The French colonial empire (French: Empire colonial français) comprised the overseas colonies, protectorates, and mandate territories that came under French...
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A colonial empire is a collective of territories (often called colonies), either contiguous with the imperial center or located overseas, settled by the...
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German colonial empire (German: Deutsches Kolonialreich) constituted the overseas colonies, dependencies, and territories of the German Empire. Unified...
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The Dutch colonial empire (Dutch: Nederlandse koloniale rijk) comprised the overseas territories and trading posts controlled and administered by Dutch...
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economic and colonial tensions between Britain and Germany were major causes of the First World War, during which Britain relied heavily on its empire. The conflict...
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in 1914, the Japanese Empire declared war on the German Empire and quickly seized the possessions of the German colonial empire in the Pacific Ocean (the...
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The Italian colonial empire (Italian: Impero coloniale italiano), also known as the Italian Empire (Impero italiano) between 1936 and 1941, was founded...
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governments viewed colonial expansion as economically and politically risky and fundamentally unrewarding, and believed that informal empire, continuing Belgium's...
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Portuguese Overseas (Ultramar Português) or the Portuguese Colonial Empire (Império Colonial Português), was composed of the overseas colonies, factories...
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The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976....
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First French colonial empire stretched from a total area at its peak in 1680 to over 10,000,000 km2 (3,900,000 sq mi), the second largest empire in the world...
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Colonialism (redirect from Colonial expansion)
populations. Colonialism developed as a concept describing European colonial empires of the modern era, which spread globally from the 15th century to the...
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Swedish overseas colonies (redirect from Swedish colonial empire)
Possessions & Colonies History of Tobago Media related to Swedish colonial empire at Wikimedia Commons Wetaskiwin local heritage – Swedish settlers Mémoire...
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Danish overseas colonies (redirect from Danish Colonial Empire)
Greenland and the Faroe Islands were the last vestiges of the colonial empire. Greenland's colonial status ceased in 1953, becoming an integral part of the...
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and Colonial Common Sense (2009), and Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times (2016). Her edited volumes include Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures...
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of the Colonial Empire (Portuguese:"Ordem do Império Colonial") was a Portuguese Order (decoration), established on 13 April 1932 as a colonial order of...
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The Empire of Japan, also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration on 3 January...
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monarchy, Austrian Empire, and (from 1867 to 1918) the Austro-Hungarian Empire made a few small short-lived attempts to expand overseas colonial trade through...
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territorial evolution of the British Empire is considered to have begun with the foundation of the English colonial empire in the late 16th century. Since...
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modern imperialism and the rise of the colonial states. This led to the rise of the Dutch Empire. The Dutch Empire lasted for three and a half centuries...
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an empire by sea can be characterized by colonial expansion and empire building "by an increasingly powerful navy". However, sometimes an empire is only...
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Kingdom of Norway (872–1397) (redirect from Norwegian colonial empire)
in the 1020s. The empire was under Danish control from the Kalmar Union's beginning in 1397 and forward as the Danish colonial empire, but the possessions...
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List of French possessions and colonies (category French colonial empire)
First French colonial empire stretched from a total area at its peak in 1680 to over 10,000,000 km2 (3,900,000 sq mi), the second largest empire in the world...
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The historical flags of the British Empire and the overseas territories refers to the various flags that were used across the various Dominions, Crown...
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List of governors of dependent territories in the 18th century (redirect from List of colonial governors in 1750)
Austro-Hungarian colonies Belgium Belgian colonial empire Kingdom of Great Britain British colonial empire, English overseas possessions Monarchs – Prime...
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German colonial empire as a whole. During the period of New Imperialism, Cologne was one of the most important trading cities of the German Empire, and...
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historian, novelist and broadcaster whose work focuses on the British Empire, Colonial India and the decolonisation of South Asia. She is a Fellow of Kellogg...
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changed and slavery was phased out. The beginning of the formation of a colonial Empire has been much studied. Tudor conquest of Ireland began in the 1530s...
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Colonial Argentina is designated as the period of the History of Argentina when it was an overseas territory of the Spanish Empire. It begins in the Precolumbian...
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African empires is an umbrella term used in African studies to refer to a number of pre-colonial African kingdoms in Africa with multinational structures...
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