Nominally, the borders of each subunit were drawn to incorporate the territory of a specific nationality.

The current governorate of Hadhramaut roughly incorporates the former territory of the two sultanates.

In that reform, he incorporated the old territory of Siljik-guk into the Silla administrative system.

This enabled the Franks to incorporate the territory of the Lahngau into its empire.

In 65 BC Pompey finally incorporated the territory as part of the Roman province of Syria.

The Spartans had early conquered much of the Peloponnese and incorporated the territory into the enlarged Sparta state.

Csanád defeated and killed Ahtum in the king's name, thus incorporating the territory into the Kingdom of Hungary.

In 681 khan Asparukh incorporated the territory into the First Bulgarian Empire.

Indonesian forces invaded in 1975 and the following year incorporated the territory as the country's 27th province.

In 1820 it incorporated the territory of Nonantola Abbey; it became an archdiocese in 1855 and took its current name in 1986.