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If, after repeated warnings, a State was judged guilty of misgovernment, it was simply annexed by the Paramount Power — the British.
The Christians gradually captured and annexed the former bastions of Moorish rule; in 1236, Córdoba fell to James the Conqueror, followed by Sevilla in 1248.
Mass commitment to urbanism has never existed in the United States--even in New York, which seems more urban than it really is because it annexed most of its suburbs (that is, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island) long ago.
In the third century b.c. the founder of the Qin Dynasty annexed the remote Guangzhou area, thus furnishing China with its first major seaport.
Only with the fall of Carthage in 146 b.c. did they manage to make inroads, but, as local historians stress, Ibiza was neither conquered nor annexed by Rome, but confederated, retaining remarkable autonomy.