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In politics and in history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a state. (October 2008)
Indonesia was a Dutch colony for 350 years, from 1600 to 1945/49, occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945.
Autonomous area Bailiwick Banner (Autonomous banner) Block Borough (County borough Metropolitan borough) Cadastral division Canton Capital (Federal capital) Circle Circuit City (Autonomous city Chartered city Independent city) Colony Commune Community (Autonomous community Residential community) Condominium Constituency Council County (Administrative county Autonomous county Metropolitan county) Department District (Autonomous district Capital district City district Federal district Metropolitan district Municipal district Subdistrict Regional district) Division Duchy Eldership Federal dependency Governorate Hamlet Insular area Local administrative unit Local Government Area Municipality (Direct-controlled municipality District municipality Regional municipality Regional county municipality Rural municipality) Neighbourhood Parish (Civil parish) Periphery Prefecture (Autonomous prefecture Subprefecture) Principality (Co-principality) Protectorate Province (Autonomous province) Quarter Regency Region (Autonomous region Capital region Special administrative region) Republic (Autonomous republic) Reservation (Reserve) Riding Shire State Suzerainty Territory (Autonomous territorial unit Capital territory Dependent territory National territory Union Territory) Town Townland Township (Civil township) Urban (urbanized) area Village Ward
Amt Arrondissement Bairro Bakhsh Baladiyah Barangay Bezirk/ Regierungsbezirk Comarca Comune Dara Frazione Freguesia Gmina Jude Kommun Liwa Localit Megye Oblast Okrug Ostn Powiat Raion Ranchera Shabiyah Shahr Shahrestn Ssla Taluka Tehsil Vingtaine Voivodeship Wilayah Woreda
Agency Barony Burgh Diocese Exarchate Free imperial city Hide Hundred Imperial Circle March Praetorian prefecture Presidency Residency Rural district Sanitary district Tithing Urban district Viscountcy (Viscounty)
The articles in English include the definite article the and the indefinite articles a and an. The definite article is the in all cases, while indefiniteness is expressed with a or an for singular nouns or the zero article (i.e., the absence of an article) for plural or non-count nouns. English grammar requires that the appropriate article, if any, be used with each noun, with several exceptions:
In most cases, the article is the first word of its noun phrase, preceding all other adjectives. Definite article
The definite article in English is the denoting person(s) or thing(s) already mentioned, under discussion, implied, or familiar. The article the is often used as the very first part of a noun phrase in English. (However the modern, 19th and 20th century pseudo-archaic usage such as "Ye Olde Englishe Tea Shoppe" can be pronounced with a y sound.) Geographic uses In English most cities and countries never take the definite article, but there are many that do. Indefinite article "A" and "an" function as the indefinite forms of the grammatical article in the English language and can also represent the number one. To add emphasis to a noun, the preceding indefinite article is often pronounced as a long a (just as the definite article would be pronounced as "thee" in such cases), whether or not the schwa, or even "an" would be the appropriate usage. A and an are also used to express a proportional relationship, such as "a dollar a day" or "$150 an ounce" or "A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play", although historically this use of "a" and "an" does not come from the same word as the articles. Italian has many articles (8 + juncture loss) basically expressing the same ideas of definite and indefinite as English ones. The article the corresponds to il, lo, la, i, gli or le indifferently (remembering that Italian has masculine and feminine nouns, so that it is not indifferent to join any one of those articles with any Italian noun, indiscriminately) and the English articles a / an corresponds to Italian un or una (again, the masculine / feminine distinction must be taken into account). Moreover, no geographical rule applies to any of the Italian articles corresponding to the article the, so that, for example, it is correct to say la Germania which means Germany, in English. See also
For a list of words relating to English articles, see the English articles category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary
"The Definite Article: Acknowledging 'The' in Index Entries", Glenda Browne, The Indexer, vol.