Examples of 'former colony' in a sentence

Meaning of "former colony"

This phrase refers to a territory or region that was once under the control or governance of another country. The term 'former' highlights the fact that the colony has gained independence or has been relinquished by the colonial power

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One is the former colony of the other.
Putting the bootheel to your former colony.
Guineans in the former colony were the first to arrive.
The mentality is like that of a former colony.
Former colony burn.
Our plan was to rebuild a former colony.
A former colony as well.
Putting the boot heel to your former colony.
Angola was a former colony of the portuguese and now speak portuguese.
France is also reaching out to its former colony.
Kronus is a former colony of the Tau empire.
To annihilate its former colony.
It was the only former colony of the Spanish Empire to establish a monarchy after independence.
France has given relatively little to its former colony.
Algeria is a former colony of France.

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The new administrative departement was as absent as that of the former colony.
Therme may have been a former colony of Corinth.
Paris has long sought to avoid appearing on the front line in this former colony.
Malaysia is a former colony of Britain.
The Dutch returned to lay claim to their former colony.
The residents of the former colony requested the Government of India for administrative help.
The geographic divisions covering the territory of the former colony and later city of guapore.
Indonesia was a former colony of the Dutch and the Japanese.
Thematerial originates with the former colony Togo.
The former colony is part of what is today called Dutch India.
When the British royal family visits a former colony.
As Bangladesh is the former colony of British Empire.
The French were now ready to reconquer their former colony.
Since Burma was a former colony of Great Britain.
Also importantly Spain finally recognized the independence of its former colony.
After the Portuguese surrendered the former colony was integrated into India.
The Spanish claimed to have visited punishment upon its former colony.
Southwest Africa is a former colony of Germany.
The French imperialists want to reassert their dominance over their former colony.
Indonesia is a former colony of which country?
Four years later definitiavamente Italy renounced its claims to the former colony now.
Brazil is a former colony of which European country?
The atrocities take place despite the intervention of French troops in the former colony.
Angola is a former colony of which European country?
The Dutch mounted a diplomatic and military campaign to reclaim their former colony from the nationalists.
Mexico was a former colony of which European country?
Happy Thankgiving to our former colony.
Kush, the former colony of Egypt became an empire in itself.
They want to re-assert their control over their former colony.
Rwanda is a former colony of Belgium, and the game was first introduced from there.
Germany is taking a renewed interest in Togo, a former colony.
The oldest site is Uplitstsikhe, a former colony that looks like a lunar landscape.
Of course, a liberated France was not about to give up on its former colony.
Andrei was relegated to Ovsianka, a former colony inmates near the camp.
Country A has a centre-right government, a unitary system and was a former colony.

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