Two fundamental themes dominated Chad's colonial experience with the French: an absence of policies designed to unify the territory and an exceptionally slow pace of modernization.

However, the French did not consolidate their control over the area until 1903, after having defeated the forces of Rabih in the battle of Kousséri, and established colonial administration throughout the territory.

In 1881, it signed a treaty with Argentina confirming Chilean sovereignty over the Strait of Magellan, but conceding all of oriental Patagonia, and a considerable fraction of the territory it had during colonial times.

* Director ( colonial ), head of chartered company's colonial administration in a territory

An unusual clause in the colonial land grant outlined the territory that the proprietors of New Jersey would receive as being " westward of Long Island, and Manhitas Island and bounded on the east part by the main sea, and part by Hudson's river ", rather than at the river's midpoint, as was common in other colonial charters.

In most areas colonial administrations did not have the manpower or resources to fully administer the territory and had to rely on local power structures to help them.

Between the 1870s and the beginning of World War I in 1914, the United Kingdom, France, and the Netherlands — the established colonial powers in Asia — added to their empires vast expanses of territory in the Middle East, the Indian Subcontinent, and South East Asia.

Between 1878 and 1919 Britain, France and Germany, busy extending their own colonial territories in the region, threatened Liberia militarily, and France and Britain forced Liberia to cede parts of its territory to them ( 1883, 1885, 1892, 1903, 1919 ).

* Kowloon Walled City-Kowloon, Hong Kong ( demolished before Britain handed over Hong Kong to the Chinese, ending the reason for Kowloon Walled City's existence, it was a small ungoverned land of Chinese territory embedded in British colonial territory )

In each case, the colonial power that held the mandate on each territory became the administering power of the trusteeship, except that Japan, which had been defeated in World War II, lost its mandate over the South Pacific islands, which became a " strategic trust territory " known as the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands under United States administration.

The 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix opened Kentucky to colonial settlement and established the Ohio River as a southern boundary for American Indian territory.

The colonial charter for Virginia defined its territory as extending to the north shore of the Ohio, so that the riverbed was " owned " by Virginia.

The Republic of Colombia ( 1819 – 1830 ) or ‘ Gran Colombia ’ as it began to be called only after 1886, more or less corresponded in territory to the old colonial administrative district called the Viceroyalty of New Granada ( 1717 – 1819 ).

Much later, the European colonial powers threatened in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but Thailand survived as the only Southeast Asian state to avoid European colonial rule because the French and the English decided it would be a neutral territory to avoid conflicts between their colonies.

Although the Royal Navy effectively disrupted France's extra-continental trade — both by seizing and threatening French shipping and by seizing French colonial possessions — it could do nothing about France's trade with the major continental economies and posed little threat to French territory in Europe.

The Continental campaign was carried on by Cumberland, defeated at Hastenbeck and forced to surrender at Convention of Klosterzeven ( 1757 ) and thereafter by Ferdinand of Brunswick, later victor at Minden ; Britain's Continental campaign had two major strands, firstly subsidising allies, particularly Frederick the Great, and second, financing an army to divert French resources from the colonial war and to also defend Hanover ( which was the territory of the Kings of England at this time )

After a brutal and complicated process of conquest, the end of the nineteenth century saw the establishment of a colonial administration based directly on the territory and the people to be ruled.

By 1960, after 400 years of colonial tyranny, there was not a single university in the entire territory To counter this backwardness, more overtly political organisations first appeared in the 1950s, and began to make organized demands for human and civil rights, initiating diplomatic campaigns throughout the world in their fight for independence.

The new province remained the government of the colonial territory for the next fifty years of growth and settlement.

While the republican government was amenable to reparation payments or transfer of colonial territories in Africa or in South East Asia to Prussia, Jules Favre on behalf of the Government of National Defense declared on 6 September that France would not " yield an inch of its territory nor a stone of its fortresses.

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.

The title, in the form " Count of the Mark ", survived the territory as a subsidiary title of the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

The livestock will naturally remain within the territory in which they are released, although walls and cattle grids ( a pit in the road covered with metal bars-impassable to hoofed animals ) provide an additional level of control.

The desert's Jilf al Kabir Plateau, at a mean altitude of some 1000 m, constitutes an exception to the uninterrupted territory of basement rocks covered by layers of horizontally bedded sediments forming a massive plain or low plateau.

It was founded in the 6th century and covered the territory later occupied by the counties of Essex, Hertfordshire, Middlesex and ( for a short while ) Kent.

In Paleozoic, 300 – 400 million years ago, the entire territory of the modern Gulf of Finland was covered by a sea.

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.

France in the Ancien Régime covered a territory of around.

The territory the tribes covered came to be known as Illyria to Hellenistic and Roman authors, corresponding roughly to the area between Adriatic sea in west, Drava river in North, Morava river in east and the mouth of Vjosë river in south.

About 10 % of Latvian territory consists of peat bogs, swamps, and marshes, some of which are covered by stunted forest growth.

In the territory now covered by the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, there is evidence of primitive inhabitants right back to the Paleolithic or old stone age over 35, 000 years ago.

In the Paleozoic, 300 – 400 million years ago, the entire territory of the modern delta of the Neva River was covered by a sea.

The climate of New Mexico is generally semi-arid to arid, though there are areas of continental and alpine climates, and its territory is mostly covered by mountains, high plains, and desert.

The Romanian expression România Mare ( literal translation " Great Romania ", but more commonly rendered " Greater Romania ") generally refers to the Romanian state in the interwar period, and by extension, to the territory Romania covered at the time ( see map ).

However, it is known that the Finnish language area ( Meänkieli and Kven dialects of Finnish ) in the past covered a much larger territory of the modern area of Sweden than it does today.

Although the territory of the foreign concessions was excluded from their control, this new Chinese municipality still covered an area of 828. 8 square kilometers, including the modern-day districts of Baoshan, Yangpu, Zhabei, Nanshi, and Pudong.

On the other hand, the expected huge expansion of the town soon effectively covered the distance from the central town, and now those suburbs are completely engulfed by the main territory of the town.

The territory of Si Khottaboon covered mostly in northern Isan and central Laos.

Also Poland got a piece of new territory ( which included Warsaw ), but by no means covered all the areas where Polish speaking people were in the majority.

When the Supreme Court revisited some of the territory covered by Luther v. Borden in cases like Baker v. Carr,, the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause was the basis of its changed decisions.

At its height it covered the territory of modern-day Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Transnistria, and portions of modern-day Poland and Russia.

While its earliest boundaries will never be known, there is general agreement that the territory that was called " the first of the Mercians " in the Tribal Hidage covered much of south Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire and northern Warwickshire.

During the Migration Period, the Slavic tribe of the Carantanians migrated into the Alps in the wake of the expansion of their Avar overlords during the 7th century, mixed with the Celto-Romanic population, and established the realm of Carantania, which covered much of eastern and central Austrian territory.

Since much of the territory they covered was around the Mediterranean region, they became notable seamen.

Its territory allegedly covered the northern part of Borneo and the southern Philippines.

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.

22 % of the republic's territory is covered by forests.