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Capitulation or Capitulations may have the following special meanings.

  • Capitulation (surrender)
    Capitulation (surrender)

    Capitulation , an agreement in time of war for the surrender to a hostile armed force of a particular body of troops, a town or a territory.It is an ordinary incident of war, and therefore no previous instructions from the captors' government are required before finally settling the conditions of capitulation....
    • Stock market capitulation
      Stock market capitulation

      Market capitulation refers to the threshold in a severe down trending market after which large numbers of investors can no longer tolerate the financial losses incurred as a result of the current downturn.....
  • Capitulation (treaty)
    Capitulation (treaty)

    Capitulations , or ahdnames, are a special kind of treaties, unilateral contracts granted by a state and conferring the privilege of extra-territorial jurisdiction within its boundaries on the subjects of another state....
    • Capitulations of the Ottoman Empire
      Capitulations of the Ottoman Empire

      Capitulations of the Ottoman Empire were contracts between the Ottoman Empire and European powers, particularly France. Turkish capitulation s, or ahdnames, were generally bilateral acts whereby definite arrangements were entered into by each contracting party towards the other, not mere concessions....