Byzantine control was challenged by Arab raids starting in the 7th century ( see Byzantine – Arab Wars ), but in the 9th and 10th century a resurgent Byzantine Empire regained its lost territories and even expanded beyond its traditional borders, into Armenia and Syria ( ancient Aram ).

With the breakup of the Empire, the dispersed Mongols quickly adopted the mostly Turkic cultures surrounding them and were assimilated, forming parts of Tatars ( not confused with a tribe in ancient Mongolia ), Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Yugurs and Moghuls ; linguistic and cultural Persianization also began to be prominent in these territories.

The Roman Kingdom () was the period of the ancient Roman civilization characterized by a monarchical form of government of the city of Rome and its territories.

Thus, the ancient Kamboja, probably included the Badakshan, Pamirs and northern territories including Yagnobi province in the doab of the Oxus and Jaxartes.

Thus, in the pre-Buddhist times ( 7th / 6th c BCE ), the parts of modern Tajikstan including territories as far as Zeravshan valley in Sogdiana formed parts of ancient Kamboja and the Parama Kamboja kingdoms when it was ruled by Iranian Kambojas till it became part of Achaemenid Empire.

Geographically, the ancient Ghana Empire was approximately 500 miles ( 800 km ) north and west of the modern state of Ghana, and controlled territories in the area of the Sénégal river and east towards the Niger rivers, in modern Senegal, Mauritania and Mali.

Many other variants of this name appeared in ancient maps: for instance, Russia Alba, Russija Alba, Wit Rusland, Weiss Reussen, White Russia, Hvite Russland, Hvíta Rússland, Weiss Russland, Ruthenia Alba, Ruthenie Blanche and Weiss Ruthenien ( Weißruthenien ), assigned to various territories, often quite distant from that of present Belarus.

The southern territories of ancient Rus, including principalities of Galicia – Volhynia, Kiev and others, in the 14th century became a part of Lithuania, which, in 15th century, united with Catholic Poland to form Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth.

In the declaration for the Indigenous Intercontinental Conference, it designated this date because of " 515 years since the invasion of ancient Indigenous territories and the onslaught of the war of conquest, spoils and capitalist exploitation ".

The old minsters, mostly then became parish churches ; their former pre-eminence acknowledged by the occasional retention of the honorific title ; and sometimes by the continued recognition of former estate churches within their ancient territories as being, in some degree, of subsidiary status and dignity.

Hearing of the peaceful territories of King Thingol, Denethor, son of Lenwë, collected as many of his scattered people as he could and finally ventured westward over the Ered Luin, where he was accepted by the King as ancient kindred ( King Elu Thingol being in fact Elwë, brother of Olwë ) and were given Ossiriand to reside in.

And, again many Irish families lost their ancient territories.

** other neighbouring territories temporarily under the order were: the cities of Smyrna ( now Izmir ; 1344 – 1402 ), Attaleia ( now Antalya ; 1361 – 1373 and Halicarnassos ( now Bodrum ; 1412-14 ..), all three in Anatolia ; the Greek Isthmus city of Corinth ( 1397 – 1404 )), the city of Salona ( ancient Amphissa ; 1407 – 1410 ) and the islands of Ikaria ( 1424 – 1521 ) and Kos ( 1215-1522 ), all now in Greece

The Kushan spread out in the 1st century CE from Yuezhi confederation in the territories of ancient Bactria on either side of the middle course of the Oxus River or Amu Darya in what is now northern Afghanistan, and southern Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

The Kushan Empire (, Kuṣāṇ Rājavaṃśa ; BHS: ; Parthian: Kušanxšaθr ) originally formed in the early 1st century AD under Kujula Kadphises in the territories of ancient Bactria around the Oxus River ( Amu Darya ), and later based near Kabul, Afghanistan.

In 1157, Malcolm travelled to Chester to do homage to Henry who declared that " the king of England ought not to be defrauded of so great a part of his kingdom, nor could he patiently be deprived of it ..."" And prudently considering that in this matter the king of England was superior to the merits of the case by the authority of might .. restored to him the .. territories in their entirety, and received from him in return the earldom of Huntingdon, which belonged to him by ancient right.

Its program included the fight for Polish independence against the Nazi Germany as well as against the Stalinist Soviet Union, with its focus on keeping the Second Polish Republics pre-war eastern territories and borders while regaining additional former German territories to the west which they deemed " ancient Slavic lands ".

In ancient Canaanite culture, high places were frequently considered to be sacred, and Mount Carmel appears to have been no exception ; Thutmose III lists a holy headland among his Canaanite territories, and if this equates to Carmel, as Egyptologists such as Maspero believe, then it would indicate that the mountain headland was considered sacred from at least the 15th century BC.

Most enduring of Polish culinary traditions are the pierogi, which the recourse to the ancient culinary traditions of the former Polish eastern territories ( Kresy ).

302 BC, these territories were absorbed into the ancient Kingdom of Iberia under the king of Pharnavaz I and since then it was occupied and annexed by various countries.

The Romans united Iudaea with the Galilee to form the Roman sub-province of Syria Palaestina ( encapsulating territories of ancient Canaan, Kingdom of Israel, Judah, Moab, Ammon, and Philistia ) and thus included much of the land on both sides of the Jordan River although with further political sub-divisions along the Jordan River valley.

Other entities occupying parts of this area include the ancient Korean kingdoms of Goguryeo and Balhae, whose territories extended from the northern Korean peninsula to the southern and central parts of inner and outer Manchuria.

The concept applies to a number of other ancient historical contexts, starting with the Hellenization of the earliest inhabitants of Greece such as the Pelasgians, the Leleges, the Lemnians, the Eteocypriots in Cyprus, Eteocretans and Minoans in Crete ( prior to Classical antiquity ), as well as the Sicels, Elymians, Sicani in Sicily and the Oenotrians, Brutii, Lucani, Messapii and many others in territories constituting Magna Graecia.

Heshbon ( also Hesebon, Esebon, Esbous, Esebus ; ; ; ) was an ancient town located east of the Jordan River in the modern Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and historically within the territories of Ammon and Ancient Israel.

Counting on the Bastarnae, with whom he had forged friendly relations in earlier times, he plotted a strategy to deal with the Dardani and then to regain his lost territories in Greece and his political independence.

Other neighbouring territories include Syria and Lebanon to the east ( 105 km and, respectively ), Israel to the southeast, Egypt to the south, and Greece to the west-northwest: to the small Dodecanesian island of Kastellórizo ( Meyísti ), to Rhodes, and to the Greek mainland.

Following the eventual weakening of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans, Serbia, Greece and Bulgaria declared war and sought to aggrandize their respective boundaries on the remaining territories of the Empire.

After defeating the Persian invasion of Greece in the year 480 BC, Athens led the coalition of Greek city-states that continued the Greco-Persian Wars with attacks on Persian territories in the Aegean and Ionia.

It has exclusive authority over the following regions: Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula, Eritrea and northern Ethiopia, southern Albania and Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Israel, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, Syria, Jordan, Turkey, and Ukraine.

Meanwhile, existing victorious Allies such as France, Belgium, Italy, Greece and Romania gained territories, while new states were created out of the collapse of Austria-Hungary and the Russian and Ottoman Empires.

Fresh from its victories in the Second Punic War, the Roman Republic continued its expansion into neighbouring territories, eventually annexing Greece, and the North African coast after completely destroying the city of Carthage at the end of the Third Punic War.

The Periokoi monopoly on trade and manufacturing in one of the richest territories of Greece explains in large part the loyalty of the perioikoi to the Spartan state.

They were refugees from former Byzantine or Venetian territories that were occupied by the Ottomans in the late 15th and 16th c. The first Greek community was established in Ancona early in the 16th c. Natalucci, the 17th c. historian of the city, notes the existence of 200 Greek families in Ancona at the opening of the 16th c. Most of them came from northwestern Greece, i. e. the Ionian islands and Epirus.

* With the restoration of the territories captured by Pyrrhus, and with grateful allies in Sparta and Argos, and garrisons in Corinth and other Greek key cities, Antigonus II securely controls Macedonia and Greece.

