surrounding territory

collocation in English

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surrounding
adjective[before noun]
uk
/səˈraʊn.dɪŋ/us
/səˈraʊn.dɪŋ/
that is everywhere ...
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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 ofsurroundingandterritoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This is evident even if thesurroundingterritorypossesses more 'ordered' qualities.
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Thesurroundingterritoryis generally cattle pasture, with some rocky areas.
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Wobblies poured in from thesurroundingterritory, flooding the jail.
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This is a legacy of the city growing through annexation ofsurroundingterritory; many of the school districts were in existence prior to their territories becoming part of the city.
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It is a great book for teaching about the architecture of the time period with its descriptions of castles and thesurroundingterritory.
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He introduced the common and monastic life among his clergy, from whom bishops for thesurroundingterritorywere often selected.
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From there they could strike and retreat, with little fear of capture, since it was situated on high ground with a view in all directions of thesurroundingterritory.
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The self-destruct feature engages at approx. and destroys the round, preventing it from falling back to earth and inflicting damage to thesurroundingterritory.
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Relatively unimposing considering its height, the true summit can not easily be seen from thesurroundingterritory, despite the prominent fire tower atop its summit.
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The male will now take sole responsibility for the eggs, aggressively defending the nest andsurroundingterritory.
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Most of the dialect sub-groups listed above had further subdivisions, generally equivalent to a city-state and itssurroundingterritory, or to an island.
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Reinforcements promptly arrived from thesurroundingterritory.
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These were small subdivisions of the earlier "themata", and consisted of little more than a fortified capital (the "kastron") and itssurroundingterritory.
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Surroundingterritorysupplied the railroad with a considerable amount of business through the shipment of hay, handled by dealers located here at different times.
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Seven hundred thousand people have been driven into the surrounding territories.
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It is extracting life from the soil instead of making it a desert, as so many surrounding territories have done for so many hundreds of years.
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Surrounding territories were governed by dukes and "magistri militium" more or less subject to his authority.
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In part, this was done by getting many of his sons into episcopal offices in surrounding territories, in a time when bishops had temporal as well as spiritual authority.
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Much of this rice was exported to surrounding territories, particularly after indigenous rice types were replaced by imported varieties.
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Its landscape (and the landscape of the surrounding territories) is dominated by the dehesa, a kind of man-made pastureland wooded with some holm oaks, used for the grazing of livestock.
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