overseas empire

Examples (10)

• Great Britain once possessed a vast overseas empire on which the sun never set.
• The maintenance costs of their overseas empire became a significant burden on the national treasury.
• Portugal was one of the first European powers to establish a global overseas empire.
• The decline of this overseas empire was accelerated by two world wars.
• Historians study the complex legacy left behind by the former overseas empire.
• Administering such a geographically dispersed overseas empire required a powerful navy.
• The quest for resources and new trade routes fueled the creation of an overseas empire.
• Many modern nations emerged from the dissolution of a European overseas empire.
• The concept of an overseas empire is fundamentally different from that of a contiguous land-based empire.
• She wrote her thesis on the cultural impact of France's overseas empire in West Africa.