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Sealand

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  1. 1
    A self-proclaimed micronation (full name: the Principality of Sealand) whose capital is HM Fort Roughs, a former British sea fort.

    "A crumb of real estate off the English coast that declared its independence in 1967, Sealand has a full-time population of… one."

  2. 2
    A hamlet and community in Flintshire, Wales, close to Chester in England (OS grid ref SJ3568). It is on land reclaimed from the sea on the Chester side of the River Dee.
  3. 3
    A dynasty of Bronze Age kings ruling from an as yet unknown capital in southern Babylonia, in what is now Iraq; or the country they ruled.

Etymology

From sea + -land. In sense 3, calqued from Old Babylonian Akkadian 𒆳 𒀀𒀊𒁀 (Sumerogram KUR A.AB.BA, Akkadian: māt tâmti).

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