right to sovereignty over a territory
71Puerto Rican Campaign — Infobox Military Conflict caption= Land Campaign in Puerto Rico conflict=Puerto Rican Campaign partof=the Spanish American War date=May 12, 1898 ndash; August 13, 1898 place=Puerto Rico result= Militarily inconclusive, Spain cedes Puerto Rico in… …
72Tiris al-Gharbiyya — (Arabic for Western Tiris ) was the Mauritanian name for the area of Western Sahara under its control between 1975 and 1979.BackgroundMauritania annexed the southern third of the former Spanish colony of Spanish Sahara in 1975 after the Madrid… …
73Sicilian Mafia — Mafia redirects here. For other uses, see Mafia (disambiguation). Sketch of the 1901 maxi trial of suspected mafiosi in Palermo. From the newspaper L Ora, May 1901 The Mafia (also known as Cosa Nostra) is a criminal syndicate that emerged in the… …
74Mafia — The Mafia (also known as Cosa Nostra) is a Sicilian criminal secret society which is believed to have first developed in the mid 19th century in Sicily. An offshoot emerged on the East Coast of the United States and in Australia [… …
75Moro Rebellion — Aftermath of the First Battle of Bud Dajo. Date 1899–1913 …
76Enele Ma'afu — otu itonga, commonly known as Ma afu,[1] was a man of two kingdoms being traditionally a Tongan Prince and a self forged Fijian chief. Contents 1 A Brief History 2 The Beginnings of his Kingdom …
77Demilitarized zone — DMZ redirects here. For other uses, see DMZ (disambiguation). This article is about the military term. For the computer networking term, see DMZ (computing). The Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone separated North Vietnam and South Vietnam. In military …
78Northwest Indian War — Battle for Ohio redirects here;. Distinguish from Battle of Ohio, which is a nickname for a particular current running baseball and American football team rivalry. Northwest Indian War Part of American Indian Wars …
79Swiss peasant war of 1653 — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Swiss peasant war of 1653 partof= caption= date=January ndash; June 1653 place=Cantons of Lucerne, Berne, Solothurn, Basel, and the Aargau, in the Old Swiss Confederacy casus=Popular revolt territory=… …
80papacy — /pay peuh see/, n., pl. papacies. Rom. Cath. Ch. 1. the office, dignity, or jurisdiction of the pope. 2. the system of ecclesiastical government in which the pope is recognized as the supreme head. 3. the period during which a certain pope is in… …
