Military occupation
effective provisional control of a certain power over a territory From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Military or belligerent occupation is hostile control[1] by a ruling power over a sovereign territory that is not part of the ruling power's own sovereign territory.[2] The controlled territory is called occupied territory, and the ruling power is called the occupant.[3] During a military occupation, the occupier has certain responsibilities to uphold public order.[4]
Hundreds of years ago, the old notion of "to the victor belong the spoils"[5] was replaced with the new notion that sovereignty was not to be taken from a state by force. Military occupation, which is a loss of a sovereign's control of a territory, but not a loss of sovereignty, was thus considered temporary. Ideally, a peace treaty would soon return control to the ousted sovereign.[6]
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