List of military occupations


This article presents a list of military occupations. Only military occupations since the customary laws of belligerent military occupation were first clarified and supplemented by the Hague Convention of 1907 are included In this article.
Military occupation is a type of effective control of a certain power over a territory which is not under the formal sovereignty of that entity, without the volition of the actual sovereign, and provisional in nature. Military occupation is distinguished from annexation by its intended temporary nature, by its military nature, and by citizenship rights of the controlling power not being conferred upon the subjugated population.

Contemporary occupations

TerritorySinceOccupied state/territoryOccupying stateDeclared state/territoryStatus
East Jerusalem1967Palestinian territories;
 part of Jerusalem District Occupation by a foreign power with illegal annexation
West Bank1967Palestinian territories;
rowspan=2 Occupation by a foreign power
Gaza Strip1967Palestinian territories;
Occupation by a foreign power-
Golan Heights1967 part of Northern District Occupation by a foreign power with illegal annexation Recognized by the United States as part of Israel.
Northern Cyprus1974Occupation by an armed group under the influence of a foreign power
Majority of Western Sahara1975
since the 1991 ceasefire		Occupation by a foreign power with illegal annexation
Transnistria1992Occupation by an armed group under the influence of a foreign power
Nagorno-Karabakh
1994Occupation by an armed group under the influence of a foreign power
Abkhazia2008Occupation by an armed group under the influence of a foreign power
South Ossetia2008Occupation by an armed group under the influence of a foreign power
Parts of Donetsk Oblast2014Occupation by an armed group under the influence of a foreign power
Parts of Luhansk Oblast2014Occupation by an armed group under the influence of a foreign power
Crimea2014Occupation by a foreign power with illegal annexation
Eastern Syria2015Occupation by an armed group under the influence of a foreign power
Northern parts of Aleppo Governorate2016 Syrian Interim GovernmentOccupation by an armed group under the influence of a foreign power

Historical occupations

Events before the Hague Convention of 1907 are out of scope.

1907–1914

World War I and immediate aftermath

1920–1939

World War II: build up and immediate aftermath

1947–1959

1960–1979

1980–1999

2000–present

Footnotes and references

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