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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.
Later, the island became part of the commercial empires of Pisa, Genoa, and the Spanish, and was annexed in 1718 by the dukes of Savoy.
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.
The Kurds of what is now Turkey were promised a state after World War I, but Kemal Atatürk annexed them.
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.