This list, though not quite complete, contains a widely varied spectrum of colonies, protectorates, mandates, trust territories, occupied or annexed states, dependent territories and other political entities that were (or in some cases are) subjected to another sovereign power, or in (de facto unequal) personal union, arranged by these dominant nations or empires.
Non-European powers
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Sui generis
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Internationally mandated
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International mandates
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Integral parts
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World War II imperial control
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Colonization
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International Mandate
Other
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Protectorates
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Rinji Nan'yō Guntō Bōbitai Minseisho → Nan'yō-chō
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Condominium
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- The Sudan/Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1821-1881, 1899-1956)
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European dominant powers
In Europe:
Other European
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Crown lands
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- Banat (1718-1918)
- Böhmen Bohemia (1526-1619, 1620-1918)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (1878-1918)
- Bukovina (1775-1918)
- Carniola (Krain/Slovenia) (1270-1918)
- Krakau Cracow (1795-1809, 1847-1918)
- Croatia (1527-1809, 1813-1918)
- Dalmatia (Illyria) (1797-1805, 1815-1918)
- Fiume (1471-1809, 1813-1918)
- Fricktal (1230-1797)
- Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (1772-1918)
- Görz (Gorizia) and Gradisca (Go: 1500-1809, 1813-; Gr: 1511-1647, 1717- )
- Holstein (1865-1866)
- Ungarn Hungary (1526-1849, 1849-1918)
- Istria (1797-1805, 1814-1918)
- Kärnten (Carinthia) (1553 - 1809, 1813- )
- Lesser Walachia (1718-1739)
- Lombardy (Milan) (1714-1796, 1814-1859)
- Lausitz Lusatia (1526-1635)
- Luxembourg (1713-1793/95)
- Mantua (1714-1796)
- Moldavia (1854-1856)
- Montenegro (1916-1918)
- Mähren Moravia (1526-1918)
- Munster (1784-1800)
- Naples (1714-1735)
- Niederösterreich (Lower Austria) (1156- )
- Novi Pazar (1878-1909)
- Oberösterreich (Upper Austria) (1156- )
- Parma (1735-1748)
- Passes of the Carpathian Mountains (1918)
- Poland (1916-1918)
- Romania (1916-1918)
- Ruthenia (1775-1918)
- Salzburg (1805-1810, 1816- )
- Sardinia (1714-1720)
- Serbia (Belgrade) (1718-1739, 1915-1918)
- Sicily (1720-1735)
- Schlesien Silesia (Breslau) (1526-1742)
- Österreichisch Schlesien Silesia (Troppau) (1526/1742-1918)
- Slovakia (1526-1918)
- Steiermark Styria (1282 - )
- Siebenbürgen Transylvania (1551-1849, 1849-1918)
- Trento (1801-1805, 1813-1918)
- Trieste (1382-1809, 1813-1918)
- Toskana Tuscany (1737-1796)
- Tirol Tyrol (1363-1805, 1814 - )
- Ukraine (1918)
- Venetia (1797-1805, 1814-1866)
- Vorderösterrreich (Further Austria) (1368-1805)
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Colonial
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Two territories were assimilated after World War I:
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Colonial
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Including colonies of earlier constituent countries, England and Kingdom of Scotland.
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- Aden Settlement/Aden Colony (1839-1967)
- Aden Protectorate (1890s-1963)
- Andaman & Nicobar Islands (A: 1789-1947, N: 1868-1947) (India)
- Afghanistan (1839-1842, 1879-1880)
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands (1789-1796, 1858-1947)
- Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (The Sudan) (1898-1956)
- Anguilla (1650-1967, 1969- )
- Antigua (1632-1981)
- Aruba (1799-1815)
- Ascension Island (1815- )
- Ashmore and Cartier Islands (1878-1934)
- Australia (1900-1931)
- The Bahamas (1648-1657, 1670-1973)
- Bahrain (1880-1971)
- Baker Island (1889-1935)
- Baluchistan (1877-1947)
- Bantam, on Java (1603-1621 and 1628-1682)
- Barbados (1624-1966)
- Barbuda (1628-1981)
- Basutoland (present Lesotho) (1843-1966)
- (British) Bechuanaland (present Botswana) (1885-1966)
- Bencoolen (1685-1824)
- Bengal (1681-1947)
- Berbice (1781-1782, 1796-1802, 1803-1970)
- Bermuda (1609- )
- Bombay (1662-1947)
- Bonaire (1807-1814)
- Bonin Islands (1827-1875)
- British Cameroons (1914-1954)
- British Columbia (1858-1871)
- British Guiana (Guyana) (1831-1970)
- British Honduras (Belize) (1749-1981)
- British Indian Ocean Territory (1810- )
- British Kaffraria (1835-1878)
- British Lower Burma (1824-1948)
- British North Borneo (Sabah) (1762-1775,1877-1963)
- British Persian Gulf Residency (1763-1971)
- British Solomon Islands (1893-1978)
- British Somaliland (1884-1960)
- British Togoland (1914-1956)
- British Virgin Islands (1666- )
- British West Africa (1821-1850, 1866-1888)
- British Western Pacific Territories (1877-1976)
- Brunei (1888-1983)
- Burma (1885-1948)
- Canada (1867-1931)
- Canada East (1759-1867)
- Canada West (1791-1867)
- Cape Breton Island (1629, 1745-1749, 1758-1867)
- Cape colony (1795-1803, 1806-1910)
- Carolina (1585-1586, 1629-1776)
- Cayman Islands (1670- )
- Ceuta (1810-1814)
- Ceylon (1796-1948)
- Christmas Island (1899-1958)
- Cocos Islands (Keeling Islands) (1857-1955)
- Connecticut (1639-1776)
- Cook Islands (1888-1900)
- Coorg (1834-1947)
- Corsica (1794-1796, 1814)
- Cuba (1762-1763)
- Curaçao (1800-1806, 1807-1816)
- Cyprus (1878-1960)
- Cyrenaica (1942-1951)
- Danish India (Tranquebar) (1808-1815)
- Darién (1698-1699)
- Delaware (1664-1776)
- Demerara-Essequibo (1781-1782, 1796-1802, 1803-1970)
- Dominica (1761-1778, 1784-1978)
- Dutch East Indies (1811-1816, 1945-1946)
- Dutch India (1780-1784, 1795-1818)
- Egypt (1801-1803, 1882-1922)
- Elba (1801-1802)
- Eritrea (1941-1952)
- Falkland Islands (1690- )
- Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (1953-1963)
- Fernando Poo (Port Clarence) (1827-1855)
- Fiji (1871-1970)
- Florida (1763-1783)
- French India (1760-1765, 1778-1783, 1793-1816)
- French Somaliland (Djibouti) (1942-1946)
- Gambia (1661-1695, 1713-1779, 1816-1970)
- Georgia (1732-1777)
- Gibraltar (1704- )
- Gilbert and Ellice Islands (Kiribati) (1892-1979)
- Goa (1797-1802, 1803-1813)
- Gold Coast (1621-1960)
- Gorée (1758-1763, 1809-1817)
- Grenada (1609, 1762-1779, 1783-1974)
- Guadeloupe (1759-1763, 1794, 1810-1816)
- Guyenne / (Gascongy) (1152-1449)
- Hanover (1714-1806, 1813-1837)
- Hawaii (1843)
- Heligoland (1807-1890, 1945-1952)
- Hong Kong (1841-1997)
- Howland Island (1889-1935)
- India (1774-1947)
- Ionian Islands (1809-1864)
- Iraq (1916-1935)
- Ireland (1171-1921)
- Italian Somaliland (1941-1950)
- Jamaica (1765-1962)
- Jarvis (1889-1935)
- Kamaran Island (1915-1967)
- Kenya (1888-1963)
- Kuria Muria Islands (1854-1967)
- Kuwait (1899-1961)
- Labuan (1846-1963)
- Lagos (1861-1960)
- Lebanon (1941-1946)
- Leeward Islands (1671-1960)
- Lord Howe Island(1788-1900)
- Lower Canada (1759-1867)
- Madagascar (1942-1946)
- Madeira (1801-1802, 1807-1814)
- Madras (1640-1947)
- Maine (1622-1775)
- Malacca (1795-1802, 1807-1818, 1824-1957)
- Malaya (1874-1957)
- Maldives (1796-1965)
- Malta (1800-1964)
