A territorial dispute is a disagreement over the possession/control of land between two or more territorial entities or over the possession or control of land by a new state and occupying power after it has conquered the land from a former state no longer currently recognized by the new state.
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“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)
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—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)