Succession Before his death in 1035, Sancho divided his possessions among his sons.

With Henry's support, Stephen rapidly began to accumulate lands and possessions.

The United States took responsibility for the rest of Japan's possessions in Oceania.

Henry, the Portuguese count, granted him the port of Varzim amongst several other possessions.

In 1759, the possessions and jurisdictions of the diocese situated in Austria were sold to that state.

France drew up a plan to partition Austria between Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony and Spain.

Rio Paratin which has a tributary with Arroio Basílio that bounded with the possession of the two modern countries.

European strategy Henry had no further opportunities to reconquer his possessions in France after the collapse of his military campaign at Taillebourg.

Simultaneously, Henry III of England tried to restore his continental possessions, but was defeated at the battle of Taillebourg.

John Maurice, Prince of Nassau Siegen was appointed as the governor of the Dutch possessions in Brazil in 1637 by the Dutch West India Company.

He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.

Under the Constitution of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico is described as a Commonwealth and Puerto Ricans have a degree of administrative autonomy similar to citizens of a U.S. state.

Johann Philipp von Stadion, the foreign minister, personally hated Napoleon due to an experience of confiscation of his possessions in France by Napoleon.

The Second Dutch War (1665 1667) was started by English attempts to muscle in on Dutch possessions in Africa and North America.

Throughout the 14th century, French kings sought to expand their influence throughout the kingdom at the expense of the territorial holdings of the nobility.

Rather than holding on to his possessions in Asia Minor, Michael chose to expand the Empire, gaining only short term success.

The court at Jelgava was so low on funds that it had to auction some of its possessions to afford the journey out of Russia.

And notice, most of that went to the motherland, to the imperial metropoles, not to their colonial possessions.

These possessions became the Northern Province of Portuguese India, which extended almost 100 km along the coast from Daman to Chaul, and in places 30 50 km inland.

For the ancient Egyptians the lap was a platform upon which to place the earthly possessions of the dead 30 cubits from foot to knee.

Henry's plans reflected his strong religious beliefs, but they also stood to give him additional international credibility when arguing for the return of his possessions in France.

Tanucci also implemented a policy of substantially limiting the privileges of the clergy, whose vast possessions enjoyed tax exemption and their own jurisdiction.

Spain was Europe's leading power throughout the 16th century and most of the 17th century, a position reinforced by trade and wealth from colonial possessions and became the world's leading maritime power.

By a series of successful expeditions, he gradually extended the Dutch possessions from Sergipe on the south to São Luís de Maranhão in the north.

Two exarchates were established, one in Italy, with seat at Ravenna (hence known as the Exarchate of Ravenna), and one in Africa, based at Carthage and including all imperial possessions in the Western Mediterranean.

Japan was supposed to return its colonial possessions, but the United States took over the Senkaku Islands along with Okinawa, before returning both to Japan in 1972.

Edward's surroundings and possessions were regally splendid his rooms were hung with costly Flemish tapestries, and his clothes, books, and cutlery were encrusted with precious jewels and gold.

Angevin Empire His 1152 marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine allowed the future Henry II to gain control of his new wife's possessions of Aquitaine and Gascony.

The young King inherited a difficult situation, with over half of England occupied by the rebels and most of his father's continental possessions still in French hands.

In 1713, the Treaty of Utrecht formally confirmed Austrian sovereignty over most of Spain's Italian possessions including Lombardy and its capital, Milan.

At the end of the war in 1713, Savoy received Sicily, and Victor was awarded the title of King besides the title of Duke of Savoy.

His short reign was dominated by the first stirrings of the French Wars of Religion and the loss of French possessions in Corsica, Tuscany, Savoy, and almost all of Piedmont under the Treaty of Cateau Cambrésis.

Some are possessions of sovereign states, as several states have overseas dependencies (such as the British Virgin Islands (United Kingdom) and Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France)), with citizenry at times identical and at times distinct from their own.

Those who profess a belief in demonic possession have sometimes ascribed to possession the symptoms associated with physical or mental illnesses, such as hysteria, mania, psychosis, Tourette's syndrome, epilepsy, schizophrenia or dissociative identity disorder.

Antiochus and Philip V of Macedon then made a pact to divide the Ptolemaic possessions outside of Egypt, and in the Fifth Syrian War, the Seleucids ousted Ptolemy V from control of Coele Syria.

Augustus bestowed only properties and possessions to his designated heirs, as an obvious system of institutionalized imperial inheritance would have provoked resistance and hostility among the republican minded Romans fearful of monarchy.

In 1556, Charles V abdicated in favour of his son Philip II and his brother Ferdinand I. Charles's Italian possessions, including Milan, passed to Philip II and remained with the Spanish line of Habsburgs, while Ferdinand's Austrian line of Habsburgs ruled the Holy Roman Empire.

After his death, the War of the Spanish Succession began in 1701 with the occupation of all Spanish possessions by French troops backing the claim of the French Philippe of Anjou to the Spanish throne.

Following the Portuguese crisis of succession, a dynastic union joined the crowns of Castile, Portugal and Aragon along with their respective colonial possessions, under the rule of the Hispanic monarchy.

In contrast to the neighboring fragmented Spanish possessions, the Portuguese colony, built up by the Portuguese in Latin America, kept its territorial unity and linguistic integrity after independence, giving rise to the largest country in the region.

The countries with the highest inequality in the region (as measured with the Gini index in the UN Development Report) in 2007 were Haiti (59.5), Colombia (58.5), Bolivia (58.2), Honduras (55.3), Brazil (55.0), and Panama (54.9), while the countries with the lowest inequality in the region were Venezuela (43.4), Uruguay (46.4) and Costa Rica (47.2).

Independence war (1962 1975) After World War II, while many European nations were granting independence to their colonies, Portugal, under the Estado Novo regime, maintained that Mozambique and other Portuguese possessions were overseas territories of the metropole (mother country).

English My Fairest Land My land, oh most beauteous, possession most dear, Thou drawest me to thee, embracing me near becalmed in the summer, in winter snow covered, magnificent islands, by God named beloved.

The Roman Empire ( ) was the post Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterized by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia.

Just prior to his own death, Pedro II donated most of his possessions to the Brazilian government, which were later divided between the Brazilian National Archives, the Imperial Museum of Brazil, the National Library of Brazil and the Brazilian Historic and Geographic Institute.