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cantonize +‎ -ation

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cantonization (usually uncountable, plural cantonizations)

  1. subdivision of a land into small districts.
    • 1992, Helsinki Watch, War Crimes in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Volume 1, page 27:
      The cantonization of Bosnia-Hercegovina would reorganize the state into three autonomous ethnic regions, one each for Muslims, Serbs and Croats…

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