colonial
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The road’s original alignment followed the Camino Real and the Santa Fe Trail, both Spanish colonial routes.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
In a speech at the summit, Macron also said that the process of returning African artworks looted during the colonial era had become "unstoppable".
From Barron's • May 11, 2026
“The Complete Notebooks” traces Camus’s development from a budding writer in colonial Algeria to a journalist of the French Resistance to a revered public intellectual.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
ICJ judges have been asked to rule on the validity of the border established between the two countries in 1899 under British colonial rule.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
The basic history of the empire was known well enough by the time Dobyns began reading the old colonial accounts.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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