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Toggle Colonies by Asian countries subsection. 3.1 Japanese. 3.2 Chinese. 3.3 Burmese. 3.4 Indonesian. 3.5 Omani. 3.6 Vietnamese. 4 Colonies by American (continent ...
British colonies in South Asia, East Asia, And Southeast Asia: British Burma (1824–1948, merged with India by the British from 1886 to 1937) British Ceylon (1833-1948, now Sri Lanka) British Hong Kong (1842–1997) Colonial India (includes the territory of present-day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) Danish India (1696–1869) Swedish ...
Phoenician colonies in Asia (2 C, 2 P) Portuguese India (15 C, 47 P) Portuguese Macau (3 C, 32 P) R. Ragusan trade with India (1 P) Roman provinces in Asia (3 C, 1 P) S.
Although nationalist movements throughout the colonial world led to the political independence of nearly all of Asia's remaining colonies, decolonization was intercepted by the Cold War. Southeast Asia, South Asia , the Middle East, and East Asia remained embedded in a world economic, financial, and military system in which the great powers ...
Pages in category "Former British colonies and protectorates in Asia" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total.
This is a list of regions occupied or annexed by the Empire of Japan until 1945, the year of the end of World War II in Asia, after the surrender of Japan. Control over all territories except most of the Japanese mainland ( Hokkaido , Honshu , Kyushu , Shikoku , and some 6,000 small surrounding islands) was renounced by Japan in the ...
Before the expansion of early modern European powers, other empires had conquered and colonized territories, such as the Roman Empire in Europe, North Africa and Western Asia. Modern colonial empires first emerged with a race of exploration between the then most advanced European maritime powers, Portugal and Spain , during the 15th century. [ 2 ]
Map of German Colonies in the Pacific, 1914. Brown, German New Guinea; Orange, North Solomons; Red, German Samoa; Yellow, Other Pacific Territories. These were German colonies established in the Pacific: German New Guinea, 1884–1919 Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, 1885–1914; Bismarck Archipelago, 1885–1914; German Solomon Islands Protectorate, 1885 ...