Early in the Civil War, Confederate President Jefferson Davis decided that the Confederacy would attempt to hold as much of its territory as possible and he distributed its military forces around its borders and coasts.

Territorial abbots follow all of the above, but in addition must receive a mandate of authority from the Pope over the territory around the monastery for which they are responsible.

After 1945 this territory around Königsberg was turned into Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, where amber is now systematically mined.

He extended Roman territory to the sea, founding the port of Ostia, establishing salt-works around the port, and taking the Silva Maesia, an area of coastal forest north of the Tiber, from the Veientes.

Athenian democracy developed in the Greek city-state of Athens, comprising the central city-state of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica, around 508 BC.

The ACT also has a small strip of territory around the southern end of the Beecroft Peninsula, which is the northern headland of Jervis Bay.

The ACT retains a small area of territory on the coast on the Beecroft Peninsula, consisting of a strip of coastline around the northern headland of Jervis Bay ( not to be confused with the Jervis Bay Territory, which is on the southern headland of the Bay ).

Perhaps the one meaningful distinction at present is the question of range: a bomber is generally a long-range aircraft capable of striking targets deep within enemy territory, whereas fighter bombers and attack aircraft are limited to ' theater ' missions in and around the immediate area of battlefield combat.

This enabled the United Kingdom to exercise control over the entire territory around Calabar, including Bakassi.

This agreement on these border sections delineated for Afghanistan a permanent northern frontier at the Amu Darya but also the loss of much territory, especially around Panjdeh.

The earliest known production occurred around 8, 000 years ago on the territory of Georgia.

The zero-grade is preserved in modern times in the Lithuanian ethnonym for Belarusians, Gudai ( earlier Baltic Prussian territory before Slavic conquests by about 1200 CE ), and in certain Prussian towns in the territory around the Vistula River in Gothiscandza, today Poland ( Gdynia, Gdansk ).

The Visigoths, for example, were converted to Arian Christianity around 360, even before they were pushed into imperial territory by the expansion of the Huns.

About 83 % of the country's total territory is suitable for cultivation ; of this portion, 75 % ( around 50 % of the country's area ) is covered by arable land, which is an outstanding ratio compared to other EU countries.

From the 6th century AD until 771, the area around modern-day Hastings, as the territory of the Haestingas tribe, considered itself to be a separate Kingdom from the surrounding Kingdoms of Suth Saxe (" South Saxons ", i. e. Sussex ) and Kent, and attempted to retain its separate cultural identity until the 11th century.

France in the Ancien Régime covered a territory of around.

The abandonment of this northern territory is now usually placed in the late 2nd c. BC, around the time of the first Germanic incursions into the Roman world, when the Tigurini and Toygenoi / Toutonoi are mentioned as participants in the great raids.

The territory of what is now Albania was invaded by Serbia in the north and Greece in the south, restricting the country to only a patch of land around the southern coastal city of Vlora.

Their most common social unit is that of a monogamous pair which defends its territory from other pairs by vigorously chasing intruding rivals and marking landmarks around the territory with their urine and feces.

In 1490 John was able to purchase the former Lusatian territory around Zossen, acknowledged by the Bohemian king Vladislaus II, and maintained the succession claims of the Hohenzollern dynasty to the Pomeranian lands held by the House of Griffins.

The family was quite large, covering considerable territory, principally centred around Wycliffe-on-Tees, about ten miles to the north of Hipswell.

Known in medieval Chinese sources as Tujue ( 突厥 tú jué ), the Göktürks under the leadership of Bumin / Tuman Khan / Khaghan ( d. 552 ) and his sons established the first known Turkic state around 552 in the general area of territory that had earlier been occupied by the Xiongnu, and expanded rapidly to rule wide territories in Central Asia.

After consolidating their territory around Lake Chad the Fezzan region ( in present-day Libya ) fell under Kanem's authority, and the empire's influence extended westward to Kano ( in present-day Nigeria ) and thus included Bornu, eastward to Ouaddaï, and southward to the Adamawa grasslands ( in present-day Cameroon ).

