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Neutral zone (cycling), a non-competitive segment of a few miles at the beginning of a bicycle race; Neutral zone (gridiron football), the region between offensive and defensive sides prior to the snap of the ball on a scrimmage play; Neutral zone (ice hockey), a zone between the blue lines in ice hockey
A neutral zone is a delimited zone bordering at least one of the states that has agreed to set up a neutral territory. This has occurred in the past and/or present for: Neutral Ground (Louisiana), a disputed area between Spanish Texas and the United States' newly acquired Louisiana Purchase, from 1806 to 1821
Navigation chart showing Iraq-Saudi Neutral Zone. The Saudi Arabian–Iraqi neutral zone also known as the neutral territory (NT) or neutral territory zone (NTZ), was an area of 7,044 km 2 (2,720 sq mi; 704,400 ha; 1,741,000 acres) on the border between Saudi Arabia and Iraq within which the border between the two countries had not been settled.
"In the neutral zone" refers to the actual neutral zone. "Beyond the neutral zone" refers to the "defensive" side of the neutral zone. In accordance to NFL rules, an additional definition of the neutral zone came into effect after a September 12, 2005, fight between the Philadelphia Eagles' Jeremiah Trotter and the Atlanta Falcons' Kevin Mathis ...
The Saudi Arabian–Kuwaiti neutral zone, also known as the Divided Zone, was an area of 5,770 km 2 (2,230 sq mi) between the borders of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait that was left undefined when the border was established by the Uqair Convention of 2 December 1922.
The rights and duties of a neutral power are defined in sections 5 [4] and 13 [5] of the Hague Convention of 1907. A permanently neutral power is a sovereign state which is bound by international treaty, or by its own declaration, to be neutral towards the belligerents of all future wars. An example of a permanently neutral power is Switzerland.
The Neutral Ground (also known as the Neutral Strip, the Neutral Territory, and the No Man's Land of Louisiana; sometimes anachronistically referred to as the Sabine Free State) was a disputed area between Spanish Texas and the United States' newly acquired Louisiana Purchase.
The zone was finally officially abolished during the Persian Gulf War, when Iraq and Saudi Arabia cancelled all international agreements with each other. Saudi–Kuwaiti neutral zone – The Uqair Protocol established a neutral zone between the Sultanate of Nejd and the British protectorate of Kuwait in 1922. It was partitioned by mutual ...