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exclave

[eks-klayv] / ˈɛks kleɪv /


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In the village of Budry, cows and horses grazing in the rolling fields give little hint of the heavily militarised Kaliningrad exclave next door.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 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

The crossings came after Spain's Supreme Court ruled that migrants stopped at sea while trying to reach Ceuta or Melilla, another Spanish exclave, cannot be summarily returned to Morocco.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 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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