Search results for "Territory" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • of Micronesia and south of the U.S. territory of Wake Island. Bikini ... the Marshall Islands, as the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. ...
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  • Indians, the area was part of Louisiana Territory and was included in the ... century European explorers came to the territory. In 1682 Sieur de La Salle ...
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  • by Byzantium in 1045, and then lost the territory to the Seljuk Turks following ... the grounds that Ararat was part of its territory, but the Kremlin refused ...
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  • deeper into the Everglades and surrounding territory. Prior to the Second Seminole War, the Seminoles had lived in log cabins often two stories tall ...
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  • force. There is also evidence that some territory was gained peacefully through ... Andalusia began to break up the Muslim territory as cities were regained ...
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  • an influx of settlers. It became Idaho Territory in 1863 and was admitted ... Congress was considering organizing a new territory in the Rocky Mountains ...
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  • by Henry Kellett, applied only to British territory, which at the time included ... of the region was organized as Oregon Territory on August 14, 1848, with ...
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  • * Royal Prussia (1466 – 1772): territory awarded to Poland after ... * The Duchy of Prussia (1525 – 1701): a territory formed by the ...
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  • Pope Urban VIII (April 1568 – July 29, 1644), born Maffeo Barberini, was Pope from 1623 to 1644. He was the last Pope to expand the papal territory ...
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  • British and the French claimed the vast territory between the Appalachian ... of the Native Americans inhabiting the territory to the French crown. ...
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  • part of the Tierra del Fuego, Antarctic Territory and South Atlantic Islands ... del Fuego, entirely within the Chilean territory. It is part of the longest ...
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  • against various European powers, adding territory to the Ottoman empire. ... awarded Tripoli and the surrounding territory to Turgut, along with the ...
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  • Netherlands; it is the smallest inhabited territory divided between two nations ... The Caribs' territory was not completely conquered until the ...
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  • It also shares maritime borders with the Territory of Nunavut and the provinces ... largest administrative division; only the territory of Nunavut is larger. It ...
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  • *Territorial demarcation. Some pheromones mark the territory of an ... mark the boundaries of an organism's territory; they are particularly ...
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  • began), clan groups extended their territory and dominated others, competing ... to those people who live in conquered territory. The Greeks, the Romans ...
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  • Madagascar and northern Mozambique. The territory is geographically part ... The territory of Mayotte encompasses the largest coral lagoon in the ...
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  • from the west. The Salish occupied territory in Washington, Idaho, and ... totaled 120,000 dollars. The original territory comprised about 22 million ...
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  • French Polynesia became a French overseas territory. In 2003, this status was ... French Polynesia’s per capita GDP was US $17,500 in 2003. The territory ...
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  • At the time, the Ostrogoths were settled in Byzantine territory as ... had captured Sigismund. This brought the territory ruled by Theodoric to its ...
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  • as Cisleithania—because most of its territory lay west (or to "this ... democratic federation than a large territory held together by fear and ...
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  • (site of the gold rush in the Dakota Territory) in the fall of 1876. It ... ==Tombstone, Arizona Territory== Gunfight at the O.K. Corral ...
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  • from neighboring Missouri rushed to the territory to help decide the fate ... Though there were numerous tribes in the territory at the time of ...
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  • Emirates (which once was part of Omani territory), and Yemen. Its seacoast ... Musandam and the rest of Oman, in the territory of the United Arab Emirates ...
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  • the military expansion of imperial territory that was achieved during ... regained substantial parts of the territory of the former Western Roman ...
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  • portion of Goryeo’s northern territory, General Choi seized the opportunity and played upon the prevailing anti-Ming atmosphere to argue for ...
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  • [[Image:Wohngebiet_Maliseet.png|thumb|right|300px|Passamaquoddy Territory]] ... continue to seek the return of territory now comprised in Saint ...
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  • of military prowess, used to extend territory and also to defend territory. Male-dominated priesthoods and scribes were also needed to administer ...
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  • had conquered and had consolidated Jin territory as far south as the Great ... of his advisers to further expand the territory of the Yuan through the ...
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  • the local population. They also used the territory granted them as a base ... Norman control over the borders of the territory, while simultaneously the ...
