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  2. Terra nullius - Wikipedia

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    [63] [64] The Aboriginal population of the Sydney area was an estimated 4,000 to 8,000 people who were organised in clans which occupied land with traditional boundaries. [ 65 ] [ 66 ] There is debate over whether Australia was colonised by the British from 1788 on the basis that the land was terra nullius .

  3. List of adjectival and demonymic forms for countries and nations

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    A country demonym denotes the people or the inhabitants of or from there; for example, "Germans" are people of or from Germany. Demonyms are given in plural forms. Singular forms simply remove the final s or, in the case of -ese endings, are the same as the plural forms.

  4. List of territory purchased by a sovereign nation from ...

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    This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (March 2021) This is a list of purchases of territory by a sovereign nation from another sovereign nation.

  5. List of countries and territories by the United Nations ...

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    This is a list of countries and territories by the United Nations geoscheme, including 193 UN member states, two UN observer states (the Holy See [note 1] and the State of Palestine), two states in free association with New Zealand (the Cook Islands and Niue), and 49 non-sovereign dependencies or territories, as well as Western Sahara (a disputed territory whose sovereignty is contested) and ...

  6. Territory - Wikipedia

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    A territory is an area of land, sea, or space, belonging or connected to a particular country, person, or animal. [1] In international politics, a territory is usually a geographic area which has not been granted the powers of self-government, i.e. an area that is under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state.

  7. Common land - Wikipedia

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    In Ireland, commonage (Irish: cimíneacht, cimín [43]) is a holding held by two or more persons in specified shares or jointly and originally purchased from the Irish Land Commission under the Land Purchase Acts (1885 and 1903). [44] [45] Traditionally, tenants on large estates rented their land from the landlord. The farm consisted of an ...

  8. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    Caitlin Clark (born January 22, 2002) is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Fever of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). In her college freshman season with the Iowa Hawkeyes, she earned All-American honors; as a sophomore, Clark was again first-team All-American and in her junior and senior seasons, she was the national player of the year.

  9. Good Country Index - Wikipedia

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    The Good Country Index is a composite statistic of 35 data points mostly generated by the United Nations.These data points are combined into a common measure which gives an overall ranking, and a ranking in seven categories: