Much of the identity, traditions and architecture of Mexico were created during the colonial period.

These provinces were similar to the nine provinces operating during the colonial period.

In the colonial era, it was the official purpose of imperial power to extract wealth from the administered territories.

In January 1535, the San Francisco Convent was constructed, the first of about 20 churches and convents built during the colonial period.

During the colonial period, 1.3 million black slaves were uprooted from their homelands to work in the plantations of the Spanish society of that time.

The long colonial period that resulted in what we know today as Latin America, has left its traces in the colonial art still preserved throughout the continent.

In the British colonial period, predominantly functional buildings of the Indo European representative style developed from a mixture of European and Indian Islamic components.

The colonial power was then divided between the Parliament, the metropolitan government, and the colonial government.

During the colonial period, the Yorubas were one of the most urbanized (living in city like areas) groups in Africa.

During this period, Europe's powers added nearly 8,880,000 square miles (23,000,000 km²) to their overseas colonial possessions.

Intermixing between the indigenous peoples and the European colonists was very common, and, by the end of the colonial period, people of mixed ancestry (mestizos) formed majorities in several colonies.

In South Korea, one of the most painful legacies of the Japanese colonial period stems from the Korean elite s widespread collaboration at the time.

In 1955, he became head of the Office of High Commissioner of French West Africa (AOF) in Dakar, which was the highest position held by an African in the French colonial period.

Africans go on camera recounting racism in India.

Ever since colonial times, Canada's indigenous peoples have been progressively dispossessed of their lands, resources and culture, a process that has led them into destitution, deprivation and dependency.

After 1814, when Norway was granted to Sweden following the Napoleonic Wars, Denmark retained the colonial holdings.

During the immediate post independence period Government gave priority to establishing institutions and agencies of government itself and colonial structures and procedures were either replaced or revised to meet the developmental priorities of a sovereign state.

Imagery from the colonial war of 1895 in Madagascar

Catholicism was the official religion during the colonial era.

German colonial interests were first advanced in 1884.

During the colonial period and until after the Second World War, many of the European immigrants to Venezuela came from the Canary Islands, which had a significant cultural impact on the cuisine and customs of Venezuela.

The power of the colonial government was the only power that was changed.

The city of Bukavu has experienced an exponential urban growth since colonial times.

Illustration in the Petit Journal about the colonial war in Madagascar

FSRP demanded the release of all prisoners incarcerated by the colonial power.

But more succinctly, the problems are endemic lack of trained personnel, inadequate payment, a tradition from colonial times of dialogue about cases with the Ministry of Justice, apparently predetermined outcomes of trials .

During the colonial era, most of Kenya s children were denied schooling.

Unlike Spain, Portugal did not divide its colonial territory in America.

The Portuguese and Spanish colonial empire were smaller, mostly legacies of past colonization.

The colonial situation in Gibraltar destroyed the unity and territorial integrity of Spain.

We have fought wars to preserve colonial domination and wars to end it.

History Colonial era Modern science has, in the past, considered methods of traditional knowledge as primitive and backward.

Regretting the effects of weak institutions inherited from the colonial era, an African leader thus laments, some of the contradictions and challenges bequeathed by the colonial administration have continued to pose problems to us (Africans) today .

To Ortega, such a posture reeks of betrayal, social democratic aberrations and imperialist tendencies.

The old colonial powers regarded Africa simply as a place from which to extract resources.

Few suggest that French military intervention was a means to recapture its colonial empire.

The British colonial administration finally acquiesced, creating a country out of Muslim majority areas.

It is an Islamic legal system that had been used long before the colonial administration.

In 1676, the colonial capital was moved from Tortuga to Port de Paix.

Subtypes Several relatively distinct regional styles of colonial architecture are recognized in the United States.

In most other regions, ongoing political divisions have their roots in the Cold War or the colonial era.

The old continent suffers from two guilt complexes that have much to do with Israel the colonial and the Jewish complex.

As a result, many in the colonial establishment saw the Ethical Policy as a mistake that was counter to Dutch interests.

Gillo Pontecorvo s brilliant 1966 film The Battle of Algiers spelled out the dilemma for the occupying colonial power.

The political boundaries exist as a legacy of the colonial era, not as the result of cultural realities and economic needs.