In 1931, the Statute of Westminster was passed, under which British dominions gained complete legislative independence.

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In 1469, Isabella of Castile married Ferdinand II of Aragon, thus uniting almost all the Christian dominions of Spain under one monarchy.

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Not just for security types and sociologists, but also for theologians, Britain and its ex-dominions in South Asia are virtually a single entity.

ECONOMIST: Islam in Britain and South Asia

The state's giant landowners had made a travesty of the Jeffersonian ideal of 160 acres, assembling dominions that ballooned to one thousand times or more that size.

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This calls for a Turkish zone of political, economic and cultural influence, primarily among neighbours (many of them former Ottoman dominions) in the Balkans, the south Caucasus and the Middle East.

ECONOMIST: Turkish foreign policy

The Dominions did so, in 1939 as in 1914.

ECONOMIST: The English-speaking world

That Haifa shall be a free port as regards the trade of France, her dominions and protectorates, and there shall be no discrimination in port charges or facilities as regards French shipping and French goods.

BBC: Map detailing the Sykes-Picot agreement

With a stunning series of campaigns, almost all of them directed against fellow Muslims, he first subdued Central Asia, then added to his dominions by conquering the Khanate of the Golden Horde, a vast territory stretching north into Russia and Ukraine, and the biggest of the Mongol fragments.

ECONOMIST: Tamerlane