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Sentence Examples Tel Kabri is occupied by a town belonging to the Phoenician city-state of Tyre. At the 2011 census, there were 91,484 dwellings, 88,731 of which are occupied households. Roman mine workings of lead and silver are evident in the regions occupied by the Deceangli. Stone defences were added to the earthen ditch and rampart by AD 110 and the fort was occupied until the middle or end of that century. Carmarthen Grammar School was founded in 1587 on a site now occupied by the old hospital in Priory Street. The formerly Romanized north of Gaul, once it had been occupied by the Franks, would develop into Merovingian culture instead. He may have been born in the old castle which occupied a rocky knoll on the valley floor. Alexander had occupied parts of northern England during the First Barons' War but had been excommunicated and forced to retreat. Before the English built the town of Conwy, Aberconwy Abbey, the site was occupied by a Cistercian monastery favoured by the Welsh princes. Edward attempted reconciliation, but in July the opposition occupied London and called for the permanent removal of the Despensers. The Romans occupied the region until the end of Roman rule in Britain in 382, after which Caernarfon became part of the Kingdom of Gwynedd. The Battle of the Lys and the Fifth Battle of Ypres were fought before the Allies occupied the Belgian coast and reached the Dutch frontier. The Officers' and Sergeants' Mess once used as council offices is now occupied by Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. Part of the old chancery was converted into staff quarters, and the rest is currently occupied by the offices of the British Council. Downtown Atlanta contains the most office space in the metro area, much of it occupied by government entities. France introduced decimalisation in a number of countries that it occupied during the Napoleonic period. Newport Road is also home to several buildings owned by Cardiff University, and Shand House, occupied by Cardiff Institute for the Blind. It was originally unroofed and occupied by sidings, but was later built up to form part of the station's first concourse. It is said to have been converted for domestic use in 1586 and occupied by the Moyle family. The iron and steel industries occupied important roles in the development of the city, both before and after federation. Show More Sentences Germany occupied France for three years while France struggled to make payments that were a condition of surrender. Schomberg occupied the towns of Bangor and Belfast, before successfully laying siege to Carrickfergus. The Ripley Building is currently occupied by the Department for International Development. The international community considers the northern part of the island as territory of the Republic of Cyprus occupied by Turkish forces. In 1974 Cyprus was divided de facto when the Turkish army occupied the northern third of the island. The following year, he launched an assault from Sicily against the Lombard Duchy of Benevento, which then occupied most of southern Italy. After taking Apulia and Calabria, Roger occupied Messina with an army of 700 knights. On 28 December 1795 in Sassari insurgents demonstrating against feudalism, mainly from the region of Logudoro, occupied the city. In 1814, near the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Corsica was briefly occupied again by British troops. West Francia approximated the area occupied by, and was the precursor, to modern France. Napoleon's troops entered the country to invade Portugal but instead occupied Spain's major fortresses. Despite the fact that humans have occupied the territory of Portugal for thousands of years, something still remains of the original vegetation. However, in 1807, they were ceded again to the French in the Treaty of Tilsit and occupied by the French Empire. The London Kontor, established in 1320, stood west of London Bridge near Upper Thames Street, the site now occupied by Cannon Street station. When the tunnel valley was free of ice and seawater, it was occupied by the river. One of which on HM Fort Roughs is now occupied by the controversial Principality of Sealand. When the French occupied the Netherlands, the name for the Frisian department was Frise. Former were occupied by the count of Holland in 1289, the latter were governed by the Duke of Schleswig and the king of Denmark. The standing remains date from this later priory, while the site of the original priory is now occupied by the parish church. This was truly a world system, even though it occupied only a restricted portion of the western Old World. Show More Sentences In 1897, Russia occupied the Liaodong Peninsula, built the Port Arthur fortress, and based the Russian Pacific Fleet in the port. Germany occupied Jiaozhou Bay, built the Tsingtao fortress, and based the