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Archbishopric of Magdeburg

Its territory comprised only some parts of the archdiocesan area, such as the city of Magdeburg, the bulk of the Magdeburg Börde, and the Jerichow Land as an integral whole and exclaves comprising about the Saalkreis including Halle upon Saale, Oebisfelde and environs as well as Jüterbog and environs.

Aşağı Əskipara

Nearby Voskepar is located in Armenia proper and Yuxarı Əskipara (Armenian: Վերին Ոսկեպար, Verin Voskepar) is in what is officially an exclave of Azerbaijan within Armenia, but which territory is controlled by Armenia.

Audiencias Provinciales of Spain

Examples include the Audiencia Provincial of Alicante, located in Elche rather than Alicante; the fifth section of the Audiencia Provincial of Murcia in Cartagena; the Audiencia Provincial of Pontevedra, with its fifth and sixth sections in Vigo; and the Audiencia Provincial of Cádiz with a section in the exclave of Ceuta.

Baganuur

Baganuur is actually a separate city, located as an exclave of 620 km² at the border between the Töv and Khentii aimags.

Battle of Cape Rachado

The Battle of Cape Rachado, off the present day Malaccan exclave of Tanjung Tuan in 1606, was an important naval engagement between the Dutch Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie and Portuguese fleets.

Bishopric of Chiemsee

The bishopric was very small, consisting of 10 parishes when it was created and 11 in 1804, the most of being located as exclaves in the vicinity of St. Johann in Tirol.

Bosnia and Herzegovina–Croatia relations

The Herzegovinian municipality of Neum in the south makes the southernmost part of Croatia (Dubrovnik–Neretva County) an exclave.

Bremerhaven Army Airfield

Although northwest Germany was to become a British occupation zone, an exclave was granted to the US Army in the area between Bremen and Nordholz.

Calvörde Castle

The little town, along with several nearby villages, belonged to the castle and formed a Brunswick exclave in what later became Prussian territory.

Casa de los Dragones

Casa de los Dragones or House of the Dragons is an important landmark in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta on the north coast of Africa, and an extraordinary example of eclectic architecture.

Cepeda

Dehesa de la Cepeda, an exclave of Madrid surrounded by Castile and León

Coat of arms of Württemberg

On a red field, two gold fishes addorsed (two animals depicted back-to-back), haurient ("breathing" − a fish shown palewise (vertical) and head upwards), and embowed (shown bent, flexed, or curved) – County of Mompelgard, an exclave property that passed by marriage to the Württemberg royal family in 1397; now modern-day Montbéliard, Franche-Comté, France.

Conrad III of Dhaun

An army of 600 cavalry and additional infantry led by Count Gottfried of Leiningen (a younger relative of the cathedral dean of the same name), attacked northern Hesse from Fritzlar, an exclave of Mainz, and devastated the area around Gudensberg, Felsberg and Melsungen.

Cutheard of Lindisfarne

It was this purchase that was later responsible for the parish becoming the exclave of County Durham known as Bedlingtonshire.

Duchy of Magdeburg

The Halle region (Saalkreis), an exclave of the province, was surrounded by the Principality of Anhalt, the County of Mansfeld (acquired by Prussia in 1790), and the Electorate of Saxony.

Duchy of Oldenburg

In 1937 (with the Greater Hamburg Act), it lost the exclave districts of Eutin near the Baltic coast and Birkenfeld in southwestern Germany to Prussia and gained the City of Wilhelmshaven; however, this was a formality, as the Hitler régime had de facto abolished the federal states in 1934.

Erenköy

Kokkina exclave, an exclave Turkish village in western Cyprus, whose Turkish name is Erenköy

Foreign relations of Serbia and Montenegro

There is also a dispute with Bosnia regarding the exclave of Sastavci village in Priboj municipality (which is entirely surrounded by Serbian territory), as well as Serbian "practical" exclave comprising several villages in the same area.

François-Joseph Gossec

The son of a small farmer, Gossec was born at the village of Vergnies, then a French exclave in the Austrian Netherlands, now in Belgium.

Frankfurt-Hanau Railway

The Hessian Ludwig Railway (Hessische Ludwigs-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, HLB), which was established in the Grand Duchy of Hesse recognized the importance of the HLB for the expansion of railway services in the Rhine-Main region, particularly to the province of Upper Hesse (an exclave of the Grand Duchy), from the Rhine-Main area to Bavaria and via the Kinzig valley to Bebra.

Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg

After serving with Frederick the Great during the Seven Years' War, he lived at and managed his family's exclave of Montbéliard, originally inherited by marriage in 1397, until it was taken over by the short-lived Rauracian Republic in 1792 and then annexed by the French Republic in 1793.

Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

In the south it bordered with the Prussian province of Brandenburg (with the exclaves of Rossow and Schönberg near Wittstock) and in the southwest with the Amt Neuhaus district held by the Kingdom of Hanover, which was incorporated into the Prussian province of Hanover after the Austro-Prussian War in 1866.

Herren-Sulzbach

In 1816, Herren-Sulzbach passed under the terms of the Congress of Vienna to the Principality of Lichtenberg, a newly created exclave of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, which as of 1826 became the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

Hosanger

The annex of Seim (lying as an exclave of the municipality in the west) was transferred from Hosanger to the new municipality of Alversund January 1, 1885.

Kappeln, Rhineland-Palatinate

Kappeln borders in the north on the municipality of Löllbach, in the east on the municipality of Medard, in the southeast on an exclave belonging to the municipality of Grumbach and the town of Lauterecken, in the south on the municipality of Grumbach, in the southwest on the municipality of Merzweiler, in the west on the municipality of Hoppstädten and in the northwest on the municipality of Schweinschied.

Main–Weser Railway

Bad Nauheim was a Kurhessen enclave within the Grand Duchy of Hesse exclave of Oberhessen through which the line ran to Gießen.

Neum Agreement

The Neum Agreement is an unimplemented treaty between Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina granting free passage of transit traffic between the territory of Dubrovnik-Neretva County around the city of Dubrovnik and forming a pene-exclave of Croatia and the remaining Croatian territory through the municipality of Neum.

Oecusse District

It was in Pante Macassar that an Indonesian fifth column raised the Indonesian flag and took control of the exclave on 29 November 1975, a week before the Indonesian invasion of East Timor proper.

Principality of Grubenhagen

Grubenhagen was located around the southwestern edge of the Harz, and included the towns of Osterode am Harz, Herzberg am Harz, Duderstadt, Einbeck and the eastern exclave of Elbingerode.

Prussian Guelders

Besides Geldern, other towns in the Prussian duchy were Horst, Venray, and Viersen, the latter of which was an exclave surrounded by the Duchy of Jülich.

Rejaf

The Lado Enclave was an exclave of the Congo Free State that existed from 1894 until 1910, leased by the British to King Leopold II of Belgium for the period of his lifetime.

State of Hanover

Excluded were the eastern areas belonging to Brunswick including the district of Blankenburg and the exclave of Calvörde (part of the district of Helmstedt), which fell within the Soviet Zone and was integrated into the state of Saxony-Anhalt, and the Hanoverian Amt of Neuhaus, which also lay on Soviet-occupied territory and was not united with Lower Saxony until 1993.

Tipton County, Tennessee

The western boundary of Tipton County is the Mississippi River, where Tennessee meets Arkansas; however, in several places where the river's course was altered by the 1812 New Madrid earthquake, the boundary still follows the old alignment of the river, with the result that a few of Tipton County's communities — including Reverie and Corona — are exclaved on the Arkansas side, rather than the Tennessee side, of the river.

Tongzhou District, Beijing

Tongzhou District borders the Beijing districts of Shunyi, Chaoyang and Daxing, Wuqing District of Tianjin Municipality, and Langfang City (both the Sanhe City−Dachang CountyXianghe County exclave and Guangyang District) of Hebei province, and is 12 miles from Tiananmen Square and 10 miles from Beijing Capital International Airport.

Twelfth Amendment of the Constitution of South Africa

The second was the boundary between the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, where there was the large Umzimkhulu exclave of the Eastern Cape surrounded by KwaZulu-Natal, and the smaller Mount Currie exclave of KwaZulu-Natal surrounded by the Eastern Cape.

Vayots Dzor Province

It lies in the south-east of the country, bordering the Nakhichevan exclave of Azerbaijan in the west and the Azerbaijan in the east.

北山

Kitayama, Wakayama, exclave village of Wakayama on the Mie–Nara border, Japan


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