Examples of using "колонией" in a sentence and their english translations:
Brazil was a colony of Portugal.
Brazil was a Portuguese colony.
Brazil was a colony of Portugal.
Algeria was a French colony.
Algeria used to be a French colony.
Kenya used to be a British colony.
At one time Nigeria was a British colony.
Zimbabwe was once a colony of Britain.
Zimbabwe was once a colony of Britain.
Why don't they speak Spanish in the Philippines if it was a Spanish colony for 300 years?