German East Asia Squadron in this port. After the Battle of Tsushima, a combined Japanese Army and Navy operation occupied Sakhalin Island to force the Russians into suing for peace. All of Germany's African colonies were invaded and occupied by Allied forces during the war. From there the British coordinated espionage in Germany and occupied Belgium. The area has been occupied since the Palaeolithic era, as attested by finds from the quarries at Swanscombe. The extreme west of the modern county was by the time of Roman Britain occupied by Iron Age tribes, known as the Regnenses. The Japanese army which landed at Pusan on 12 April 1502 occupied the whole area within a month. The rest of the brigade occupied Cassel on 30 September and scouted the country in motor cars. On 9 October, the remaining garrison surrendered and the Germans occupied the city. On 15 October, the Belgian army occupied a defensive line along the Yser river in west Flanders, from Dixmude to the coast. Many French soldiers, as well as those of other occupied countries, escaped to Britain. By April 1945, German forces were retreating on all fronts in northern Italy and occupied Yugoslavia, following continuous Allied attacks. Fall Gelb began on the evening of 9 May, when German forces occupied Luxembourg virtually unopposed. The German units occupied Amiens and secured the westernmost bridge over the river at Abbeville. To safeguard southern France, the Germans enacted Case Anton and occupied Vichy France. The Channel Islands served no purpose to the Germans other than the propaganda value of having occupied British territory. The regular raids by German personnel hunting for radios further alienated the occupied civilian populations. In many parts of occupied Europe the enemy was suffering losses at the hands of partisans that he could ill afford. John Hickman identifies thirteen reasons why occupied populations might hold collaborators in contempt. Show More Sentences During World War I, Brussels was an occupied city, but German troops did not cause much damage. Villas, hotels, and the casino were all occupied or used to some extent by the German forces. In the same way, precipitating minerals can fill cavities formerly occupied by blood vessels, vascular tissue or other soft tissues. The burrows do not interconnect, but are excavated and occupied by territorial family groups known as coteries. The 1991 University of Florida bat house is the largest occupied artificial roost in the world, with around 300,000 residents. As there are few convenient places for burrows, wolf dens are usually occupied by animals of the same family. The territory I had sold him was largely occupied by the Duke of Oklahoma, and, no doubt, by other potentates and panjandrums unknown to me. Alumni of Columbia have occupied top positions in Wall Street and the rest of the business world. Major military operations ended on 25 October 1922 when the Red Army occupied Vladivostok, previously held by the Provisional Priamur Government. The area now occupied by the Carpathians was once occupied by smaller ocean basins. These were areas which Native Americans had not occupied or where they were weak enough for the Inuit to live near them. The Native American societies of Mesoamerica occupied the land ranging from central Mexico in the north to Costa Rica in the south. Therefore, the United Kingdom invaded and occupied the Cape Colony that same year. A controversy that has occupied scholars for more than a century concerns whether Cabral's discovery was by chance or intentional. Men were recruited into the Corps of Colonial Marines on occupied Tangier Island, in the Chesapeake Bay. Although there have been no major prehistoric finds, these advantages suggest the site was occupied early. Some caves continued to be occupied until modern times, including Wookey Hole. The Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age people that occupied southern Britain built settlements on the hills and downland that cover Wiltshire. Henry occupied western Normandy, and advanced east on Bayeux, where Fitzhamon was held. In Scotland, the first and fourth quarters are occupied by the Scottish lion, and the second by the English lions. Show More Sentences The terrestrial habitats were occupied by various types of archosauromorphs and therapsids, like cynodonts and rhynchosaurs. In the Middle Paleolithic, Neanderthals were present in the region now occupied by Poland. In the late 7th century, the West Saxons occupied an area in the west of southern England, though the exact boundaries are difficult to define. On 3 October 1065, the thegns of York and the rest of Yorkshire descended on York and occupied the city. The French had occupied Frankfurt and were using it as their base for operations, which Brunswick now attempted to assault. Each of these villages was its own parish, but the area now occupied by Ventnor was