Colony
territory under the political control of an overseas state, generally with its own subordinate colonial government
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A colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a state, distinct from the home territory of the sovereign.
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Quotes
edit- The famous dictum which states that all men are equal will find its illustration in the colonies only when the colonized subject states he is equal to the colonist.
- Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961) as translated by Richard Philcox (2004), p. 9
See also
editExternal links
edit- ↑ Puerto Rico:The Trials of the Oldest Colony in the World. By Jose Trias Monge. Yale University Press. 1997.