territorialChange

P1701 predicate

Indicates a change in control or ownership of geographic territory from one entity to another, often as a result of political, legal, or military events.

Observed surface forms (28)

  • cededTerritoryTo ×23
  • transferredTerritory ×17
  • territorialGain ×16
  • lostTerritoryTo ×14
  • transferredTerritoryTo ×9
  • changedSovereignty ×6
  • expandedTerritoryToInclude ×5
  • hasKeyTerritorialChange ×5
  • causedTerritorialLossTo ×4
  • territorialAcquisition ×4

Sample triples (218)

Subject Object
Alaska Purchase Alaska via predicate surface "transferredTerritory"
Alaska Statehood Act from U.S. territorial administration to full state sovereignty within the Union via predicate surface "jurisdictionChange"
Aleutian Islands campaign Attu returned to U.S. control
Aleutian Islands campaign Kiska returned to U.S. control
Allied reconquest of British Somaliland restoration of British control over British Somaliland
Alsace Franco-Prussian War via predicate surface "changedSovereignty"
Alsace World War I via predicate surface "changedSovereignty"
Alsace World War II via predicate surface "changedSovereignty"
Anglo-Nepalese War cession of Garhwal to the British East India Company
Anglo-Nepalese War cession of Kumaon to the British East India Company
Anglo-Nepalese War cession of parts of the Terai to the British East India Company
Axis occupation of Greece German control over strategic areas including Athens and Salonika
Axis occupation of Greece Italian control over many Greek islands
Axis occupation of Greece annexation of parts of Greek Macedonia and Thrace by Bulgaria
Battle of Fort Ticonderoga (1775) Fort Ticonderoga transferred to American control
Battle of Gabon Gabon transferred from Vichy France to Free France
Battle of Guadalcanal Allied forces captured and held Guadalcanal
Battle of Passchendaele capture of Passchendaele ridge via predicate surface "territorialGain"
Charles X Gustav of Sweden Blekinge via predicate surface "territorialGain"
Charles X Gustav of Sweden Bohuslän via predicate surface "territorialGain"
Charles X Gustav of Sweden Halland via predicate surface "territorialGain"
Charles X Gustav of Sweden Scania via predicate surface "territorialGain"
Crimean offensive (1944) Crimean Peninsula returned to Soviet control
Dacian Wars Dacia annexed as Roman province
Danish West India Company U.S. Virgin Islands via predicate surface "territoryBecame"
surface form: United States Virgin Islands
Deccan wars against Bijapur Bijapur territories incorporated into Mughal Empire
Devolution War France gained towns including Lille, Tournai, Douai, and Charleroi in the Spanish Netherlands
District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801 Maryland via predicate surface "definedTerritoryPreviouslyCededBy"
District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801 Virginia via predicate surface "definedTerritoryPreviouslyCededBy"
Dutch East Indies 1949-12-27 via predicate surface "sovereigntyTransferred"
Dutch East Indies campaign Dutch East Indies campaign self-linksurface differs
surface form: Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies
East Pomeranian Offensive Soviet and Polish forces occupy eastern Pomerania
Eastern Poland west via predicate surface "postWarBordersShiftedTo"
Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty return of Sinai Peninsula to Egyptian sovereignty
Electoral Palatinate French Revolutionary Wars via predicate surface "territoryLostIn"
Eritrean War of Independence Eritrea separates from Ethiopia de facto
Fezzan campaign Fezzan transferred from Italian to Free French control
Fourth Anglo-Mysore War large parts of Mysore annexed by British East India Company
Fourth Anglo-Mysore War reduction of Mysore to princely state under British suzerainty
Fourth Anglo-Mysore War territory granted to Maratha Empire
Fourth Anglo-Mysore War territory granted to Nizam of Hyderabad
Frederick II of Prussia Silesia via predicate surface "territorialAcquisition"
Der Alte Fritz
surface form: Frederick II of Prussia
Silesia via predicate surface "territorialAcquisition"
Frederick William II of Prussia Polish territories in the partitions of Poland via predicate surface "territorialGain"
German invasion of Yugoslavia Bulgarian occupation of parts of Macedonia and Serbia
German invasion of Yugoslavia Hungarian annexation of parts of Vojvodina
German invasion of Yugoslavia Italian annexation of Dalmatian coast and other areas
German invasion of Yugoslavia annexation of parts of Slovenia by Germany
Ghaznavid Empire Seljuk Empire via predicate surface "lostTerritoryTo"
Great Turkish War Habsburg Monarchy gained Transylvania from the Ottoman Empire