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occupied territory

Territory under the authority and effective control of a belligerent armed force. The term is not applicable to territory being administered pursuant to peace terms, treaty, or other agreement, express or implied, with the civil authority of the territory. See also civil affairs agreement.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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The Angles, Saxons, and Jutes occupied territories in the region which includes parts of the present Holland, of Germany about the mouth of the Elbe, and of Denmark.
The investigation carried out by the Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan revealed that managers of the Vallex Group, Base Metals, ACP, Lerna Metalurgiayi Institute, Teghout and other companies registered in Armenia and other countries, as well as individuals, repeatedly illegally crossed Azerbaijan's state border from Armenia, and created facilities together with other persons in the occupied territories.
TEHRAN (FNA)- A Palestinian man was injured in East Jerusalem al-Quds after he was attacked by three Israelis, the latest in a string of such instances of violence in the occupied territories.
From 1967 on, the problem for Israel was how to retain the occupied territories, which they called "Administered Territories" of Samaria, Judea, and Gaza, without absorbing the Palestinian population into the Jewish State with an already significant Palestinian minority from 1948.
One of the major obstacles to Israeli- Palestinian peace is the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied territories. However, the Clinton Administration, in a reversal of policy from previous U.S.
Moreover, Azerbaijani natural water sources passing through the occupied territories are exposed to large-scale pollution by Armenia.
TEHRAN (FNA)- No Israeli in the occupied territories feels secure due to the Palestinian resistance's missiles, Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Hossein Salami said, stressing that the Lebanese Hezbollah Movement is also ready to storm the Zionist regime by its high-precision missiles.
In the aftermath of the war, Assembly resolutions demanded an end to Israel's occupation and later annexation of Jerusalem, and the Council passed Resolution 242, stipulating the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force, and calling for the Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories and the exchange of land for peace,
Following the mayor of the city of Saint-Etienne to Nagorno-Karabakh without the consent of Baku, another less pooular MP made an illegal trip to the occupied territories.
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