western territory

collocation in English

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western
adjective
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/ˈwes.tən/us
/ˈwes.tɚn/
in or from the west of ...
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territory
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈter.ɪ.tər.i/us
/ˈter.ə.tɔːr.i/
(an area of) land, or sometimes sea, that is considered as belonging to or connected with a particular country ...
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(Definition ofwesternandterritoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Congregationalists set up missionary societies to evangelize thewesternterritoryof the northern tier.
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The city became the territorial capital and gateway to thewesternterritory.
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Henry was an early prospector to thewesternterritoryin the mid-nineteenth century.
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Manitoba was the firstwesternterritoryto join confederation and the first to establish a university.
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Trent led an advance group who built forts and improved roads for troop access and defense of thewesternterritory.
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The western territories are one of the reasons the government has the support of the people.
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Two titles were awarded with each of them a commander-in-chief who derived his power from the eastern and western territories respectively.
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In doing so it also established the precedent and procedures for creation of future states in the western territories.
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They also believed war service might mean an end to discrimination and relocation from ancestral lands to western territories.
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The 1846 treaties established new desirable stable western territories just after viable routes west had become well published.
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To accomplish this, and in doing so, the act also established the precedent and procedures for creation of future states in the western territories.
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There was a tendency for the people from the more densely inhabited western territories to migrate eastwards.
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Most of the interior portion consisted of arable farmland, though much was also hilly and mountainous, and the far western territories were deserts.
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The sculpture itself are representative of the strength, courage, and role of the pioneer woman in establishing the early western territories.
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