colony

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Despite the many Aboriginal communities, the British deemed the place terra nullius—no one’s land—and established a penal colony, bringing diseases that drastically reduced the indigenous population.

From The Wall Street Journal

Moses Brown was born in 1738 into a leading family in the British colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

From Barron's

I’ve learned about the founding of America, the Constitution, and the thirteen original colonies.

From Literature

In the years that followed, systems of slavery became entrenched in the American colonies belonging to Portugal, Spain, Great Britain and France.

From The Wall Street Journal

A Danish colony for three centuries, Greenland, which today has around 57,000 inhabitants, gradually gained autonomy in the second half of the 20th century.

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