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  List of dependent territories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dependent areas are territories that do not possess full political independence or sovereignty as states.
The areas separately referred to as non-independent are territories that are disputed, are occupied, have a government in exile or have a non-negligible independence movement.
Although the U.S. state of Hawaii is an island and is technically overseas from the rest of the U.S., it is fully a state of the Union and shares equal status under the U.S. constitution with all of the other states.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_dependent_territories   (2066 words)

  
 Israel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
UN Security Council Resolution 242 (November 1967), calls for "withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict" (Six-Day war); and UN Security Council Resolution 446 (March 1979), declared settlements on the West Bank, Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights to be "illegal".
Religious authorities, which are comprised of the ministry of Religion and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, have jurisdiction only in five distinct areas: marital and burial laws, Jewish status of immigrants, Kashrut and the Sabbath.
In keeping with the framework established at the Madrid Conference in October 1991, bilateral negotiations are being conducted between Israeli and Palestinian representatives (from the Israeli-controlled West Bank and Gaza Strip) to achieve a permanent settlement.
israel.iqnaut.net   (5016 words)

  
 FRANCIA
The only drawbacks are that (1) Thompsett's lists are, indeed, genealogical, which means it is sometimes hard to find unrelated rulers in a succession, and (2) the entries are very summary, without any explanation of may be happening as, for instance, domains are divided among multiple heirs.
Then Clovis not only occupied northern Gaul (486), absorbed the Alemanni (505), and defeated the Visigoths (507), but actually converted to orthodox Catholicism, making the Franks the first major German tribe to accept the spiritual authority of the Roman Church (others were Arian Christians) and so, as the closest Patriarch, the Pope in Rome itself.
However, both Tompsett and WW-Person list Stephen Count of Champagne, Meaux, and Troyes (Tompsett twice, as son of both Herbert the Elder and Herbert, Count of Meaux, identified as "Herbert the Younger").
www.friesian.com /francia.htm   (14313 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Archaeology Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In areas of semi-literacy the term protohistoric archaeology can be adopted to cover the study of societies with very limited written records.
Some of these are not areas of study in their own right, and are only methods to be used in larger projects.
Among the goals of CRM are the identification, preservation, and maintenance of cultural sites on public and private lands, and the removal of culturally valuable materials from areas where they would otherwise be destroyed by human activity, such as proposed construction.
www.ipedia.com /archaeology.html   (6035 words)

  
 The World Factbook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
For example, the map of the United Kingdom lists the town of Grangemouth in Scotland, although it is only a small town and in no way a major city (this is perhaps due to its status as a major centre of the oil industry in Scotland).
The occupied Golan Heights, Gaza Strip, and West Bank are not shown as part of Israel.
Northern Cyprus is not given a separate entry or listed as part of Turkey because "territorial occupations/annexations not recognized by the United States Government are not shown on U.S. Government maps." Taiwan has a separate entry not listed under "T", but at the bottom of the list.
the-world-factbook.ask.dyndns.dk   (742 words)

  
 Native American   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In the 19th century, the Westward expansion of the United States incrementally expelled large numbers of Native Americans from vast areas of their territory, either by forcing them into marginal lands farther and farther west, or by outright massacres.
In particular, in areas such as Chiapas – Most famously, but also in Oaxaca, Puebla, Guerrero, and other remote mountainous parts – indigenous communities have been left on the margins of national development for the past 500 years.
Classification of Native Americans is a list of the tribes by cultural area
native-american.iqnaut.net   (4783 words)

  
 Legal Theory Blog
And we can easily generate a list of action types that are at least ceteris paribus wrongful: telling lies, breaking promises, intentionally killing or injuring an innocent person, stealing, and so forth.
His main areas of research are religion in public life, citizenship, and the common good.
It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.
lsolum.blogspot.com /archives/2005_10_01_lsolum_archive.html   (12210 words)

  
 Canada
Quebec held a referendum in May 1980 on whether it should seek independence from Canada; it was defeated by 60% of the voters.
Resolving a dispute that had occupied Trudeau since the beginning of his tenure, Queen Elizabeth II signed the Constitution Act (also called the Canada Act) in Ottawa on April 17, 1982, thereby cutting the last legal tie between Canada and Britain.
In December, Canada was incensed when the U.S. included it on a list of countries banned from bidding on future reconstruction contracts in Iraq.
www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0107386.html   (2062 words)

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