Colonies in antiquity were post-Iron Age city-states founded from a mother-city or metropolis rather than a territory-at-large. Bonds between a colony...

the settlement of citizens or veterans of the legions. Many Roman colonies in antiquity rose to become important commercial and cultural centers, transportation...

woodland. Latin colonies (coloniae Latinae) were considerably larger than Roman colonies. They were military strongholds near or in enemy territory....

Medieval demography Colonies in antiquity Roman agriculture Deforestation during the Roman period List of states by population in 1 CE Pre-modern human...

of territories and polities that have been considered colonies. French and British interregnum in the Dutch East Indies British Senegambia British Manila...

Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, is the period of cultural European history...

the ancient Egyptians. Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans founded colonies in antiquity. Phoenicia had an enterprising maritime trading-culture that spread...

classical antiquity, derived from the Ancient Greek: ἐμπόριον, romanized: (empórion), which becomes Latin: emporium. The plural is emporia in both languages...

first established colonies along the Black Sea coast of Crimea in the 7th or 6th century BC. Several colonies were established in the vicinity of the...

Venice and Pisa created colonies in regions controlled by the Crusaders and came to control the trade with the Orient. These colonies also allowed them to...