Koxinga set up military colonies on the surrounding plains to help feed his forces.
To remedy this problem the Ptolemies set up military colonies and to encourage settlers to settle on them.
Định grew up to lead a military colony, overseeing the settlement and economic development of his constituency.
Some of his military colonies survived into the 4th century, leaving behind various particularly well preserved funerary artifacts.
It was founded in 93 BC as a military colony.
Villa retired in 1920 and was given a large estate which he turned into a "military colony" for his former soldiers.
All have been deported for some misdeed and ordered to fill a post in the frontier military colonies.
He acquired land and gave it to farmers who organized into military colonies.
Typically a military colony with some municipal institutions, but not those of a full Polis.
Several times the Han set up military agricultural colonies to feed their troops and supply trade caravans.