Firstly, the northeast lowlands of Java were suitable for rice cultivation, and during Majapahit's prime numerous irrigation projects were undertaken, some with government assistance.

Secondly, Majapahit's ports on the north coast were probably significant stations along the route to obtain the spices of Maluku, and as the spices passed through Java they would have provided an important source of income for Majapahit.

Majapahit's direct administration did not extend beyond east Java and Bali, but challenges to Majapahit's claim to overlordship in outer islands drew forceful responses.

Nevertheless, Majapahit's power had declined through these dynastic conflicts and the growing power of the north-coastal kingdoms in Java.

In 1357, the only remaining state refusing to acknowledge Majapahit's hegemony was Sunda, in West Java, bordering the Majapahit Empire.

In about the year 1300, in the reign of Majapahit's first king, an important change took place: the indigenous coinage was completely replaced by imported Chinese copper cash.

According to the Nagarakertagama, around the 13th century, Majapahit's vassal states spread throughout much of today's Indonesia, making it the largest empire ever to exist in Southeast Asia.

Indonesian 15th century records indicate the influence of Princess Darawati, a Cham, in influencing her husband Kertawijaya, Majapahit's seventh ruler, similarly to Parameshwara of Malacca, to convert the Majapahit royal family to Islam.

The earliest historical record about Timor island is 14th century Nagarakretagama, Canto 14, that identify Timur as an island within Majapahit's realm.

Local traditions in many parts of Indonesia retain accounts in more or less legendary form from 14th century Majapahit's power.

Damarwulan is a clever chap, who with courage, aptitude, intelligence and the assistance of his young lover Anjasmara, makes a surprise attack on the neighboring kingdom and brings down Minakjinggo, an Adipati ( viceroy ) of Blambangan and mighty enemy of Majapahit's beautiful queen Sri Ratu Kencanawungu.

The name was taken from the name of Majapahit's Prime Minister, Gajah Mada.

Tribal authorities, the chiefs and their secretaries, were held responsible for maintaining the registers of indigenous persons within their territories, under the general supervision of district officials.

In answering these questions, we need to ask not merely whether Communist troops have crossed over into territories they did not occupy before, and not merely whether disciplined agents of the Cominform are in control of governments from which they were formerly excluded: the success of Communism's war against the West does not depend on such spectacular and definitive conquests.

No matter by what name cattle were called, there was no denyin' that they not only saved Texas from financial ruin, but went far toward redeemin' from a wilderness vast territories of the Northwest.

The salamanders left odour marks around their territories which averaged in size and were sometimes inhabited by a male and female pair.

The Assyrians and Hittites were then left in the field to battle over control over eastern and southern Anatolia and colonial territories in Syria.

* 1962 – Eight years after the remaining French India territories were handed to India, the ratifications of the treaty are exchanged to make the transfer official.

Their territories were small and mostly strung along the Rhine ( although a few were in the hinterland ).

By the conditions accepted in the treaty, the Avars were to take possession of Pannonia and the Lombards were promised military support in Italy should the need arise ; also, for a period of 200 years the Lombards were to maintain the right to reclaim their former territories if the plan to conquer Italy failed, thus leaving Alboin with an alternative open.

After the American Civil War, the settlement of the western territories by migrants from the east led to dialect mixing and levelling, so that regional dialects are most strongly differentiated in the eastern parts of the country that were settled earlier.

The rest of the Freie Ämter were collectively administered as subject territories by the rest of the Confederation.

With the end of western Roman power, the islands, to the extent that they were governed at all, were part of territories of Goths, Vandals, Saracens, before the Normans fortified Favignana in 1081.

Under the strong rule of Abdur Rahman these outlying territories were closely welded to Kabul ; but after the accession of Habibullah the bonds once more relaxed.

The archbishops of Riga were also the secular rulers of Riga until 1561 when during the reformation the territory converted from Catholicism to Lutheranism and all church territories were secularized.

His territories were later to be known as the Crown of Aragon, which conquered many overseas possessions and ruled the western Mediterranean Sea with outlying territories in Naples and Sicily and as far as Athens in the 13th century.

The company also exerted control on inland territories that were inhabited by numerous tribes.

Other territories given up to the Dutch Indies were Landak, Sambas, Sintang and Sukadana.

Over time, as new states were formed from federal territories, these territorial reception statutes became obsolete and were re-enacted as state law.

These territories were considered to have been settled by British colonists, and therefore the reception of English law was automatic.

