The Colony of Virginia was an English, later British, colonial settlement in North America between 1606 and 1776. The first effort to create an English...

settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It was located on the northeast bank of the James River...

The establishment of the Roanoke Colony (/ˈroʊənoʊk/ ROH-ə-nohk) was an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement...

"royal colony" was the Colony of Virginia, after 1624, when the Crown of the Kingdom of England revoked the royal charter it had granted to the Virginia Company...

London Company established the Colony of Virginia as the first permanent English colony in the New World. Virginia's state nickname, the Old Dominion...

of Burgesses (/ˈbɜːrdʒəsɪz/) was the elected representative element of the Virginia General Assembly, the legislative body of the Colony of Virginia....

early competition with the colony of Virginia to its south, and the Dutch colony of New Netherland to its north, the province of Maryland developed along...

made Virginia a royal colony from England with propertied male colonists retaining some representative-government through the lower house, the House of Burgesses...

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...

the first settlement of the Virginia Colony, founded in 1607, and served as the capital of Virginia until 1699, when the seat of government was moved...