"colony" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It was made the capital of the French colony in 1933.
- From 1921, for instance, French colonies were expected to pay their way and build up a reserve.
- It was a French colony before becoming a republic in 1958.
- Vietnam had gradually become a French colony between 1859 and 1883.
- Chad was a former French colony that had become independent in 1960.
- They started to be brought from 1848 (official end of slavery in French colonies).
- From the 1880's on, this village became the summer residence of the French colony.
- The French colony was based on forestry and making sugar.
- I've been fascinated with the tropical French colony ever since.
- It was used as a French penal colony from 1854 to 1938.
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