divided between the parishes of Godshill and Newchurch. Sussex has been occupied since those times and has succumbed to various invasions and migrations throughout its long history. A pretender is a claimant to an abolished throne or to a throne already occupied by somebody else. It was superseded by the 1750 Treaty of Madrid which granted Portugal control of the lands it occupied in South America. For punitive expeditions Germanicus used the Ems river, which flowed from the heart of the country occupied by the tribes that became the Franks. By 6 AD, all of Germania up to the River Elbe was temporarily pacified by the Romans as well as being occupied by them. Under Emperors Vespasian and Domitian, the Roman Empire occupied the Agri Decumates between Main and Rhine. After the measured victories at Smolensk and Borodino Napoleon occupied Moscow, only to find it burned by the retreating Russian army. Their country was soon occupied by a Germanic tribe with a different name, the Tungri. In 30 BCE, a revolt of the Treveri was suppressed by Marcus Nonius Gallus, and the Titelberg was occupied by a garrison of the Roman army. Some Dacians were apparently expelled from the occupied zone at the end of each of the two Dacian Wars, or otherwise emigrated. During the next decade, a large section of them moved down the Black Sea coast and occupied much of the territory north of the lower Danube. In 2007 Ukraine occupied 8th place in Europe by the number of tourists visiting, according to the World Tourism Organisation rankings. His realm extended north to the Cheremosh River, while the southern part of Moldavia was still occupied by the Tatar Mongols. Between 1711 and 1812, the Russian Empire occupied the region five times during its wars against Ottoman and Austrian Empires. Show More Sentences The Soviet Union regained the region in 1944, and the Red Army occupied Romania. One of the two consular positions was often occupied by emperors themselves and eventually became reserved solely for the Emperor. It was Rome's first permanent venue for competitive athletics, and today occupied by the Piazza Navona. Cologne was occupied by the British Army of the Rhine until 1926, under the terms of the Armistice and the subsequent Versailles Peace Treaty. Following the withdrawal of French forces from Mainz, the United States Army Europe occupied the military bases in Mainz. In 1792 the city was occupied by troops of the French First Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars. The Parthian summer capital of Susa was apparently also occupied by the Romans. The armies of the eastern empire were occupied with Hunnic incursions in Asia Minor and Syria. Amongst the Polynesians of the Pacific the Ali'i occupied the traditional place of an Aristocratic class. Italian troops occupied Rome in 1870, and in July 1871, this formally became the capital of the kingdom. Until the arrival of bubonic plague in northern Norway in 1349, the Sami and the Norwegians occupied very separate economic niches. Types of clerics are distinguished from offices, even when the latter are commonly or exclusively occupied by clerics. Litter on the floor absorbs the droppings and the area occupied is expanded as they grow. In the 17th century, taking advantage of this period of Portuguese weakness, the Dutch occupied many Portuguese territories in Brazil. Still occupied in Thrace, he ordered Alexander to muster an army for a campaign in southern Greece. Meanwhile, Venice sided with Alfonso V of Aragon, who occupied the throne of Naples. The Khitans occupied the areas vacated by the Turkic Uyghurs bringing them under their control. In October 1919, the Republic of China occupied Mongolia after the suspicious deaths of Mongolian patriotic nobles. Kaidu destroyed an army at Beshbalik and occupied the city the following year. Spanish is mostly spoken in northern Morocco and the Spanish Sahara because Spain had previously occupied those areas. Show More Sentences Spanish troops occupied Tangier on 14 June 1940, the same day Paris fell to the Germans. The Wehrmacht occupied Kalinin for two months from October 17 to December 16, 1941, leaving the city in ashes. In World War I German forces occupied Bruges but the city suffered virtually no damage and was liberated on 19 October 1918 by the allies. From 1940 in World War II the city again was occupied by the Germans and again spared destruction. The northern bank of the Rovuma would finally be occupied by the Portuguese forces three months later. The Mende, who are believed to be descendants of the Mane, originally occupied the Liberian hinterland. Native to Sierra Leone, they have occupied Sherbro Island since it was founded. By the time of the governor Uqba, and possibly as early as 714, the city of Pamplona was occupied by a Berber garrison. After their loss of Cordoba, the Hammudids had occupied Algeciras and Ceuta. In 1501, he occupied