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See also:ENCLAVE (a See also:French word from enclaver, to enclose)
, a See also:term signifying a See also:country or, more commonly, an outlying portion of a country, entirely surrounded by the territories of a See also:foreign or other See also:power, such as the detached portions of See also:Prussia, See also:Saxony, &c., enclosed in the Thuringian States
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(From the point of view of the states possessing such detached portions of territory these become " exclaves.") " See also:Enclave " is, however, generally used in a looser sense to describe a See also:colony or other territory of a See also:state, which, while possessing a seaboard, is entirely surrounded See also:land-See also: |
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