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Definition of Capitulations
1. capitulation [n] - See also: capitulation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Capitulations
Literary usage of Capitulations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The Byzantine emperors followed this example, and Genoa, Pisa and Venice all
obtained capitulations. The explanation of the practice is to be found in the ..."
2. The American Historical Review by American Historical Association (1901)
"THE TURKISH capitulations SINCE the capture of Constantinople by the Turks in
1453 the ... To these decrees in due time the name of capitulations was given, ..."
3. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1906)
"capitulations are conventions between character armed forces of belligerents ...
capitulations are military conventions only and exclusively ; they must, ..."
4. Modern Egypt by Evelyn Baring Cromer (1908)
"IT is unnecessary to enter into any technical discussion on the rights conferred
by virtue of the capitulations upon Europeans resident in Egypt. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The Byzantine emperors followed this example, and Genoa, Pisa and Venice all
obtained capitulations. The explanation of the practice is to be found in the ..."
6. The Map of Europe by Treaty: Showing the Various Political and Territorial by Edward Hertslet (1891)
"... in virtue of the capitulations with the Porte, lih February, 1880. [A TREATY
of Friendship and Commerce was concluded between Great Britain and Servia, ..."
7. The Government of India: Being a Digest of the Statute Law Relating Thereto by Courtenay Ilbert (1898)
"As far back as the ninth and tenth centuries the Greek Emperors of Constantinople
granted to the Warings or Varangians from Scandinavia capitulations or ..."
8. American Consular Jurisdiction in the Orient by Frank Erastus Hinckley (1906)
"fact the earlier capitulations ordinarily opened with adulation ... The same
English capitulations the sui- say: "Moy qui suis le puissant Seigneur des ..."
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