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  2. List of colonies - Wikipedia

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    Map of the European Union in the world, with Overseas Countries and Territories and Outermost Regions. Danish Gold Coast; Danish India; Danish West Indies Frederiksstad on Saint Croix, Danish West Indies, 1848; Faroe Islands; Greenland

  3. Thirteen Colonies - Wikipedia

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    A map of the Thirteen Colonies (in red) and nearby colonial areas (1763–1775) just before the Revolutionary War. In response, the colonies formed bodies of elected representatives known as Provincial Congresses, and colonists began to boycott imported British merchandise. [62]

  4. List of former European colonies - Wikipedia

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    Toggle Europe subsection. 8.1 Denmark. 8.2 Italy. 8.3 Spain. ... "Thirteen Colonies" (The United States of America) New England Colonies: Province of Massachusetts Bay;

  5. Colonial empire - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Influence of European Colonialism (1400-2000) A colonial empire is a collective of territories (often called colonies ), either contiguous with the imperial center or located overseas , settled by the population of a certain state and governed by that state.

  6. List of countries that have gained independence from the ...

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    Thirteen American Colonies: 4 July: 1776: Fourth of July. Declaration of Independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1776. British government recognized independence in 1783 with the Treaty of Paris. Vanuatu: New Hebrides: 30 July: 1980: Independence from United Kingdom and France in 1980. Vanuatu is a Commonwealth republic. Zambia ...

  7. File:Map of territorial growth 1775.svg - Wikipedia

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    05:13, 3 March 2023: 506 × 662 (507 KB) Johnn Francis: Reverted to version as of 21:34, 7 January 2009 (UTC) This map describes the situation in the year 1775. Florida was acquired by Britain in 1763 from Spain (who would re-acquire it in 1783). Therefore Florida (both west and east) was British at the time this map is set. 16:41, 19 December 2022

  8. File:Thirteen Colonies 1775 map-fr.svg - Wikipedia

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    This map was improved or created by the Wikigraphists of the Graphic Lab (fr). You can propose images to clean up, improve, create or translate as well. This SVG file contains embedded text that can be translated into your language, using any capable SVG editor, text editor or the SVG Translate tool .

  9. Colonial government in the Thirteen Colonies - Wikipedia

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    The thirteen colonies were all founded with royal authorization, and authority continued to flow from the monarch as colonial governments exercised authority in the king's name. [8] A colony's precise relationship to the Crown depended on whether it was a corporate colony , proprietary colony or royal colony as defined in its colonial charter .