annexed
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When Germany annexed Austria in March 1938, about 170,000 Jews lived in Vienna.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Land acquired by NorthPoint in unincorporated Johnson County was subsequently annexed into the City of Edgerton.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
So it annexed the southernmost Mariana island, Guam, in 1898.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026
"I found out that he became a member of the Nazi Party around 21st of April 1938, just a few days after the Anschluss," when Adolf Hitler annexed Austria to Germany, he said.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026
On June 29, 1889, when Holmes’s building was half completed, Chicago annexed Englewood and soon afterward established a new police precinct, the Tenth, Second Division, at Sixty-third and Wentworth, seven blocks from Holmes’s pharmacy.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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