- Maryland (1632-1776)
- Martinique (1762-1763, 1793-1801, 1809-1814)
- Massachusetts (1620-1775)
- Mauritius (1810-1968)
- Minorca (1708-1756, 1763-1782, 1798-1802)
- Mombassa (1823-1826)
- Montserrat (1632-1667, 1668-1782, 1784- )
- Mosquito Coast (1658-1894)
- Moluccas (1796-1802,1810-1817)
- Muscat and Oman (1861-1971)
- Natal (1829-1839, 1843-1910)
- Nauru (1947-1968)
- Nevis (1628-1983)
- New Brunswick (1784-1867)
- New Caledonia (1698-1700)
- New England (1686-1689)
- New France (1759-1764)
- New Hampshire (1623-1776)
- New Jersey (1665-1776)
- New South Wales (1770-1900)
- New York (1664-1775)
- New Zealand (1769-1931)
- Newfoundland (1497-1931)
- Nigeria (1914-1960)
- Niue (1900-1901)
- Norfolk Island (1788-1914)
- North Carolina (1629-1776)
- North-West Frontier Province (1901-1947)
- North West Territories/Hudson's Bay (1670-1870)
- Northern Ireland (1921- )
- Northern Nigeria (1885-1914)
- Northern Rhodesia (1900-1964)
- Northern Territory (1824-1829, 1838-1849, 1864-1900)
- Nova Scotia (1621-1632, 1654-1670, 1690-1691, 1710-1867)
- Nyasaland (Malawi) (1889-1964)
- Oil Rivers Protectorate (1827-1914)
- Orange Free State (1845-1854, 1900-1910)
- Oyapoc (1620)
- Palestine (1918-1948)
- Palmayra Atoll (1889-1898)
- Papua (1883-1901)
- Penang (Prince of Wales Island) (1786-1957)
- Pennsylvania (1681-1776)
- Philippines (1762-1764)
- Pitcairn (1838- )
- Prince Edward Island (1758-1870)
- Punjab (1849-1947)
- Pulo Condor Island (1702-1705)
- Qatar (1868-1971)
- Quebec (1629-1632, 1759-1867)
- Queensland (1824-1900)
- Redonda (1872-1981)
- Réunion (1810-1815, 1942-1946)
- Rhode Island (1636-1776)
- Rhodes and Dodecanese Islands (1945-1947)
- Rhodesia (1888-1900)
- Rockall (1955- )
- Rodrigues (1809-1968)
- Rupert's Land (1670-1870)
- Saba (1781,1801-1803, 1810-1816)
- Saint Christopher (Saint Kitts) (1623-1666, 1671-1983)
- Saint Domingue (Haiti) (1793-1798)
- Saint Eustatius (1665-1668, 1672-1682, 1801-1816)
- Saint Helena (1651- )
- Saint Lucia (1664-1667, 1762-1763, 1781-1783, 1794-1795, 1796-1802, 1803-1797)
- Saint Martin (1781,1801-1802, 1810-1816)
- Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (1702-1763, 1778-1783, 1793-1802, 1803-1814)
- Saint Thomas and Saint John (1801-1802, 1807-1815)
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1627-1636, 1672-1673, 1762-1779,1783-1979)
- Sarawak (1888-1963)
- Senegal (1693, 1758-1779, 1809-1817)
- Seychelles (1794-1976)
- Sierra Leone (1787-1961)
- Sikkim (1817-1947)
- Sind (1843-1947)
- Singapore (1819-1959)
- Somalia (1941-1950)
- South Arabia (1963-1967)
- South Africa (1910-1931)
- South Caribbean Islands (1762-1779, 1783-1802)
- South Carolina (1665-1776)
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (1775-)
- Southern Nigeria (1849-1914)
- Southern Rhodesia (1900-1965, 1979-1980)
- Straits Settlements (1826-1957)
- Suez Canal Zone (1922/36 - 1956)
- Surat (1612-1703)
- Swaziland (1893-1968)
- Syria (1914-1919, 1941-1946)
- Tanganyika (1916-1961)
- Tangier (1662-1684)
- Tasmania (1803-1900)
- Tati Concessions Land (1872-1966)
- Tobago (1762-1781, 1793-1802, 1803-1962)
- Tokelau (1877-1926)
- Tonga (Friendly Islands) (1900-1970)
- Tortuga (Haiti) (1631-1641)
- Transjordan (Jordan) (1921-1946)
- Transvaal (1877-1880, 1900-1910)
- Trinidad (1797-1962)
- Tripolitania (1942-1951)
- Tristan da Cunha (1816- )
- Trucial States (1892-1971)
- Turks and Caicos (1679- )
- Tuvalu (Ellice Islands) (1892-1979)
- Uganda (1890-1962)
- Upper Canada (1760-1867)
- Vancouver Island (1849-1871)
- Victoria (1839-1900)
- Virginia (1607-1776)
- Wales (1282- )
- Walvis Bay (1878-1885)
- Weihaiwei (1898-1930)
- West Florida (1763-1781)
- West Indies Federation (1958-1962)
- Western Australia (1825-1900)
- Willoughby (1652-1668)
- Windward Islands (1885-1960)
- Zanzibar (1890-1963)
- Zimbabwe-Rhodesia (1979-1980)
- Zululand (1879-1910)
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