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  • claimed ownership of all or part of the territory. This claim is occasionally ... flora and fauna. Forty-two percent of its territory falls under some form of ...
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  • should be so numerous in the territory as to breed disease and sickness, we will not be deterred from our purpose..." David S. Reynolds, ...
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  • The Sooner State. Formed from Indian Territory on November 16, 1907, it ... However, following the Civil War, the territory was settled by non-Natives ...
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  • Bermuda (officially, The Bermuda Islands) is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United ...
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  • the British ceded the entire Northwest Territory to the United States in ... The Northwest Territory was created out of the ceded English (formerly ...
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  • their lands east of the fort in Louisiana Territory effectively leaving them ... be sold and the tribe relocated to Indian Territory in the Cherokee Outlet ...
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  • The original inhabitants of the territory that is now Maine were Algonquian ... American and British forces contended for Maine's territory during ...
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  • Kakadu National Park is in the Northern Territory of Australia, 171 kilometers (106 mi) east of Darwin. Located within the Alligator Rivers ...
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  • which covers most of the country's territory. The elevation of Astana ... made capital of the Soviet Virgin Lands Territory (Tselinny Krai). ...
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  • allowed to trade with China from leased territory in Macau but did not officially ... trade and granted England additional territory in Kowloon. ...
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  • Antarctic Ocean, as well as one mainland territory in South America, totaling ... where it had League of Nations mandated territory where it has attempted ...
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  • King Geunchogo (346–375) expanded its territory to the north through ... and Korean records indicate that Baekje territory included parts of present ...
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  • to Sudan and settled in most of the territory of the CAR. During the ... European penetration of Central African territory began in the late ...
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  • Ellesmere Island is the largest of the Queen Elizabeth Islands in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Belonging to the Nunavut territory of Canada ...
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  • the acquisition of Avignon as papal territory are well preserved. As ... Francis I of France invaded the papal territory in order to drive out the ...
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  • are made during competition over food, mates or territory; much bird song functions in this way. Often there is a matched submission display, which the ...
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  • called for the return of the disputed territory of Alsace-Lorraine to France ... war. Although they still occupied allied territory, they did not have sufficient ...
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  • |territory= |result= Imperial victory (Rise and fall of the Heavenly ... Ranked below the King of Heaven, Hong Xiuquan, the territory was divided ...
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  • ambush him, Cleombrotus entered Boeotian territory from an unexpected direction ... south again, this time to Messenia, a territory which the Spartans had ...
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  • The Lordship directly controlled a small territory in Ireland surrounding ... their rule over the whole island. Territory over which English rule ...
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  • from conquered provinces of Mexico and territory west of the Appalachian ... because it was not yet declared a Territory of or in the United States ...
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  • of Botswana and tribes migrating into the territory from the Kalahari Desert. Tensions also escalated with the Boer settlers (Dutch) from the ...
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  • Yangtze River valley in the north and the territory of modern Guangdong province ... and valleys interspersed throughout its territory, while the northern half ...
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  • Silesia is a historical region in east–central Europe spanning the territory named Magna Germania by Tacitus. It is encircled by the upper ...
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  • The objective is to control a larger territory than the opponent by placing ... Maoists were more skillful at surrounding territory. Mao Zedong himself was ...
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  • the northern half of the island. Their territory included present-day Kerela ... a steady increase in its power and territory. With the Cholas in obscurity ...
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  • Korean population, a portion of whose territory was once part of greater Korea. ... Silla, having expanded its territory, established a provincial and ...
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  • within what was later to become Mapuche territory, although there is currently ... boundary was respected as the sovereign territory of the Mapuche nation with ...
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  • as the realization for the Andalucian territory of the European language ... official backing. In the Northern Territory, for example, bilingual ...
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  • more as an altruistic right to expand the territory of liberty. ... now the Western United States (the Oregon Territory, the Texas Annexation, ...
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  • two tribes to give up their traditional territory and move to a reservation ... the Lava Beds were removed to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). ...
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  • was embroiled in civil war. Much of the territory conquered by Ahmad Shah fell to others in this half century. By 1818, the Sadozai rulers who ...
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  • Territories to administer the vast territory between British Columbia ... established a federal presence in the new territory. Historians have argued ...