Naples and partitioned the kingdom with Ferdinand of Aragon, who abandoned his cousin King Frederick. In 1798, he briefly occupied Rome, but was expelled from it by French Revolutionary forces within the year. In 1630, Pernambuco, as well as many Portuguese possessions in Brazil, was occupied by the Dutch. The commercial spaces will be occupied in steps and the final total will be 142 shops. The region now known as Bolivia had been occupied for over 2,500 years when the Aymara arrived. On 14 February 1815, Kandy was occupied by the British in the second Kandyan War, ending Sri Lanka's independence. The island was occupied by the Japanese forces between 1942 and 1945 and in 1950 became part of independent Indonesia. From the spring of 1942 to the summer of 1945, the entire Dutch East Indies, including Buru, were occupied by the Japanese army. The Spaniards occupied the southern part of the island where they had their main settlement the town of Ciudad del Rosario. As of 2003, former churches and cinemas on Ternate were occupied by refugees from the Halmahera violence. The Abbasids occupied the region until the 11th century, when they were driven out by the local Yahmad tribe. Show More Sentences The Uyunids controlled Bahrain until 1235, when the archipelago was briefly occupied by the Persian ruler of Fars. Ultimately, Ethiopia dismantled the federation and forcibly annexed and occupied Eritrea. British forces occupied Manila from 1762 to 1764 in an extension of the fighting of the Seven Years' War. In November 1914, the islands were occupied by troops of the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force landed from the SS Siar. He then occupied the port and attacked the city while the population hurried for shelter behind the Morro's moat and high battlements. As such, they occupied a special place on household altars, where people prayed to them, asked for help, or tried to summon their protection. Augustine is the oldest continuously occupied settlement of European origin in the contiguous United States. The Maya civilization occupied a wide territory that included southeastern Mexico and northern Central America. That makes it not just the largest pyramid in the world but also the oldest continuously occupied building in North America. The Aztecs were cut off from the mainland because of the occupied causeways. At the same time in the north, Guayaquil was occupied by rebel forces under the command of Gregorio Escobedo. Huascar was made prisoner, and Atahuallpa's chiefs Quizquiz and Chalicuchima occupied Cuzco. The Killke people occupied the region from 900 to 1200, prior to the arrival of the Inca in the 13th century. Ghent was occupied by the Germans in both World Wars but escaped severe destruction. The exodus of Huguenots from France created a brain drain, as many Huguenots had occupied important places in society. In November of that year the Union attacked Port Royal Sound and soon occupied Beaufort County and the neighboring Sea Islands. Historically, the northern islands were occupied by the island Chumash, while the southern islands were occupied by the Tongva. Although Svalbard was not occupied by Germany in the Second World War, German forces erected several weather stations there. At that time a large, shallow lake occupied the centre of what is now the Gulf. The island is believed to have been occupied by indigenous peoples for 40,000 years before British colonisation. Show More Sentences In 1609 Poland intervened into Russian affairs officially, captured Shuisky, and occupied the Kremlin. By the 18th century, Cossack hosts in the Russian Empire occupied effective buffer zones on its borders. A number of Mongol and Turkic peoples occupied the river banks for many centuries. The death of an uncle, who had occupied the see of Cortona, induced the young Guicciardini to seek an ecclesiastical career. In 1861, French troops occupied Zacatecas but only for two years before being driven out. However, this later site was occupied first between 550 and 710 CE, then again in the Toltec era 200 to 300 years later. This generally takes the place in the syntactic structure of the sentence normally occupied by the information being sought. Legislators are much occupied with ascertaining 'first meanings', with trying to secure the literal sense of their predecessors' legislation. The terms of the armistice called for an immediate evacuation of German troops from occupied Belgium, France, and Luxembourg within fifteen days. To ensure compliance, the Rhineland and bridgeheads east of the Rhine were to be occupied by Allied troops for fifteen years. The V2 principle allows any major constituent to occupy the first position as long as the second position is occupied by the finite verb. The mission occupied eight or ten ares of land, a barren purlieu that held a few goats and burros. By 1526, Luther found himself increasingly