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Panama's Ministry of Culture said the discovery was "of great importance for Panamanian archaeology and the study of pre-Hispanic societies of the Central American isthmus," referring to the land that connects North and South America.
From Barron's ● Feb. 21, 2026
Paterson persuaded the Scottish parliament to establish a new enterprise based on England’s East India Company to found a Scottish colony on the narrow isthmus joining North and South America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
The Tehuana dress — originating among Zapotec women on the isthmus — was famously adopted by Frida Kahlo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
It is known as the 'gap' on Panama's Darien isthmus because it is the only missing section, running about 60 miles, on the Pan-American highway that stretches from Alaska to Argentina.
From Reuters ● Jul. 22, 2023
Brannon asked, as a smile began to build on the spartan isthmus around his mouth.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
The Crimean Peninsula extends south from Ukraine’s mainland, with road connections on two isthmuses, one of which is less than 1 mile wide, and by a bridge from a narrow spit.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 17, 2023
The substances washed down by rain-waters form by their accumulation new bars, isthmuses of deposited earth, and points of division that did not before exist.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt
In the first place it was agreed that any canal to be constructed over any of the isthmuses was to be absolutely neutral, in time of war as well as of peace.
From The Path of Empire; a chronicle of the United States as a world power by Carl Russell Fish
Nay, we ought to feel some shame when we reflect that evidences in the neighborhood of both isthmuses exist of such junction having existed, in what we are pleased to designate "barbarous" ages.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
They made islands and peninsulas and isthmuses of green that were odd and freaky.
From A Little Girl in Old New York by Amanda Minnie Douglas
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