Sentence examples for of territory surrounded from inspiring English sources

The prince-bishopric was not a single continuous country, but rather consisted of several islands of territory surrounded by the Austrian Netherlands.

It assumes that the Serbs will lose their wodge of territory surrounding Banja Luka, to the west of their vulnerably narrow corridor at Brcko, and that the Croats in western Bosnia will also have to trade more land.

Iraqi state television said Monday that "vast areas" of territory surrounding Kirkuk had been seized, including oilfields and the city's airport.

The remote tribal region of Kurram is a sliver of Pakistani territory surrounded by Afghanistan.

Qatar is a small country (4,416 square miles) in the Arabian Gulf, bordering Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its territory surrounded by the Persian Gulf.

Many people are trapped in enclaves, a few square miles of Uzbek or Tajik territory surrounded by Kyrgyzstan.

These are like islands of Indian and Bangladeshi territory surrounded completely by the other country's land, clustered on either side of Bangladesh's border with the district of Cooch Behar, in the Indian state of West Bengal.

In 1998, the two countries went to war over a small portion of disputed territory surrounding the barren, rock-strewn town of Badme.

On 18 September 1796, the Austrians temporarily acquired control of the tête-du-ponts (bridgeheads) joining Kehl and Strasbourg until a strong French counter-attack forced them to retreat, leaving the French in control of the bridges but the Austrians in control of the territory surrounding them.

(They also control a lot of the territory surrounding the capital as well as the southern part of the country, extending as far as the Kenyan border).

The continued hostility of Syria, whose territory surrounds most of Lebanon, has been one obstacle.