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exclave

[eks-klayv] / ˈɛks kleɪv /


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Military trucks sped across winding roads through farmland and quiet villages to one of Europe's most strategic borders, separating Poland and the Russian exclave Kaliningrad.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

Never before had so many people forced their way into the exclave in so little time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

Theories have circulated online about what might have been behind the wave of 72,000 people who climbed over fences and swam around a breakwater to get into Ceuta, a Spanish exclave in North Africa.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

Prosecutors allege that some of the items were brought into the EU from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

Armenian leaders remain   preoccupied by the long conflict with Azerbaijan over   Nagorno-Karabakh, a primarily Armenian-populated exclave, assigned   to Soviet Azerbaijan in the 1920s by Moscow.

From The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency




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