noun
definition
A portion of a country's territory not connected to the main part
example
Alaska and Kaliningrad are both examples of exclaves.
definition
A detached part of an organ, as of the pancreas, thyroid, or other gland.
Examples of exclaves in a Sentence
Besides these, the term Thuringia also, of course, includes the various "exclaves" of Prussia, Saxony, Bavaria and Bohemia which lie embedded among them.
It is the largest of the Thuringian states, and consists of the three chief detached districts of Weimar, Eisenach and Neustadt, and twenty-four scattered exclaves, of which Allstedt, Oldisleben and Ilmenau belonging to Weimar, and Ostheim belonging to Eisenach, are the chief.
There are also eleven very small exclaves, mostly grouped about Homburg to the south-west of Oberhessen; but the largest is Wimpfen on the north-west frontier of Wurttemberg.
The exclaves of Allstedt and Oldisleben lie in Prussian territory io m.
It is, however, very irregular in form, entirely surrounding parts of Brunswick and the Thuringian states, and itself possessing several exclaves, while the northern portion is almost severed from the southern by the duchy of Anhalt.
The first and last named of these exclaves are 70 m.
There are in addition twelve small exclaves.
We explore territorial exclaves and enclaves throughout Europe those little islands of land which are part of one country but surrounded by another.
In the south it is cleft by the long narrow territory of Hohenzollern, belonging to Prussia; and it encloses six small enclaves of Baden and Hohenzollern, while it owns nine small exclaves within the limits of these two states.