This is a listof territories and polities that have been considered colonies. French and British interregnum in the Dutch East Indies British Senegambia...
colonies spanned four continents: Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. The period of colonial expansion marked a rise in the status and power of Danes...
impact on world history. France had about 80 colonies throughout its history, the second most colonies in the world behind only the British Empire. Around...
The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. Grievances against the...
fringes of North America. Early permanent European settlements in what is now Canada included the late 16th and 17th century French coloniesof Acadia...
the former British colonies are part of the Commonwealth of Nations, a political association chiefly consisting offormercoloniesof the British Empire...
century, during the Age of Discovery of some European powers vastly extending their reach around the globe by establishing colonies in the Americas, and...
the advice of the Secretary of State for the Colonies. This became the main method of creating and governing colonies. Most Crown colonies, especially...
five colonies, four of which were short lived. The colonies spanned three continents: Africa, Asia and North America. The former Swedish colonies in Africa...
Norse established some colonies in the north-eastern part of North America as early as the tenth century, systematic European colonization began in 1492...
Lists ofEuropean countries: by area by GDP by GDP per capita by GDP PPP by population Listofformer sovereign states in Europe Predecessors of sovereign...
India was the part of the Indian subcontinent that was occupied by European colonial powers during the Age of Discovery. European power was exerted both...
Chesapeake Colonies were the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, later the Commonwealth of Virginia, and Province of Maryland, later Maryland, both colonies located...
capital city since becoming a state, but the capital cities of their respective preceding colonies, territories, kingdoms, and republics typically changed...
navigational listof empires. Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also References External links Listofformer sovereign...
Within the formerEuropeancolonies, non-Europeans and women sometimes faced invasive studies by the colonial powers in the interest of the then prevailing...
United Colonies was the name used by the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia to describe the emerging nation comprising the Thirteen Colonies in 1775...
surviving colonies, establish a captive breeding programme and establish self-sustaining colonies throughout its former range. In 2014, a colony of mole crickets...
citizens). The majority ofEuropeans lived in North Africa. Non-European French citizens lived essentially in the four "old colonies" (Réunion, Martinique...
collective of territories (often called colonies), either contiguous with the imperial center or located overseas, settled by the population of a certain...
the internal affairs of the natives to maintain peace. The Europeans also tried to impose their culture on their colonies. European interference has affected...
Kolonialreich) constituted the overseas colonies, dependencies, and territories of the German Empire. Unified in 1871, the chancellor of this time period was Otto von...
Lost Colony of Roanoke. Nevertheless, successful colonies were established within several decades. European settlers came from a variety of social and...
to soldiers in former British colonies. The German Colonial Army (Schutztruppe) of the German Empire employed native troops with European officers and NCOs...
This is a listofformer monarchies, i.e. monarchies which once existed but have since been abolished. (Note: entries in bold refer to groups of kingdoms)...
after the Second World War and at the onset of the Cold War as political movements in coloniesofEuropean powers promoted national sovereignty. Some anti-imperialist...
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