Colonies in antiquity · 1 Sabean Colonization of Africa · 2 Egyptian colonies · 3 Phoenician and Carthaginian colonies · 4 Ancient Greek colonies. 4.1 Greek ...

Greek colonisation refers to the expansion of Archaic Greeks, particularly during the 8th–6th centuries BC, across the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea.

A colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule. Though dominated by the foreign colonizers, the rule remains separate to the original country of ...

Colonization (British English: colonisation) is a process of establishing control over foreign territories or peoples for the purpose of exploitation and ...

Colonialism is the pursuing, establishing and maintaining of control and exploitation of people and of resources by a foreign group of people.

A colonial empire is a collective of territories (often called colonies), either contiguous with the imperial center or located overseas, settled by the ...