Abstract
Abstract In the absence of a generally accepted definition of the term ‘overseas territories’ in international legal practice, it is useful to proceed from a broad construction of the term which includes all territories that in some way are politically dependent on a relatively distant metropolitan → State and were or are significant, as such, from the perspective of international law. The notion of a ‘metropolitan’ State and its politically dependent ‘polis’ is, at least etymologically, derived from the ancient Greek designation for a mother State or parent city of a Greek colony (see Bederman 35; see generally → History of International Law, Ancient Times to 1648).
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