Thus we can see that then the "province" was a territorial possession, which has long claimed a special relationship to the English Crown.

The two countries had been in conflict regarding territorial possessions in the Americas.

In Italy one must have territorial possessions to be a count.

But the plain fact was that many people had died in a territorial possession of Costa Rica.

The term is also applied to the overseas territorial possessions of the European states:

Meanwhile, the decay of the Empire's territorial possessions continued apace.

According to the plan, the streets in the area were to be named after Danish territorial possessions, royalty and the upper classes.

Overprints were often used by nations to establish the first stage of postal service in a new territorial possession or colony.

The marriage was intended to consolidate territorial possessions in the north and south of France.

In 1862, Lincoln signed a law prohibiting the spread of slavery into all the remaining territorial possessions.