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  • which they are still making at their own territory on the island. ... The remaining Caribs live on a 3,700-acre territory on the east coast side ...
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  • | Former = Territory of Hawaii | Former_flag of the state = Flag of ... arbitrated. The islands became Hawaii Territory, a United States territory ...
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  • Wisconsin has been part of United States territory since the end of the American ... to the area as a whole when Wisconsin became a territory. ...
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  • the latter Little Walachia. The territory remained troublesome, however ... forest extending along the Danube to the territory of the Dacians. Ptolemy ...
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  • animals, particularly beaver, in their territory, the Iroquois sought to ... ===Northwest Territory=== [[Image:DSCN3504 ohiocompany e.JPG|thumb ...
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  • Black Hills on the eastern edge of their territory. The Kicked In The Bellies ... just to the south and east of Crow territory in Montana.Mark H. Brown ...
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  • Normandy, but they are part of the French territory along with continental ... A bailiwick is a territory administered by a bailiff. The Bailiff ...
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  • and 11 miles from Jerusalem in the territory of the tribe of Asher. ... of Jeroboam II had extended its territory into modern day Syria, ...
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  • is thus part of the European Union's territory, and its currency is the euro. ... there was no written history in the territory. It was originally inhabited ...
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  • During most of the Spanish colonial period, Bolivia was a territory ... 1830). Ironically, Bolivia was the last territory to gain its independence ...
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  • Sunnism in Egypt. He extended his territory westwards in the maghreb ... empire and its vassals shown in red; territory recovered from the Crusader ...
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  • four kilometers in length, and defend the territory with a combination of scent ... by causing weaker mink to be driven from territory until starvation sets in ...
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  • his assaults into Nobunaga's territory, but died of a stroke before ... his assaults into Nobunaga's territory. However, his health was ...
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  • these at the Congress of Berlin. Some territory was returned to the Ottomans ... the Turkish Straits, were dropped. Some territory ceded to Greece by the ...
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  • with Francisco Pizarro into de Ojeda's territory and landed at Cartagena against the warnings of de la Cosa, who proposed they disembark on the ...
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  • Sahara and has administered most of the territory since 1975. ... claim to Western Sahara, a former Spanish territory to the south. As a result ...
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  • Aceh (pronounced AH-chay) is one of the provinces of Indonesia and designated as a Special Territory of Indonesia, located on the northern tip ...
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  • takes up about one sixth of the country's territory. Xinjiang borders three provinces of China including the Tibet Autonomous Region to the south ...
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  • the British had occupied Italy's territory. After the war, Italy continued ... nations but it was never a single, coherent territory." ...
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  • their Province of Pennsylvania and their territory of the Lower Counties. ... and it was well understood that the territory's very existence as ...
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  • speakers originally inhabited a vast territory stretching from the Salmon ... The Goshutes, a Shoshonean people, maintained a territory in the Great ...
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  • had left, Moran managed to keep control of his territory until the early 1930s. The event also brought the belated and full attention of the federal government ...
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  • code of conduct stretched across a vast territory. Muslims wherever they ... Accusing the Umayyads of ruling the Islamic territory as emperors ...
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  • # Inclusion of the whole or part of the Negev in Arab territory whole or part of Western Galilee in the Jewish territory ...
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  • Jefferson to take possession of the territory and establish a temporary ... again. Clark, meanwhile, had entered Crow territory. The Crow tribe were known ...
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  • Following a series of insurrections, its territory was reduced with the ratification ... Constitution at that time included the territory of what are now the states ...
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  • settlers, who had largely ignored their territory before. Many of the events ... the band to the Quapaw Agency in Indian Territory as prisoners of war with ...
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  • were beyond the scope of a ruler to expand his territory or seek power including the unscrupulous ethics of allowing torture, trickery, deceit, and ...
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  • Empire, although they do not share any common territory the ancient empire, though there is no territory shared between the two ...
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  • recolonizing parts of its former eastern territory. With its vast range, the ... Sub-adults leave their mother to attempt to establish their own territory ...
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  • central location. Each clan and tribe owned a territory consisting of fields, meadows, mountains, pastures, summer and winter hamlets, and hunting grounds ...
