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    Aleksei Chirikov made sight of the North American mainland. Bering claimed the Alaskan country for the Russian Empire. Russia later confirmed its rule over...
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  • and Bjarni Herjólfsson sights coast of North America, but doesn't land (see also Norse colonization of the Americas). c. 1000: Norse settle briefly in...
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    new settlements in Russian America, conducting trade with natives, and carrying out an expanded colonization program. Russia's first joint-stock company...
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    and importance, the later colonization by the European powers involving the continents of North America and South America is more well-known. During...
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    Creoles (Russian: Креолы Аляски, romanized: Kreoly Alyaski) were the descendants of ethnic Russians in colonial Alaska, known as Russian Creoles (Russian: Креолы...
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    The Norse exploration of North America began in the late 10th century, when Norsemen explored areas of the North Atlantic colonizing Greenland and creating...
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    The American Colonization Society (ACS), initially the Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, was an American organization founded...
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    British colonization of the Americas is the history of establishment of control, settlement, and colonization of the continents of the Americas by England...
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    Promyshlenniki (category Russian colonization of North America)
    backbone of Russian trading-operations in Russian Alaska. Some of them worked on preliminary request contracts, including for the Russian-American Company...
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  • (Russian: старожилы, romanized: starozhily) are the Russian settlers of the Russian North (the Pomors), Ural, Siberia (the Siberians), the Russian Far...
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    The Curonian colonization of the Americas was performed by the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (now Latvia), which was the second-smallest state to colonise...
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    peoples of Siberia and the Russian Cossacks, who often committed atrocities against Indigenous Siberians.[better source needed] The Russian conquest of Siberia...
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    Eastwards expansion was followed by the Russian colonization of North America across the Pacific Ocean. Russian promyshlenniki (trappers and hunters) quickly...
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  • The languages of North America reflect not only that continent's indigenous peoples, but the European colonization as well. The most widely spoken languages...
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    Island) of the Tlingit nation, and agents of the Russian-American Company assisted by the Imperial Russian Navy. Members of the Kiks.ádi of the indigenous...
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    First Kamchatka Expedition (category Russian colonization of North America)
    reached the North American coast, it provided evidence that Asia and North America are not connected. During 1729, it explored the southern shores of Kamchatka...
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  • representing the Russian Empire. List of treaties Oregon boundary dispute Alaska Boundary Dispute Russian colonization of the Americas Maritime Fur Trade...
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    Portuguese colonization of the Americas (Portuguese: Colonização portuguesa da América) constituted territories in the Americas belonging to the Kingdom of Portugal...
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    established a colonial presence in parts of North America, but few Russians ever settled in Alaska. Alexander II of Russia, having faced a catastrophic defeat...
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    Grigory Shelikhov (category Russian colonization of North America)
    shores of the mainland, where they founded the first permanent Russian settlements in North America. Shelikhov's voyage was done under the auspices of his...
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    France established colonies in much of eastern North America, on several Caribbean islands, and in South America. Most colonies were developed to export...
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    Fort Ross, California (category Russian colonization of North America)
    (Russian: Форт-Росс, romanized: Fort-Ross, крепость Росс, krepost' Ross, Kashaya: Metini) is a former Russian establishment on the west coast of North...
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    The Spanish colonization of the Americas began in 1493 on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) after the initial...
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    In the Americas, Indigenous peoples comprise the two continents' pre-Columbian inhabitants prior to European colonization of the Americas in the 15th century...
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    Bering's second voyage of exploration out of Kamchatka, made the first recorded European landfall on the northwest coast of North America at Baker Island off...
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    Eduard de Stoeckl (category Russian colonization of North America)
    (Russian: Эдуард Андреевич Стекль) (1804 – 26 January 1892) was a Russian diplomat best known today for having negotiated the American purchase of Alaska...
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    colonization of the Americas with the establishment of trading posts and plantations, which preceded the much wider known colonization activities of the...
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    Colonial empire (category History of colonialism)
    Caucasus Central Asia Russian colonization of North America: Russian America (1733–1867) Sagallo (1889) Russian Port Arthur Russian concession in Tientsin Spanish...
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    This is a list of wars involving the Soviet Union (30 December 1922 – 26 December 1991).   Victory   Defeat   Another result* *e.g. result unknown or...
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    introduced by the Russians. In 1818 there was a change in the management of what was then known as the Russian-American Company, referring to Russians operating...
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