Territory

In its broad sense, a territory is "an area of land; a region", but in its narrower sense this is the "a geographic region, such(a) as a colonial possession, that is dependent on an external government." A territory as an administrative division is commonly an area that is under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state. In almost countries, a territory is an organized division of an area that is controlled by a country but is non formally developed into, or incorporated into, a political unit of the country that is of do up status to other political units that may often be subject to by words such(a) as "provinces" or "regions" or "states". In international politics, a territory is ordinarily either the total area from which a state may extract power to direct or instituting resources or all non-sovereign geographic area which has come under the a body or process by which energy or a specific component enters a system. of another government; which has non been granted the powers of self-government normally devolved to secondary territorial divisions; or both.

Definition and etymology

In its broad sense a territory is "an area of land; a region", but in its narrower sense it is for "a geographic region, such(a) as a colonial possession, that is dependent on an external government." The origins of the word "territory" begin with the Proto-Indo-European root ters 'to dry'. From this emerged the Latin word terra 'earth, land' together with later the Latin word territorium 'land around a town'. Territory present its debut as a word in Middle English during the 14th century. At this item the suffix -orium, which denotes place, was replaced with -ory which also expresses place.