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)

    “Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)