List of military occupations

This article presents a list of military occupations, both historic and contemporary, but only those that have taken place since the customary laws of belligerent military occupation were first clarified and supplemented by the Hague Convention of 1907.^[1]

This article is about territorial occupations. For military ranks, see List of comparative military ranks.

As currently understood in international law, "military occupation" is the effective military control by a power of a territory outside of said power's recognized sovereign territory.^[2] The occupying power in question may be an individual state or a supranational organization, such as the United Nations.

Russian-occupied territories

Israeli-occupied territories

Military occupations by the Soviet Union

– military deployments for peace-keeping purposes

Peacekeeping

List of military and civilian missions of the European Union

Annexation

Revanchism

For a list of states that have seceded unilaterally see

List of states with limited recognition

For a list of cases where territory is disputed between countries, see

List of territorial disputes

(2015), Occupation/Annexation of a Territory: Respect for International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and Consistent EU Policy (PDF)

Secretariat of the European Parliament DG-EXPO

Chapman, Jessica M. (2013). . Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-5061-7.