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As a colony or other dependent state or territory lacks the authority to vest in a true head of state of its own, it either has no comparable office, simply receiving those roles exercised by the paramount powers ( in person or, most of the time, through an appointed representative, often styled governor or lieutenant-governor, but also various other titles, on the Cook Islands even simply King / Queen's Representative ) or has one, such as a formerly sovereign dynasty, but under a form of metropolitan guardianship, such as protection, vassal or tributary status.
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colony and other
There, settlers built Jamestown, Virginia, England's first permanent colony, and like many other explorers before, they set out to find treasure.
Phillip was accompanied by a contingent of marines and a handful of other officers who were to administer the colony.
Kidd and other members of the crew mutinied, ousted the captain of the ship, and sailed to the English colony of Nevis.
The major European empires consisted of the following colonies at the start of World War I ( former colonies of the Spanish Empire became independent before 1914 and are not listed ; former colonies of other European empires that previously became independent, such as the former French colony Haiti, are not listed ):
Termite mounds with varied heights of chimneys regulate gas exchange, temperature and other environmental parameters that are needed to sustain the internal physiology of the entire colony.
Exports of sugar, hardwood, Cayenne pepper and other spices brought a certain prosperity to the colony for the first time.
On the other hand, even the British or the Gibraltarians sometimes date the beginning of British sovereignty in 1704 ( for instance, in its speech at the United Nations in 1994, the Gibraltar Chief Minister at the time, Joe Bossano, stated that Gibraltar has been a British colony ever since it was taken by Britain in 1704 ).
As with the other Portuguese territories in mainland Africa ( Portuguese Angola and Portuguese Mozambique ), Portugal exercised control over the coastal areas of Portuguese Guinea when first laying claim to the whole region as a colony.
For the stem cells and other undifferentiated blood cells in the bone marrow, the determination is generally explained by the determinism theory of haematopoiesis, saying that colony stimulating factors and other factors of the haematopoietic microenvironment determine the cells to follow a certain path of cell differentiation.
In Procrustes and other later stories, Home is once again presented as a vibrant colony.
In 30 BC, Octavian became Roman emperor, reorganized the colony, and established more settlers there, veterans possibly from the Praetorian Guard and other Italians.
Also named after him are the hamlets of Stuyvesant and Stuyvesant Falls in Columbia County, New York, where descendants of the early Dutch settlers still live and where the Dutch Reformed Church remains an important part of the community, as well as shopping centers, yacht clubs and other buildings and facilities throughout the area where the Dutch colony once was.
He wrote to the Dutch West India Company, " Jewish settlers should not be granted the same liberties enjoyed by Jews in Holland, lest members of other persecuted minority groups, such as Roman Catholics, be attracted to the colony.
Rhode Island was the first of the 13 original colonies to declare independence from British rule, declaring itself independent on May 4, 1776, two months before any other colony.
In 1774, the slave population of Rhode Island was 6. 3 %, nearly twice as high as any other New England colony.
Unification under the British rule as a colony for 96 years brought other racial groups, particularly immigrants from the Indian sub-continent.
The other outstanding feature of Lusitania is the Descolada, a native virus which almost wipes out the colony, until husband-and-wife biologists Gusta and Cida succeed in developing counters.
With no other way to save him, the colony declares itself in rebellion, Jane shuts off outside ansible contact, Miro is rescued, and Ender enters the forest to negotiate the aforementioned treaty.
It is a matter of dispute whether the agreement transferred sovereignty of Tromelin from one to the other, and Mauritius claims the island as part of its territory on the grounds that sovereignty was not transferred to France and the island was thus part of the colony of Mauritius at the time of independence.
Hainish civilization subsequently collapsed and the colony planets ( including Earth ) forgot that other human worlds existed.
In the other version of the story, Eiríks saga rauða or the Saga of Erik the Red, Leif Ericsson accidentally discovers the new land when travelling from Norway back to Greenland after a visit to his overlord, King Olaf Tryggvason, who commissions him to spread Christianity in the colony.
The other Italian colony in Africa was Italian North Africa ( Africa Settentrionale Italiana, or ASI ).
colony and dependent
The Greek city-state of Athens in the 5th century BC, which was dependent on grain imports from Scythia, maintained critical alliances with cities which controlled the straits, such as the Megarian colony Byzantium.
In contrast, however, survivors of the ill-fated Mexican military colony on Clipperton in 1917 ( see below ) indicated that they were dependent upon rain for their water supply, catching it in several old boats they used for this purpose.
" The Merriam-Webster Dictionary offers four definitions, including " something characteristic of a colony " and " control by one power over a dependent area or people.
In 1895, French Guinea was made a dependent colony, and its Governor then became a Lieutenant Governor to a Governor-General in Dakar.
As Bermuda's economy became wholly concerned with the sea, the colony became dependent on food imports fro North America.
