The phrase "occupied country" means a nation or territory that is controlled or governed by an invading or foreign force, rather than its own rightful government. Full definition
In the 1980s, with Russian troops occupying the country, an effort was made to increase food crops, rice, and wheat by means of large community farms. (fieryfoodscentral.com)
Hiding Jews in Poland was punishable by death, the only occupied country in Europe where Germans did that. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
In the summer of 2003, four months after a U.S. - led coalition of armed forces occupied the country, masked Iraqi men woke up Kerrar and his family in the middle of the night in their home in Baghdad. (edweek.org)