .
  • No Man's Land (1964 film), a Korean War film
  • No Man's Land (1984 film)
    No Man's Land (1984 film)
    No Man's Land was a television pilot film made in 1984. The pilot featured Stella Stevens as the sheriff of a town in the Old West with three daughters. The youngest daughter was played by Melissa Michaelsen. Stella's two older daughters were played by Terri Garber and Donna Dixon....

    , a western starring Stella Stevens
  • No Man's Land (1987 film)
    No Man's Land (1987 film)
    No Man's Land is a 1987 film directed by Peter Werner and starring D. B. Sweeney, Charlie Sheen and Randy Quaid. Brad Pitt made his acting debut in this film as an uncredited extra.-Plot:...

    , a thriller starring D.B. Sweeney and Charlie Sheen
  • No Man's Land (2001 film)
    No Man's Land (2001 film)
    No Man's Land is a 2001 tragic war drama that is set in the midst of the Bosnian war. The film is a parable and marked the debut of Bosnian writer and director Danis Tanović...

    , international title of the Bosnian Academy Award-winning war drama Ničija zemlja
  • No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker, a 2008 American horror film
  • No Man's Land, the French title for the German film Hell on Earth (1931 film)
    Hell on Earth (1931 film)
    Hell on Earth is a 1931 German film directed by Victor Trivas.The film is also known as No Man's Land in France.- Plot summary :...

  • No Man's Land (Doctor Who audio)
    No Man's Land (Doctor Who audio)
    No Man's Land is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.-Synopsis:The Seventh Doctor, Ace and Hex land in Northern France in 1917 during World War I...

    , an audio drama based on the television series Doctor Who
  • "No Man's Land" (CSI: Miami)
  • "No Man's Land" (Grey's Anatomy)
    No Man's Land (Grey's Anatomy)
    No Man's Land is the fourth episode of the first season of the ABC series, Grey's Anatomy. The episode was written by James D. Parriott and was directed by Adam Davidson. It originally aired on Sunday April 17, 2005, running for 43:16 min.-Starring:...

  • "No Man's Land" (Stargate Atlantis)

Music

  • No Man's Land (record label)
    No Man's Land (record label)
    No Man's Land was a German record label based in Würzburg, Germany. Formed in 1984, it ceased trading in 1997. The label was run by its proprietors in combination with the music publishing and record label Review Records and the distribution company Recommended No Man's Land...

    , a German record label based in Würzburg, Germany
  • No Man's Land (album)
    No Man's Land (album)
    No Man's Land is the second studio album from the Souls Of Mischief, and the final album released on the Jive Records label. The album was released in 1995.-Track listing:#So You Wanna Be A.....

    , the second studio album from the Souls Of Mischief
  • "No Man's Land" (Eric Bogle song)
    No Man's Land (Eric Bogle song)
    "No Man's Land" is a song written in 1976 by Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter Eric Bogle, reflecting on the grave of a young man who died in World War I. Its chorus refers to two famous pieces of military music, "The Last Post" and "The Flowers of the Forest"...

  • "No Man's Land" (Billy Joel song)
    No Man's Land (Billy Joel song)
    "No Man's Land" is a single by Billy Joel. It was the third single from his 1993 album River of Dreams. The song is about the growth of suburbia and its negative environmental and social aspects. It presumably refers somewhat specifically to Long Island...

  • "No Man's Land" (Beverley Knight song)
    No Man's Land (Beverley Knight song)
    "No Man's Land" is the first single released by British singer-songwriter Beverley Knight from her fifth studio album, Music City Soul. The song was released on 16 April 2007 digitally and 30 April 2007 physically and peaked at number forty-three on the UK singles chart...

  • "No Man's Land" (John Michael Montgomery song)
    No Man's Land (John Michael Montgomery song)
    "No Man's Land" is the title of a song written by Steve Seskin and John Scott Sherrill, and recorded by American country music artist John Michael Montgomery. It was released in August 1995, it was the third single from the album John Michael Montgomery...

  • "No Man's Land" (Lene Lovich album), an album by Lene Lovich
    Lene Lovich
    Lene Lovich is an American singer based in England, who first gained attention as part of the New Wave music scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Her most popular hit single was "Lucky Number", first released in 1979.-Early years:...

  • "No Man's Land", a song by Syd Barrett on the album The Madcap Laughs
    The Madcap Laughs
    The Madcap Laughs is an album by British singer/songwriter Syd Barrett, released on 3 January 1970. It was his first solo album after being replaced in the band Pink Floyd by his old school friend David Gilmour.- History :...

  • "No Man's Land", a song by Download on the album Furnace
    Furnace (album)
    -Personnel:*Dwayne Goettel*Philth*Mark Spybey*cEvin Key*Genesis P. Orridge...

  • "No Man's Land", a song by Mike Oldfield on the album Tres Lunas
    Tres Lunas
    Tr3s Lunas is a record album written and mostly performed by Mike Oldfield. It was released in 2002 with a bonus CD containing a demo program for a PC game, Tres Lunas.- Title :...

  • "No Man's Land", a song by Bob Seger on the album Against the Wind
    Against the Wind (album)
    Against the Wind is the 11th album by American rock singer Bob Seger and his third with The Silver Bullet Band. It was released in 1980 . It is Seger's only Number 1 album to date, spending six weeks atop the Billboard 200, and knocking Pink Floyd's massive-selling The Wall from the top spot...

  • "No Man's Land", a song by Soul Asylum on the album While You Were Out
    While You Were Out (album)
    While You Were Out is Soul Asylum's third studio album. It was released on November 21, 1986 . It is the follow-up to the 1986 studio release Made To Be Broken....

  • "No Man's Land", a song by Sufjan Stevens on the album The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras from the Illinois Album
  • "Nomansland", a 2011 album by Milk Inc
  • Nomansland(Band) One hit wonder Eurodance formation ("7 Seconds" in 1996)

Other uses

  • Terra nullius
    Terra nullius
    Terra nullius is a Latin expression deriving from Roman law meaning "land belonging to no one" , which is used in international law to describe territory which has never been subject to the sovereignty of any state, or over which any prior sovereign has expressly or implicitly relinquished...

    , land not claimed by any sovereign state
  • The back court of a tennis court
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