territorial acquisition

Territorial acquisition is the process by which a state or entity gains control over land or geographic space through means such as conquest, cession, purchase, occupation, or accretion.

Observed surface forms (8)

• military conquest ×4
• colonial conquest ×2
• imperial expansion ×2
• Japanese expansion in East Asia ×1
• colonization ×1
• international territorial dispute ×1
• territorial cession ×1
• territorial occupation ×1

Instances (14)

• Spanish colonization of the Americas via concept surface "colonization"
• Japanese occupation of Manchuria via concept surface "Japanese expansion in East Asia"
• Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation via concept surface "international territorial dispute"
• Louisiana Purchase
• Alaska Purchase
• German-occupied Europe via concept surface "territorial occupation"
• British colonial period in Jamaica via concept surface "military conquest"
  surface form: English conquest of Jamaica
• Fall of Babylon (539 BCE) via concept surface "military conquest"
• Danish conquest of England via concept surface "military conquest"
• Neo-Assyrian expansion via concept surface "imperial expansion"
• Treaty of Berlin (1878) transfer of Batum to Russian Empire via concept surface "territorial cession"
• Spanish conquest of Florida via concept surface "colonial conquest"
• Spanish conquest of the Río de la Plata region via concept surface "colonial conquest"
• Norman Conquest of England via concept surface "military conquest"