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Colonies, The Empire, Mandates, Overseas Teritiories & such & such,

Day 525, 08:06 • Published in United Kingdom

• by Colt Silver

Rule Britannia!
Britannia rule the waves
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves!

Aden
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Ascension
Australia
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Basutoland (Lesotho)
Bechuanaland (Botswana)
Bermuda
British Central Africa
British East Africa
British Guiana (Guyana)
British Honduras (Belize)
British Indian Ocean Territory
British New Guinea (Papua New Guinea)
British Somaliland
British South Africa Company
British Virgin Islans
Brunei
Burma (Myanmar)
Canada
Cape Colony (South Africa)
Cayman Islands
Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Cook Islands
Cyprus (Akrotiri & Dhekelia)
Dominica
East India Company
Egypt (and Suez Canal)
Falkland Islands
Federated Malay States
Fiji
Gambia
Gilbert and Ellice Islands
Gold Coast (Ghana)
Gough Islands
Ionian Islands
Grenada
Heligoland
Hong Kong
India
Ireland
Iraq
Jamaica
Kenya
Kiribati
Kuwait
Labuan
Lagos (Nigeria)
Leeward Islands
Liu Kung Tau (China)
Malacca
Malaya (Malaysia)
Maldives
Malta
Mauritius
Monsterrat
Mosquito Coast, Nicaragua
Natal
Nauru (Western Pacific High Commission)
New Hebrides
Newfoundland
New South Wales
New Zealand
Niger Coast Protectorate (Nigeria)
Nigeria
Niue (Western Pacific High Commission)
North Borneo (Sabah)
Northern Nigeria (British Nigeria)
Northern Rhodesia
Nyasaland
Orange River Colony
Oman
Pakistan
Palestine
Penang
Pitcairn Islands
Qatar
Queensland
Rhodesia
Royal Niger Company
Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
Saint Christopher, Nevis and Anguilla
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Sandwich Islands
Sarawak
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Solomon Islands
South Africa
South Australia
South Georgian Islands
Southern Rhodesia
Straits Settlements
Sudan
Swaziland
Tanganyika
Tasmania
Tonga
Transjordan (Jordan)
Transvaal
Trinidad and Tobago
Tristan da Cunha Islands
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
Uganda
Unfederated Malay States
United Arab Emerites
Victoria
Weiheiwei, China
West African Settlements
West Indies Federation
West Pacific High Commissioner
Western Australia
Western Samoa - see Samoa
Windward Islands
Witu Protectorate
Yemen
Zanzibar

Note: This list does not include Crown Dependencies or the Antartic and North Sea Claims

Now anyone has to admit, this is a long list.

There is one other thing I haven't mentioned. Most People know that the English call the stretch of water between us and France The English Channel and the French call it Le Manche meaning the sleave. Someone once asked me, Why don't the French call it the ''French Channel''?

Well the answer is simple, and it goes back to middle ages. Only the English have owned both coasts each side of the channel at the same time.
Before the Hundreds Year War in about 1400s the entire north and west coast of France was controlled by England. Hence why it is called Brittanny and also why the English Channel Islands are controlled by the Queen rather than France (barely 15 miles away).

Comments

Moolick Day 525, 08:48

***Before the Hundreds Year War in about 1400s the entire north and west coast of France was controlled by England. Hence why it is called Brittanny ***
Wrong. We are named after them, not vice-versa.

Scipio The Great Day 525, 09:09

well not strictly true - Britons (or Brythons) were an indigenous race (to the UK) descended from celtic tribes that settled in the south of engalnd (~5/300BC), some of whom then left for northern france who came to be known as bretons. brittanny, the name, is probably an amalgam of both.

It's a common misconception that these two areas are named because of any events post 500AD - the romans in 1 BC called the UK Brittania. Brittanny was always locally known as such since the Bretons moved. ~ but we were called it first😛

Tony Evans Day 525, 09:38

Gibraltar?
Rule Britannia!!!

Revetment Day 525, 10:12

The map is up to date, but the list is not. A number of the territories on it are no longer overseas territories or even part of the commonwealth - Ireland, for example, or Hong Kong. Was that deliberate?

Colt Silver Day 525, 11:03

the list includes any all teritories at any point. i have made no difference between present and future.

but gibraltar, yup we still own that one!!

Moolick Day 525, 11:08

Scipio is correct. I meant that 'Great' Britain was named subsequent to Brittany (and to distinguish itself from it). But I was lazy in writing that properly.

The idea the Brittany is so named due to British possession of the area in the 1400s is daft.

Moolick Day 525, 11:10

**Now anyone has to admit, this is a long list.**

So was Schindler's List. What's your point?

Colt Silver Day 525, 13:44

distasteful man, distasteful

Alexander Etch Day 527, 09:13

ahahaahhahahahh

Colt Silver Day 532, 13:36

to malta_1990: its a list of all past and present colonies. malta was a colony. live with it.

bobons Day 532, 13:41

Colt Silver, your newspaper is the best on erepublik. Keep this british empire posts up. And I will continue to vote. BTW, did you know the Queen has the power to dissolve all the commonwealth governments ( no matter what the countries say about it ) she can do it. And she can declare war on behalf of them. Therefore, if Britain wanted to go to war against USA for example, it would have about 1 Billion people on its side. possibly the entire population of USA would be fighting for us.

intrepid132 Day 532, 14:45

Bobons fail! The Queen has no right to disolve the Canadian Government, only her representative, the Governor General can do that, and for the last 150 years, only on the recommendation of the Prime Minister.

And Colt, EPIC FAIL again for being so imperialistic. and dragging RL into eRep.

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