Did your country have a colony in the Americas?
No.
We WERE the Americas. :3
yes my country currently has a colony in the americas
Yes.
>>54946429
>>54946408
>>54946405
>>54946402
>tfw it's a meme thread
>>54946408
We had a very small colony somewhere in New York(?) that was integrated into New Netherland eventually. We also had an island in the Carribean.
>>54946716
>>54946408
Nice
>Alaska is American
CAN'T WAKE UP
>>54946357
Sweden
YES
>>54946816
>alaska was bought for $7.2 million
>current estimates are that alaska is worth $2.5 trillion in resources alone
>>54946357
We still do
>>54946408
>tfw 50 million of mexican diaspora in the US
YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP
>>54947003
Does it provide any uses besides unique tourist spots and increased fishing area?
>>54947075
A rocket launching base for esa
>>54946357
no i dont think so
>>54946408
not funny 2bh
>>54947070
>50 million
It's 36 million Jose. The rest are Cubanos, Carribeaners or Central Americans.
>>54947108
i was referring to your vastly superior colony
>>54947171
DELET THIS
>>54947171
oh this one? We have so many I don't even know anymore :^). I think quebec kinda counts as a colony too. But to answer your question I don't think st pierre et miquelon has any uses apart from tourism and maybe settling in a remote place if that's your kind of thing
Europe is our puppet
>>54947196
>mfw the king of france traded all of canada for one small nigger-filled island in the carribean
fair deal
>>54947277
Canada provided the state less money than the island. you have to remember that the "one small nigger-filled island" was the most productive and profitable colony in the New World at the time.
>>54947330
Whole trade seemed really short-sighted wouldn't you say?
>>54947163
>>54947364
No it wouldn't have been worth it until after WW2 when they probably would have had to give it up anyway. They also would have lost it in the Napoleonic wars regardless.
>>54947330
it was also completely hemmed in by British colonies after the capture and destruction of fortress Louisburg and therefore basically undefendable even if they'd kept it
>>54947277
That's why Quebecers hate France.
>>54947249
Ah wee wee messeur
>>54946357
It still does
>>54947171
>It's 36 million
How many illegals are there again?
>>54947196
>Canadians on suicide watch
>>54946408
lel
>>54947609
>Ey what kinda lakes you want senpai
>Just fuck my shit up
>>54946716
>>54946778
Is this real? Why the fuck does nobody ever talk about this?
>>54947609
>we get to take all of quebec while you are left with an island
fair deal
>>54947713
because it barely achieved anything and was absorbed by the well-known Dutch colony of New Holland quickly
>pull gut muscle
>any time gut expands too much it hurts
>can't stuff my face full of food without dull pain
I'm a failure as an American.
>>54946357
We still have the Falklands
>>54946357
We still do.
Anyone want Puerto Rico? Will sell cheap: 10 dollars and a 30 pack of beer.
>>54948999
I'll take it
>>54946408
STOPPPPPPPP THISSSSSSSS
>>54947713
>>54946716
>>54946778
It was Delaware, not New York. That's why nobody talks about it. Because just like the rest of your """"history"""" it was absolutely inconsequential and useless, if not directly damaging to the world.
I FUCKING HATE ALL OF YOU SWEDES
FUCKING DIE PARAKEKS, I SHIT ON GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS AND JEWHAN
>>54949197
Not you.
>>54946408
That was funny, thank you mexibro
>>54947070
and dont you guys hate every single one of them?
>>54949407
>>54948616
The key is eating through the pain actually
>>54946357
Tell me, anon, what went wrong ?
>>54947455
Oh, come on, we love you, lads !
But business is business...
>>54947249
It's used for fishing rights in northern american waters.
>>54946408
noice
Argentina, Uruguay, South Brazil, US Atlantic coast and some part of Venezuela
REMINDER that Poland attempted to colonize Trinidad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_attempts_by_Poland#Toco
Texas, arizona and California
>>54950270
In the Antilles:
>Enormous, honorable Spanish in Cuba
>Unprecedentedly successful French in Haiti
>Industrious, economically savvy Dutch in Curacao and Aruba
And then, to the south:
>Polish Trinidad
>>54947603
like 10 million. and thats honest not shit posting.
