occupied territory
Land under control
Occupied territory is land under the control of a foreign military force.
The term carries legal weight in international law, implying temporary control rather than legitimate sovereignty: the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza.
The occupying power has obligations toward civilians under the Geneva Conventions.
More loosely, any space someone has claimed: The couch was occupied territory—the cat had staked it out.
- West BankOccupied Palestinian territories
- Geneva ConventionWartime humanitarian law treaties
- East TimorHalf-island Southeast Asian nation
- annexationAbsorbing territory into jurisdiction
- displacementRemoval from usual location
civilian population · invasion · foreign troops · sovereignty · Crimea · garrisoning · self-determination · Sudetenland · international law · Alsace-Lorraine · Okinawa · resistance movements · ethnic cleansing · Kashmir · psychological trauma · war crimes · demilitarized zones · buffer zone
- territoriesprovince, state, region, country, colony
- territoryland, region, domain, realm, dominion
- Disputed TerritoriesKashmir, Crimea, Taiwan, Kosovo, West Bank
- territorial advantagehome field, home turf, high ground, stronghold, foothold
- WWII OccupationVichy France, Vichy, puppet state, puppet states, collaborator
- WWI OccupationBelgium, France, Serbia, Poland, Alsace-Lorraine
occupied territorysovereign land
Autonomous political territory
sovereign territory · autonomous region · homeland · motherland · native land
occupied territoryannexed territory
Region taken and incorporated
occupy, territory, occupation, preoccupied, occupied, occupies, occupying, territorial, occupier