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Meanings of overseas empire in anglès

rus
заморские владения
portuguès
império colonial
espanyol
imperios coloniales

Overseas possessions of a nation-state, usually a product of the European Age of Exploration.

заморские владения
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Examples for "colonial empire"
Examples for "colonial empire"
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Thus the Dutch had succeeded to the colonial empire of the Portuguese.
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
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Now let us look at the picture the French colonial empire offers.
Fighting France
3
Our colonial empire has shared also in the welfare and progress of the mother-country.
Queen Victoria / Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901
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Here is the picture the celebrated German colonial empire offers.
Fighting France
5
The year was not very eventful to our colonial empire.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. / From the Acc...
Usage of overseas empire in anglès
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The prospect of profits was gone; the hope of an overseas empire survived.
American Negro Slavery / A Survey of the Supply, Employment and ...
2
This gave him control of the Portuguese fleet and the vast overseas empire that went with it.
The tudors: the complete story of england's most notorious dynas...
3
These two unlikely forces were joining together to destroy Christianity by wresting the overseas empire from the British crown.
The burglar who liked to quote kipling
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Since then, Colao has shown his skill as a clean-up man by trimming the overseas empire that his predecessors had built up via acquisitions.
Reuters
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"Why, the fall of Batavia-forthat is the linch-pinof their overseas empire."
Quicksilver