1) Colony in antiquity
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[Mexico] In general, colonias (koˈlonjas) are neighborhoods in Mexican cities, which have no jurisdictional autonomy or representation. It is plausible that the name, which literally means colony, arose in the late 19th, early 20th centuries, when one of the first urban developments outside Mexico City`s core was inhabited by a French colo...
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[United States] Colonias are unregulated settlements that began to emerge with the advent of informal housing. In the United States, colonias are considered semi-rural subdivisions of substandard housing lacking basic physical infrastructure, potable water, sanitary sewage, and adequate roads. Colonias are unincorporated, unregulated, subst...
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[country subdivision] Colonia is a country subdivision term. ...
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Roman term for a settlement of Roman citizens. It consisted of a city and its dependent territory and often grew up around a legionary fortress, where retired soldiers might be granted plots of land...
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A substandard housing area defined in the Housing Act of 1949 as any identifiable community that
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A town with a special status, where the inhabitants were Roman citizens, usually a garrison town converted for the support of retired veteran soldiers and their families as a way of granting them land and assisting in the control of provinces. The title could also be granted to a town as an honour. Its inhabitants were normally Roman citizens. Four…...
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(Latin) a farm, a colony; eventually, the colonia came to be a major outpost of the Roman empire; citizens of coloniae were also citizens of Rome and they were governed by councils and magistrates.
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settlement of retired legionaries; for York a title of honour
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(in the southwestern U.S.) a city neighborhood or a rural settlement inhabited predominantly by Mexicans or Mexican Americans.
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