In Hong Kong, the rank of Queen's Counsel was granted when it was a crown colony and British dependent territory.
Britain then found herself totally dependent on her Canadian colony for her timber needs, especially the great white pine used for ships ' masts.
Subsequent stage, the colony forming unit-erythroid ( CFU-E ), expresses maximal erythropoietin receptor density and is completely dependent on erythropoietin for further differentiation.
; Former British Crown colony / dependent territory of Hong Kong
** Legislative Council of Hong Kong ( 1843 – 1997 ; the legislature of the British Crown colony / dependent territory of Hong Kong )
England finally took control in 1643 and, with the exception of a one-month period of Spanish dominance in 1780, held onto them as a Crown colony, dependent on Jamaica.
Some cities might be subordinate to others ( a colony traditionally deferred to its mother city ), some might have had governments wholly dependent upon others ( the Thirty Tyrants in Athens was imposed by Sparta following the Peloponnesian War ), but the titularly supreme power in each city was located within that city.
Bondu was a state in West Africa, later a French protectorate dependent on the colony of Senegal.
Various terms were used to describe different types of dependent states, such as condominium, mandate, protectorate, colony, and vassal state.
colony and state
* 1682 – William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
Aegina, according to Herodotus, was a colony of Epidaurus, to which state it was originally subject.
The three years of estrangement following the unilateral declaration of independence and the nationalistic Soilih regime were followed during the conservative Abdallah and Djohar regimes by a period of growing trade, aid, cultural, and defense links between the former colony and France, punctuated by frequent visits to Paris by the head of state and occasional visits by the French president to Moroni.
He believed that not all learned individuals were qualified to doctor others, and while ministers took on several roles in the early years of the colony, including that of caring for the sick, they were now expected to stay out of state and civil affairs.
Various Governors-General had previously served as governors of an Australian state or colony: Lord Hopetoun ( Victoria 1889 – 95 ); Lord Tennyson ( South Australia 1899 – 1902 ); Lord Gowrie ( South Australia 1928 – 34 ; and New South Wales 1935 – 36 ); Major General Michael Jeffery ( Western Australia 1993 – 2000 ); Quentin Bryce ( Queensland 2003 – 08 ).
In 1959, when former British crown colony Singapore gained self-government, it adopted the Malay style Yang di-Pertuan Negara ( literally means " head of state " in Malay ) for its governor ( the actual head of state remained the British monarch ).
Sometimes a head of state assumes office as a state becomes legal and political reality, before a formal title for the highest office is determined ; thus in the since 1 January 1960 independent republic Cameroon ( Cameroun, a former French colony ), the first President, Ahmadou Babatoura Ahidjo, was at first not styled président but ' merely ' known as Chef d ' état ( literal French for ' Head of State ') until 5 May 1960 ; in Uganda, military coup leader since 25 January 1971 Idi Amin was formally styled military head of State till 21 February 1971, only from then on regular ( but unconstitutional, not elected ) President.
The main colony survives as a preserved Florida state historic site, at Estero, Florida, but all of Teed's followers have now died.
* 1732 – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U. S. state of Georgia.
In 1975 the Ellice Islands separated from the colony to form the independent state of Tuvalu.
Although the indigenous Gilbertese language name for the Gilbert Islands proper is Tungaru, the new state chose the name " Kiribati ," the Gilbertese rendition of " Gilberts ," as an equivalent of the former colony to acknowledge the inclusion of islands which were never considered part of the Gilberts chain.
Mozambique was a Portuguese colony, overseas province and later a member state of Portugal.
They state that this story may originate with an over-excited Victorian letter writer sharing somewhat exaggerated accounts of his exotic life in the tropical colony with a British audience back home.
The same year he founded the San Juan de los Caballeros colony, the first permanent European settlement in the future state of New Mexico,
The country, based in Salisbury, was considered a de facto successor state to the former British colony of Southern Rhodesia ( which had achieved responsible government in 1923 ).
However, the change had not yet been officially ratified by Britain when Rhodesia declared itself independent, and as a result, the British Government continued to refer to the breakaway colony as " Southern Rhodesia " throughout its existence, a stance it maintained regarding the June – December 1979 successor state of Zimbabwe Rhodesia.
The land which now forms the state of South Australia was claimed for Britain in 1788 as part of the colony of New South Wales.
Following a campaign led by Forrest, residents of the colony of Western Australia ( still informally called the Swan River Colony ) voted in favour of federation, resulting in Western Australia officially becoming a state on 1 January 1901.
* December 26 – The colony of South Australia is officially proclaimed ( now celebrated in the state of South Australia as Proclamation Day ).
** Roger Ludlow, one of the founders of the colony ( later the state ) of Connecticut ( d. 1664 )
* December 22 – James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia as a colony ( d. 1785 )
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