It carved up Poland and subjected the Baltic nations to occupation and, ultimately to Soviet annexation.
And thousands of Hawaiians signed a petition in 1898 protesting the annexation by the United States.
Or it may prove a prelude to the de facto annexation of both territories, as Georgia claims.
One DPJ prime minister, Naoto Kan, offered a fulsome apology on the centenary of the Korean annexation.
President Saakashvili told the BBC's Today programme Georgia would never accept what he called Russia's "annexation of its territory".
It is an historical fiction to claim, as Indonesia does, that East Timor voluntarily agreed to annexation in 1976.
Earlier this month, Rep. Joe Walsh and 30 co-sponsors issued a resolution supporting Israeli annexation of Judea and Samaria.
On the one hand, Bhutan's decision to open itself up in the 1960s--prompted by China's annexation of Tibet--has brought prosperity.
The housing ministry said it timed the issuance of the permits to coincide with the 41st anniversary of the annexation.
East Timor's annexation the following year has never been recognised by the United Nations, nor accepted by the local population.
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The discovery of gold in 1849 outside Sacramento and the annexation of the state after the Mexican War attracted venturesome souls of diverse backgrounds.
With the annexation of Punjab in 1849, British India reached the frontier.
Walsh's op-ed is not his first statement of support for Israeli annexation.
It then maintained a functioning parliamentary democracy from 1918 until 1938 when the Munich agreement led to the beginning of Nazi annexation and occupation.
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The Palestinians say it is a de facto annexation that puts 24, 000 Palestinians under direct Israeli rule, within a web of apartheid-like pass laws.
And a change in the constitution of the Irish republic dropping its constitutional claim to the north should assuage unionist fears of annexation by an Irish state.
Marked by the triple whammy of the Great Depression, Nazi annexation, and brutal Stalinist occupation, the 20th century was not kind to the Czech people.
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Paul's Cathedral on a gun-carriage escorted by 700 military personnel, including those who fought in the Falklands conflict against Argentina's annexation of the remote Atlantic islands.
Israel says the barrier is the only way to defend against militant attacks, but Palestinians view the structure as the prelude to the annexation of occupied land.
Jordan's purported annexation of the West Bank in 1950, recognized virtually nowhere, was the fruit of aggressive war and did not terminate Jewish rights in the territory. u.n.
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While annexation sounds like a radical formula, the fact is that Israel already implemented a similar move twice when it applied Israeli law to Jerusalem and to the Golan Heights.
After the Nazi annexation of Austria and the violence of Kristallnacht ("the Night of Shattered Glass"), both in 1938, the demand to emigrate escalated, and long lines formed at U.S. consulates.
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He quoted the example of Saddam Hussein portraying resistance to his annexation of Kuwait as an attack on Islam, thereby invoking the support of Muslims everywhere, particularly in the Arab world.
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Faisal al Yafai writes in the UK's Guardian that Israel's illegal annexation of the Heights from Syria is a thorny issue to resolve and remains the main sticking point between the two countries.
And such theft could have grave consequences: in 1844, when letters of Henry Clay exposing his ambivalence on the annexation of Texas were released, it cost him the Presidency he was favored to win.
And since the Mandate envisioned a Jewish state on both banks of the Jordan River, at a minimum the peace treaty sets a precedent for a future annexation of the west bank of the Jordan.
There has been a surge of support for a new ultra-nationalist religious party, Bayit Yehudi, which calls for the annexation of large parts of the West Bank and is likely to form part of ruling coalition.
In most countries the Koreans would not be considered aliens, since most of them, and often their parents and grandparents, were born in Japan, the descendants of forced labourers brought over during Japan's annexation of Korea in 1910-45.
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In 1897, U.S. Secretary of State John Sherman invoked scholarly works to explain to the Government of Japan why the treaties made by the Kingdom of Hawaii would not survive the U.S. treaty of annexation of the Kingdom's territory, i.e.
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