Cession

The failure to recognize this diversity and this plurality had engendered vast national problems, the most outstanding of which is the cession of the South and the eruption of war in Darfur and the two areas (South Kordofan and Southern Blue Nile).

They fizzled at the end of the NLM-Ashanti- cession-bid violence 1954-56.

A Cession Bill was put forth in the Council Negri (now Sarawak State Legislative Assembly ) and was debated for three days.

A four-year truce stipulated Jogaila's conversion to Catholicism and the cession of half of Samogitia to the Teutonic Knights.

Cession followed the Tripartite Convention of 1899 that partitioned the eastern islands of Samoa (including Tutuila and the Manú a Group) from the western islands of Samoa (including Upolu and Savai i).

European-American permanent settlement did not take place until after the American Revolutionary War and the forced cession by the Seneca of most of their lands in western New York.

Finally, in 1261, Alexander III of Scotland sent envoys to Norway to negotiate for the cession of the isles, but their efforts led to no result.

From the Mexican Cession, the New Mexico Territory received most of the present-day state of Arizona, most of the western part of the present-day state of New Mexico, and the southern tip of present-day Nevada (south of the 37th parallel ).

He expected to be able to accomplish this by freezing slavery at its 1849 boundaries and by immediately bypassing the territory stage and creating two new states out of the Mexican Cession.

However, the Alaska Purchase Treaty is absolutely clear that the agreement was for a complete Russian cession of the territory.

It had a blank after the words "the cession of the islands of".

Louisiana remained nominally under Spanish control until a transfer of power to France on November 30, 1803, just three weeks before the cession to the United States.

Most of these were not, however, treaties of cession; they were in the form of cooperative agreements between two sovereign powers.

New California is depicted with a north-eastern border at the meridian leading north of the Rio Grande headwaters California also became part of the U.S. as a result of the Mexican Cession.

Only a handful of Chiefs had signed treaties of cession, and in some of those cases it is doubtful whether they had understood the terms.

Provision for the cession of northern Schleswig to Denmark was made pending a popular vote in favour of this.

The Aragonese Reconquista in the south ended with the cession of Murcia by James I of Aragon to the Kingdom of Castile as dowry for an Aragonese princess.

The Chancellor demanded the cession of all of Alsace, parts of Lorraine, and enormous reparations.

The establishment of Oklahoma Territory following the Civil War was a required land cession by the Five Civilized Tribes, who had supported the Confederacy.

The letter began: The cession of Louisiana and the Floridas by Spain to France works most sorely on the U.S. On this subject the Secretary of State has written to you fully.