List of colonies
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This is a list of territories and polities that have been or are considered colonies.
Colonies of European countries
[edit]British
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- Aden Protectorate
- Akrotiri and Dhekelia
- Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
- Ashanti
- Australia
- Basutoland
- British America
- West Florida
- Colony of Jamaica
- Colony of Providence Island
- Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
- Colony of Virginia
- Connecticut Colony
- Delaware Colony
- East Florida
- 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 Carolina
- Province of Pennsylvania
- Province of Quebec
- Province of South Carolina
- Rupert's Land
The First Anglo-Sikh War, 1845–46
- British Bahamas
- British Bechuanaland
- British Bencoolen
- British Borneo
- British Cameroons
- British Ceylon
- British Cyprus
- British Guinea
- British Guiana
- British Honduras
- British Hong Kong
- British Indian Ocean Territory
- British Kaffraria
- British Leeward Islands
- British Malaya
- British Mauritius
- British North America
- British occupation of Manila
- British Raj
- Aden Province
- Ajmer-Merwara
- Assam Province
- Baluchistan Agency
- Bengal Presidency
- Bombay Presidency
- Bihar and Orissa Province
- Bihar Province
- British rule in Burma
- Central Provinces
- Central Provinces and Berar
- Coorg Province
- Eastern Bengal and Assam
- Madras Presidency
- Nagpur Province
- North-West Frontier Province
- Orissa Province
- Punjab Province (British India)
- Panth Piploda Province
- Sind Province (1936–1955)
- United Provinces (1937–1950)
- Princely States
- British rule in Ireland
- Kingdom of Ireland
- British Ireland
The Delhi Durbar of 1877: the proclamation of Queen Victoria as Empress of India
- British Somaliland
- British Togoland
- British Weihaiwei
- British Western Pacific Territories
- British Windward Islands
- Aden Colony
- Cape Colony
- Colonial Nigeria
- Crown Colony of Malacca
- Colony of Natal
- Colony of New Zealand
- Crown Colony of Penang
- Colony of Singapore
- Crown Colony of Malta
A view of shops with anti-British and pro-Independence signs, Malta, c. 1960 - British concession of Tianjin
- British Concession of Jiujiang
- British Concession at Amoy
- British Concession (Shanghai)
- British Central Africa Protectorate
- Bermuda
- Bahrain and its Dependencies
- Bechuanaland Protectorate
- Barotziland–North-Western Rhodesia
- Berbice
- Cayman Islands
- Dominion of New Zealand
- Dominion of Newfoundland
- Demerara-Essequibo
- East Africa Protectorate
- Emirate of Afghanistan (de jure)
- Emirate of Transjordan
- Emirate of Kuwait
- Falkland Islands
- Falkland Islands Dependencies
- French and British interregnum in the Dutch East Indies
- Federation of Malaya
- Federation of the Emirates of South Arabia
- Federation of South Arabia
- Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
- Gambia Colony and Protectorate
- Gibraltar
- Gold Coast
- Griqualand East
- Griqualand West
- History of Egypt under the British
- Kenya Colony
- Kulangsu International Settlement
- Khedivate of Egypt (de facto)
- Mandatory Iraq
- Mandatory Palestine
- Muscat and Oman
- Malayan Union
- Malta Protectorate
- North-Eastern Rhodesia
- Northern Rhodesia
- Northern Territories of the Gold Coast
- Nyasaland
- Orange River Sovereignty
- Orange River Colony
- Oregon Country
- Protectorate of Uganda
- Protectorate of South Arabia
- Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
- Sultanate of Egypt
- Sultanate of Zanzibar
- Sultanate of the Maldive Islands
- Shanghai International Settlement
- Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Southern Rhodesia
- St. Peter's Colony
- Transvaal Colony
- Tanganyika Territory
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Trucial States
The result of the Boer Wars was the annexation of the Boer Republics to the British Empire in 1902 - Union of South Africa
- United States of the Ionian Islands
- West Indies Federation
- Wituland
- Zimbabwe Rhodesia (de facto)
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French
[edit]- Acadia
- Canada (New France)
- Clipperton Island
- Collectivity of Saint Martin
- De Rays Expedition
- Equinoctial France
- France Antarctique
- French Algeria
Siege of Constantine (1836) during the French conquest of Algeria. - French and British interregnum in the Dutch East Indies
- French Cameroon
- French concession of Hankou
- French Equatorial Africa
- French Guiana
- French India
- French Indochina
- French Madagascar
- French protectorate in Morocco
- French protectorate of Tunisia
