List of colonies

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

Colonies of European countries

British

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.

French

French officers and Tonkinese riflemen, 1884

Russian

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

German

Kamerun (by R. Hellgrewe, 1908)

Italian

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

Dutch

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

Portuguese

Spanish

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

Austrian

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

Danish

Belgian

Swedish

Norse

Norwegian

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

Colonies by Oceanian countries

Australian

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

New Zealander

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

Colonies by Asian countries

Japanese

Colonies by Pan-American countries

American

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

Mexican

Ecuadorian

Argentine

Argentine C-130 and control tower, Marambio Airport

Chilean

Colonies by African countries

South African

Moroccan

Colonies by former countries

Ancient Egyptian

Ancient Roman[dubious – discuss]

Carthage

Chola (Tamil)

Couronian

Genoese

Venetian

See also

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Terrenato, Nicola. The deceptive archetype: Roman colonialism in Italy and postcolonial thought. na, 2005.
  3. ↑ Peck, Joshua J. The biological impact of culture contact: a bioarchaeological study of Roman colonialism in Britain. Diss. The Ohio State University, 2009.