The government of the islands were under a governor-general, whose jurisdiction extends to the other Danish colonies of the group, however, because the islands formerly belonged to Great Britain consequently the inhabitants were English in customs and in language.

Another bull, Dudum siquidem, entitled Extension of the Apostolic Grant and Donation of the Indies and dated, gave all mainlands and islands, " at one time or even yet belonged to India " to Spain, even if east of the line.

During the Viking Age the islands of Öckerö belonged to the Norwegian kings, and the part of the coast was known as Älvsyssel.

In 1803-1804 the islands of Lolland-Falster, who had until then belonged to the Funen diocese, were made into an independent diocese, and the cloister church was given the status of the diocese's cathedral ( domkirke ).

The name ( Old Norse Sólund, Sólundir plural ) originally belonged to the islands of Sula.

The reason is that the borders were drawn when boat was the only means of transportation ; then it made sense that the southern parts of the islands belonged to Tromsø while the northern parts belonged to Karlsøy.

Until then the islands had belonged ecclesiastically to the Vicariate Apostolic of Micronesia.

In 1105, Coloman led his armies to Dalmatia and occupied the Dalmatian towns and islands that had belonged to Venice.

In those days, the islands of the Atlantic ( the Azores and Madeira ) belonged to Henry the Navigator, the Grandmaster of the Order of Christ ( the Portuguese successor to the Knights Templar in Portugal ).

These islands originally belonged to Kawanabe District of Satsuma Province.

Since Georgia knew of this yet did nothing about it, the U. S. Supreme Court ( which has original jurisdiction in such matters ) granted this land to South Carolina, although the Treaty of Beaufort ( 1787 ) explicitly specified that the river's islands belonged to Georgia.

The cabinet of Finland viewed this position as a purely tactical one, and a dispute over whether the islands rightfully belonged to Sweden or Finland ensued.

In December 1917, the Finnish government proclaimed that Finland was a sovereign state and a dispute over whether the islands belonged to Sweden or Finland ensued.

Canada claims the line is the international maritime boundary, while the United States holds that its purpose was only to designate which islands belonged to which country, and holds that the maritime boundary is an equidistant line between islands.

Tehran says the islands always belonged to it as it had never renounced possession of the islands, and that they are an integral part of Iranian territory.

In the " Diary of the Prefecture of the Archipelago " of 1886, Leros, along with the islands of Patmos, Lipsos and Fournoi, belonged to the Ottomans.

The Venetian islands at first belonged to the diocese of Altino or the diocese of Padua, under jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Aquileia, believed to be the successor of St. Mark.

The ruins, however, are from various islands in contrast to the prequel in which most ruins belonged to Kattelox Island.

The Pelham Islands is a historical name for a group of islands in western Long Island Sound that once belonged to Thomas Pell.

The 1992 census reported a population of six living in three houses in the Hoste census enumeration district, however some if not all this population could be located on one or more of the smaller islands nearby which also belonged to the same district.

The family consists of a single genus Xeronema with two species, one found only on the Poor Knights islands in New Zealand and the other in New Caledonia.

A matai can represent a small family group or a great extended family that reaches across islands, and to both American Samoa and independent Samoa.

The language belongs to the Eskimo-Aleut language family and includes three dialect groupings: Eastern Aleut, spoken on the Eastern Aleutian, Shumagin, Fox and Pribilof islands ; Atkan, spoken on Atka and Bering islands ; and the now extinct Attuan dialect.

Early in the 11th century Sigmund or Sigmundur Brestisson, whose family had flourished in the southern islands but had been almost exterminated by invaders from the northern, was sent from Norway, whither he had escaped, to take possession of the islands for Olaf Tryggvason, king of Norway.

Over time they acquired more power in the other islands through the family of Arias de Saavedra, the Lady of Fuerteventura.

Separated from the four main island groups are the islands of Nukuoro and Kapingamarangi, which geographically and politically are part of Micronesia, but linguistically and culturally form part of Polynesia: the languages spoken on these two islands are of the Samoic family of Polynesian languages.

Many birds in other families are also commonly called " finches ", including some species in the very similar-looking waxbills or estrildid finches ( family Passeridae, subfamily Estrildinae ) of the Old World tropics and Australia ; several groups of the bunting and American sparrow family ( Emberizidae ); and Darwin's finches of the Galapagos islands, which provided evidence of natural selection and are now recognized to be peculiar tanagers ( Thraupidae ).

The Cooper family still owns two of the five islands.

During this period, the Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi was associated with the Bertoleoni family, often visiting Paolo's relatives on the islands of La Maddalena and Caprera.

Breadfruit ( Artocarpus altilis ) is a species of flowering tree in the mulberry family, Moraceae, growing throughout Southeast Asia and most Pacific Ocean islands.

The family has a cosmopolitan distribution across the world, absent only from the densest forest of central Africa, some remote oceanic islands, the high Arctic and Antarctica.

Because the family is ancient and was widely distributed long time ago, modern species commonly are present in forests of various types occurring on all continents, except Antarctica, and on many associated major islands.

Poseidon abducted Hippothoe from her family and took her to the Echinades islands.

* Trans – New Guinea languages, an extensive family of Papuan languages spoken in New Guinea and neighboring islands

The family ’ s roots in Puerto Rico go back several generations, to ancestors who migrated from Mallorca, Balearic Islands, an archipelago of Spanish islands in the Mediterranean.

The Polynesian languages are a language family spoken in geographical Polynesia as well as on a patchwork of " Outliers " from south central Micronesia, to small islands off the northeast of the larger islands of the Southeast Solomon Islands and sprinked through Vanuatu.

In 2001 the king, known as a keen yachtman, was given a yacht by the Balearic Islands and a consortium of local business leaders as part of an effort to further associate the royal family with the islands, and to promote the islands as a tourist destination.

Genoa and Pisans obtained in this period their first commercial concessions in the city and the rest of the islands.

The islands were the object of a dispute between the Republics of Pisa and Genoa in the 12th century.

He also established relations with the Italian maritime republics of Pisa and Genoa and in 1114 and 1115 attacked with Pisa the then-Muslim islands of Majorca and Ibiza.

In 1275 the islands of Chios and Samos were granted by the Byzantine Empire to Genoa.

As a result, the balance of favour tipped toward Genoa, which was granted free trade rights in the Latin Empire ; besides the control of commerce in the hands of Genoese merchants, Genoa received ports and way stations in many islands and settlements in the Aegean Sea.

The islands of Chios and Lesbos became commercial stations of Genoa as well as the city of Smyrna ( Izmir ).

The Italian city states, especially the Republic of Genoa, Pisa, and the Republic of Venice, had been interested in the islands of the Aegean long before the Fourth Crusade.