- French Polynesia
- French Somaliland
- French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Contemporary illustration of Major Marchand's trek across Africa in 1898 - French West Africa
- Guadeloupe
- Inini
- Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia
- Leased Territory of Guangzhouwan
- Louisiana (New France)
- Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
- Martinique
- New Caledonia
- New Hebrides (condominium with Britain)
- Réunion
- Saint Barthélemy
- Saint-Domingue
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Shanghai French Concession
- Wallis and Futuna
Russian
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German
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Italian
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Dutch
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Portuguese
[edit]- Azores
- Colonial Brazil
- Madeira
- Portuguese Angola
- Portuguese Cape Verde
- Portuguese Ceylon
- Portuguese Guinea
- Portuguese India
Portuguese women in Goa, India, early 18th century - Portuguese Macau
Battle of Macau, 21–24 June 1622. Portuguese repel Dutch attack. - Portuguese Malacca
- Portuguese Mozambique
- Portuguese Nagasaki
- Portuguese Oman
- Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe
- Portuguese Timor
Spanish
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- Canary Islands
- Captaincy General of Cuba
Spanish General Arsenio Martínez Campos in Havana, Colonial Cuba, 1878 - Captaincy General of the Philippines
- Ifni
- New Spain
- Río de Oro
- Saguia el-Hamra
- Spanish Oran
- Spanish protectorate in Morocco
The Battle of Tétouan, 1860, by Marià Fortuny - Spanish Sahara
- Spanish Tripoli
- Viceroyalty of Peru
- Viceroyalty of New Granada
- Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata
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Austrian
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Danish
[edit]- Danish Gold Coast
- Danish India
- Danish West Indies
Frederiksstad on Saint Croix, Danish West Indies, 1848 - Faroe Islands
- Greenland
Belgian
[edit]Swedish
[edit]Norse
[edit]Norwegian
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Colonies by Oceanian countries
[edit]Australian
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New Zealander
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Colonies by Asian countries
[edit]Japanese
[edit]- Karafuto Prefecture
- Korea under Japanese rule
Three Koreans shot for pulling up rails as a protest against seizure of land without payment by the Japanese - Kwantung Leased Territory
- Manchukuo
- South Seas Mandate
- Taiwan under Japanese rule
Colonies by Pan-American countries
[edit]American
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- American Concession in Tianjin (1869–1902)
- American Concession in Shanghai (1848–1863)
- American Samoa
- Canton and Enderbury Islands
- Guam
- Indian Territory (1834–1907)
- Kulangsu International Settlement (1902–1943)
- Liberia (Independent since 1847, US protectorate until post-WW2)
- Midway
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Palau
- Palmyra Atoll
- Panama Canal Zone (1903–1979)
- Peking Legation Quarter (1862–1941, 1945–1950)
- Philippines (1898–1946)
- Puerto Rico
- Shanghai International Settlement (1863–1943)
- Tangier International Zone (now Tangier, Morocco) (1924–1956)
- Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
- United States Virgin Islands
- Wake Island
Mexican
[edit]Ecuadorian
[edit]Argentine
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- Argentine Antarctica
- Falkland Islands (1829–1831, 1832–1833, 1982)
Chilean
[edit]Colonies by African countries
[edit]South African
[edit]Moroccan
[edit]Colonies by former countries
[edit]Ancient Egyptian
[edit]Carthage
[edit]Chola (Tamil)
[edit]Couronian
[edit]Genoese
[edit]Venetian
[edit]See also
[edit]- List of former European colonies
- List of Israeli settlements
- Concessions and leases in international relations
- Punitive expedition
- Chartered company
- List of trading companies
- European colonisation of Southeast Asia
- European colonization of the Americas
- Berlin Conference
- Concessions in China
- Tangier International Zone
- Peking Legation Quarter
- Colonisation of Africa
- Colonies in antiquity
- Treaty Ports of China, Korea and Japan
- Roman colonies
References
[edit]- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Terrenato, Nicola. The deceptive archetype: Roman colonialism in Italy and postcolonial thought. na, 2005.
- ↑ Peck, Joshua J. The biological impact of culture contact: a bioarchaeological study of Roman colonialism in Britain. Diss. The Ohio State University, 2009.
