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A legation was the term used in diplomacy
Diplomacy

Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups or states. It usually refers to international diplomacy, the conduct of international relations through the intercession of professional diplomats with regard to issues of peace-making, trade, war, economics and culture....
 to denote a diplomatic representative office lower than an embassy. The distinction between a legation and embassy was dropped following the Second World War
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, as all diplomatic representative offices were now designated as embassies, or high commissions.

A permanent diplomatic mission headed by a chief officer.








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A legation was the term used in diplomacy
Diplomacy

Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups or states. It usually refers to international diplomacy, the conduct of international relations through the intercession of professional diplomats with regard to issues of peace-making, trade, war, economics and culture....
 to denote a diplomatic representative office lower than an embassy. The distinction between a legation and embassy was dropped following the Second World War
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, as all diplomatic representative offices were now designated as embassies, or high commissions.

A permanent diplomatic mission headed by a chief officer.

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    Beijing Legation Quarter

    The Beijing Legation Quarter was the area in Beijing where a number of foreign legations were located between 1861 and 1959. In Chinese, the area is known as Dong jiaom?n xi?ng , which is the name of the hutong running through the area....
  • American Legation, Tangier
    American Legation, Tangier

    The American Legation, located at 8 Zankat America in the old city of Tangier, Morocco, commemorates the historic cultural and diplomatic relations between the United States and the Morocco....
  • Concession (territory)
    Concession (territory)

    In international law, a concession is a territory within a country that is administered by another entity than the state which holds sovereignty over it....
  • Papal Legations
    Papal Legations

    The term Papal Legation, in a territorial sense, refers to certain northern administrative regions of the erstwhile Papal States: specifically the "Legations" of Ferrara, Province of Bologna , and Romagna....
     — Certain administrative regions of the erstwhile Papal States
    Papal States

    The Papal States, State of the Church or Pontifical States were one of the major historical states of Italy from roughly the 6th century until the Italian peninsula was unified in 1861 by the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia ....
    : specifically the "Legations" of Ferrara
    Ferrara

    Ferrara is a city in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital city of the Province of Ferrara.It is situated 50 km north-northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream of the Po River, located 5 km north....
    , Bologna
    Bologna

    Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, in the Po Valley , between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, exactly between the Reno River and the S?vena River....
    , and Romagna
    Romagna

    Romagna is an Italy historical region that approximately corresponds to the south-eastern portion of present-day Emilia-Romagna. Traditionally, it is limited by the Apennine Mountains to the south-west, the Adriatic to the east, and the rivers River Reno and Sillaro to the north and west....
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  • Villa Lituania
    Villa Lituania

    Villa Lituania was the inter-war Lithuania legation building in Rome. The building belonged to Lithuania in the 1930s, but after the country was invaded by the Soviet Union, the legation was taken into Russia?s possession and is still used to house Russian diplomats....