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In politics and in history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a geographically-distant state. For colonies in antiquity, city-states would often found their own colonies. Some colonies were historically separate countries, while others were territories without definite statehood at the moment of colonization. The metropolitan state is the state that owns the colony. In Ancient Greece, the city that owned a colony was called the metropolis within its political organization. Mother country is the term used to refer to the metropolitan state by its citizens that live in a colony. Today, the terms overseas territory or dependent territory are preferred. There is a United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories.
People who migrated to settle permanently in colonies controlled by their country of origin were called colonists or settlers.
A colony differs from a puppet state or satellite state in that a colony has no independent international representation and the top-level administration of a colony is under direct control of the metropolitan state.
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Conn. Supreme Court upholds killer's conviction
Stephanie Reitz, Associated Press Writer Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:43:49 -0000
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2nd suspect arrested in Hartford parade shootings
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:23:28 -0000
Hartford police say they have arrested a second person in connection with a shooting that left one person dead and six others injured after a parade last month.
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Nancy Rabinowitz, Associated Press Writer Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:55:06 -0000
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Charter of Connecticut - 1662 - Reprint of text, from the Avalon Project at Yale Law School.
Colonial Connecticut Records - Extensive resource site of digitized volumes of the Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1636-1776.
Connecticut to 1763 - Includes biographies of prominent people and accounts of important events in the era.
Delegates to the Constitutional Convention: Connecticut - Biographical profiles of Oliver Ellsworth, William Samuel Johnson and Roger Sherman, who represented Connecticut during the drafting and/or signing of the U.S. Constitution.
Fundamental Orders of 1639 - Reprint of text, from The Avalon Project at Yale Law School.
The Colonial Seal - Illustration and information on the seal which represented the State of Connecticut in Colonial days.
The Society of Colonial Wars in Connecticut - Membership organization provides a timeline, bibliography and information on resources.
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