Sentence examples for which was ceded from inspiring English sources

But Russia's insistence that it is righting a historical wrong in retaking Crimea, which was ceded to Ukraine by Soviet authorities in 1954, resonates in Afghanistan.

Under the Mysore (Mysuru) sultans (1763) it became a strategic shipbuilding base, which was ceded to the British in 1799 after numerous sieges.

Márai was born in 1900 in Kassa or Kaschau, a town in upper Hungary which was ceded at the Treaty of Trianon to Czechoslovakia.

This suit was brought to determine the validity of the retrocession by Congress to the State of Virginia of that part of the District of Columbia, as originally constituted, which was ceded by Virginia to the United States.

But Gibraltarians were outraged, and Spain was interested in the plan only as a step towards recovering the full sovereignty which was ceded in the Treaty of Utretcht in 1713.

Centred on Kaliningrad city, it was formed in 1945 from the northern half of German East Prussia, which was ceded to the U.S.S.R. by the Potsdam agreement of that year.

The first two partitions affected only the East Slav lands of Lithuania, which were ceded to Russia.

The Senkaku islands were neither part of Taiwan nor part of the Pescadores Islands, which were ceded to Japan from China in accordance with the Treaty of Shimonoseki in May 1895.

In Europe alone (without counting the German colonies, all of which were ceded to the Allies), Germany lost about 27,188 square miles (over 70,000 square km) of territory with a total population of over 7,000,000.

There are more reserves in Canada than there are First Nations, which were ceded multiple reserves by treaty.

In 1836, the tribe entered into the Treaty of Cedar Point, under which were ceded to the federal government.