Sentence examples for a territorial unit from inspiring English sources

The dukes (dux) were originally the commanders of an armed retinue (drużyna) with which they broke the authority of the chieftains of the clans, thus transforming the original tribal organization into a territorial unit.

Venice, Florence, Milan, Naples, and Rome were aware that Italy might eventually be considered a territorial unit, and did everything they could to avoid being swallowed up in it: they were, as Graziano comments, "too weak to absorb others, too strong to let themselves be absorbed".

While many scholars have conceptualized the community as a territorial unit, it may be more usefully viewed as a type of social network.

Each rain gauge is considered representative of a Territorial Unit (TU), defined on the basis of relatively homogeneous geological, geomorphological and topographical characteristics (Fig. 2) (Martelloni et al. 2012; Lagomarsino et al. 2013).

The 6th Battalion continued as a Territorial unit of the new regiment without a change of title.

But today, the very notion of acting in solidarity with people in a territorial unit presided over by a state is fast becoming passé.

A micro-region is a distinct territorial unit with clearly marked boundaries below the regional level, but above the village level [ 1].

Gisha noted "the need also to permit passage of people and goods between Gaza and the West Bank, recognized by Israel as a single territorial unit whose integrity is the basis for a two-state solution... since June 2007, Israel has prevented Gaza residents from transferring goods for sale to Israel or the West Bank, as part of a policy to separate Gaza from the West Bank.

During the reign of Muḥammad ʿAlī (1805 48), it was absorbed into a larger territorial unit.

The frontier mark in Italy long survived as a major territorial unit, though the original Carolingian demarcations were substantially altered.

Germany turned the Baltic states and Belorussia (now Belarus) into a new territorial unit, Ostland, for which outright Germanization and eventual incorporation into the Reich was envisaged.