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The two main countries in the first wave of European colonialism were Portugal and Spain. [3] The Portuguese started the long age of European colonization with the conquest of Ceuta, Morocco in 1415, and the conquest and discovery of other African territories and islands, this would also start the movement known as the Age of Discoveries.
This is a list of former European colonies. The European countries which had the most colonies throughout history were: United Kingdom (130), France (90), Portugal (52), Spain (44), Netherlands (29), Germany (20), Russia (17), Denmark (9), Sweden (8), Italy (7), Norway (6), Belgium (3), and Courland (2).
Toggle Colonies of European countries subsection. 1.1 British. 1.2 French. 1.3 Russian. 1.4 German. 1.5 Italian. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other ...
July 5, 1962 France Algeria: Independence restored after French colonial rule. Initial founding in 1516: August 6, 1962 United Kingdom Jamaica: In personal union with the UK and many other countries. August 31, 1962 United Kingdom Trinidad and Tobago: In personal union with the UK and many other countries until 1976. October 9, 1962 United Kingdom
Name Year Colonial power Morocco: 1912 France [1]: Libya: 1911 Italy [2]: Fulani Empire: 1903 France and the United Kingdom: Swaziland: 1902 United Kingdom [3]: Ashanti Confederacy: 1900 ...
1933: Publication of Gilberto Freyre's Casa-Grande & Senzala ("The Great House and the Slave Quarters" - 1933 [5]). 1935: Aimé Césaire coins the word Négritude. 1936: Franco-Syrian Treaty of Independence (never ratified by France). 1936–1939: Great Arab Revolt in the British Mandate of Palestine. 1935–36: Second Italo-Abyssinian War.
A Diplomatic History of Europe Since the Congress of Vienna (1958), 736pp; a basic introduction, 1815–1955 online free to borrow; Baumgart, Winfried. Imperialism: The Idea and Reality of British and French Colonial Expansion, 1880–1914 (1982) Betts, Raymond F. The False Dawn: European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century (1975)
The decolonization of the Americas occurred over several centuries as most of the countries in the Americas gained their independence from European rule. The American Revolution was the first in the Americas, and the British defeat in the American Revolutionary War (1775–83) was a victory against a great power, aided by France and Spain, Britain's enemies.