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Topic: Kokkina exclave


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  Kokkina exclave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kokkina (Greek: Κόκκινα = Reds, Turkish: Erenköy) is an exclave of the de facto Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
It is hemmed in on three sides by mountainous territory controlled by the Republic of Cyprus with the Mediterranean sea (Morphou Bay) on its northern flank.
The exclave sits several miles away from what constitutes the main area of the TRNC and is a place which has special symbolic significance for the Cypriots because of the events of August 1964.
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 Exclave - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
An exclave is a territory that belongs to a political entity but is not connected to it by land (islands are not counted) and is surrounded by other political entities.
Solothurn has two exclaves, Dorneck and Thierstein, both bounded on the south by Basel-Country and on the north by France; as well as the enclave of Steinhof which is entirely surrounded by Bern.
The exclave came into being as land on the border between the two counties was reclaimed from the Bay to build the Naval Air Station Alameda, now decommissioned.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Exclave   (1442 words)

  
 Exclave - Simple English Wikipedia
An exclave is strip of land that belongs to a political entity (like a country or a region) but that is not connected to it by land (islands are not counted).
Many exclaves today have some sort of idea to become independent, especially if the exclave is far away from the Mainland.
Kentucky: The westernmost part of the state, a piece of land known as the Kentucky Bend, is surrounded on three sides by the Mississippi River, with Missouri on the opposite shore.
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 Exclave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Although the meanings of both words are close, an exclave may not necessarily be an enclave.
Many exclaves today have an independence movement, especially if the exclave is far away from the Mainland.
The secession of the new canton of Jura in 1979 left Bern temporarily with another exclave, Laufental, bounded by Jura, Solothurn (main and both exclaves), Basel-Country and France.
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 Exclave Did You Mean exclave   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Cabinda, an Angolan exclave and province between Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaire) and the Republic of Congo.
Oecussi-Ambeno is an East Timorese exclave surrounded by Indonesian territory.
Kokkina is a tiny exclave of the breakaway Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
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 Kristie's Exclave Web Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Melilla Melilla is a Spanish exclave in North Afr...
Melilla is a Spanish exclave in North Africa, located on the northernmost tip of Maghreb, on the Mediterranean coast.
Whereas Nargono-Karbagh is an Armenian exclave located inside Azerbaijan, Kaliningrad is an exclave of Russia but not an enclave since it is not...
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 Kokkina, Cyprus
The exclave sits several miles away from what constitutes the main area of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (35° 10′ 38″ N 32° 36′ 29″ E).
This tiny exclave - which is part of the lower reaches of the Troodos mountains, is a place which has special symbolic significance for Turkish Cypriots because of the events of August 1964.
Today - within the exclave at the village cemetary - there are 13 carefully tended graves of Turkish Cypriots who were killed at the siege at Erenköy/Kokkina.
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 Top Literature - Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
From the tip of the Karpass Peninsula (Cape Apostolos Andreas) in the northeast, the TRNC extends westward to Morphou Bay and Cape Kormakitis (the Kokkina/Erenköy exclave marks the westernmost extent of the TRNC), and southward to the village of Akıncılar.
The territory between the TRNC and the remainder of Cyprus is separated by a United Nations-controlled buffer zone.
The international community - with the exception of Turkey - does not recognize the TRNC as a sovereign nation (Note: the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, an exclave of Azerbaijan, does regard the TRNC as sovereign, while the rest of Azerbaijan officially has not followed suit).
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 Exclave Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
As Königsberg it was the capital of the German province of East Prussia, the earlier Polish fief of Ducal Prussia, and before that of the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights.
Due to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Kaliningrad Oblast became a Russian exclave, separated from the rest of Russia.
Some have argued that because of Kaliningrad's special position and situation, as an exclave of Russia surrounded by EU territory, it should be given special treatment compared to other regions of the Russian Federation.
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 Cabinda Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Angola is a country in southwestern Africa bordering Namibia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Zambia, and with a west coast along the Atlantic Ocean.
The exclave of Cabinda also borders the Republic of the Congo to the north.
The exclave province of Cabinda borders with both the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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 Kokkina(village) Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The exclave sits several miles away from what constitutes the main area of the de facto Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ().
However, this declaration of independence was declared to be illegal by UN resolutions 541 and 540 and has yet to be recognised by any sovereign state except Turkey.
Turkey Today - within the exclave at the village cemetery - there are 13 carefully tended graves of Turkish Cypriots who were killed at the siege at Erenköy/Kokkina.
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 Exclave - Exclave   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
We have compiled many new Exclave resources to help you find the Exclave your looking for.
Louisiana: St. Martin Parish has an exclave which is separated from the main part of the parish by Iberia Parish.
That portion of Sandoval County which is within the San Ildefonso Indian Reservation, about 3 km2, became an exclave bounded by Los Alamos County on the southwest, Santa Fe County on the east and Rio Arriba County on the north.
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 Cyprus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Under the independence agreement, the UK retained title to two areas on the southern coast of the island, around Akrotiri and Dhekelia, known collectively as the UK sovereign base areas.
Cyprus has four exclaves, all in territory that belongs to the British Sovereign Base Area of Dhekelia.
The UN buffer zone separating the territory controlled by the Turkish Cypriot administration from the rest of Cyprus runs up against Dhekelia and picks up again from its east side, off of Ayios Nikolaos (connected to the rest of Dhekelia by a thin land corridor).
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 YWWI - Armenia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Republic of Armenia, or Armenia (Armenian:, Hayastan,, Hayq), is a landlocked country in the southern Caucasus, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east and Iran (Persia) and the Nakhichevan exclave of Azerbaijan to the south.
Armenia is a member of the Council of Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States and for centuries has been on the crossroads between the West and East.
Iran (Persian: ايران) is a Middle Eastern country located in Southwest Asia bordering Armenia, Azerbaijan including its Nakhichevan exclave and Turkmenistan to the north, Pakistan and Afghanistan to the east, Turkey and Iraq to the west.
www.infoax.com /en/Armenia   (10882 words)

  
 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus - Open Encyclopedia
The TRNC has a population of about 200,000 and an area of 3,355 square kilometres (including the tiny exclave of Kokkina (Turkish: Erenköy).
They felt obliged to leave their island due to the illegal Turkish military presence in the north and the tight economic embargo imposed by the southern Republic of Cyprus.
Under the 2003-06 economic protocol, Ankara plans to provide around $550 million to the "TRNC."
www.openencyclopedia.net /index.php/Northern_Cyprus   (1793 words)

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