Requests for the cession of Colombo met with evasive replies.
Formal cession by the local chiefs came later.
In early September 1938, Chamberlain's search for appeasement led him to begin negotiations for a partial cession of the territory.
Napoleon was born on Corsica shortly after the island's cession to France by the Genoese.
The hotel industry has experienced a great deal of franchise development, cession of walls and management contracts.
Following the cession of Québec to Britain in 1763, education fell prey to political and cultural disruption.
The Creek cession of 1832 virtually ended the claims of indigenous peoples to territorial rights in Alabama.
In late June a Soviet ultimatum to Romania demanded the cession of Bessarabia and of northern Bukovina.
The governors of the Johor sultanate were recognized as independent by the British in the cession of Singapore (1819).
On October 10, 1874, after negotiations had led to an offer of unconditional cession, Fiji became a British crown colony.
