Territory
A territory is a clearly defined geographical area, usually considered to be a possession of a person, organization, or institution. An organism which claims territory is said to be territorial.In politics, the term refers to an area of land under jurisdiction of a governmental authority.
Such jurisdiction can take many forms:
- A legally administered territory, which is a non-sovereign geographic area that has voluntarily come under the authority of another government. For example, American Samoa is a territory of the government of the United States.
- An illegally occupied territory, which is a geographic area that claims sovereignty, but is being illegally or forcibly subjugated to the authority of a foreign government. For example, the nation of Tibet is currently considered to be illegally occupied by the Chinese government.
- A disputed territory, which is a geographic area claimed by two or more rival governments. For example, the territory of Kashmir is claimed by both the governments of India and Pakistan.
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left I made an acquaintance which afterwards proved fatal to me.
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which he acknowledged the debt, and named the time in which he
Malingan. In ten months the reader will hear the results.
Just as we were starting I shewed the Corticelli a carriage with
travel. At this she trembled, her pride was wounded, and for a
abuse, and curses on me. I stood the storm unmoved, however, and
delighted to find herself sitting opposite to me with the servant
close to me.
We got to Liege at nightfall on the next day, and I contrived to
horses to take us through the Ardennes, and thus to have the
woman, so wrapped up in a black mantilla that only the tip of her
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"As I have not the pleasure of knowing you," I replied, "prudence
of a neighbouring street she shewed me her face. What was my
Fountain of Vaucluse. I was very glad to meet her.
In my curiosity I followed her into the house, to a room on the
good, for I felt angry with her, and despised her advances, no
However, I took three louis out of my purse and gave them to her,
and I am the mistress of a rich landed proprietor. I got back to
must be confessed that your behaviour at Avignon was both
Good day, madam."
I then returned to my hotel to write an account of what I had seen
Ardennes. This is one of the strangest tracts in Europe: a vast
splendid passages.
There is no town in the forest, and though one is obliged to cross
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