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  • of the Arctic Ocean (the North-Western Territory). These lands later became part of Canada as the Northwest Territories, making up the vast majority ...
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  • kingdom. Rama III was king over the largest territory ever to be subject to Thai rule. He entered a trade-treaty with Britain in 1826. His father ...
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  • in January 1920 they defected to the territory occupied by Poland and settled for a while in Minsk. Here the Merezhkovskys lectured to the Russian ...
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  • , however, Aksum had gained control over territory previously Kushite. The ... placed Ethiopia in a special category of territory because the early followers ...
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  • *The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the ... #039;s 'map' and 'territory' (see above), and ...
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  • The 1947 UN Partition Plan put this territory area inside the Jewish state. in 1981 applied Israeli law to the whole territory, a move that has been described ...
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  • hauling out of the sea onto a male's territory, and alternate feeding ... In general, male otarids defend a territory, whereas phocids with ...
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  • war, in 1965, also concerned the disputed territory of Kashmir. Their third ... to be held to determine the future of the territory. In all, 1,500 soldiers ...
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  • to help him resist Muslim advances into territory of the Byzantine Empire ... worked their way forward through alien territory populated by infidels, ...
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  • especially by Russia until much of its territory had been annexed. An independent ... especially by Russia, until much of its territory had been annexed. Independent ...
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  • into a sovereign state with a definite territory. * * * There are a total ... into a sovereign state with a definite territory". In this category ...
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  • Whoever seriously considers the immense extent of territory comprehended ... It is natural to a republic to have only a small territory, otherwise ...
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  • partisan band reaches Poland and then German territory before the surviving members are officially received in territory held by the Western allies as ...
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  • #039; line, or the border of the Arkansas territory (excluding Missouri). Prior ... excluding slavery from the Missouri Territory north of 36°30' ...
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  • 106 C.E. the Roman Empire conquered the territory and its wealth (gold and ... In its early history, the territory of Transylvania belonged to a ...
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  • six times more likely to obtain an animal territory than a lone male, although ... can be very large and trying to build a territory around several females ...
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  • join the French community as an overseas territory. This entitled the region ... the name of the region to the French Territory of the Afars and Issas ...
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  • ) in Prussia, which at that time was territory governed by the Teutonic ... Order was called in to stabilize the territory between the Prussians and ...
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  • Historically, the Northwest Territory was an important early territory ... transitory phase of becoming an official territory. The 1850s were marked ...
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  • from Spain in 1821, Nevada became Mexican territory. Two fur trappers crossed ... The separation of the territory from Utah was important to the federal ...
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  • western region of the Islamabad Capital Territory—to the northwest of Rawalpindi ... just outside the capital Islamabad's territory and communicating with ...
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  • from Spain in the nineteenth century. The territory now occupied by Belize ... sometimes regarded as a transcontinental territory. Today, it is often considered ...
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  • to that of Germany and opening up the territory for German and Jewish merchant ... but the Czech kingdom was an unexplored territory for him; he did not understand ...
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  • Lucan was born in present-day Spain, then a territory of the Roman Empire, near the city of Cordoba. He was the nephew of the philosopher and ...
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  • now the Western United States (the Oregon Territory, the Texas Annexation, ... another, in extending the boundaries of their territory. ...
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  • |territory= |result=Decisive Norman victory |combatant1=Normans supported ... his successors with title to French territory, which subsequently had ...
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  • The act led to the creation of Indian territory, the general borders of ... worse as the settlers encroached on territory and natural resources in ...
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  • where the Carolingian dynasty originated. That territory was then a part of the kingdom of Austrasia. His father was Charles Martel, mayor of the palace ...
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  • Comprising more than 260 islands, the territory is located on the eastern ... Republic of China is responsible for the territory's defense and foreign ...
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  • ===Afghan territory=== Four deaths had been reported in Afghanistan, including a young girl who died in Jalalabad after a wall collapsed on her ...
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  • of the Kakadu region of the Northern Territory have been using the didgeridoo ... in parts of Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, and the surrounding areas ...
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  • the strait and made it an international territory under the control of the League of Nations. This was amended under the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne ...