The Theran Empire book covers the Theran Empire and its provinces ( which roughly correspond to the territories of the Roman Empire, plus colonies in America and India ).

Heading roughly clockwise, the states and territories ( in italics ) with a coastline on the Indian Ocean are:

Many of the counties of Ulster roughly correspond to the territories controlled by the principal clan in that particular area such as the O Donnells of Tír Conaill whose political power was concentrated in what would become the County of Donegal.

The Levant includes most of modern Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Palestinian territories, Cyprus, Turkey's Hatay Province and sometimes Iraq or the Sinai Peninsula, and corresponds roughly to the historic area of Greater Syria.

After the United Nations was founded in 1945 and the League of Nations was disbanded, all but one of the mandated territories that remained under the control of the mandatory power became United Nations trust territories, a roughly equivalent status.

In the British Empire ( originally in the maritime and hinterland sphere of influence of the East India Company, HEIC, later transformed into crown territories ), mainly in British India, the numbers of guns fired as a gun salute to the ruler of a so-called princely state became a politically highly significant indicator of his status, not governed by objective rules, but awarded ( and in various cases increased ) by the British paramount power, roughly reflecting his state's socio-economic, political and / or military weight, but also as a prestigious reward for loyalty to the Raj, in classes ( always odd numbers ) from three to 21 ( seven lacking ), for the " vassal " indigenous rulers ( normally hereditary with a throne, sometimes raised as a personal distinction for an individual ruling prince ).

The Castilian territories roughly coincide with the plateaus of north-central Spain, historically sparsely populated harsh highlands.

Canaan ( Northwest Semitic ; Phoenician: ; Biblical Hebrew: / ; Masoretic: / ; / Kan ‘ ān ) is a historical Semitic-speaking region roughly corresponding to the Levant ( modern-day Israel, Palestinian territories, Lebanon, and the western parts of Jordan and Syria ).

Ancient Canaan included the region between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean, an area roughly equivalent to the modern states of Israel ( with the Palestinian territories ), Lebanon, and coastal and southern inland Syria.

After the Battle of Sekigahara in the year 1600 that marked the beginning of the Edo period, shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu reorganized roughly 200 daimyo and their territories, into the han, and rated them based on their production of rice from rice paddies.

In the aftermath of WWII on the Soviet-Finnish border, the parties signed another peace treaty ceding to the Soviet Union in 1944, followed by a Soviet annexation of roughly the same eastern Finnish territories as those of the prior interim peace treaty as part of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic.

From 26 October 1939, following the end of the invasion of Poland, Frank was assigned Governor-General of the occupied Polish territories ( Generalgouverneur für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete ), controlling the General Government, the area of Poland not directly incorporated into Germany ( roughly 90, 000 km² out of the 187, 000 km² Germany had gained ).

The territorial definition of the proposed state consists of the Indian state of Punjab, where Sikhs are the majority population ; however, being roughly analogous to the historical Sikh Empire ( 1707 – 1849 ), some believe other territories of the greater Punjab region should also be included.

All of these territories were annexed to Wessex, roughly doubling the kingdom's size.

The southermost territories of the duke, roughly encompassing northern Delaware, were desired by Charles Calvert, Baron Baltimore, who sought to extend the reach of his proprietary Province of Maryland into the area.

The Portuguese territories in the Americas, corresponding roughly to what is now Brazil, never had their own official flag, since the Portuguese tradition was to hoist the flag of the Kingdom of Portugal in all territories of the Portuguese Crown.

It passes through the middle of the Pacific Ocean, roughly following the 180 ° longitude but it deviates to pass around some territories and island groups.

Old French ( franceis, françois, romanz ; Modern French ) was the Romance dialect continuum spoken in territories that span roughly the northern half of modern France and parts of modern Belgium and Switzerland from the 9th century to the 14th century.

The post-World War II territory of Poland was significantly smaller than the pre-1939 land areas, shrinking by some 77, 000 square kilometers ( roughly equaling that of the territories of Belgium and the Netherlands combined ).

The duchy roughly conforms to the borders and territories of the modern region of Bourgogne, but its dukes came to own considerable possessions in the Low Countries known as the Burgundian Netherlands, which were caught up in the Eighty Years ' War of the 16th and 17th centuries, and some of which later became free territories at the end of the Dutch Revolt during the Thirty Years ' War.

Doclea or Duklja () was a medieval state with hereditary lands roughly encompassing the territories of present-day southeastern Montenegro, from Kotor on the west to the river Bojana on the east and to the sources of Zeta and Morača rivers on the north.