transmarine
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How inimical it was could not yet be clearly seen; for the transmarine interests of Rome had not at the time attained a development which invited the mastery of conquered lands by the Roman capitalist.
From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge
For the security of the new possessions Metellus adopted the device, still rare in the case of transmarine dependencies, of planting colonies on the conquered land.
From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge
But the flame of insurrection had spread throughout Aragon, Valencia, and Navarre, and was speedily communicated to his transmarine possessions of Sardinia and Sicily.
From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 by William Hickling Prescott
It is, however, much otherwise with all her transmarine mail communications.
From A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam, Between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts of the World by James MacQueen
Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, are to be separated from England, which is of course to detach itself from all its transmarine dependencies.
From Auguste Comte and Positivism by John Stuart Mill
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