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  • in Sudan with about a quarter of its territory in Egypt. In ancient times ... initial victory when she attacked Roman territory, she was defeated and surrendered ...
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  • Chinese, Mongolian, Russian, and Kazak territory, where Russia, China, Mongolia ... created a free republic there on Chinese territory; and after this part of ...
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  • organized by the creation of the Oregon Territory in 1848, the admission of California to the Union in 1850, and the creation of the Utah Territory ...
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  • To ensure future control of the territory, the royal court began encouraging ... forces rapidly conquered all the Liao territory bordering the Yalu River ...
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  • The territory takes its name from Gaza, its main city. The Gaza Strip ... into the Palestinian Authority controlled territory, on roughly the area of ...
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  • and (dependent on the species) guard their territory. The size of the territory varies depending on the species of swallow; in colonial-nesting species ...
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  • Italian army, whose acquisition of territory was confined to Eritrea ... can still be regarded as the only African territory that remained outside the ...
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  • archbishops. He also began to organize a territory-based administration by ... Around 1003, he invaded and occupied Transylvania, a territory ruled ...
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  • Each tribe or band occupied a specific territory, generally centered on ... later Euro-American explorers into their territory exacerbated the practice. ...
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  • superior forces, Jehoiakim retained no territory except Jerusalem when he ... and servitude to foreign rule, while the territory formerly promised to Israel ...
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  • for the administration of the former Ottoman territory of Palestine being given to the United Kingdom. Phrases from the 1917 declaration regarding ...
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  • Canaan. He then ascends Mount Nebo in the territory of Moab, sees the "promised ... to return to their east Jordanic territory. When he is "old and ...
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  • were able to gain control over a vast territory reaching from Lake of Constance ... formally created a new canton from the territory, and in 1803, it joined ...
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  • plan, aimed at recovering as much Soviet territory from German control as possible ... The territory on which the offensive was staged was a slightly hilly ...
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  • had made gains against Persia, restoring territory to Roman rule, until disease ... of governing the extensive imperial territory and by increasing civil ...
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  • the British were determined that no more territory would be conceded. However ... value of having occupied some British territory. The "Channel Islands ...
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  • would cover West Bank and Gaza Strip territory, except for issues that ... the liberation of all Palestinian territory, and as a step along the ...
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  • in 1859, and worked in California and Washington Territory. One year later, in 1860, Agassiz married Anna Russell. ==Career== Agassiz became fascinated ...
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  • defended British North American colonies to gain territory. ... defense, and was against any attack into American territory. ...
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  • there, and established an administration in the territory. The colonial power also had to make use of the colony economically. If the colonial power ...
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  • as Judea and Samaria, is a landlocked territory on the west bank of the ... Jewish religious sites and tombs. The territory was the homeland to Palestinians ...
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  • Choctaw. Other tribes that inhabited the territory of Mississippi include ... The first major European expedition into the territory that became ...
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  • Great Chu." Pei was in old Chu (楚) territory. At the time that Liú ... By generously giving glory and territory to his allies during his ...
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  • community was initially not part of the territory under direct Roman control ... along Watling Street through hostile territory to Londinium (London). ...
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  • 2 and 3 defined the 'national territory' as: 'the whole ... Articles 2 and 3 declared that the "territory of the state is the island ...
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  • islands in the chain are Russian territory, not American, and lie about 200 km from the middle coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. ===Volcanoes ...
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  • were not to be stationed in East German territory. In addition to allaying ... which existed outside of the unified territory, that had not acceded. ...
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  • cases of partial or total occupation of the territory of a High Contracting Party, even if the said occupation meets with no armed resistance." ...
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  • the first European to enter some of the territory through which she passed ... marched overland from the Ogowe through territory notorious for the ferocity ...
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  • Jackson to seek the annexation of the territory for the United States. ... the U.S. acquired from Mexico vast new territory in the Southwest. ...
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  • over Mohammareh, which was part of Iraqi territory, to Iran." The Iraqi ... declared the Shatt al-Arab part of its territory. Iraq launched a full-scale ...
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  • #039;s rule, controlling a larger territory than any of his predecessors ... sites of major cloth fairs, to the royal territory. Béthune, first of the ...
