Ghajar (pronounced RAH-jar) has a complicated history, adapting to the shifting map of territorial conquests and squeezed between Israel, which currently controls the village, and its enemies, including the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah.
By arranging a series of matrimonial alliances, similar to that between Sibyl and Miles, King Henry I of England transformed "the map of territorial power in south-east Wales".
The octopus has frequently appeared in satirical maps of territorial expansion and war, including the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 (ID #1145), British imperialism in the North Indian Ocean (ID #2149), World War I (ID ##1185, 2286), World War II (ID ## 1318, 2123, 2169) and the Cold War (ID #1388).
The defection not only redraws the map of Kurdish territorial control but also could complicate a recent effort to repair the relationship between Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Iraqi Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani.
"The analysis says Longstreet made the best decision he could," added Ms. Knowles, who is currently working on a digital map of the Nazis' territorial conquests and forced labor camps in Europe.
On 21 December 1979, the Director of National Mapping of Malaysia published a map entitled Territorial Waters and Continental Shelf Boundaries of Malaysia showing Pedra Branca to be within its territorial waters.
Shared maps are established through a process of "territorial hysteresis" in which the environmental dominants emerge, the significant places, non-negotiable values and elements of long duration (in particular the relations) that have always presided over the space organisation of a society.
An examination of a map illustrating the territorial expansion of the United States since 1789 will arouse an appreciation of adaptable statecraft potential in the American Constitution.
The South China Sea website has a comprehensive set of maps of the conflicting territorial claims.
The proposals were put forward just in general terms today, with Mr. Tudjman and Mr. Milosevic promising to submit detailed maps of the suggested territorial designations as well as new constitutional arrangements for the federal state in the next few days.
At the broadest scale (1 250,000 100,000), land systems of territorial contexts (LSTCs) were detected by overlaying climatic, lithomorphological and topological maps.
