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This is a list of territories and polities that have been considered colonies.

Colonies of European countries[edit]

Main article: List of former European colonies

British[edit]

Main article: Territorial evolution of the British Empire
Harbour Street, Kingston, Jamaica, c. 1820
The Battle of Isandlwana during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. After an initial defeat the British were able to conquer Zululand.
Main article: British Empire
A view of shops with anti-British and pro-Independence signs, Malta, c. 1960
The result of the Boer Wars was the annexation of the Boer Republics to the British Empire in 1902

French[edit]

Main article: List of French possessions and colonies

Russian[edit]

See also: Russian colonization of America
The Russian settlement of St. Paul's Harbour (present-day Kodiak, Alaska), Russian America, 1814

German[edit]

Main article: List of former German colonies
Kamerun (by R. Hellgrewe, 1908)

Italian[edit]

Main article: Italian Empire
The Italian invasion of Libya during the Italo-Turkish War, 1911

Roman[edit]

Dutch[edit]

Main article: Dutch colonial empire
View of Cape Town with ships of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), c. 1683

Portuguese[edit]

Main article: Evolution of the Portugese Empire
Portuguese women in Goa, India, early 18th century

Spanish[edit]

Main article: Spanish Empire
See also: List of countries that gained independence from Spain
An 18th-century casta painting from New Spain shows a Spanish man and his indigenous wife.
The Battle of Tétouan, 1860, by Marià Fortuny
Spanish General Arsenio Martínez Campos in Havana, Colonial Cuba, 1878
Main article: Spanish Empire

Austrian[edit]

Main article: Austrian colonial policy
Muslim Bosniak resistance during the battle of Sarajevo in 1878 against the Austro-Hungarian occupation

Danish[edit]

Main article: Danish colonial empire
Frederiksstad on Saint Croix, Danish West Indies, 1848
Map of the European Union in the world, with Overseas Countries and Territories and Outermost Regions.

Belgian[edit]

Main article: Belgian colonial empire

Swedish[edit]

Main article: Swedish overseas colonies

Norse[edit]

See also: Scandinavian colonialism

Norwegian[edit]

Main article: List of possessions of Norway

Polish[edit]

See also: Colonization attempts by Poland

Colonies by Oceanian countries[edit]

Australian[edit]

Australian patrol officer in Australia's Territory of Papua and New Guinea in 1964

New Zealander[edit]

Governor Lord Ranfurly reading the annexation proclamation to Queen Makea on 7 October 1900.

Colonies by Asian countries[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Main articles: Japanese colonial empire and List of territories occupied by Imperial Japan

Thai (Siamese)[edit]

Siamese Army in Laos in 1893.

Korean[edit]

Chinese[edit]

Camp of the Qing Military in Khalkha in 1688.


Burmese[edit]

Indonesian[edit]

Indonesian soldiers pose in November 1975 in Batugade, East Timor with a captured Portuguese flag.

Thai/Siamese[edit]

Siamese Army in Laos in 1893.

Omani[edit]

Omani Empire

Following the expulsion of the Portuguese colonizers, Sultanate of Oman was the preeminent power in the western Indian Ocean during the 17th century.[4]

Vietnamese[edit]

See also: Nam Tiến, History of the Cham-Vietnamese wars, and Đại Việt-Khmer war

Colonies by American (continent) countries[edit]

American[edit]

Further information: List of Guano Island claims and United States territorial acquisitions
Governor General William Howard Taft addressing the audience at the Philippine Assembly in the Manila Grand Opera House

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Mexican[edit]

Guatemalan[edit]

Ecuadorian[edit]

Colombian[edit]

Venezuelan[edit]

Argentine[edit]

Argentine C-130 and control tower, Marambio Airport
The Conquest of the Desert extended Argentine power into Patagonia.

Paraguayan[edit]

Bolivian[edit]

Chilean[edit]

Brazilian[edit]

Colonies by African countries[edit]

Ethiopian[edit]

South African[edit]

Moroccan[edit]

Colonies by former countries[edit]

Ancient Greece[edit]

See also: Ancient Greece

Carthage[edit]

See also: Carthage

Ancient Egyptian[edit]

Ottoman (Turkish)[edit]

Further information: Vassal and tributary states of the Ottoman Empire
Territorial extent of the Ottoman Empire in 1683[9][10]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Terrenato, Nicola. The deceptive archetype: Roman colonialism in Italy and postcolonial thought. na, 2005.
  2. ^ Peck, Joshua J. The biological impact of culture contact: a bioarchaeological study of Roman colonialism in Britain. Diss. The Ohio State University, 2009.
  3. ^ In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, the Chinese were prohibited from entering Mongolia to prevent the assimilation of the Mongols loss of combat effectiveness. The prohibition was abolished after the Late Qing reforms, and then Mongolia declared its independence from the Manchu Qing.
  4. ^ Oman Country Profile. Oman Country Profile. British Library Partnership. Qatar Digital Library. 2014.
  5. ^ History of Equatorial Guinea
  6. ^ "MINUSTAH". argentina.gob.ar. 20 November 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  7. ^ "Un equipo de la ONU visitó el Campo San Martín en Chipre". Gaceta Marinera. 9 November 2017.
  8. ^ Naomi Porat (1992). "An Egyptian Colony in Southern Palestine During the Late Predynastic to Early Dynastic". In Edwin C. M. van den Brink (ed.). The Nile Delta in Transition: 4th.-3rd. Millennium B.C. : Proceedings of the Seminar Held in Cairo, 21.-24. October 1990, at the Netherlands Institute of Archaeology and Arabic Studies. Van den Brink. pp. 433–440. ISBN 978-965-221-015-9. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
  9. ^ https://thearabweekly.com/rejection-ottoman-legacy-linked-turkish-behaviour-today [bare URL]
  10. ^ Ben-Dror, Avishai (2017). "OTTOMAN COLONIALISM - the Ottoman Scramble for Africa: Empire and Diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz. By Mostafa Minawi . Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016. Pp. Xviii + 219. $85.00, hardback (ISBN 9780804795142); $24.95, paperback (ISBN 9780804799270)". The Journal of African History. 58 (3): 509–510. doi:10.1017/S0021853717000433. S2CID 165186569.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colonies

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