Colonia may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
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Colonia (music group)
Colonia is a Croatian dance music duo from Vinkovci, Croatia. The band has released thirteen albums and over 35 singles to date with various songs and albums gaining platinum status. They are known for winning the first ever Eurodance competition ...
, a Croatian dance music group
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''Colonia'' (Autopsia album), 2002
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''Colonia'' (A Camp album), 2009
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''Colonia'' (film), a 2015 historical romantic thriller
Places
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Colonia (Roman)
A Roman (plural ) was originally a Roman outpost established in conquered territory to secure it. Eventually, however, the term came to denote the highest status of a Roman city. It is also the origin of the modern term ''colony''.
Characteri ...
, a Roman Empire outpost in conquered territory to secure it, and later the highest status of Roman city
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Colonia del Sacramento
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Colonia Department
Colonia () is a department of southwestern Uruguay. Its capital is Colonia del Sacramento, the country's second oldest city.
Weather
Colonia has an annual average temperature of 20.4 °C (68.7 °F). In winter it has an average temperat ...
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Colonia, Yap
Colonia is an urban area belonging to the municipalities of Rull and Weloy which serves as the capital of the State of Yap, one of the Federated States of Micronesia. It administers both Yap proper and some 13 atolls and islands reaching to the eas ...
, Federated States of Micronesia
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Colonia, New Jersey
Colonia is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Woodbridge Township, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.[Colonia, Oxnard, California
The Colonia (; or La Colonia) is a neighborhood (Spanish: barrio) located in the central portion of the city of Oxnard, California, USA. The neighborhood was laid out by the Colonia Land Improvement Company in close proximity of the sugar facto ...]
, U.S.
*Colonia,
Tritenii de Jos
Tritenii de Jos ( hu, Alsódetrehem) is a commune in Cluj County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of six villages: Clapa (''Szentkirályi tanya''), Colonia (''Detrehemtelep''), Pădurenii (''Țigăreni'' until 1964, also formerly called ''C ...
, Cluj County, Romania
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Colonia (Mexico)
In general, colonias () 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 and early 20th centuries, when one of the ...
, a type of neighborhood in a Mexican city
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Colonia (United States)
In the United States, a colonia is a type of unincorporated, low-income, slum area located along the Mexico–United States border region that emerged with the advent of shanty towns. These colonias consist of peri-urban subdivisions of substand ...
, a type of community along the U.S.–Mexico border
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Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium
Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium was the Roman colony in the Rhineland from which the city of Cologne, now in Germany, developed.
It was usually called ''Colonia'' (colony) and was the capital of the Roman province of Germania Inferior and t ...
, the Roman colony from which the German city of Cologne developed
Other uses
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Colonia (surname) Colonia is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Adam Colonia (1634–1685), Dutch painter
* Gregorio Colonia (born 1963), Filipino weightlifter
*Isaac Colonia
Isaac Colonia (1611 in Rotterdam – 27 March 1663 in Rotterdam), was ...
, including a list of people with the name
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''Colonia'' (ship), a cable vessel that worked on the
All Red Line
The All Red Line was a system of electrical telegraphs that linked much of the British Empire. It was inaugurated on 31 October 1902. The informal name derives from the common practice of colouring the territory of the British Empire red or ...
See also
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Colony (disambiguation)
A colony is a territory governed by people from another country.
Colony may also refer to:
Biology
* Colony (biology), group of individual organisms of the same species living closely together
Places in the United States
*Colony, Alabama
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Kolonia (disambiguation) Kolonia is a town in Micronesia.
Kolonia may also refer to the following places:
*Kolonia, Chełm County in Lublin Voivodeship (east Poland)
*Kolonia, Podlaskie Voivodeship (north-east Poland)
*Kolonia, Tomaszów Lubelski County in Lublin Voivodesh ...
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Koloneia (disambiguation) Koloneia ( el, Κολώνεια, a hellenization of the Latin '' Colonia'') can refer to:
* Koloneia on the Lykos in Pontus, a Byzantine military centre and metropolitan bishopric
* Koloneia (theme), a Byzantine province centered in and named after ...
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Kolonjë (placename) Kolonjë is an Albanian placename referring to the present or former presence of Romance language speakers. It derives from the Latin ''colonia'' and is related to the Roman period of the area.
Entities with this name include:
* Kolonjë, a munic ...
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Cologne
Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...
, a city in Germany, originally ''Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensis''
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Colonia Dignidad
Colonia Dignidad ("Dignity Colony") was an isolated colony of Germans established in post-World War II Chile by emigrant Germans which became notorious for the internment, torture, and murder of dissidents during the military dictatorship of G ...
, a colony of Germans and Chileans in post-World War II Chile
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Kolonia
Kolonia is a coastal town and the capital of Pohnpei State in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). It was also the former FSM capital before being replaced by Palikir in 1989, located nearby to the southwest in the municipality of Sokehs. I ...
, in the Federated States of Micronesia
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