File:Colonisation 1959.png

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Map of major world powers by year, derived from public domain animated map on wikipedia.

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current17:16, 6 July 2016Thumbnail for version as of 17:16, 6 July 20161,425 × 625 (37 KB)Maproom (talk | contribs)Removed various borders and recoloured various territories, to show 1959 rather than modern statuses, in accordance with request at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Graphics_Lab/Map_workshop#Empires_of_the_World_-_1959
19:03, 14 October 2014Thumbnail for version as of 19:03, 14 October 20141,425 × 625 (37 KB)AmbroiseL (talk | contribs)Divided Germany does not appear as an united land on the map anymore.
13:29, 28 July 2012Thumbnail for version as of 13:29, 28 July 20121,425 × 625 (59 KB)Faunas (talk | contribs)Spanish Morocco was a colony only until 1956, so I corrected a mistake in the map indicating the territory was a colony in 1974. Also, I corrected the colony in the São Tomé e Principe territory; it was always a Portuguese territory, not Spanish, but...
14:24, 24 January 2012Thumbnail for version as of 14:24, 24 January 20121,425 × 625 (57 KB)Wester (talk | contribs)Congo and Nigeria were still colonies in 1959
01:12, 30 April 2010Thumbnail for version as of 01:12, 30 April 20101,425 × 625 (77 KB)Kieran4 (talk | contribs)Dutch retained some of Indonesia until 1962.
14:50, 2 September 2009Thumbnail for version as of 14:50, 2 September 20091,425 × 625 (66 KB)Roke~commonswiki (talk | contribs)noted errors
10:41, 22 March 2007Thumbnail for version as of 10:41, 22 March 20071,425 × 625 (66 KB)Roke~commonswiki (talk | contribs){{Information |Description=Map of major world powers by year, derived from public domain animated map on wikipedia. {{Maps of world history}} As the orriginal licence of the animation was Public Domain, this image which has been derived from it is too: {

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