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4 Colonies by American (continent) countries. ... This is a list of territories and polities that have been considered colonies. ... (Occupied for two years after ...
Extent of colonization by European, American, Ottoman, and Japanese powers, 1492-1991 Map of the year each country achieved independence. The historical phenomenon of colonization is one that stretches around the globe and across time. Ancient and medieval colonialism was practiced by the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Turks, Han Chinese, and Arabs.
6 September: 1968: Initially called Swaziland, which was also its pre-independence name. Renamed eSwatini by King Mswati III in April 2018. Fiji: 10 October: 1970: Fiji has been a Commonwealth republic since 1997. Ghana: Gold Coast, British Togoland (Togoland got absorbed into the Gold Coast in 1957) 6 March: 1957: Became a Commonwealth ...
France founded colonies in the Americas: in eastern North America (which had not been colonized by Spain north of Florida), a number of Caribbean islands (which had often already been conquered by the Spanish or depopulated by disease), and small coastal parts of South America.
Leo Lemay says that his 1744 travel diary Gentleman's Progress: The Itinerarium of Dr. Alexander Hamilton is "the best single portrait of men and manners, of rural and urban life, of the wide range of society and scenery in colonial America." [46] His diary has been widely used by scholars, and covers his travels from Maryland to Maine ...
In 1845, Texas joined the United States and in 1867 the United States acquired Alaska from Russia. The last major territorial change occurred when Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949, [2] but there have been a number of small adjustments like the Boundary Treaty of 1970 where the city of Rio Rico, Texas, was ceded to Mexico. [3]
This category has the following 16 subcategories, out of 16 total. American colonial people (10 C) Former colonial and territorial capitals in the United States (3 C, 56 P)
The traditional theory has been that these early migrants moved into the Beringia land bridge between eastern Siberia and present-day Alaska around 40,000 – 17,000 years ago, when sea levels were significantly lowered due to the Quaternary glaciation.