occupied in organising a new church. The Loyalists never controlled territory unless the British Army occupied it. Until then, the measure had occupied the Senate for 60 working days, including six Saturdays. Antony had occupied the high offices of questor and tribune, the first calling for literary ability, the second for skill as an orator. By 1688, the ironworks were operated by Lawrence Wellington, but a few years after the furnace was occupied by Shadrach Fox. In any event, the office has been continuously occupied since the Norman Conquest. Following the Battle of Brandywine, Wilmington was occupied by the British, and State President John McKinly was taken prisoner. Among the demigods were the Bhutarayas, and among the seven brahmanas who occupied the seven planets were Hiranyaroma, Vedasira and Urdhvabahu. Show More Sentences After the capital moved from Calcutta to Delhi, the Viceroy occupied the newly built Viceroy's House, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. A description of the kingdom written in 1699, notes that it occupied discontinuous areas along the coast. Facing the cattle byre is the great hut which is occupied by the mother of the headman. The site continued to be occupied during the Roman period, when the paths became roads. There is evidence that early hunters and, later, farming communities occupied the site. It does not seem to have been occupied by the Roman army at all, although it may simply be that the fort has not yet been located. The filibuster began on April 2 with the Abbeywood Trail amendment and occupied the legislature day and night, the members alternating in shifts. The Romans never fully occupied Caledonia, though several attempts were made. In that case the enemy himself could have occupied the defences of Corinth and held at bay all the Union troops that arrived. All horizontal surfaces were occupied by at least one open beercan stuffed with cigarettes saturated in some reeking liquid. To the left the caravan animals, securely picketed, at regular distances of some fifteen yards apart, occupied an area of several acres. But there were a number of flowerless, champagneless tables and at least three of them were occupied by unaffiliated diners. No. 4 represents the country occupied by the tribes speaking the Darkinung, Wannerawa, Warrimee, Wannungine, Dharrook and some other dialects. The posterior margin of TMP 2011.051.0001 has four episquamosal loci, all of which are occupied by well-fused episquamosals. However, some weeks after Ger-many surrendered, both Haunebu and Vril craft were spotted in the skies over occupied Germany. On other fronts, the British, French, Australians, and Japanese occupied Germany's colonies. The movement of the Germanic tribes to the south triggered the great migration of the Slavs, who occupied the vacated territories. The next two hundred years were occupied in trying to conquer these territories from the Byzantine Empire. After the Angles departed from Anglia, by the 8th century the region was occupied by Danes. In the Netherlands, Saxons occupied the territory south of the Frisians and north of the Franks. Show More Sentences This may be covered by the later village, which has long occupied the whole narrow strip between the steep hillsides and the lake. Caratacus himself was defeated in the Battle of Caer Caradoc and fled to the Roman client tribe of the Brigantes who occupied the Pennines. By the time of the Roman conquest of Britain, the area was occupied by a tribe known to the Romans as the Brigantes. In 876 under their new leader, Guthrum, the Danes slipped past the Saxon army and attacked and occupied Wareham in Dorset. After collecting reinforcements, they made a sudden dash across England and occupied the ruined Roman walls of Chester. In the circumstances, the period occupied in preferring appeals to the President and the Prime Minister was not incondonable. The young King inherited a difficult situation, with over half of England occupied by the rebels. John's death had defused some of the rebel concerns, and the royal castles were still holding out in the occupied parts of the country. The rebels occupied parts of London, and executed James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele, the unpopular Lord High Treasurer, after a hasty trial. He occupied London in October and paraded Henry VI through the streets as the restored king. Isla Perejil was occupied on 11 July 2002 by Moroccan Gendarmerie and troops, who were evicted peacefully by Spanish naval forces. In September 1858 the expeditionary force captured and occupied the port of Da Nang, and then in February 1859 moved south and captured Saigon. He ruled until 1651 when the armies of Oliver Cromwell occupied Scotland and drove him into exile. Cromwell's army then took Edinburgh, and by the end of the year his army had occupied much of southern Scotland. Preparations for