It was a Russian-born Oxbridge don, Dimitri Obolensky, who in 1971 coined the term "Byzantine Commonwealth" to describe territories that formed a common cultural and spiritual space with Constantinople but were not subject to it politically; indeed these territories were often at war with the city on the Bosphorus.Obolensky was influenced by the British empire's transformation into a commonwealth.
He described the Territory as feeling "out of this world," which struck a chord.
Yet while no Palestinian would hesitate to describe that territory as Palestinian land unlawfully occupied by Israel, over the past two decades the Palestinian people have taken little concrete action to claim it and inhabit it.
When "Upcountry"—the colonial-era phrase still used to describe all territory beyond the capital—I occasionally got around by UN helicopter, but more often by limping bush taxi or a hired geriatric jeep.
IS describes the territory under its control in Iraq and Syria as a caliphate.
The group, which has changed its name to Islamic State, describes the territory under its control in Iraq and Syria as a caliphate.
Ahmed describes Islamic State-held territory as a paradise where one can easily practice Islam.
Martin Carver agrees with Davies and Vierck when he describes the territory of East Anglia as having unfixed borders, stating that "political authority appears to have primarily invested in people rather than territory".
Belcourt described the original territory of the Chippewa in the Pembina district as several hundred miles north to south, and east to west - much larger than the small reservation to which they were later assigned.
Otherwise, however, it was a missed chance, a retreat into the territory described so deftly by Mr Curtis.
In the early Blair-Brown years, when Labour successfully colonised the centre ground, Charles took the Liberal Democrats into territory described as "left of Labour".
