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Spain owned several Pacific islands as part of the Spanish East Indies.After its defeat in the Spanish–American War of 1898, it lost the Philippines. The German–Spanish Treaty (1899) sold the Carolinas, Marianas and Palau to the German Empire.
Private property is a legal concept defined and enforced by a country's political system. [5] The area of law that deals with the subject is called property law. The enforcement of property law concerning private property is a matter of public expense.
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.
The loss in public and private property was estimated at $1,000,000, and in merchandise at $9,000,000, huge sums at the time. [6] A 2011 account suggests that in that year's money the losses amounted to the equivalent of around $224,000,000. [7] The action created an international scandal. [7]
A 26-acre island off the southern coast of Florida, known as Pumpkin Key, is back on the market for a discounted price of $75 million. It failed to sell when it was listed for $95 million in 2020.
La Garganta (Spanish for "the throat", or "gully") is a private estate, or finca, of around 15,000 hectares (37,000 acres) in extent, located in the rugged Sierra Morena, in rural Ciudad Real Province, in the region of Castile-La Mancha, Spain.
The Arctic archipelago of Svalbard has just one unsold private property, listed at €300 million—but the Norwegian government is fighting to block its sale Prarthana Prakash July 2, 2024 at 6:58 AM
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