After a series of wars they were decisively beaten by the Romans in a battle near Mutina ( Modena ) and their territory became part of the Roman province of Cisalpine Gaul.

In 1243, the Papal legate William of Modena divided the Prussian lands of the Order's State into four dioceses, whereby the bishops retained the secular rule over about on third of the original territory:

The Duke of Modena, Francis IV, was an ambitious noble, and he hoped to become king of Northern Italy by increasing his territory.

The Duke of Parma also usually held the title of Duke of Guastalla from 1735 ( when Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor took it from Mantua ) to 1847 ( when the territory was ceded to Modena ), again, except for the Napoleonic dukes, when Napoleon's sister Pauline was Duchess of Guastalla and of Varella.

France published the constitution of the new republic on 20 Messidor ( 7 July ), establishing the division of the territory into eleven departments: Adda ( Lodi ), Alpi Apuane ( Massa ), Crostolo ( Reggio ), Lario ( Como ), Montagna ( Lecco ), Olona ( Milan ), Panaro ( Modena ), Po ( Cremona ), Serio ( Bergamo ), Ticino ( Pavia ), and Verbano ( Varese ).

Originally founded as the Bishopric of Ermland, it was created by William of Modena in 1243 in the territory of Prussia after its conquest by the Teutonic Knights during the Northern Crusades.

In 1002 Reggio's territory, together with that of Parma, Brescia, Modena, Mantova and Ferrara, were merged into the mark of Tuscany, later held by Matilde of Canossa.

Vignola was a possession of those bishops until 1247 ; during the wars between Guelphs and Ghibellines its territory was contented between the communes of Modena and Bologna, until the Grassoni family installed their seigniory in Vignola.

After the success of the crusade, the German-and Danish-occupied territory was divided into feudal principalities by William of Modena.

The Duchy of Reggio was one of the states that belonged to the Duchy of Modena and Reggio, ruled by the House of Este, in the north of Italy, in a territory now belonging to the Province of Reggio Emilia.

It originates at Alpe di Succiso at an elevation of 2, 017 m, close to the pass of Cerreto in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, then it heads north, touching on the territory of Frignano, passing into the territory of the commune of Pavullo nel Frignano and reaching the Po Valley close to Sassuolo ( in the province of Modena ).

At Pievepelago ( in the Province of Modena ) it changes name to Scoltenna, assuming in the territory of Pavullo nel Frignano finally that of Panaro.

Venezuela claimed more than half of the territory of the British colony of Guyana at the time of the Latin American wars of independence, a dispute that was settled by arbitration in 1899.

To the north lay the territory of the Caledonia, by name whose people were described as " Picti ", in Latin, meaning ‘ painted ones ’.

Panama City was enriched by the past century of American influences in terms of additions to the country's Latin culture, economics ( the US was involved in development of roads, schools and medical care ), and international trade by the nearby Panama Canal, once was under US jurisdiction: the Canal Zone territory from 1903 to 1979.

Soon after the liberation of this prominent political hostage, the Vice President of Colombia Francisco Santos Calderón called Latin America's biggest guerrilla group a " paper tiger " with little control of the nation's territory, adding that " they have really been diminished to the point where we can say they are a minimal threat to Colombian security ", and that " After six years of going after them, reducing their income and promoting reinsertion of most of their members, they look like a paper tiger.

Their evangelizing mission in Moravia had by this time become the focus of a dispute with Theotmar, the Archbishop of Salzburg and bishop of Passau, who claimed ecclesiastical control of the same territory and wished to see it use the Latin liturgy exclusively.

San Giovanni di Posada ( Latin: Portus Luguidonis or Portus Liquidonis ) is a frazione and small village in Sardinia, Italy, on the Tyrrhenian coast of the island, in the territory of the comune of Posada.

