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The European Land Registry Association (ELRA) is an international non-profit association whose mission and primary purpose is “the development and understanding of the role of land registration in real property and capital markets”. [1] ELRA was born on 2004 to defend the interest of land registries in the European Union. Initially it ...
A private island with a summer cottage in Finnish Lakeland, Finland. A private island is a disconnected body of land wholly owned by a private citizen or corporation.Although this exclusivity gives the owner substantial control over the property, private islands remain under the jurisdiction of national and sometimes local governments.
In the Iberian Peninsula, the Reconquista' of Muslim territories of Spain, the Al-Andalus, by the Kingdom of Castile provided the Christian kingdom with sudden extensions of land, which the kings gave as a reward to nobility, mercenaries and military orders to exploit as latifundia, which had been first established as the commercial olive oil ...
During the height of settler colonialism many European governments declared huge areas of the New World and Australia to be Terra nullius (land belonging to no one), but this was done to create a legal pretext to annex them to European empires; these lands were not, and are not uninhabited.
In medieval Western Europe, there were two competing systems of landed property; manorialism, inherited from the Roman villa system, where a large estate is owned by the Lord of the manor and leased to tenants; and the family farm or Hof owned by and heritable within a commoner family (c.f. yeoman), inherited from Germanic law.
Pages in category "Lists of buildings and structures in Europe" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Below is a list of European countries and dependencies by area in Europe. [1] As a continent , Europe's total geographical area is about 10 million square kilometres. [ 2 ] Transcontinental countries are ranked according to the size of their European part only, excluding Greece due to the not clearly defined boundaries of its islands between ...