List of colonies

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This is a list of territories and polities that have been considered colonies.

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Colonies of European countries

British

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Harbour Street, Kingston, Jamaica, c. 1820
The Battle of Isandlwana during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. After an initial defeat the British were able to conquer Zululand. Isandhlwana.jpg
The Battle of Isandlwana during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. After an initial defeat the British were able to conquer Zululand.

French

Russian

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The Russian settlement of St. Paul's Harbour (present-day Kodiak, Alaska), Russian America, 1814

German

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Kamerun (by R. Hellgrewe, 1908)

Italian

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The Italian invasion of Libya during the Italo-Turkish War, 1911

Dutch

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View of Cape Town with ships of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), c. 1683

Portuguese

Spanish

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An 18th-century casta painting from New Spain shows a Spanish man and his indigenous wife.

Austrian

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Muslim Bosniak resistance during the battle of Sarajevo in 1878 against the Austro-Hungarian occupation

Danish

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Map of the European Union in the world, with Overseas Countries and Territories and Outermost Regions.

Belgian

Swedish

Norse

Norwegian

Colonies by Oceanian countries

Australian

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Australian patrol officer in Australia's Territory of Papua and New Guinea in 1964

New Zealander

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Governor Lord Ranfurly reading the annexation proclamation to Queen Makea on 7 October 1900.

Colonies by Asian countries

Japanese

Chinese

Omani

Omani Empire

Following the expulsion of the Portuguese colonizers, Sultanate of Oman was the preeminent power in the western Indian Ocean during the 17th century. Empire of Oman.svg
Following the expulsion of the Portuguese colonizers, Sultanate of Oman was the preeminent power in the western Indian Ocean during the 17th century.

Vietnamese

Colonies by American (continent) countries

American

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Governor General William Howard Taft addressing the audience at the Philippine Assembly in the Manila Grand Opera House


Mexican

Guatemalan

Ecuadorian

Colombian

Argentine

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Argentine C-130 and control tower, Marambio Airport
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The Conquest of the Desert extended Argentine power into Patagonia.

Paraguayan

Peruvian

Bolivian

Chilean

Brazilian

Colonies by African countries

Ethiopian

South African

Moroccan

Colonies by former countries

Ancient Greece

Ancient Egyptian

Ancient Roman

Carthage

Chola (Tamil)

Curonian

Genoese

Ottoman (Turkish)

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Territorial extent of the Ottoman Empire in 1683

Sicilian

Venetian

See also

References

  1. ↑ Oman Country Profile. Oman Country Profile. British Library Partnership. Qatar Digital Library. 2014.
  2. ↑ "GUINEA ECUATORIAL". www.hubert-herald.nl. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
  3. ↑ "MINUSTAH". argentina.gob.ar. 20 November 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  4. ↑ Naomi Porat (1992). "An Egyptian Colony in Southern Palestine During the Late Predynastic to Early Dynastic". In Edwin C. M. van den Brink (ed.). The Nile Delta in Transition: 4th.-3rd. Millennium B.C. : Proceedings of the Seminar Held in Cairo, 21.-24. October 1990, at the Netherlands Institute of Archaeology and Arabic Studies. Van den Brink. pp. 433–440. ISBN   978-965-221-015-9 . Retrieved 24 February 2013.
  5. ↑ Terrenato, Nicola. The deceptive archetype: Roman colonialism in Italy and postcolonial thought. na, 2005.
  6. ↑ Peck, Joshua J. The biological impact of culture contact: a bioarchaeological study of Roman colonialism in Britain. Diss. The Ohio State University, 2009.
  7. ↑ https://thearabweekly.com/rejection-ottoman-legacy-linked-turkish-behaviour-today [ bare URL ]
  8. ↑ Ben-Dror, Avishai (2017). "OTTOMAN COLONIALISM - the Ottoman Scramble for Africa: Empire and Diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz. By Mostafa Minawi . Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016. Pp. Xviii + 219. $85.00, hardback (ISBN 9780804795142); $24.95, paperback (ISBN 9780804799270)". The Journal of African History. 58 (3): 509–510. doi:10.1017/S0021853717000433. S2CID   165186569.
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