The main problem for supporters of Greece in Russia was that Greece was only one of several issues that were in contention between St Petersburg and the Porte: others included Russia's ambition to impose a protectorate over the Romanian principalities and Serbia, its demands for control of the Principalities ' Black Sea ports, the right of Russian warships to sail through the Bosporus, and Russia's annexation of territories in the Caucasus.

To put Leo under pressure, Gaiseric extended his attacks on Sicily and Italy to the territories of the Eastern Empire, sacking and enslaving people living in Illyricum, the Peloponnese and other parts of Greece, so Leo was obliged to take action.

Byzantine art played a long, critical role in Western Europe, especially when Byzantine territories included parts of Eastern Europe, Greece and much of Italy itself.

Since the mid-1990s and early 2000s, Nickelodeon as a brand has expanded into include language-or culture-specific Nickelodeon channels for various other territories in different parts of the world including Europe, the Middle-East, Russia, Asia, and recently Canada, and has licensed some of its cartoons and other content, in English and local languages, to TV and cable stations such as KiKA and Super RTL in Germany, RTÉ Two ( English speaking ) and TG4 ( Irish speaking ) in Ireland, YTV ( in English ) and VRAK. TV ( in French ) in Canada, Canal J in France, Alpha Kids in Greece and CNBC-e in Turkey.

After the disastrous Epirote defeat by the Bulgarians at the Battle of Klokotnitsa, the Epirote threat to the Latin Empire was removed, only to be replaced by Nicaea, which started acquiring territories in Greece.

With the restoration of the territories captured by Pyrrhus, and with grateful allies in Sparta and Argos, and garrisons in Corinth and other cities, Antigonus securely controlled Macedonia and Greece.

Half of Albanian territories are given to neighboring states, the Kingdom of Serbia and Kingdom of Greece.

In addition to the existing Republic of Albania, the term incorporates claims to regions in the neighbouring states, the areas include Kosovo and the Preševo Valley of Serbia, territories in southern Montenegro, northwestern Greece ( Chameria ), and a part of western Republic of Macedonia.

Traditionally, Orthodox Christian territories spanning Russia, Serbia, Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Georgia, Romania, Egypt, and Ottoman Palestine, did not use the Gregorian Calendar for civil and governmental affairs until after the first decade of the 20th century.

Countries and territories with contingents of Scouts present included Hungary, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Irish Free State, England, Jamaica, Trinidad, Switzerland, Sweden, Armenia, the Netherlands, Poland, Finland, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Australia, New Zealand, British Guiana, Canada, Newfoundland, Ceylon, South Africa, Austria, Romania, Norway, Portugal, Siam, Spain, Haiti, Greece, France, Gibraltar, India, Philippines, United States, Bulgaria, Liechtenstein, Belgium, Syria, Denmark, Iceland, Egypt, Iran, Japan, Malta, Palestine, Rhodesia, the Duchy of Luxemburg, and Russian Emigrant Scouts.

The official name Stereá Elláda (" Continental " or " Mainland " Greece ), derives from the juxtaposition with the Peloponnese peninsula across the Corinthian Gulf, and the fact that these two territories formed the independent Greek state in 1832.

Originally aired on Japanese TV in 1975, the anime has been dubbed into 42 languages and screened on television in various territories, including China, Australia, Germany, the United States, South Africa, Portugal, Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Latin America, Chile, Israel, Iran, Italy, Greece, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Republic of Macedonia, Bosnia, Slovakia, Spain, Serbia, Finland, Poland, Croatia, Hungary, Russia, Turkey, Lebanon as " Zena ", and Iran as " Nikoo " ( نیکو ).

Australia has had joint stamp issues with New Zealand ( 1958, 1963 and 1988 ), the United Kingdom ( 1963, 1988 and 2005 ), some of its external territories ( 1965 ), the United States of America ( 1988 ), the U. S. S. R. ( 1990 ), People ’ s Republic of China ( 1995 ), Indonesia ( 1996 ), Singapore ( 1998 ), Greece ( 2000 ), Hong Kong ( 2001 ), Sweden ( 2001 ), France ( 2002 ) and Thailand ( 2002 ).