Sentence:  To find out , we traveled throughout that part of Laos still nominally <WSD>controlled</WSD> , in the daytime at least , by the Royal Lao Army : from Attopeu , the City of Buffalo Dung in the southeast , to Muong Sing , the City of Lions in the northwest , close to Communist China ( map , page 250 ) . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  exercise authoritative control or power over