annexations
Forcible land incorporations
Annexations are acts of incorporating territory into an existing political unit—typically when a nation absorbs land from another country or a city expands by taking in adjacent areas.
The word often carries connotations of force or illegitimacy: Russia's annexations in Ukraine, the annexation of Crimea.
Municipal annexations are usually more routine: The city's annexations doubled its size over two decades.
Forming a legal entity
- acquisitionAct of obtaining something
- takeoverAssuming command of something
- seizureForcible taking or convulsion
- occupationOne's regular paid work
appropriation · absorption · territorial expansion · land grab · cession · treaty · sovereignty · jurisdiction
Defeating and seizing control
- invasionForcible entry into territory
- subjugationForcing into submission
- occupationOne's regular paid work
- captureTake into custody
warfare · campaign · siege · troops · army · surrender · armistice · capitulation
Black Sea peninsula
- SudetenlandCzech border territory, 1938
- HawaiiPacific island state
- TexasSecond-largest American state
- TibetHimalayan plateau region
Goa · Alsace-Lorraine · Prussia · Austria · partition · empire · imperialism · colonialism
Corporate combination
- consolidationCombining into unified whole
- amalgamationUniting into one
- unificationMerging into one entity
- redistrictingRedrawing electoral boundaries
rezoning · municipal · incorporation · boundary · jurisdiction · suburb · township · county
incorporation
Forming a legal entity
- acquisitionAct of obtaining something
- takeoverAssuming command of something
- seizureForcible taking or convulsion
occupation · appropriation · absorption · territorial expansion · land grab · cession · treaty · sovereignty · jurisdiction · border
conquest
Defeating and seizing control
- invasionForcible entry into territory
- subjugationForcing into submission
- occupationOne's regular paid work
capture · warfare · campaign · siege · troops · army · surrender · armistice · capitulation · blockade
Crimea
Black Sea peninsula
- SudetenlandCzech border territory, 1938
- HawaiiPacific island state
- TexasSecond-largest American state
Tibet · Goa · Alsace-Lorraine · Prussia · Austria · partition · empire · imperialism · colonialism · manifest destiny
merger
Corporate combination
- consolidationCombining into unified whole
- amalgamationUniting into one
- unificationMerging into one entity
redistricting · rezoning · municipal · incorporation · boundary · jurisdiction · suburb · township · county · city limits
- American frontierfrontier, westward expansion, pioneers, homesteading, homesteads
- Napoleonic EraNapoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte, Bonaparte, Napoleonic Wars, Napoleonic Code
- Swiss HistoryCongress of Vienna, cantons, Bern, Zurich, Basel
- municipalitiescity, cities, municipality, town, towns
- Soviet HistorySoviet Union, USSR, CCCP, Stalin, Kremlin
- 19th Century Diplomacyambassador, ambassadors, envoy, envoys, Congress of Vienna
annexationscessions
Formal surrenders of rights
surrenders · forfeitures · relinquishments · withdrawals · abandonments
annexationssecessions
Formal withdrawals from membership
independence movements · liberations · breakaways · separations · emancipations
annexationsdecolonizations
Processes ending colonial rule
divestitures · contractions · dismemberments · disintegrations · fragmentations
- Russian annexationForcible incorporation into Russia