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List of colonies

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

Colonies of European countries

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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.
A view of shops with anti-British and pro-Independence signs, Malta, c. 1960
The result of the Boer Wars was the annexation of the Boer Republics to the British Empire in 1902

French

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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

Roman

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Dutch

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

Portuguese

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Portuguese women in Goa, India, early 18th century

Spanish

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An 18th-century casta painting from New Spain shows a Spanish man and his indigenous wife.
The Battle of Tétouan, 1860, by Marià Fortuny
Spanish General Arsenio Martínez Campos in Havana, Colonial Cuba, 1878

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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Frederiksstad on Saint Croix, Danish West Indies, 1848
Map of the European Union in the world, with Overseas Countries and Territories and Outermost Regions.

Belgian

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Swedish

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Norse

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Norwegian

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Polish

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Colonies by Oceanian countries

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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

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Japanese

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Thai (Siamese)

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Siamese Army in Laos in 1893.

Korean

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Chinese

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Camp of the Qing Military in Khalkha in 1688.


Burmese

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Indonesian

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Indonesian soldiers pose in November 1975 in Batugade, East Timor with a captured Portuguese flag.

Thai/Siamese

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Siamese Army in Laos in 1893.

Omani

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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.[4]

Vietnamese

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Colonies by American (continent) countries

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American

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


Mexican

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Guatemalan

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Ecuadorian

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Colombian

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Venezuelan

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Argentine

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

Paraguayan

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Bolivian

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Chilean

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Brazilian

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Colonies by African countries

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Ethiopian

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South African

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Moroccan

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Colonies by former countries

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Ancient Greece

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Carthage

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Ancient Egyptian

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Ottoman (Turkish)

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Territorial extent of the Ottoman Empire in 1683[9][10]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Terrenato, Nicola. The deceptive archetype: Roman colonialism in Italy and postcolonial thought. na, 2005.
  2. ^ Peck, Joshua J. The biological impact of culture contact: a bioarchaeological study of Roman colonialism in Britain. Diss. The Ohio State University, 2009.
  3. ^ In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, the Chinese were prohibited from entering Mongolia to prevent the assimilation of the Mongols loss of combat effectiveness. The prohibition was abolished after the Late Qing reforms, and then Mongolia declared its independence from the Manchu Qing.
  4. ^ Oman Country Profile. Oman Country Profile. British Library Partnership. Qatar Digital Library. 2014.
  5. ^ "GUINEA ECUATORIAL". www.hubert-herald.nl. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
  6. ^ "MINUSTAH". argentina.gob.ar. 20 November 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  7. ^ "Un equipo de la ONU visitó el Campo San Martín en Chipre". Gaceta Marinera. 9 November 2017.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ https://thearabweekly.com/rejection-ottoman-legacy-linked-turkish-behaviour-today [bare URL]
  10. ^ 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.