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  • forts. Shaista Khan drove into Marathi territory, and took up residence ... battles against the Mughals, and territory changed hands again and ...
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  • costs is met by the relevant State or Territory government. Government ... to the Ministry of Education. French territory is divided into 35 académies ...
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  • in Manchuria may have also taken some of the territory. ... Krai. During that period, Goguryeo territory included three-fourths ...
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  • Each state establishes a court system for the territory under its ... the alleged crime took place on the territory of a state party, or a ...
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  • the southern Levant, ca. 800 B.C.E. The territory of the Kingdom of Judah ... fell to the Medes, and much of the territory between Niniveh and the ...
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  • the Spanish throne, but divided Spanish territory in Italy and the Low Countries ... Charles II agreed to bequeath all of his territory to the Dauphin's second ...
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  • the eighteenth century, Kuwait was a territory of shifting communities. ... and from the smuggling trade into Ottoman territory that high tariffs encouraged. ...
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  • from Scandinavia through Latvian territory via the River Daugava to ... changes by the Soviet Union, this territory was attached to Belorussia ...
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  • *Greenland (a self-governing Danish territory since 1979) ... Nordic kingdoms, including struggles for territory and power. ...
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  • #039;s request that he be granted the imperial territory known as Kazuraki no Agata in 624 is widely cited as evidence of her independence from his ...
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  • Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory from the Hudson's ... launched the North-West Rebellion in the territory of Saskatchewan, but now ...
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  • In 1059, Abu-Bakr Ibn-Umar reorganized the administration of his territory ... as Christian soldiers elsewhere in their territory, despite having based their ...
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  • to prevent acts of torture in any territory under its jurisdiction. ... :1. Each State Party shall undertake to prevent in any territory under ...
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  • | territory = Jerusalem captured by the Rashidun Caliphate ... a major expedition to regain the lost territory, but his army was defeated ...
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  • in 1216, to preach in conquered Cathar territory and to combat the spread ... authority to preach throughout the territory of Toulouse. Thus the foundations ...
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  • when Argentina defined as "disputed territory" islands that had ... recognizes the islands as Chilean territory. The 1984 treaty also resolved ...
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  • political state. Goguryeo expanded its territory during the reigns of King ... continued its battles to recover its lost territory from the southern Korean ...
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  • Crusade; Prussia became a German-language territory, assimilating settlers ... build new castles in the conquered territory. The Teutonic tactics proved ...
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  • Tsleil-waututh, who have resided in this territory for thousands of years. ... indictment of the appropriation of native territory by white colonialism, was ...
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  • to expand, their desires overlapped with the territory of the Himyarites. At its strongest, the kingdom of Aksum extended into Yemen and western ...
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  • #039;s army advanced further into Dacian territory and forced King Decebalus ... In 105, Decebalus undertook an invasion against Roman territory by ...
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  • in Texas. He returned to Oklahoma, or Indian Territory as it was then called, to find better opportunities, but Susan and the children did not go ...
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  • across Europe. After crossing Byzantine territory into Anatolia, both armies ... but little by little the rest of the territory was captured by Muslims ...
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  • instead extended throughout the entire German territory. ==Notes== ==References== * Anastaplo, George. Reflections on consitutional law. Lexington ...
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  • annexed, although this did not happen. New territory was thus opened up for settlement, to be eventually incorporated into as new states within the Union ...
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  • of a settled and "pacified" territory of Veragua. ... for gold and slaves and enlarging his territory. He was also able to quell ...
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  • the northeast, and the Moroccan-annexed territory of Western Sahara to the ... Mauritania is generally flat, its territory of over one million square ...
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  • against Wang, Li Mi fled to Tang Dynasty territory and surrendered to Emperor ... Tang and captured most of former Xia territory, Wei and another staff ...
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  • The struggle for control over territory in the Amazon basin led to ... of Colombian guerrillas into Ecuadorian territory have led the Ecuadorian ...
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  • traveling northwest through American-held territory. Disguised, traveling at ... Campaign, entered deep into Iroquois territory to defeat them and destroy ...
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  • and even to attack other's or their territory, examples of more harmonious ... to oppress Others, even to conquer their territory, examples of more harmonious ...