>>54946408
colonial reporting in.
Still have the Azores
>>54946935
>Even adjusted for inflation at $100M, it's still a complete steal and a puzzle as to why Russians would just give it away for practically nothing
>>54946357
Yes
>>54949717
Wasn't enough and any attempt to do anything with it was laughed at by the king of France
>>54953666
Maybe because they already had a huge simillar territory.
>>54953824
Imagine what it would have been like if Russians had control of Alaska during the Cold War.
wew
>>54949396
>t. Habsburg
>>54953725
>Charlotte Amalie
Was that the name of a Danish Queen?
>>54946408
kek
>>54953843
Could they predict the cold war, in 1867?
>>54953666
They did it out of spite because they knew Alaska could not be defended if Britain wanted to merge it into Canada. Might as well get some money and make your enemie's enemy a friend than give it up for free.
>>54953890
Apparently yes. She was married to Christian 5th
>>54953913
Russia was already friendly with the U.S
They used to winter their fleet here and they almost convinced us to join their side in the Crimean war
>>54953978
>Russia was already friendly with the U.S
They shared a common enemy and had no competing interests, but Russia was looking to get the US to become a formal ally, while the US was reluctant to go against European states at the time so the plans withered on the vine.
>>54946716
>Swedish colony
>nobody besides Finns actually lived there
This is like a microcosm of the Swedish Empire's achievements in so many ways.
Also,
>The map drawn by the Dutchman Roggevin is the oldest and shows the country surrounding Philadelphia. At the place where this city is situated and exactly on the spot where the Sesquicentennial Exposition is being held today, the map shows just one name-Sauna.
>Many have tried to explain the meaning of this word. The Finn, Peter Kock, had settled on the land marked Sauna. The first house which a Finn builds very near the water is always a Sauna (bath-house). When Roggevin came to the place, he no doubt found Peter Kock's Sauna there-which explains the name.
Named Amalienborg (Charlotte Amalie) in honor of the wife of Danish King Christian V, the Danish influence is strong. The heritage is predominant in several ways in Charlotte Amalie today. The Danes left castles, cemeteries, churches, forts, town homes, sugar mills and plantation houses that are still standing. Many geographical names have been kept in Danish and many locals have Danish names.[25] The most widely spoken language, Virgin Islands Creole, has many words and expressions left from the Danish language. For instance, Danish words like "skål" (toast), "berg" (mountain) and "frikadeller" (meatballs) are commonly used.[26] Much of the historic colonial architecture is still standing and words like "street" are more commonly referred to by the Danish translation "gade", pronounced "gah-dah".
Charlotte Amalie has the largest collection of colonial buildings in the Caribbean.[20] Most of the buildings are classic Caribbean adaptions of English Georgian architecture built by the Danes, dating to the 1830s.
>>54953843
Well, imagine what it would have been like if Russians had control of Fort Ross during the Cold War.
>>54954191
ebin
Yes, Vinland.
There was a colony in Australia too, called Northland.
>>54953666
Because otherwise brits or USA, after adopting manifest destiny doctrine, would take it for free. Russia had so bad logistics and military/naval technology level (flat-barrel guns and sailing ships) that it cound't even defend core territory of Crimea 10 years before.
>>54954555
AYO HOL UP
Checked ya trips
>>54954555
Sorry to ruin your trip, but: http://www.hoax-slayer.com/viking-settlement-australia-fake-news.shtml
>>54946357
yes, actually
>>54956122
How could Latvia have colonies if it is not a colony by itself only for 25 years?
>>54956175
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couronian_colonization
we wuz kings n sheeeeeeeeiiiit
>>54946408
lel
bestico please invade america i need your mexican rice and pastries
>>54946408
>tfw all those (You)s
>>54954212
Mexico tier shithole lmao.
>>54948697
>We still have the Falklands
We have a little more than the Falklands
It still has, it's called "The United States of America".
