How about the British sovereign bases in Cyprus? If they are really
sovereign, and if there was any compensation to Cyprus during the
independence procedure, that would count.
David Phillips
San Francisco
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> However, bona fide "sales" of sovereign territory are extremely
umcommon and have been
> since more than a hundred years.
The most recent territorial sale I can think of is the sale of the
Danish West Indies (now the US Virgin Islands) to the USA in 1917 for
US$25 million. I understand the primary driver behind the purchase was
concern on the part of the US government that Germany was about to annex
Denmark, and might then build a naval base in the islands.
Does anyone know of a more recent formal state-to-state territorial
sale?
m a r t i n
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