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The following is a list of European colonies in Africa, organized alphabetically by the colonizing country. France had the most colonies in Africa with 35 colonies followed by Britain with 32. [ 1 ]
France [1] Libya: 1911 Italy [2] Fulani Empire: 1903 France and the United Kingdom: Swaziland: 1902 United Kingdom [3] Ashanti Confederacy: 1900 United Kingdom: Burundi: 1893 Germany [4] Nri Kingdom: 1911 United Kingdom: Kingdom of Benin: 1897 United Kingdom: Bunyoro: 1899 United Kingdom: Dahomey: 1894 France: Rwanda: 1894 Germany [5] Oubangui ...
1 Colonies of European countries. Toggle Colonies of European countries subsection. 1.1 British. 1.2 French. ... East Africa Protectorate; Emirate of Afghanistan (de ...
In the early historical period, colonies were founded in North Africa by migrants from Europe and Western Asia, particularly Greeks and Phoenecians. Under Egypt's Pharaoh Amasis (570–526 BC) a Greek mercantile colony was established at Naucratis, some 50 miles from the later Alexandria. [2] Greeks colonised Cyrenaica around the same time. [3]
20 km 2 (8 sq mi) euro: Pelagie Islands Italy: Archipelago of Italy: Italian: Isole Pelagie Sicilian: Ìsuli Pilaggî: Lampedusa e Linosa [n 10] Italian: Lampedusa e Linosa Sicilian: Lampidusa e Linusa: 6,304 21.4 km 2 (8 sq mi) euro: Plazas de soberanía Spain: Overseas territory of Spain: Spanish: Plazas de soberanía: N/A 74 0.59 km 2 (0.23 ...
[1] Euthymenes of Massalia explored the coast of West Africa in the early sixth century BC. The West African coast may have been explored by Hanno the Navigator in an expedition c. 500 BC. [2] The report of this voyage survives in a short Periplus in Greek, which was first cited by Greek authors in the 3rd century BC.
Dutch colonisation in Africa (3 C, 8 P) F. Former colonies in Africa (42 C, 91 P) ... List of European colonies in Africa; Loango slavery harbour; M. Maafa;
The Scramble for Africa [a] was the conquest and colonisation of most of Africa by seven Western European powers driven by the Second Industrial Revolution during the era of "New Imperialism" (1833–1914): Belgium, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal and Spain.