Definition of territory

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Territory (n.) A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district.

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Infraterritorial :: Infraterritorial (a.) Within the territory of a state.
Incursion :: Incursion (n.) A running into; hence, an entering into a territory with hostile intention; a temporary invasion; a predatory or harassing inroad; a raid..
Marcher :: Marcher (n.) The lord or officer who defended the marches or borders of a territory.
Enclave :: Enclave (v. t.) To inclose within an alien territory.
Retrocede :: Retrocede (v. t.) To cede or grant back; as, to retrocede a territory to a former proprietor..
Duchy :: Duchy (n.) The territory or dominions of a duke; a dukedom.
Territorialize :: Territorialize (v. t.) To reduce to the condition of a territory.
District :: District (n.) A division of territory; a defined portion of a state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other purposes; as, a congressional district, judicial district, land district, school district, etc..
Exclave :: Exclave (n.) A portion of a country which is separated from the main part and surrounded by politically alien territory.
War :: War (n.) A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities..
Appanage :: Appanage (n.) A dependency; a dependent territory.
Territorialize :: Territorialize (v. t.) To enlarge by extension of territory.
Banat :: Banat (n.) The territory governed by a ban.
Landgraviate :: Landgraviate (n.) The territory held by a landgrave.
Vassalage :: Vassalage (n.) A territory held in vassalage.
Enclave :: Enclave (n.) A tract of land or a territory inclosed within another territory of which it is independent. See Exclave.
Territorial :: Territorial (a.) Of or pertaining to territory or land; as, territorial limits; territorial jurisdiction..
Delegate :: Delegate (n.) One elected by the people of a territory to represent them in Congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of voting..
Extraterritoriality :: Extraterritoriality (n.) A fiction by which a public minister, though actually in a foreign country, is supposed still to remain within the territory of his own sovereign or nation..
Marquisate :: Marquisate (n.) The seigniory, dignity, or lordship of a marquis; the territory governed by a marquis..
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