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Colonel
Colonel: senior field-officer rank, NATO OF-5 and US O-6, equivalent to naval captain and RAF group captain. From Spanish cabo de colunela, head of a column, circa 1505.
Colonel (United States)
Colonel (United States), nicknamed the bird colonel, is the senior field-grade officer rank in the US Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps at pay grade O-6.
Colonel Protector of the Qiang
The Colonel Protector of the Qiang (护羌校尉) was a Han dynasty military office, created under Emperor Wu, that supervised and fought the Qiang peoples of the western frontier.
Colonel Who Acts as Envoy to the Xiongnu
The Colonel Who Acts as Envoy to the Xiongnu (使匈奴中郎将) was an Eastern Han military-diplomatic office created in 50 to guard and supervise the Southern Xiongnu chanyu at Meiji.
Colonel-Director of Retainers
The Colonel-Director of Retainers (司隸校尉) was a Han dynasty office created under Emperor Wu to hunt sorcery and supervise officials in the seven commanderies around the capital.
Colonia Dignidad
Colonia Dignidad, now Villa Baviera, was a German sect colony founded by Paul Schäfer near Parral, Chile, in 1961; a site of child abuse, forced labor, and Pinochet-era detention and torture, now contested over expropriation and a memorial.
Colonial Africa
Colonial Africa is the period when European powers ruled most of the continent, partitioned among roughly half a dozen states by 1905, with Ghana leading independence in 1957.
Colonial American newspapers
Colonial American newspapers were small, usually weekly, four-page sheets in Britain's North American colonies between 1690 and 1775, growing to about 37 papers by the Revolution.
Colonial Assembly of Saint-Domingue
The Colonial Assembly of Saint-Domingue (Assemblée coloniale de Saint-Domingue) was an elected assembly of French colonists, formed in 1790, that demanded autonomy from France and resisted decrees on free men of color.
Colonial Brazil
Colonial Brazil, also known as the Colony of Brazil or Portuguese Brazil, was the Portuguese-ruled territory in South America from 1500, running on sugar, gold, and coffee booms powered by slavery.
Colonial history of the United States
The colonial history of the United States is the era of European settlement and rule, from Spanish St. Augustine (1565) and English Jamestown (1607) to the 1783 Treaty of Paris ending British rule.
Colonial India
Colonial India: the British East India Company's rule (1757-1858, from Plassey to the Government of India Act 1858) and the British Raj (1858-1947), ending with the 1947 partition.
Colonial Nigeria
Colonial Nigeria: British rule from the 1861 annexation of Lagos to independence on 1 October 1960, marked by indirect rule, the 1914 amalgamation of the Northern and Southern protectorates, and lasting regional divisions.
Colonial Williamsburg
Colonial Williamsburg, a living history museum in Williamsburg, Virginia, restores and interprets Virginia's eighteenth-century colonial capital. Founded in 1926 by W.A.R. Goodwin with John D. Rockefeller Jr., it features 89 original structures, the 1932 Raleigh Tavern opening, and African American interpretation since 1979.
Colonialism
Colonialism: political control by one power over another territory and its people, from Latin colonus (farmer). Modern European colonialism ran from the 15th to 20th centuries; over 80 former colonies have since gained UN-recognized independence.
Colónida
Colónida was a Peruvian literary magazine founded in Lima in 1916 by writer Abraham Valdelomar, which shaped the Colónida movement of stylistic renewal in Peruvian letters.
Colonisation of Africa
Colonisation of Africa: the European takeover of African territory from about 1880 to 1914, the Scramble for Africa, seven colonising powers, Berlin Conference, indirect rule, land and labor exploitation, and independence wave.
Colonisation of Hokkaido
Colonisation of Hokkaido: Meiji Japan's 1869 annexation of Ezo, renamed Hokkaido, via the Kaitakushi Development Commission, American-advised settler agriculture, tondenhei soldier-settlers, and Ainu dispossession under the 1899 Former Aborigines Protection Act.
Colonization
Colonization: establishing and maintaining control over foreign territory and peoples, distinguished from colonialism and imperialism. Covers settler versus non-settler forms, Spanish and British development effects, decolonization historiography, and debates over colonial legacies.
Colonization of Antarctica
Colonization of Antarctica: human settlement of the southern continent via research stations, not permanent towns. Antarctic Treaty 1959 freezes seven territorial claims; about 4,000 summer residents, Madrid Protocol mining ban.
Colonization of the Bolivian Oriente
The colonization of the Bolivian Oriente was the state-led settlement of Bolivia's eastern lowlands, begun in the 19th century and realized through the post-1952 Marcha al Oriente.
Colonization of the Llanos
The colonization of the Llanos was the settlement of Colombia's eastern tropical grasslands by Spanish, creole, and peasant populations from 1531 through the twentieth century.
Colonization of the Peruvian Amazon
Colonization of the Peruvian Amazon is the process by which the Peruvian state, missionaries, and settlers occupied the Amazonian part of Peru, beginning with Spanish expeditions of the 1540s.
Colonna family
Colonna family: ancient Roman baronial house named for the town of Colonna, founders Pietro (1078–1108); papal feud with Orsini; Pope Martin V (1417) and Lepanto admiral Marcantonio II among its members.
Colony
Colony: a geopolitical entity created by a foreign polity outside its territory, from Latin colonus (farmer) and colonia (agrarian settlement). Distinguished from imperialism; British pluralist versus French integrative models; most colonies gained independence 1945–1970s.
Colony (disambiguation)
Colony: polysemous English word from Latin colonia. Political sense: nonself-governing territory under a distant power; also biological cell groups, artists' and penal colonies, and cognates like Kolonie and colonia.
Colony of Antigua
The Colony of Antigua was an English, later British, crown colony in the Leeward Islands of the eastern Caribbean, established in 1632 and governed from London until independence as Antigua and Barbuda on 1 November 1981.
Colony of Barbados
The Colony of Barbados was an English, and later British, colony in the eastern Caribbean that existed from its settlement in February 1627 until independence on 30 November 1966.
Colony of Fiji
The Colony of Fiji was a British Crown colony established in 1874 by the Deed of Cession, ruled for 96 years with Indian indentured labor, and gained independence in October 1970.
Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was an English colony in New England, chartered in 1663 as the first English colony guaranteeing freedom of conscience.