The treaty ceded parts of Finland to the Soviet Union.

(Crimea was ceded to Ukraine by Nikita Khrushchev only in 1954).

As a result, large areas had to be ceded to Sweden.

By virtue of this treaty, the new lands were ceded to the State of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes provided that the rights of the minorities were guaranteed.

After 1917 the residents of the islands worked towards having them ceded to Sweden.

In the treaty settlement, the British ceded most Indian lands to the new United States.

Walvis Bay was ceded to Namibia in 1994 upon the end of Apartheid in South Africa.

France ceded Louisiana to the United States by the treaty of Paris, of April 30, 1803.

The Savoyard influence on the city grew, and the Habsburgs ceded it to them in 1452.

The provinces were ceded back to Cambodia by a border treaty between France and Thailand in 1906.

The main difference was Petsamo, which was ceded to Finland in the Treaty of Tartu in 1920.

Treaty of Paris (1763) On February 10, 1763, France ceded most of New France to Great Britain.

Following its defeat in the Spanish American War in 1898, Spain ceded Guam to the United States.

Finland ceded territory representing 11 of its land area and 30 of its economy to the Soviet Union.

France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America to Britain in 1763 after the Seven Years' War.

As a result, Israel ceded to the US and others responsibility to move the Iranian regime from its current path.

It should also be noted that Jordan never afterwards claimed the right to speak on behalf of the ceded territory.

Article 53 was not applicable to the case of the Comoros because no territory was being ceded to a State.

And yet we, the vast and still far too silent majority, have ceded the public arena to this extremist minority.

And yet we, the vast and still far too silent majority, have ceded the public arena to this extremist minority.

In June 1944, Finnish troops partially withdrew from the ceded areas again as a result of the Soviet Fourth strategic offensive.

History The Åland Islands formed part of the territory ceded to Russia by Sweden under the Treaty of Fredrikshamn in September 1809.

Under the 1697 Treaty of Ryswick, Spain officially ceded the western three eighths of Hispaniola to France which renamed the colony Saint Domingue.

The constitutional history of Canada begins with the 1763 Treaty of Paris, in which France ceded most of New France to Great Britain.

As the revised peace plan now stands, large areas of what was formerly Bosnian territory would be ceded to Bosnia apos s adversaries.

The trial judge, having been provided with hundreds of pages of documentary evidence, concluded that the lands where the offence was alleged to have occurred were in fact ceded by the 1923 Treaty, and that any special rights as to fishing were included in that.

The Ionian Islands were returned by Britain upon the arrival of the new King George I in 1863 and Thessaly was ceded by the Ottomans.

Savonia, which had been a part of Sweden from the late 13th century, was separated from Sweden when Finland was ceded to Russia in 1809.

The Treaty of Fredrikshamn (1809), by which Sweden ceded Finland, including parts of the province of Lappland and the Åland Islands, was signed in Hamina.

The British Government has stated that when the time comes for the Territory to be ceded it will liaise closely with the Government of Mauritius.

But in 1898, Spain ceded its control of the island to United States following the Spanish American War, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris.

France came to own the island in 1795, when by the Peace of Basel Spain ceded Santo Domingo as a consequence of the French Revolutionary Wars.

The territory was disputed between France and the United Kingdom in the 18th century, before being ceded to the British in 1763 and again in 1783.

As part of this treaty, the border town of Leticia and its surrounding area was ceded from Peru to Colombia, giving Colombia access to the Amazon River.

Following the First World War the province was ceded to Greece, but was retaken by the forces of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in the Turkish War of Independence.

The Danish province of Øsel was ceded to Sweden under the 1645 Treaty of Brömsebro, which ended the Torstenson War, one theatre of the Thirty Years' War.

The US under Obama has increasingly ceded ground to China, a trend that admittedly began when the Bush administration became preoccupied with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Much of the western part of the country has been ceded to insurgents, the prospect of holding free and fair elections in January is fast receding, civil war looms.

Examples In 1790, the U.S. states of Maryland and Virginia both ceded land to create the District of Columbia, as specified in the U.S. Constitution of the previous year.

We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom.

Geoffrey held the duchy until 1149, when he and Matilda conjointly ceded it to their son, Henry, which cession was formally ratified by King Louis VII of France the following year.

We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom.

In another provision of the treaty, the kingdoms of Naples and Sicily were ceded by Austria to Duke Charles of Parma and Piacenza, the younger son of King Philip V of Spain.

At the end of the Second Balkan War in 1913, the Kingdom of Romania came to include Southern Dobruja, whose population was over 50 Turkish (the region was ceded to Bulgaria in 1940).

4. In April 1900, the Samoan high chiefs formally ceded the islands of Tutuila and Aunuu to the United States, and in July 1904 the cession was expanded to include Ofu, Olosega, Tau and Rose.