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- Crown_colony abstract "A Crown colony, also known in the 17th century as royal colony, was a type of colonial administration of the British overseas territories.Crown, or royal, colonies were ruled by a governor appointed by the monarch. By the middle of the 19th century, the sovereign appointed royal governors on the advice of the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Under the name of \"royal colony\", the first of what would later become known as Crown colonies was the English Colony of Virginia in the present-day United States, after the Crown, in 1624, revoked the royal charter it had granted to the Virginia Company, taking over direct administration.Until the mid-19th century, the term \"Crown colony\" was primarily used to refer to those colonies that had been acquired through wars, such as Trinidad and Tobago and British Guiana, but after that time it was more broadly applied to any colony other than the Presidencies and provinces of British India and the colonies of settlement, such as The Canadas, Newfoundland, British Columbia, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, and New Zealand, later to become the Dominions.The term continued to be used up until 1981, when the British Nationality Act 1981 reclassified the remaining British colonies as \"British Dependent Territories\". By this time, the term \"Crown colony\" referred specifically to those colonies ruled directly by a Governor appointed by the Monarch (as was the case in Hong Kong before the 1997 handover to the Peoples' Republic of China), with or without the assistance of some form of council appointed by the Governor. The term was not used to apply to those colonies which were substantially autonomous, usually described as \"self-governed colonies\" (at that time, primarily Bermuda, which had become a Crown Colony, according to an older definition of the term, when the Crown revoked the Royal Charter it had given to the Somers Isles Company, successor to the Virginia Company, in 1684. this meant that the Crown, from then onwards, appointed the Governor of Bermuda, previously appointed by the Company. Bermuda had already been internally self-governed for sixty-four years, however, and by the Twentieth Century the definition of \"Crown Colony\" had narrowed to include only those territories without internal self-government. The Parliament of Bermuda having existed continuously since its first session in 1620, including through The Protectorate, when the Mother Country herself had no parliament).From 2002, all remaining British colonies, whether Crown Colonies or self-governed, have been known as British Overseas Territories. The British Government has also encouraged most of the territories to emulate Bermuda and become increasingly self-governing and self-reliant, or, where the poorer colonies are concerned, to pool their resources and rely on each other, freeing the British Government of much of its remaining obligations in the territories, if not of its Sovereignty.The current Crown dependencies were never considered Crown colonies; the form of government is constitutional monarchy, and the islands voluntarily cooperate with the government of the United Kingdom in certain areas. Sovereignty of the Isle of Man was purchased, and the Channel Islands are the remnants of the Duchy of Normandy.".
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- Crown_colony wikiPageWikiLink Australia.
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- Crown_colony wikiPageWikiLink British_Empire.
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- Crown_colony wikiPageWikiLink British_Nationality_Act_1981.
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- Crown_colony wikiPageWikiLink Category:Colonialism.
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- Crown_colony wikiPageWikiLink Colony_of_British_Columbia_(1858–66).
- Crown_colony wikiPageWikiLink Colony_of_British_Columbia_(1866–71).
- Crown_colony wikiPageWikiLink Colony_of_Fiji.
- Crown_colony wikiPageWikiLink Colony_of_Jamaica.
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- Crown_colony wikiPageWikiLink Federal_Territories_(Malaysia).
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- Crown_colony wikiPageWikiLink Federation_of_South_Arabia.
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- Crown_colony wikiPageWikiLink Ghana_(Commonwealth_realm).
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- Crown_colony wikiPageWikiLink Gold_Coast_(British_colony).
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- Crown_colony wikiPageWikiLink Guyana_(Commonwealth_realm).
- Crown_colony wikiPageWikiLink History_of_Seychelles.
- Crown_colony wikiPageWikiLink Hong_Kong.
- Crown_colony wikiPageWikiLink Independence.
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- Crown_colony wikiPageWikiLink Jamaica.
- Crown_colony wikiPageWikiLink Kenya_(Commonwealth_realm).
- Crown_colony wikiPageWikiLink Kingdom_of_England.
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- Crown_colony wikiPageWikiLink Lower_Canada.
- Crown_colony wikiPageWikiLink Malayan_Union.
- Crown_colony wikiPageWikiLink Malaysia.
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- Crown_colony wikiPageWikiLink Massachusetts.
- Crown_colony wikiPageWikiLink Mauritius_(Commonwealth_realm).
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