Nigeria relied largely on Anglo-German correspondence dating from 1885 as well as treaties between the colonial powers and the indigenous rulers in the area, particularly the 1884 Treaty of Protection.

In 1795, following the Northwest Indian War, an area that was to be part of Chicago was turned over to the United States for a military post by native tribes in concordance with the Treaty of Greenville.

In 1624 France attempted to settle in the area, but was forced to abandon it in the face of hostility from the Portuguese, who viewed it as a violation of the Treaty of Tordesillas.

Following the Treaty of Breda on 31 July 1667 the area was given back to France.

The Cuban-American Treaty gave, among other things, the Republic of Cuba ultimate sovereignty over Guantánamo Bay while granting the United States " complete jurisdiction and control " of the area for coaling and naval stations.

The Spanish took over the region in the Treaty of Paris ( 1763 ), but were not to play a major role in the area other than taxing and licensing all traffic on the Missouri River.

Since the signing of the Customs Treaty in 1916, Liechtenstein and Switzerland have represented one mutual economic area.

The port city of Memel ( now Klaipėda ) and the surrounding area, with a predominantly German population, was under provisional Allied control according to Article 99 of the Treaty of Versailles.

The divestiture of Germany's overseas colonies, along with three territories disentangled from its European homeland area ( the Free City of Danzig, Memel Territory, and Saar ), was accomplished in the Treaty of Versailles ( 1919 ), with the territories being allotted among the Allies on May 7 of that year.

Nazi Germany had requested the territory west of the Šešupė River ( area in pink ) in the German-Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty but relinquished its claims for a compensation in the amount of $ 7. 5 million

Nevertheless, the Treaty of Amsterdam does confer authority on the Community's institutions to legislate by Council Regulation in this area with supranational effect.

The General Maritime Treaty of 1820 between the East India Company and the sheikhs of the coastal area — which became known as the Trucial Coast because of the series of treaties between the sheikhs and the British — was a way of ensuring safe passage.

By then, the entire coastal area was under the British East India Company, as a result of the Treaty of Amiens.

Following the Armistice, South Korea and the U. S. agreed to a " Mutual Defense Treaty ", under which an attack on either party in the Pacific area would summon a response from both.

Nevertheless, in 911 the Viking leader Rollon forced Charles the Simple to sign the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, under which Charles gave Rouen and the area of present-day Upper Normandy to Rollon, establishing the Duchy of Normandy.

After the Treaty of Roskilde on 26 February 1658, Trondheim and the rest of Trøndelag, became Swedish territory for a brief period, but the area was reconquered after 10 months.

During the Napoleonic wars, Berchtesgaden changed hands a few times, such as in 1805 under the Treaty of Pressburg, when the area was ceded to Austria.

The area was administered as part of the Spanish, later Mexican, province of Nuevo Mexico until the area was ceded to the United States in 1848 after the Mexican-American war in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

In 1919 under the Treaty of Versailles the area of Eupen-Malmedy, along with Prussian Moresnet, was transferred from Germany to Belgium.

In 1663, the VOC signed " Painan Treaty " with several local lords in the Painan area that were revolting against the Aceh Sultanate.

In 1673 the Dutch re-took the area, but later relinquished it under the 1674 Treaty of Westminster ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War.

Map showing the area ( in pink ) gained by England through the Treaty of Brétigny.

The area now called Four Corners was governed by Mexico following its independence from Spain, until being ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848.

According to Article J. 1 of title V of the Masstricht Treaty, the European Union defines and implements a common foreign and security policy that covers all areas of foreign and security policy, the objectives of which are to:

Article 1 ( containing 16 paragraphs ) amends the general provisions of the Treaty on European Union and covers the CFSP and cooperation in criminal and police matters.

The Grand Traverse Band's Treaty Ceded Territories from the 1836 Treaty covers an area in a line from the Grand River to the Alpena area north and the eastern portion of the upper peninsula from the Chocolay River east.

The Antarctic Treaty and related agreements, collectively called the Antarctic Treaty System or ATS, regulate international relations with respect to Antarctica, Earth's only continent without a native human population.

* 1959 – Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.

* 1961 – Cold War: the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent, comes into force after the opening date for signature set for the December 1, 1959.

* December 1 – Cold War – Antarctic Treaty: 12 countries, including the United States and the Soviet Union, sign a landmark treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on that continent ( the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War ).

The Treaty of Paris was an international treaty based on international law, designed to help reconstruct the economies of the European continent, prevent war in Europe and ensure a lasting peace.

The United States is effectively guaranteed control of any land it is able to gain possession of in North America, besides the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon which France had retained possession of after the Seven Years War, and of the Islands of Bermuda due to King Louis XVI of France, renouncing " for ever the possession of the Islands of Bermudas as well as of any part of the continent of North america which before the treaty of Paris in 1763. or in virtue of that Treaty, were acknowledged to belong to the Crown of Great Britain, or to the United States heretofore called British Colonies, or which are at this Time or have lately been under the Power of The King and Crown of Great Britain.

It is obscure when exactly Great Britain first asserted sovereignty over the territory ; however, after France accepted British sovereignty over the Hudson Bay coast by the Treaty of Utrecht ( 1713 ), Great Britain was the only European power with practical access to that part of the continent.

In 1989, Dr. Chapman led a privately funded scientific expedition by sea from Cape Town to Enderby Land, Antarctica, to gather information about mineral resources before the Madrid Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty made prospecting illegal on the continent.

In 1997 India ratified the Environment Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty, thus upholding its commitment to preserve the pristine continent.

The Portuguese retained control until 1778, when the island, adjacent islets, and commercial rights to the mainland between the Niger and Ogoue Rivers were ceded to Spain in exchange for territory on the American continent ( Treaty of El Pardo, between Queen Maria I of Portugal and King Charles III of Spain ).

The resulting Treaty of Tilsit in July ended two years of bloodshed and left France as the dominant power on the European continent.

By 9 February, the Austrians had signed the Treaty of Lunéville, ending the war on the continent.

The international environmental organization Greenpeace established World Park Base in 1987 in order to press its demand for the Antarctic Treaty nations to declare all of the continent of Antarctica a World Park.

President Bush began his crucial European tour on February 20 in hopes of repairing relations between Europe and the U. S. His five-day trip began in Brussels and concluded in Slovakia where he met with virtually every prominent politician on the continent: Jacques Chirac, Gerhard Schröder, Viktor Yushchenko, Tony Blair, Silvio Berlusconi, members of the European Council, North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) heads of states, and completed with Vladimir Putin.

The Treaty of Paris in 1814, called for a congress of the Great Powers of Europe to settle the future boundaries of the continent.

The Antarctic Treaty Organization adopted a flag in 2002 and is used as an unofficial symbol of the continent.