The territory of Gračišće remained confined between coastal colonies but not belonging to them.

"In the South, especially in Virginia and the coastal colonies, they kept doing it the British way right up to the Revolution," said Mr. Prown.

The central importance of females in the quilombos stands in stark contrast to the patriarchal society experienced in the coastal colonies by their Portuguese counterparts.

However breeding success at coastal colonies in East Anglia is poor.

He claims that "Atlantic" (Semitic or Semitidic) speakers founded coastal colonies beginning in the fifth millennium BC.

The troupe thought it best to lie and say La Salle remained at his new coastal colony.

The Carthaginians, Rome's adversary in the Punic Wars, were expelled from their coastal colonies.

The other powers could extend their coastal colonies north from the Gulf of Guinea into the interior.

The Europeans set up coastal colonies to prosecute the slave trade, but the interior of the continent remained unexplored until the 19th century.

It held possession of the disputed Ohio territory but lacked the strength to launch an attack on the more populous British coastal colonies.