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The Majapahit general Gajah Mada reconquered Bali in 1343, and annexed a large part of the Indonesian archipelago.
The Kurds of what is now Turkey were promised a state after World War I, but Kemal Atatürk annexed them.
Separatists intensified their campaign in January when the Indonesian president announced that there would be a referendum on autonomy or independence in East Timor, but the Straits Times observed, "Amputation is out because Aceh is unquestionably a part of Indonesia, unlike the former Portuguese colony East Timor it invaded and then annexed in 1976."
He would be allowed to press in court his claim that the Republic of Texas had been illegally annexed by the United States in 1845.
The Christian provinces gradually captured and annexed former bastions of Moorish rule: Ferdinand III conquered Murcia for Castile in 1242; Denia and Játiva fell to James the Conqueror of Aragon in 1244, though it was not until 1265 that he secured Cartagena.