Territorial Capital

A territorial capital serves as the seat of a territory. It is usually temporary and changes when the territory is divided into separate districts.


Famous quotes containing the words territorial and/or capital:

    “All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth—including America, of course—consist of pilferings from other people’s wash.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.”
    —Edmund Burke (1729–1797)