Sometimes they took away the names of cities, or streets, or even whole territories.
Tepper, Sheri S. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS (2002)
They carved out territories for themselves against each other, wild cats, and the farm dogs.
Doris Lessing ON CATS (2002)
Not until we have regained our stolen territories from here to the sea.
Aldiss, Brian SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE (2002)
All related terms of 'territories'
territory
Territory is land which is controlled by a particular country or ruler .
Northern Territories
a former British protectorate in W Africa, established in 1897; attached to the Gold Coast in 1901; now constitutes the Northern Region of Ghana (since 1957)
Northwest Territories
a territory of NW Canada including part of Victoria Island and several other islands of the Arctic ; comprised over a third of Canada's total area until Nunavut became a separate territory in 1999: rich mineral resources . Pop: 41 462 (2011 est). Area: 2 082 910 sq km (804 003 sq miles)
Occupied Territories
→ the Occupied Territories
scheduled territories
→ the scheduled territories
the Occupied Territories
the areas of the West Bank , the Gaza Strip , and the Golan Heights occupied by Israel after the 1967 Six-Day War
the scheduled territories
a group of mainly Commonwealth countries that used sterling as a medium of international payments and sometimes informally as a currency against which to peg their own currencies. For these purposes they deposited sterling balances and held gold and dollar reserves in the Bank of England
home territory
→ to be on your home territory
Palestinian Administered Territories
the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in Israel : these areas were granted autonomous status under the control of the Palestinian National Authority following the 1993 peace agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization
federal district
an area used as the seat of central government in a federal system
mandated territory
an official or authoritative instruction or command
trust territory
a territory placed under the administrative authority of a country by the United Nations
union territory
one of the 6 administrative territories that, with 28 states , make up the Republic of India
virgin territory
If you say that a situation is virgin territory , you mean that you have no experience of it and it is completely new for you.
mandate
If a government or other elected body has a mandate to carry out a particular policy or task , they have the authority to carry it out as a result of winning an election or vote .