Annexation
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Annexation (from Latin annectere 'to attach, to bind') is the act of adding to something larger, especially the incorporation of new territory into the domain of a country, or state or city. This may be by conquest, or by military agreement of the inhabitants of the annexed territory.Mediatisation in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation was the process of annexing the lands of one sovereign monarchy to another, often leaving the annexed some rights.
- "Annexation refers to both the unlawful and the lawful incorporation of a territory and its people into another state. In contemporary international law, unilateral annexation of a territory is unlawful. It was not always so. Previous international law recognized a right of conquest and other modes of acquiring territory without popular consent. Unification of territories accomplished through authentic processes of consent may, however, lead to annexation that is lawful, both domestically and internationally. The subdisciplines of international law, international relations, and comparative politics respectively have distinct literatures on annexation. International law addresses its normative appropriateness, international relations examines whether the incidence of unilateral annexation has declined because of legal prohibitions or for other reasons, and scholars of comparative politics address why governments may annex territories—among other options." – Oxford University Press