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  • cattle-breeders established settlements on the territory of Almaty. Saka tribes and later Uisun tribes inhabited the territory north of the Tian Shan ...
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  • and Iowa. At one point the family lived in Indian Territory in Kansas. Although Laura was a bright student, her education was rather sporadic, a result ...
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  • both the Novgorod Republic and Sweden claimed the territory as their own. In order to defend against the military advances of encroaching empires, the ...
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  • 37 percent of the island's territory. The events of the summer ... the main part. These are all located in territory that belongs to the British ...
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  • gateway through the Great Lakes to the new territory. During the War of 1812, the fledgling U.S. and Great Britain fought on many fronts. One of the ...
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  • access to females. A tigress may have a territory of 20 km², while the ... To identify his territory, the male marks trees by spraying urine ...
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  • will fight among themselves to establish their territory. Then each species will make their characteristic calls, usually early in the morning at ...
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  • is also Tahitian (“ia ora na”). As a territory of Chile, the main language ... As a territory of Chile, Easter Island is predominantly Catholic with ...
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  • a Contracting State's own national territory; the obligation to secure ... from imposing the death penalty within its own territory. ...
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  • of the Kargil region remaining an Indian territory; then, after Pakistan& ... the guise of mujahideen, into the Indian territory. They aimed to sever the ...
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  • In 1942, during World War II, the archipelago was made a Federal Territory ... On October 5, 1988, the Federal Territory was dissolved and added ...
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  • by the treaty on Germany included losing territory to a number of surrounding ... returned to newly restorted Poland. This territory had already been liberated ...
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  • [[image:China, 610.svg|600px|center|The Tang dynasty territory and ... launched a major incursion into Tang territory, reaching all the way to ...
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  • Huron meant the continuous shifting of territory in southern Ontario between ... no absolute right to claim territory for purely monetary purposes ...
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  • (a region within Qin proper (the former territory of Qin during the Warring ... Zhang Er, taking back Zhang's territory and reinstalling Zhao Xie ...
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  • under Tordesillas, considered Spanish territory, as confirmed by explorers ... Unlike Spain, Portugal did not divide its colonial territory in America ...
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  • with a raised clenched fist. Yemen's territory includes the remote island ... Modest amounts of oil have been found in Yemeni territory since 1984 ...
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  • left|thumb|220px|Rupert's Land, a territory in British North America ... the eastern coast. All are part of the territory of Nunavut. ...
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  • #039;s renunciation of war to acquire territory, he established friendly ... The Edicts also accurately locate their territory "600 yojanas away ...
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  • 000 troops. The Khitan withdrew and ceded territory to the east of the Yalu ... Jurchens armies and expanded the Goryeo territory for a temporary time. ...
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  • had also, at one time, extended their territory into Bosnia. All three ... would set out not only to acquire Bosnian territory but to "cleanse" ...
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  • west of the Missouri River and additional territory in adjoining states and ... settle upon or occupy any portion of the territory, or without the consent ...
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  • even though the talks were held on their territory. This led to the creation of a Dutch proverbial saying: "De vous, chez vous, sans vous ...
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  • affairs because they saw France or certain French territory as rightfully theirs, was of little concern to the peasants yet they were expected to pay ...
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  • to the Yakama Indian Reservation (in Washington Territory), where they endured great deprivation. Winnemucca went with them to serve as a translator ...
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  • Atlanta, Georgia. He was assigned to the Chicago territory, where he conducted background investigations for the purpose of credit information. He returned ...
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  • by preempting Vietnamese designs on Khmer territory. The weakened Khmer periodically ... a number of conquered people to its own territory, where they were assimilated ...
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  • to attract mates, as well as for defense of territory and to spread an alarm if seized by a predator. Females of some katydid species also can make ...
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  • abetted the Peguan rebels. Entering their territory, Alaungpaya laid siege ... by bouts of depression after the loss of territory under the Treaty of Yandabo ...
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  • Even though the Russo-Japanese War was fought on Chinese territory, China was powerless to to do more than recognize Manchuria as a neutral zone ...
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  • of Saint Nicholas at Bzheta in Shkreli territory, Albania, 1908]] ... cultural history, and an identifiable territory. This term is also preferred ...