an invasion of Ireland occupied Cromwell in the subsequent months. When he departed Ireland, they occupied most of the eastern and northern parts of the country. During the 1980s the statue was relocated outside Wythenshawe Hall, which had been occupied by Cromwell's troops. In the Second World War, Britain's colonies in Southeast Asia were occupied by Imperial Japan. The adoption of Chinese characters in Vietnam dates back to around 111BC, when it was occupied by the Chinese. Population estimates, age and sex, and occupied households estimates for England and for Wales. Show More Sentences Britain quickly invaded and occupied most of Germany's overseas colonies in Africa. In the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand occupied German New Guinea and Samoa respectively. During the Revolutionary Wars, the French invaded and occupied the region between 1794 and 1814, a time known as the French period. This war ended disastrously for Prussia, defeated and occupied within 19 days of the campaign's beginning. The French occupied Spain and formed a Spanish client kingdom, ending the alliance between the two. French troops gradually encroached on Spanish territory until they occupied Madrid, and installed a client monarchy. He arrived at Toulon on 5 October, where he found that a large French army had occupied the hills surrounding the city and was bombarding it. They lived apart for most of the time and occupied separate rooms in the house when they were together. Many of these deaths were caused by war crimes committed by German and Japanese forces in occupied territories. It made Luxembourgish language broadcasts to the occupied country on BBC radio. During the ensuing campaign, the Netherlands were defeated and occupied by Germany. After Italy's defeat in World War II, France and the UK occupied the former Italian colonies. Italy had occupied the Dodecanese islands in 1912, but Italian occupation ended after World War II, and the islands were integrated into Greece. Following the Blitz, which destroyed the chamber of the House of Commons, the Lord's chamber was occupied by the Commons. However, this system broke down in 2000 when 12 rival candidates declared for the job and the debate occupied an entire Parliamentary day. The tallest occupied building in Yorkshire is Bridgewater Place in central Leeds, commonly referred to as The Dalek. The Somerset Levels were flooded, but the dry points such as Glastonbury and Brent Knoll are known to have been occupied by Mesolithic hunters. Bristol was occupied by Royalist military, after they overran Royal Fort, the last Parliamentarian stronghold in the city. The area of Folkestone has been occupied since at least the Mesolithic era. Roman histories name the tribe that occupied the majority of Northern England as the Brigantes, or Highlanders. Show More Sentences It was built on land previously occupied by steel mills near what is now Meadowhall and the Sheffield Arena. By the 1416 survey there were 457 occupied premises in the city and many of the streets were arranged much as they are today. Soho House was at first occupied by Boulton relatives, and then by his first partner, John Fothergill. Designed by Spanish architect Luis Vidal, it was built on the site that had been occupied by the original Terminal 2 and the Queens Building. During the Migration Period as the Western Roman Empire declined, Malta came under attack and was conquered or occupied a number of times. Early on it was the Saxons, who occupied Old Saxony, located in what is now Northern Germany. This may have been caused by an influx of refugees from Roman occupied Europe, or Britain's large mineral reserves. The mustering of an army, annually at times, occupied an important place in Frankish history, both military and constitutional. For almost two weeks Saudi Special Forces and Pakistani commandos fought the insurgents who had occupied the Grand Mosque's compound. Hugh was recovered by the time of Anselm's arrival, but he was occupied four or five months by his assistance. The diminutive form castellum was used for fortlets, typically occupied by a detachment of a cohort or a century. The names of streets in many cities formerly occupied by the Romans suggest that the street was called cardo or cardus maximus. Archaeologists have revealed that some parts of the wall remained occupied well into the 5th century. Durham Castle is a Norman castle in the city of Durham, England, which has been wholly occupied since 1840 by University College, Durham. The Home Park includes parkland and two working farms, along with many estate cottages mainly occupied by employees and the Frogmore estate. Furthermore, like other occupied royal palaces, it was not insured on grounds of economy. Britain occupied half the display space inside with exhibits from the home country and the Empire. The cliffs in the ravine contain several caves that