territorial control
Land under authority
Territorial control is authority or dominance over a geographic area.
The term appears in military, political, and criminal contexts: The rebels lost territorial control of the northern provinces.
Gangs fight for territorial control of neighborhoods.
Nations assert territorial control through borders, laws, and military presence.
The phrase emphasizes physical space as the object of power.
- patrolRegular surveillance route
- border patrolBoundary enforcement agency
- boots on the groundMilitary presence in area
- annexationAbsorbing territory into jurisdiction
- land grabRapid territorial acquisition
occupation · borders · buffer state · jurisdiction · sovereignty · land management · invasion · iron grip · garrison · enclave · no-man's-land · ground zero · hegemony · demarcation · autonomy · claim · no-fly zone · vassal state
- strategy gameschess, strategy, checkers, go, Go
- geopoliticsbalance of power, bipolarity, bloc, blocs, brinkmanship
- pecking orderpecking order, alpha, beta, omega, dominant
- Seven Years WarSeven Years War, French and Indian War, Quebec, Montreal, Treaty of Paris
- Kurdish PoliticsKurds, Kurdistan, regional government, self-rule, autonomy
- social evolutionsocial evolution, cultural evolution, social progress, social development, Morgan
territorial controlstatelessness
Having no recognized citizenship
power vacuum · dispossession · anarchy · no man's land · exile
territorial controlsoft power
Influence through appeal
sphere of influence · diplomatic influence · cultural hegemony · economic leverage · suzerainty
territorial controlopen borders
Unregulated international passage
deterritorialization · free movement · international waters · freedom of navigation · open access