Many European nations chartered corporations to lead colonial ventures, such as the Dutch East India Company or the Hudson's Bay Company, and these corporations came to play a large part in the history of corporate colonialism.

Many of Africa's borders were artificially imposed by European colonial powers.

During World War II, about 30, 000 Polish refugees migrated to Karachi, at that time under British colonial rule. Many of these Polish families settled permanently in the city.

Many languages around the world have no numerals above two to four — or at least did not before contact with the colonial societies — and speakers of these languages may have no tradition of using the numerals they did have for counting.

Many buildings in the city from the Spanish colonial era are still standing.

Many of the creoles known today arose in the last 500 years, as a result of the worldwide expansion in European maritime power and trade in the Age of Discovery, which led to extensive European colonial empires and an intense slave trade.

Many units were disbanded with the end of the colonial war ( mainly Infantry ) since high manpower was no longer needed and the counter-guerrilla doctrine would change to a more conventional one.

Many of the crops that depend on honey bees for pollination have also been imported since colonial times.

Many of the older laws derive from French legal norms as France was the former colonial power.

Many translations of Ibn Khaldun were translated during the colonial era in order to fit the colonial propaganda machine.

Many colonial leaders lived in Gloucester County.

Charlestown also maintains several historic cemeteries and “ commons .” Many key colonial structures, listed in “ Latrobe ’ s View of Charlestown ” from 1813, have been demolished and lost over the last few centuries including the Market House, the Alison-Key House, Morrow House, Tully House, and the Bladen House.

Many houses in Mantoloking are of Shingle style architecture and seashore colonial designs with cedar shakes and white trim ; popular in places like Cape Cod, Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard and Newport.

Many free blacks were descendants of white women and African men, whether slave, free or indentured, from the colonial years when working classes lived and worked near each other.

Many were built on ancient grids originally established as Roman colonial outposts.

Many of the older buildings and some of the newer multi-story buildings along James E. Bohanan Memorial Drive have a very high end, colonial look.

Many colonists considered it a violation of their rights as Englishmen to be taxed without their consent — consent that only the colonial legislatures could grant.

Many of his stories are placed in real historical eras and deal with real events: the 1755 war between French and British colonists in Ticonderoga, colonial wars in Africa and both World Wars, for example.

Many members of the family had enjoyed successful political careers based on reform, including to colonial policies ; Grey's grandfather, while prime minister, championed the Reform Act 1832 and in 1846, Grey's uncle, the third Earl Grey, as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies during the first ministry of the Earl Russell, was the first to suggest that colonies should be self-sustaining and governed for the benefit of their inhabitants, instead of for the benefit of the United Kingdom .< ref name = GG >

Many icterids are colonial, nesting in colonies of up to 100, 000 birds.

Many French museums have collections of colonial materials.

Many colonized territories ( mentioned on this page ) came to be referred to as " colonial protectorates ", but were not regarded as separate states under international law.

Many records from colonial times spell the name Weathersfield, while Native Americans called it Pyquag.

Many of Canberra's suburbs are named after former Prime Ministers, famous Australians, early settlers, or use Aboriginal words for their title.

Many of the original neighborhoods were inhabited by German settlers.

Many of New England's earliest Puritan settlers were from eastern England, where baking foods such as pies, beans, and turkey were more common than frying as was the tradition elsewhere.

Many of New England's earliest Puritan settlers were from eastern England and also brought with them traditions of dairy products and baking pies and other foods.

Many of the early European settlers in the South learned Native American cooking methods, and so cultural diffusion was set in motion for the Southern dish.

Many settled in the new free colony of Victoria, to the dismay of the free settlers in towns such as Melbourne.

Many reports, foreign and Israeli, are sharply critical of the behaviour of Hebronite settlers.

Many events illustrate violence and resistance as Aborigines sought to protect their lands from invasion and as settlers and pastoralists attempted to establish their presence.

Many of them founded their own cities and settled them with settlers from other parts of Europe.

Many of Maryland's first settlers were Catholic, including at least two Catholic priests, one of whom became the earliest chronicler of the colony's history.

Many thousands of settlers, typified by Daniel Boone, had already reached Kentucky and Tennessee and adjacent areas.

Many of the original settlers in French Acadia were English, for example the Melansons ( originally Mallinson ).

Many of the early settlers of Marion County were from South Carolina.

Many of the area's earliest settlers are buried here.

Many of these settlers were settled an area that was later called Franschhoek, ( Dutch for French Corner ), in the present-day Western Cape province of South Africa.

Many of the settlers of that area came from Tennessee and the Carolinas.

Many of the first settlers were military veterans on half pay, while others were military veterans from France, Germany, Poland.

Many white settlers, recalling the Fort Dearborn massacre of 1812, distrusted the Potawatomis and assumed that they would join Black Hawk's uprising.

Many, if not most, of the original settlers who founded Birmingham were of English ancestry.

Many oral traditions of the Rain Dance have been passed down In an early sort of meteorology, Native Americans in the midwestern parts of the modern United States often tracked and followed known weather patterns while offering to perform a rain dance for settlers in return for trade items.

Many early settlers were Huguenots or Swiss or German Mennonites and several church congregations of various faiths formed during the 1760s.

Many of the early settlers of what became Clarke County were children of Tidewater planters, who settled on large land grants from Lord Fairfax.

Many of the early settlers came to South Carolina from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Many settlers were also part of a larger reverse migration of people who had originally settled in the Willamette Valley.