Twelve years after Hong Kong passed from British to Chinese rule, the territory retains many freedoms unknown in mainland China, an arrangement called "one country, two systems".
When the process was finished, however, the territories retained their individuality and their own legal codes.
The base is one of two sovereign territories retained by Britain on Cyprus, a colony until 1960.
The constituent territories retained their identity; the emperors, in addition to the imperial crown, also wore the crowns of their kingdoms.
Even as they came under the sway of different rulers and were pulled apart into benighted principalities or swallowed up by vast global empires, the territories retained their elemental status as core geographical components of the sublunary world.
When Henry the Lion was outlawed by the Holy Roman emperor Frederick I Barbarossa in 1180, the duchy was broken up, and only two small and widely separated territories retained the Saxon name: Saxe-Lauenburg, southeast of Holstein, and Saxe-Wittenberg, along the middle Elbe (now north of Leipzig).
The territory will retain its own currency and control its own reserves.
Ms. Baker has been pushing her large-scale, Day-Glo abstractions into more organic territory, while retaining a futuristic edge.
When executing a tackle the aim is to dominate the contact situation and prevent the ball-carrier from gaining territory and retaining the ball.
An electoral committee of just 1,200 people, mainly business leaders and others with financial and personal ties to Beijing, now chooses the chief executive of the territory, which has retained considerable autonomy since Britain returned it to Chinese rule in 1997.
