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Lapland is a sparsely populated territory in Northern Europe.A view from Saana in Finnish Lapland. A territory is an area of land, sea, or space, belonging or connected to a particular country, person, or animal.
Native Community Lands (Spanish: Tierra Comunitaria de Origen, acronym: TCO; also translated as Communal Lands of Origin), according to Bolivian law, are territories held by indigenous people through collective title. The creation of these territories has been a major goal of Bolivian indigenous movements and a political initiative pursued by ...
Indigenous territory (Bolivia) (Spanish: Territorio indígena originario campesinos) Indigenous territory (Colombia) (Spanish: Territorio indígena) Indigenous territory (Costa Rica) (Spanish: Territorio indígena) Indigenous and community conserved area, a concept defined by the IUCN
The phrase "A map is not the territory" was first introduced by Alfred Korzybski in his 1931 paper "A Non-Aristotelian System and Its Necessity for Rigour in Mathematics and Physics," presented at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in New Orleans, and later reprinted in Science and Sanity (1933). [3]
Kansas Territory was established on May 30, 1854, by the Kansas–Nebraska Act.This act established both the Nebraska Territory and Kansas Territory. The most momentous provision of the Act in effect repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and allowed the settlers of Kansas Territory to determine by popular sovereignty whether Kansas would be a free state or a slave state.
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Other entities may have de facto control over a territory but lack international recognition; these may be considered by the international community to be only de facto states. They are considered de jure states only according to their own law and by states that recognise them. For example, Somaliland is commonly considered to be such a state.
Salvador Augusto Mijares Izquierdo (12 November 1897 – 29 June 1979), was a Venezuelan lawyer, historian, writer, educator and journalist. He is best known for El Libertador, his biography of Simón Bolívar. [1]