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  • With American support, Israel regained the territory it had lost in the early fighting and gained new territories from the Arabs, including land in ...
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  • By this time, the valley was within the territory of New Spain, which was ... a portion of it was made the New Mexico Territory (this included what is ...
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  • (199,900 square kilometers). The national territory extends about 900 kilometers ... of the water that originates in its territory, but the new agreement ...
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  • 21 Rogers was born to a prominent Indian Territory family and learned to ride ... Will Rogers was born on the huge Dog Iron Ranch in Indian Territory ...
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  • campaign and started liberating chunks of territory. The activities provoked ... entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory." Aided by the Red ...
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  • were able to travel from the Imperial territory of Hither Pomerania through ... that the Order was planning to annex parts of his territory. ...
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  • together with 30,000 soldiers. He placed the territory under the government of the Breton prince Conanus Meriadocus. Lacking adequate females, Conanus ...
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  • |Former = Indiana Territory |Demonym = Hoosier title ... The area became part of the U.S. territory following the American ...
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  • Rico) is a self-governing unincorporated organized territory of the United States located east of the Dominican Republic in the northeastern Caribbean Sea. ...
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  • death of Ghiyath ud-Din in 1202, forced to cede territory to the Khwarezm Empire. Juzjani states that the Mongols destroyed Firuzkuh in 1222. ...
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  • confused with Christmas Island, a small territory of Australia located in ... Discourses over Development in a Pacific Territory 1948-82. University of ...
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  • organize a new state out of the Southwest Territory, it adopted "Tennessee ... which it was organized into the Southwest Territory. In an effort to encourage ...
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  • as for the addition of a vast extent of territory. During this period Timur ... of his foes, but sought extension of territory by encroachments upon the ...
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  • The Bashkirs, a Turkic people, live in Russia, mostly in the Central Asian republic of Bashkortostan, an oil rich territory. A significant number ...
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  • The Magyar tribes occupied the whole territory of Carpathian Basin ... in Bosnia and he conceded the new territory in appanage to his younger ...
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  • Yuan's army, caught in unfamiliar and hostile territory, withdrew ... E.), Majapahit’s armies conquered more territory. In 1377, a few years after ...
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  • that fort. The high cost of occupying the territory caused the company to withdraw ... of Amin's troops into Tanzanian territory. The Tanzanian army, backed ...
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  • in an underdeveloped part of a state’s territory, to detain societal prisoners ... to establish the continent’s first territory, British Governor Arthur ...
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  • Partition Plan, designed to divide the territory of Palestine into Jewish ... of Lod, Ramle, Lod Airport and more territory southeast of the city of ...
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  • #039;s salesmen left and Lasker acquired his territory. It was during this time that Lasker created his first campaign. He hired a friend, Eugene Katz ...
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  • of the Government of Lebanon over all Lebanese territory in accordance with the provisions of resolution 1559 (2004) and resolution 1680 (2006), and ...
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  • 14Objections to the Proposed Constitution from Extent of Territory Answered ... Whoever seriously considers the immense extent of territory comprehended ...
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  • Two thirds of the Falls are within Argentine territory, while primary access to the falls is from Brazil. Mist rises between 100 and 500 feet (30 ...
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  •  4.2%Western Australia  3.8%Northern Territory  29.8%Victoria  0.85 ... parts of Western Australia and Northern Territory; Yapa in western central ...
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  • "The people are all tattooed. Their territory is about 20,000 ... the traditional heart of China and held territory vastly larger than any ...
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  • Equatorial Guinea is comprised of a mainland territory known as Río ... were ceded to Spain in exchange for territory in the Americas (Treaty ...
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  • Britain and Iran fought a war in 1856 over territory between Iran ... quot; was played in other people's territory, with little thought to ...
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  • Until the fifteenth century, the Tatar territory was more or less a single ... is now Russia and Kazakhstan. The present territory of Tatarstan was inhabited ...
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  • certain Arabian tribes who may have lived in the territory of Edom and exacted tribute from the Ammonites (2 Chron. 26). The Chronicler goes on ...
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  • Although Frederick did not gain any territory in the ensuing Treaty of ... to keep enemy armies out of Prussian core territory. In a letter to his mother ...
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