Sector (geography)

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Sector ( Latin sector "fragment") is a geographical term for a part of a city , region or landscape . Mostly he called in some countries a smaller administrative unit at different levels of the Administrative and therefore not exactly only one of the European NUTS assign -Classification. As a military administrative unit, a sector is part of the territory of a state that is militarily administered by one or more occupying powers .

Municipal administrative unit

Romania

The Romanian capital Bucharest is divided into seven Sectoare , the city districts. In the Romanian language , the word is also used to designate the city districts or city ​​districts of foreign cities.

Guinea-Bissau

Below the Guinea-Bissau regional level of the nine regions of Guinea-Bissau there are 37 sectors ( Secteur ).

Rwanda

In Rwanda , the 30 districts of Rwanda are subdivided into 416 sectors ( Secteur ) below the district level .

Democratic Republic of Congo

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo , a sector is an administrative unit of a city below the Quatiers level and is also called a chief executive.

Antarctica

The national territorial claims on the Antarctic continent are sectors also in the geometric sense, with the south pole as the center of the circle.

Occupation unit

Map with the Kosovo sectors

Germany

In addition to the division of Germany into zones of occupation after the end of the Second World War , three sectors were initially planned for the Allied occupation for the urban area of Greater Berlin , each of which was to be administered by military units of the USA , Great Britain and the Soviet Union . At several meetings of the EAC in 1944/1945, envoys from the three Allies discussed the structure and reported on it in zone minutes . In the last minutes, the final proposals were submitted to the Tripartite Conference in Potsdam in 1945 for approval. They now also included a fourth sector for Berlin, in which French troops were to take over administration. The proposals were confirmed in Potsdam and implemented by the Allies. An allied commandant's office (Komendatura) took over the administration of Greater Berlin, in which another power took over the chairmanship every month.

Austria

A military administration was also planned and established for Vienna , the capital of Austria . However, with a difference to Berlin, an international sector was also agreed in the First  District of Vienna , in which an occupying power exercised sovereignty on a monthly basis .

Kosovo

In 1999, the military occupation of Kosovo by foreign or international KFOR military units took place. The territory of Kosovo (in five sectors English Sector ) divided in one of them which took Bundeswehr military administration.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tony Sharp: The Wartime Alliance and the Zonal Division of Germany. Oxford University Press, 1975, ISBN 0-19-822521-0 .
  2. ↑ Publications of the US Department of Defense