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Kings Norton, alternatively King's Norton, is an area of Birmingham, in the county of the West Midlands, England. Historically in Worcestershire, it was also a Birmingham City Council ward within the borough of Birmingham.
Color coded chart of current non-self-governing territories (primarily islands) with their sovereign states (as of June 2012). A colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule, [1] which rules the territory and its indigenous peoples separated from the foreign rulers, the colonizer, and their metropole (or "mother country"). [2]
As of 2018 Druids Heath is in the local council ward of Druids Heath and Monyhull, which is represented by Green Party councillor Julien Pritchard. It is also in the parliamentary constituency of Birmingham Selly Oak , which is represented in the House of Commons by the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Alistair Carns .
Gambia Colony and Protectorate; Gibraltar; Gold Coast; Griqualand East; Griqualand West; History of Egypt under the British; Kenya Colony; Mandatory Iraq; Mandatory Palestine; Muscat and Oman; Northern Rhodesia; Nyasaland; Orange River Colony; Oregon Country; Protectorate of Uganda; Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. Ascension Island ...
Kings Heath (historically, and still occasionally King's Heath) is a suburb of south Birmingham, England, four miles south of the city centre.Historically in Worcestershire, it is the next suburb south from Moseley on the A435 Alcester Road.
The first English overseas colonies started in 1556 with the plantations of Ireland after the Tudor conquest of Ireland.One such overseas joint stock colony was established in the late 1560s, at Kerrycurrihy near Cork city [16] Several people who helped establish colonies in Ireland also later played a part in the early colonisation of North America, particularly a group known as the West ...
Portugal began establishing the first global trade network and one of the first colonial empires [6] [7] under the leadership of Henry the Navigator.The empire spread throughout a vast number of territories distributed across the globe (especially at one time in the 16th century) that are now parts of 60 different sovereign states.
For services to forestry in the colonies. Major Hanns Vischer, CBE, Joint Secretary and Member of the Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies. Arthur Evelyn Weatherhead, Provincial Commissioner, Uganda Protectorate. Laurence Collier, Counsellor in the Foreign Office. Henry Fitzmaurice, MBE, His Majesty's Consul-General at Batavia.