The area was gradually annexed to the City of Calgary between 1906 and 1912.

The territory subsequently became a colony of Spain, though parts of the territory were gradually annexed by the United States.

After the Spanish colonization, these ceased to exist as the Philippines was gradually annexed as part of the Spanish Empire and the monarchs of Spain were adopted.

In the early nineteenth century, it was gradually annexed in British India as Jubbulpore and incorporated as a major cantonment town.

The resulting suburb was gradually annexed by Portland beginning in the 1960s and completing in 1994.

The area had been gradually annexed by Czarist Russia in the second half of the 19th century.

Some remained under the control of the Macedonian Kingdom and until 146 BC, when the Greek peninsula was gradually annexed by Rome.

The region of Svaneti was gradually annexed in 1857-59.

Alsace was gradually annexed to the kingdom of France during the reign of Louis XIV.

Most of the boroughs were originally independent municipalities but were gradually annexed from 1901 to 1975.