Examples of using "Festland" in a sentence and their english translations:
The island is cut off far from the mainland.
Britain is separated from the Continent by the Channel.
All communication with the mainland was cut off by the typhoon.
It is usually the islander who sees the mainland most clearly.
Chinese coastal cities are generally more developed than the inland ones.
Portugal is made up of the mainland and the archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.
In early 1307 he ventured back toward the mainland with a handful of followers.
As the boat sailed on westwards, the captain looked back at how far they had come, and felt a tear prick the corner of his eye.
Cornish is similar to Welsh, and is closer still to Breton, a language which derives from that of the ancient Britons who, during the early Middle Ages, migrated across to today's Brittany on the French mainland.
Since the end of the eighteenth century, the group of peoples who spread, probably from the Arabian peninsula, to Mesopotamia, Syria and Palestine around 3000 BCE — and, before 700 BC from southern Arabia to Abyssinia, on the opposite African mainland — have been designated as Semites. They were so called after Shem, who, according to the first Book of Moses, chapter 10, was the eldest son of Noah.