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With a history longer than Berlin’s, Spandau, northwest of Berlin, still remains fiercely independent-minded, and was the most reluctant of the townships to be annexed by the metropolis in 1920.
Memorable eponymous terms require memorable nominal roots and, in the English-speaking world, people's names are becoming more diverse and interesting as more cultures are demographically and linguistically annexed.
Human rights groups claim that as many as 200,000 Timorese have been killed since Indonesia invaded and annexed the Portuguese colony in 1976.
In Australia, the Sydney Morning Herald Friday welcomed the U.N.-brokered agreement on self-determination for the people of East Timor but expressed doubts about the policing of next August's referendum by the Indonesian army, "which invaded East Timor, forcibly annexed the territory, and has maintained a policy of brutal pacification" there.
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.