were occupied during the last ice age, between around 43,000 and 10,000 years ago. They were seasonally occupied by nomadic groups of people during the Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods. Apart from routine official duties, Holbein now occupied himself with private commissions, turning again to portraits of Steelyard merchants. Show More Sentences Political and social activism occupied much of Russell's time for most of his life. For the next year he was occupied writing reviews for plays, films and books for The Listener, Time and Tide and New Adelphi. In September 1943, Orwell resigned from the BBC post that he had occupied for two years. He went to Paris after the liberation of France and to Cologne once it had been occupied by the Allies. In addition to composition he occupied himself in several capacities during the first decade of the century. The theatre in which they will run is either not yet known or currently occupied by another show. In March 2011, the square was occupied by a crowd protesting against the UK Budget and proposed budget cuts. The Tate Gallery was housed in the current building occupied by Tate Britain, which is situated in Millbank, London. Elland Road was previously occupied by their predecessors, Leeds City before their disbanding. The new marathon distance was chosen to ensure that the race finished in front of the box occupied by the British royal family. In 2014 a small Morrisons store opened in the town centre located in the building previously occupied by Burger King. The area is now occupied by the present Nassau County, New York, region of Greater Westbury and East Garden City. When underway at sea, the second and third engineers will often be occupied with oil transfers from storage tanks, to active working tanks. Genoa was ultimately occupied by the French or the Milanese for much of the period. During the Second World War, following the armistice of 22 June 1940, continental Normandy was part of the German occupied zone of France. The Peruvian Army occupied Leticia, leading to an armed conflict between the two nations. On 8 April 1941, the United States occupied Greenland to defend it against a possible invasion by Germany. Sometimes a mythic homeland is more important for the national identity than the actual territory occupied by the nation. Jersey was occupied by Germany from 1 July 1940 until 9 May 1945, when Germany surrendered. Ireland and Scotland were occupied by the New Model Army during the Interregnum. Show More Sentences Raymond's force occupied an old promontory fort at Baginbun and plundered the surrounding countryside. Britain and France sought to take the offensive, while Germany defended the occupied territories. After suffering heavy losses, the Austrians briefly occupied the Serbian capital, Belgrade. The Allies occupied the Rhine cities of Cologne, Koblenz and Mainz, with restoration dependent on payment of reparations. When the government failed to make the reparations payments in January 1923, French troops occupied German industrial areas along the Ruhr. Part of Poland was immediately incorporated into the Reich, and the General Government was established in occupied central Poland. Germany was split into four zones, each occupied by one of the Allied powers, who drew reparations from their zone. Many individual personnel from these countries, and exiles from occupied Europe, also served with RAF squadrons. It was occupied by XV Corps without resistance on 3 January 1945 as part of Operation Talon, the amphibious landing at Akyab. Furthermore, the large shipments of food stolen from occupied nations during the war no longer reached Germany. Since the end of World War II, West Germany had been occupied by Allied forces and lacked its own means of defense. Most of the Iraqi military was quickly defeated and Baghdad was occupied on 9 April. Iraqi government officials had either disappeared or had conceded defeat, and on 9 April 2003, Baghdad was formally occupied by Coalition forces. There are numerous other Edinburgh properties occupied by the Scottish Government. Moa-nalos did not occur on Hawaii, which was occupied by another herbivore, the Giant Hawaiian Goose. The 2006 event occupied the site of the former Felindre tinplate works to the north of the city and featured a strikingly pink main tent. The area occupied by the medieval burgh of Dundee extends between East Port and West Port, which formerly held the gates to the walled city. The Argentine claim over South Georgia contributed to the 1982 Falklands War, during which Argentine forces briefly occupied the island. This intensified during the Hundred Years War, when, starting in 1339, the island was occupied by the Capetians on several occasions. For most of the Second World War, the Channel Islands were occupied by German troops. Find more words! 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