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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_occupation

Military occupation, also called belligerent occupation or simply occupation, is temporary hostile control exerted by a ruling power's military apparatus over a sovereign territory that is outside of the legal boundaries of that ruling power's own sovereign territory.[1][2][3][4] The controlled territory is called occupied territory, and the ruling power is called the occupant.[5] Occupation's intended temporary nature distinguishes it from [annexation](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexati