Subject: Re: Corporation/company land enjoying sovereign status??
Date: Aug 04, 2005 @ 03:02
Author: L. A. Nadybal ("L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@...>)
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... and notably Portuguese, too (in Mozambique with a separate firm in
Cabinda).
LN


--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Brendan Whyte <bwhyte@u...> wrote:
>
> >Subject: Corporation/company land enjoying sovereign status??
> >
> >Are there companies/corporations that have sovereign or
quasi-sovereign
> >status over a territory? (e.g. the United Fruit Company in Colombia or
> >Shell in Nigeria)
>
> Maybe not anymore but Hudson Bay Co and East India Co, once did.
There were
> many other Royal charter companies of French, British, Dutch (ie VOC),
> Danish and other nations.