>>54957850
It is a Caribbean shithole that lives on tourism money and is almost 80% black
>>54956088
You needed a website to come to the conclusion this was fake?
If your country isn't present in both north and south america, it's pretty much a non country.
>>54957941
Wanna sell those
>>54957959
We don't sell land anymore sorry
>>54957976
You could use it to fund your army like Napoleon did
>>54946357
Yes.
>>54947575
That is part of France itself. It has representation in the French Parliament and everything.
Not a colony.
>>54957991
We'll just keep the territories.
>>54958005
No country in Europe has any colony left though, they all either became independant either joined the country.
>>54946408
fukken noice
>>54946357
I've we used to control a bit of land over there, nothing to big
>>54958022
>No country in Europe has any colony left though, they all either became independant either joined the country.
Not ours, they were renamed "overseas territories". British territories are not part of the UK, and they're also not independent. Although they're independent to the extent that they control everything except foreign policy and defence.
Still, foreign policy and defence are important.
Is Antarctica a part of the Americas, if so then we own the most land there
>>54946357
We sure did and in Africa too.
>>54958078
>australian education
>>54958067
Oh we have overseas territories too, well we have a shitload of statuts for our overseas territories, I cannot remember all of them.
But yeah what I meant was that even as overseas you cannot really consider them as colonies, they have the same rights as citizens of the mainland.
![isabel_catolica[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/H0hsN3B.jpg "isabel_catolica[1].jpg")
>>54958064
>tfw no spanish commonwealth
Read an interesting article about the nya sverige colony and interaction between the finns and american indians sent to colonise it along with swedish colonists.
http://www.tiede.fi/artikkeli/tilaajille/suomalaiset_kavivat_intiaanista
>Swedish interest in settling the wilderness was short-lived. Finns specialized in slash and burn cultivation were better suited for this purpose. In contrast to the central Europeans and Swedish, many of whom were accustomed to cities and idyllic countryside, Finns were more at home in the forests
>This caused interest in the native Delaware. From their perspective forest finns differed radically from other Europeans and Finns seemed very similar to them. Like the Indians Finns also hunted, fished and gathered berries. They built similar dwellings and cleared farmland using slash and burn technique.
>The Finns also took to learn the native people. They embraced the local hunting skills, and began to use their exotic food sources, such as skunks, raccoon and opossum.
>External appearances also united. The Finns wore moccasins and dressed in deer leather and fur, which the Indians also typically made clothes out of.
>The affinity for forest surroundings offered common ground for interaction. The Finns traded cattle, drink wine, fabrics, firearms, furs and medicinal plants with the Delaware .
>Some even Finns learned to speak Delaware, and began to act as interpreters. They were required when performing marriages for example. Also, some Finns were known to marry the past with the state of Delaware.
Breddy good 5/5
>>54958101
that didn't answer my question bjorn
>>54958115
>Oh we have overseas territories too, well we have a shitload of statuts for our overseas territories, I cannot remember all of them.
What France does, IIRC, is that any human inhabitable/inhabited French territory is considered PART of France itself. They have representation in your Parliament, follow the same laws and have the same rights as the Métropole. There's a few which aren't inhabited, they are treated different.
For Britain it's a little more complicated. The people living there are not necessarily British citizens, the territories can have their own passports. I'm not sure if they have the same rights as UK citizens. They have no representation in the House of Commons, instead they have some democratic institution on the territory itself and self-government - except for foreign affairs/defence. That is decided in London.
They're not called colonies but at the same time they're not independent nor are they part of the UK
>>54958170
you hate us too much senpai, every meeting with you is "DEBUELBAN LOS HOROS"
>>54958210
theres no question to answer, you're being
>>54958210
Antarctica is a continent on its own.
>>54958179
That's pretty cool actually
>>54958523
Of course swedes were the ones who actually set the colony up of course but it's still pretty neat. Using finns to settle the wilderness wasn't anything unheard of in the kingdom before either.
Too bad the dutch came and ended the fun.
>>54946357
No, but we had Australia