During the late Roman Empire, several Roman provinces covered the territory that comprises present-day Bulgaria: Scythia ( Scythia Minor ), Moesia ( Upper and Lower ), Thrace, Macedonia ( First and Second ), Dacia ( Coastal and Inner, both south of Danube ), Dardania, Rhodope ( Roman province ) and Haemismontus, and had a mixed population of Byzantine Greeks, Thracians and Dacians, most of whom spoke either Greek or variants of Vulgar Latin.

In 181 BC, a Roman triumvirate of Publius Scipio Nasica, Caius Flaminius, and Lucius Manlius Acidinus led three thousand families, mainly from Samnium but supplemented by native Veneti, to found a Latin colony at Aquileia as a base to protect the territory of the Veneti from incursions of the hostile Carni and Histri.

identified with the Bulensii in certain Latin versions of Ptolemy's Geography, shown as occupying the territory along the northwest coast of Black Sea east of Axiacus River ( Southern Bug ).

A lord of even a quite small territory might come to be referred to as a prince before the 13th century, either from translations of a native title into the Latin princeps ( as for the hereditary ruler of Wales ), or when the lord's territory was allodial.

And though its territory was more than once laid waste by the Carthaginians, it was still one of the eighteen Latin colonies which in 209 BCE were at once able and willing to furnish the required quota of men and money for continuing the war.

It is evident that Thurii was now sunk to the lowest state of decay ; but the great fertility of its territory rendered it desirable to preserve it from utter desolation: hence in 194 BC, it was one of the places selected for the establishment of a Roman colony with Latin rights.

The Romans called this territory Aquitania, either from the Latin word aqua ( meaning " water "), in reference to the many rivers flowing from the Pyrenees through the area, or from the name of the Aquitanian Ausci tribe ( whose name seems related to the Basque root eusk-meaning " Basque "), in which case Aquitania would mean " land of the Ausci ".

The Latin Empire was organized on feudal principles ; the emperor was feudal superior of the princes who received portions of the conquered territory.

Spain's encomienda system of forced labor in Latin America and the Philippines was an extension of the Spanish feudal system, with the granting of territory as part of a royal extension of power.

During the reconstruction, Volsci and Aequi invaded the Roman territory, some Latin nations revolted, and the Etruscans besieged Sutrium, which was a Roman ally.

The English terms Welsh March, The March of Wales, in Medieval Latin Marchia Walliae, were originally used in the Middle Ages to denote a more precisely defined territory, the marches between England and the Principality of Wales, in which Marcher lords had specific rights, held to some extent independently of the king of England.

By 1284, the name of the territory had been translated into Latin, then back into French to its current name of La Louvière.

A territorial prelate is sometimes called a prelate nullius, from the Latin nullius diœceseos, prelate " of no diocese ", meaning the territory falls directly under the jurisdiction of the pope and is not a diocese under a residing bishop.

" Whipping Post " became the standard for a long, epic jam that never lost interest ( opening in 11 / 4 time, unusual territory for a rock band ), while the ethereal-to-furious " In Memory of Elizabeth Reed ", with its harmonized melody, Latin feel, and burning drive invited comparisons with John Coltrane ( especially Duane's solo-ending pull-offs, a direct nod to the jazz saxophonist ).

Albania ( Latin:, Greek:, in Old Armenian: Աղուանք Ałuankʿ ( Aguank ), Parthian: Ardhan, Middle Persian: Arran ; usually referred to as Caucasian Albania for disambiguation with the modern state of Albania ; the native name for the country is unknown ) is a name for the historical region of the eastern Caucasus, that existed on the territory of present-day republic of Azerbaijan ( where both of its capitals were located ) and partially southern Dagestan.

Terra nullius (, plural terrae nullius ) is a Latin expression deriving from Roman law meaning " land belonging to no one ", which is used in international law to describe territory which has never been subject to the sovereignty of any state, or over which any prior sovereign has expressly or implicitly relinquished sovereignty.

The CIL collects all Latin inscriptions from the whole territory of the Imperium Romanum, ordering them geographically and systematically.