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enclave

Portion of a state within the boundaries of another. To the proprietor state the enclave is known as its exclave. Examples of enclaves are: the former Cabinda enclave of Angola; East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), formerly part of the Republic of Pakistan; East Prussia (now part of Poland), which, between 1919 and 1939, was part of Germany; and Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly Armenian region within Azerbaijan, which is disputed by the two nations.



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