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
So it annexed the southernmost Mariana island, Guam, in 1898.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026
At the end of World War Two, the Soviet Union annexed the island chain and deported around 17,000 Japanese residents.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Overnight into Wednesday, Russia said its air defences intercepted 354 Ukrainian drones across multiple regions, including areas bordering Ukraine and annexed Crimea.
From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 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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