* Vladimír Remek ( born 1948 ), cosmonaut ( first non-USSR, non-US citizen in space aboard Soyuz 28 in 1978 )

The former non-USSR Warsaw Treaty members ( but Albania ) and the three Baltic states became NATO members in 1999 or 2004.

The Kerguelen Islands, along with the islands of Amsterdam and St. Paul, and the Crozet archipelago were officially annexed by France in 1893, and were included as possessions in the French constitution in 1924 ( in addition to that portion of Antarctica claimed by France and known as Adélie Land ; as with all Antarctic territorial claims, France's possession on the continent is held in abeyance until a new international treaty is ratified that defines each claimant's rights and obligations ).

After the Second Balkan War, Thessaloniki and the rest of the Greek portion of Macedonia were officially annexed to Greece by the Treaty of Bucharest in 1913.

Isolated from its county seat of Wallace in the Silver Valley, the southern portion of Shoshone County was annexed by Nez Perce County in 1904, then became Clearwater County in 1911.

At the death of the latter ( 4 BC ) one portion of it was annexed to the tetrarchy of his son Herod Philip II, and the remainder bestowed upon that Lysanias who is named by Luke ( iii.

A small western portion of Orangeburg County was annexed to the newly formed Aiken County in 1871.

In 1910 a small western portion of Berkeley County, around Holly Hill and Eutawville, was annexed to Orangeburg County, thus bringing the county to its present size.

In 1816 it annexed a small portion of northwestern Charleston District.

In 1911 the portion of the county east of the Edisto River was annexed to Charleston County.

The land for the airport was originally in an unincorporated portion of Platte County before being annexed by Platte City, and eventually, Kansas City.

Originally it extended north to the Canadian border, but in 1844 its northern portion was annexed by Aroostook County.

A southern portion of the township has been annexed by the city of Topeka.

That portion was annexed by Nez Perce County for several years and then was established as a new county in 1911.

The Soviets ceded the portion to the east of the Oder-Neisse line ( light beige ) to Poland, while a portion of the isolated easternmost section of German East Prussia, Königsberg, was annexed directly into the USSR

A large portion of the area was annexed by the municipality of North Port, and is now part of that city.

In 1815, a portion of the town was annexed by Fairhaven, which at the time controlled Acushnet, Massachusetts.

Berrien Springs also lies to the west, with a small portion east of the river annexed by the village.

The city of Hillsdale has annexed land in the southern portion of the township.

A portion of Williamston was annexed from adjacent Wheatfield Township.

A portion of Bath, to the south, was annexed in 1897.

* In 1770, by act of the General Court, Hollis annexed a portion of the town of Monson when its charter was repealed by its own request.

A part of neighboring Bow was annexed to Allenstown in 1815, and a portion of Hooksett was annexed in 1853.

Levitt was able to acquire the great majority of the land in Willingboro ; the historic village of Rancocas, in the southeast portion of the township, was annexed to Westampton Township to keep it from being bulldozed, as Levitt wished to keep the development within the boundaries of a single municipality.

These later annexed territories include Eastern Poland ( incorporated into two different SSRs ), Latvia ( became Latvia SSR ), Estonia ( became Estonian SSR ), Lithuania ( became Lithuania SSR ), part of eastern Finland ( became part of the Karelo-Finnish SSR ) and northern Romania ( became the Moldavian SSR ).

During the First Partition of Poland in 1772, the city state was annexed by King Frederick the Great of the Kingdom of Prussia.

Almost all Germans who returned or remained were expelled as the city was annexed by the Soviet Union and ceded to Poland in spring 1945, a decision by Stalin with full consent of the western Allies in the Potsdam Conference.

98 % of the new inhabitants were Poles expelled from Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union or Polish peasants from central Poland.

Most Holocaust historians identify six German Nazi extermination camps, all in occupied Poland ; two of them, Chełmno and the Auschwitz II, in the western Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany ( October 1939 ), four in the General Government area.

* 1772: In the First Partition of Poland, Royal Prussia ( including Gdynia ) was annexed into the Kingdom of Prussia.

After the German invasion of Poland that marked the start of WWII in Europe, the Soviet Union invaded and annexed eastern parts of the Second Polish Republic.

After unsuccessful proposals by Paul Hymans to create a federation between Poland and Lithuania, Vilnius and the surrounding area was formally annexed by Poland in March 1922.

Additionally, almost 1, 900 mentally ill patients from East Prussia and annexed areas of Poland were murdered there as well, in what was known as Action T4.

Poles from Central Poland and the Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union as well as Ukrainians expelled from Southern Poland throughout the Operation Vistula, were resettled in Masuria.

Some historians suggest that the regions of Sandomierz, Lublin and Czerwień ( western Red Ruthenia ) were indeed annexed by Mieszko's state in the 970s, as lands valuable for trade reasons and as a starting point for a future attack against what was to become Lesser Poland, then in the hands of Bohemia.

After the Second World War the area was annexed by Poland, this came about as a direct result of the Allied Powers agreement on the realignment of states in Eastern Europe reached at the Yalta Conference in February 1945.

The region became a part of the Kingdom of Poland province of Royal Prussia with the Second Peace of Thorn ( 1466 ), prospered with the grain trade from southern Poland to the royal city of Gdańsk and then sustained ravages and plagues brought by several Swedish and Prussian invasions during the 17th and early 18th centuries, and was forcefully removed from Kingdom of Poland and annexed into the Kingdom of Prussia as a result of the First Partition of Poland in 1772.

Hence, as retroactive minimisation of the Holocaust, Holocaust deniers have attached themselves to the Heimatvertriebenen ( ethnic Germans expelled mainly from the eastern quarter of Germany annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union after the war ), and have, per their opponents, attempted to use sympathy for said Germans, and blame the Jews for the suffering of the Heimatvertriebenen.

* 1939 – World War II: following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig ( now Gdańsk, Poland ) is annexed by Nazi Germany.

However, because the Soviets were removing Poles from annexed formerly Polish territories, Banach began preparing to leave the city and settle in Kraków, Poland, where he had been promised a chair at the Jagiellonian University.

In 1793 the Kingdom of Prussia annexed the city following the Second Partition of Poland.

Nazi Germany annexed the city after the Invasion of Poland in 1939, and administered it as part of Danzig-West Prussia. Poles and Jews were classified as untermenschen by German authorities, with their fate being slavery and extermination.