• Annexed by Russia in the 19th Century, Georgia was part of the Soviet Union until 1991.

    CNN: Country profile: Georgia

  • James K. Polk prevailed instead, and he annexed Texas and started the Mexican War.

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  • Morocco annexed Western Sahara in 1976 but its claims of sovereignty have not been internationally recognised.

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  • In 1938, Hungary annexed southern Slovakia following the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia at the Munich agreement in September.

    CNN: Monday,

  • But instead of creating a Philippine democracy, President William McKinley annexed the country and installed a colonial administrator.

    NPR: 'Folly of Empire' Offers Critique of U.S. Imperialism

  • Instead, he said the controversial proposal voted upon Wednesday is found in a non-binding annexed resolution to the treaty.

    CNN: U.S. refuses to sign UN Internet treaty

  • "What if the Allies would have said to Hitler enough is enough when he annexed the Sudetenland, " he asked.

    BBC: Americans wary of Iraq war

  • Such a vote had been held three months earlier in East Timor, the former Portuguese colony annexed by Indonesia in 1976.

    ECONOMIST: Indonesia

  • In 1541, Suleiman I of Turkey captured Buda and annexed Hungary after his dispute with Archduke Ferdinand over claims to the kingdom.

    CNN: Wednesday,

  • Even if this is the best way of handing out licences, why should the proceeds be annexed by government as a tax?

    ECONOMIST: Letters

  • The three southern provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat were annexed to Siam, as Thailand was then known, more than a century ago.

    BBC: Militants killed in southern Thailand attack

  • Mr Netanyahu consistently rejected any freeze in East Jerusalem, which Israel unilaterally annexed in 1967, but agreed to reduce building elsewhere in the settlements.

    ECONOMIST: Israel's settlement policy

  • Since the conflict in Syria erupted more than two years ago, fighting has repeatedly spilled into Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan and the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights.

    NPR: Syria News Agency: Israel Strikes Near Damascus

  • Terms of the agreement reached last week with Milosevic by Russian mediator Viktor Chernomyrdin and Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari will be annexed to the resolution.

    CNN: Kosovo peace resolution goes to U.N. Security Council

  • Only months later, in September, having already annexed Austria and overrun Czechoslovakia, Hitler invaded and conquered Poland, and France and Great Britain responded by declaring war on Germany.

    NPR: Roth Rewrites History with a 'Plot Against America'

  • Terms of the agreement reached last week with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic by Russian mediator Viktor Chernomyrdin and Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari will be annexed to the resolution.

    CNN: graphic

  • They say it would create an annexed area of land next to the stadium separated from the National Park by surrounding roads and with no recognised means of access.

    BBC: Seagulls urge objections to national park

  • When Iraq invaded and annexed Kuwait in August 1990, Bush built a powerful coalition through the United Nations Security Council to drive Saddam Hussein's forces out of the Gulf kingdom.

    NPR: 'Folly of Empire' Offers Critique of U.S. Imperialism

  • He was born there, in the Adriatic seaport of Rijeka (now in Croatia), and took Italian nationality when the town was annexed by Mussolini's Italy in 1924 and renamed Fiume.

    ECONOMIST: Leo Valiani | The

  • Finally, in 1888, the island was annexed by Chile and run as a nationalised sheep ranch, with the natives, by now walled inside one small town, providing a captive labour force.

    ECONOMIST: Easter Island

  • In 1846, the United States annexed New Mexico.

    CNN: Thursday,

  • Syria, which is among the countries invited, said it would attend if discussions included the return of Golan Heights, a strategic plateau that Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Six Day War and later annexed.

    NPR: Mideast Peace Summit Likely in November

  • For another classic Istanbul experience, dine on the catch of the day at the waterfront Bebek Balikci, a 20-minute taxi ride north in the charming village of Bebek, once a separate town now annexed by the city.

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  • In fact, until annexed by the Dutch in 1874, the sultanate of Aceh was a distinct and powerful state which at times controlled a large slice of Sumatra and channelled much of South East Asia's trade through its ports.

    ECONOMIST: Letters

  • On its front would be a picture of the famous Shureimon gate of the Shurijo castle in Naha, the home of the former rulers of the Ryukyu kingdom before it was annexed by Japan in the 17th century and renamed Okinawa.

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  • It is accordingly understood between the French and British governments: That France and Great Britain are prepared to recognise and protect an independent Arab states or a confederation of Arab states (a) and (b) marked on the annexed map, under the suzerainty of an Arab chief.

    BBC: Map detailing the Sykes-Picot agreement

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