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Municipal annexation is the legal process by which a city or other municipality acquires land as its jurisdictional territory (as opposed to simply owning the land the way individuals do). [1] The annexed land is typically not part of any other municipality.
A map of Los Angeles County with the city of Los Angeles in red, showing the Shoestring Strip annexation, which reaches south to the San Pedro area and the Port of Los Angeles. A "shoestring annexation" is a term used for an annexation by a city , town or other municipality in which it acquires new territory that is contiguous to the existing ...
An act of the Georgia General Assembly was enacted on August 3, 1904, which designated the area from then current city limits (at 6th St and West Peachtree), north to 15th St, then east to Piedmont Ave, then northeast to Southern Railway (basically follow Piedmont to the Ansley Park area), then southwardly along the railway the limits. The act ...
The Annexation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli was the conflict in which the territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli passed from Portuguese rule to independent rule, with Indian allegiance, in 1954. Dadra and Nagar Haveli were small undefended Portuguese overseas territories , part of Portuguese India ever since they were handed over by the Maratha ...
Simultaneously, 6,291 Bostonians voted for Brookline's annexation and 1,484 against, but the measure failed without Brookline's consent. [2] As Kenneth T. Jackson points out in his book Crabgrass Frontier, "the first really significant defeat for the consolidation movement came when Brookline spurned Boston." This was, according to Jackson, the ...
The proposed annexation of Santo Domingo was an attempted treaty during the later Reconstruction era, initiated by United States President Ulysses S. Grant in 1869, to annex Santo Domingo (as the Dominican Republic was commonly known) as a United States territory, with the promise of eventual statehood.
A city council veto over deannexations, introduced in 1977, was abolished in 1997. [31] The San Fernando Valley, the scene of deannexation efforts since the 1920s, lost a vote to separate from Los Angeles in 2002. [32] The deannexation vote won a bare majority of 50.7% in the Valley, but failed by a wide margin in the city as a whole.
Summary Description 1783 manifesto on annexation of Crimea.pdf Русский: Манифест Екатерины II О принятии полуострова Крымского, острова Тамана и всей Кубанской стороны под Российскую державу.