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Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union

Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), also called the Lisbon renaming of the EEC Treaty: one of two EU founding treaties. Organises Union functioning, defines exclusive, shared and supporting competences, legal acts, and external agreement procedures.

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), signed 1968, in force 1970, is the cornerstone arms-control treaty with 191 parties, three pillars (nonproliferation, disarmament, peaceful uses), indefinite extension since 1995, and three consecutive failed review conferences ending 2026.

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW, Nuclear Ban Treaty), adopted 7 July 2017 and in force since 22 January 2021, bans nuclear weapons for its 75 states parties (2026), with no nuclear-armed state or NATO member among them.

Treaty party status and depositary practice

Treaty party status is the formal record of which states are legally bound by a treaty and through which act, such as ratification or accession, each became bound.

Treaty ports

Treaty ports: cities in China (and later Japan and Korea) opened to foreign trade and residence by unequal treaties, from the five ports of the 1842 Treaty of Nanking to the system's end in 1943, with concessions, extraterritoriality, and Shanghai's dominance.

Treaty Principles Bill

The Treaty Principles Bill (Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill), an ACT Party bill introduced November 2024, would have defined Treaty principles in statute; it drew over 307,000 submissions and was defeated 112–11 at second reading on 10 April 2025.

Treaty revision

Treaty revision (条約改正, jōyaku kaisei) was the Meiji-era Japanese campaign to revise the unequal treaties, abolishing extraterritoriality by 1899 and restoring tariff autonomy by 1911.

Treaty rights

Treaty rights: rights of Indigenous peoples set out in historic (pre-1975) or modern treaties with the Crown, constitutionally protected in Canada by section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982, and reinforced by the duty to consult and UNDRIP.

Treaty series

Treaty series: officially published, numbered collections of treaties, chiefly the United Nations Treaty Series (UNTS, since 1945 under Article 102 of the UN Charter), the League of Nations Treaty Series, the Council of Europe's European Treaty Series, EU treaties in the Official Journal, and national series such as Ireland's.

Treaty signature

Treaty signature is the act by which a state's authorized representative signs a treaty text, which can authenticate it, create interim obligations, or express consent to be bound.

Treaty terminology and naming conventions

Treaty terminology and naming conventions are the vocabulary international law uses for instruments such as treaties, conventions, agreements, and protocols, where legal status depends on intent, not title.

Treaty with the Jamaican Maroons

The treaties with the Jamaican Maroons were two 1739 and 1740 peace agreements ending decades of war with the British, granting land and limited self-government.

Treaty-like Settlements with the Mongols: Tribute and Horse Markets

Treaty-like settlements with the Mongols (明蒙朝贡与马市) were Ming dynasty tribute and horse-market arrangements, including markets at Datong and Xuanfu, that alternated with war until the Longqing settlement ended two centuries of hostility.

Treaty-making capacity in international law

Treaty-making capacity in international law is the legal ability of an entity to conclude binding treaties; states hold it fully, while organizations and other actors hold it only in limited forms.

Treaty-making power of federated states

Treaty-making power of federated states is whether constituent polities such as Québec, Flanders, or Hong Kong can conclude binding international agreements, which international law leaves to domestic constitutions.

Treba

Treba (Treba Augusta), ancient Aequian town and Roman municipium in Latium's upper Aniene valley, now Trevi nel Lazio; start of the Aqua Marcia aqueduct. Distinct from the Umbrian Treba, now Trevi in Perugia.

Trebananib

Trebananib (AMG 386) is Amgen's investigational Ang1/Ang2-neutralizing peptibody blocking the Tie2 angiopoietin pathway; it extended PFS but not overall survival in ovarian cancer phase 3 TRINOVA trials and was never approved.

Trebia Valles

Trebia Valles, a valley system (vallis) on Mars approved by the IAU in 1985, named for the classical name of Italy's Trebbia River; centered near 32°N, 150°E, about 180 km across.

Treble (association football)

Treble (association football): winning three trophies in one season; the continental treble means league, main domestic cup, and European Cup/Champions League. Eleven clubs have done it, Celtic first in 1966/67, PSG latest in 2024/25.

Treble Charger

Treble Charger is a Canadian rock band formed in 1992 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, originally called nc-17. Known for the indie hit "Red" and pop punk hits "American Psycho" and "Hundred Million", with five albums through 2002's Detox.

Treblinka extermination camp

Treblinka II, a Nazi Operation Reinhard killing center in occupied Poland operating July 1942 to fall 1943, murdered an estimated 925,000 Jews with diesel-exhaust gas chambers; prisoners revolted August 2, 1943.

Treblinka uprising

The Treblinka uprising was an armed revolt by Jewish prisoners at the Treblinka II extermination camp in occupied Poland on 2 August 1943, with about 300 escaping.

Trebon Basin Biosphere Reserve

Trebon Basin Biosphere Reserve (Biosférická rezervace Třeboňsko), designated 1977 in South Bohemia, Czechia; 70,000 ha of fishponds, peatlands, and forests; Europe's largest freshwater fish producer and a Ramsar wetland site.

Trebonianus Gallus

Trebonianus Gallus (Gaius Vibius Trebonianus Gallus, c. 206–253), Roman emperor 251–253, proclaimed after Decius died at Abrittus; ruled with Hostilian and Volusianus, bought peace from the Goths, faced plague and Shapur I's invasion, murdered at Interamna.

Trebor Peña

Trebor Peña, Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver #86, undrafted free agent in 2026 from Penn State and Syracuse; 2024 ACC-leading 84 catches, 2025 Pinstripe Bowl MVP, slot receiver and return specialist.

Trebor Scholz

Trebor Scholz, born 1969 in East Berlin, is a German-American scholar-activist and Associate Professor at The New School who coined platform cooperativism in 2014 and wrote Own This!

Trebs Oil Field

The Trebs Oil Field (Russian: месторождение имени Романа Требса), also known as Varknavtskoye, is an oil field in northern Russia's Timan-Pechora province, discovered in 1987 and producing since 2013.

Trebuchet

A trebuchet, also known as a trebucket or manjaniq, is a medieval siege engine using a pivoting arm to hurl stones, invented in China before the fourth century B.C.

Trebula Balli(ni)ensium

Trebula Balli(ni)ensium, also Trebula Balliensis, an ancient Oscan-Samnite and Roman municipium at modern Treglia, Pontelatone, Campania; allied with Hannibal in 215 BC, retaken by Fabius, known for polygonal walls, baths, theater, and wine praised by Pliny.

Třebusice

Třebusice (Kladno District, Central Bohemia): village with the largest Suevi (Polabian German) Roman-period cremation necropolis, 960 graves, excavated 1921–1963, published 2023–2024 by Droberjar and Motyková.