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List Of Colonies
This is a list of territories and polities that have been considered colony, colonies. Colonies of European countries British * Aden Protectorate * Akrotiri and Dhekelia * Anglo-Egyptian Sudan * Ashanti (Crown Colony), Ashanti * Australia ** Colony of New South Wales ** Colony of Queensland ** Colony of Tasmania ** Colony of Victoria ** British colonisation of South Australia, Province of South Australia ** Swan River Colony ** Van Diemen's Land * Basutoland * British America ** West Florida ** Colony of Jamaica ** Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ** Colony of Virginia ** Connecticut Colony ** Delaware Colony ** East Florida ** Indian Reserve (1763), Indian Reserve ** Mosquito Coast ** New Ireland (Maine) ** Newfoundland Colony ** North-Western Territory ** Province of Carolina ** Province of Georgia ** Province of Maryland ** Province of Massachusetts Bay ** Province of New Hampshire ** Province of New Jersey ** Province of New York ** Province of North Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colony
A colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule, which rules the territory and its indigenous peoples separated from the foreign rulers, the colonizer, and their ''metropole'' (or "mother country"). This separated rule was often organized into colonial empires, with their metropoles at their centers, making colonies neither annexation, annexed or even Territorial integration, integrated territories, nor client states. Particularly new imperialism and its colonialism advanced this separated rule and its lasting coloniality. Colonies were most often set up and colonized for exploitation and possibly settlement by colonists. The term colony originates from the ancient rome, ancient Roman , a type of Roman settlement. Derived from ''colonus'' (farmer, cultivator, planter, or settler), it carries with it the sense of 'farm' and 'landed estate'. Furthermore, the term was used to refer to the older Greek ''apoikia'' (), which were Greek colonisation, overseas settlements by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
