Colonization is a process of establishing control over foreign territories or peoples for the purpose of exploitation and possibly settlement, setting up coloniality and often colonies, commonly pursued and maintained by colonialism.
A protest sign from the second half of the 20th century criticising U.N. reaction to Soviet colonial expansion
A protest sign from the second half of the 20th century calling on U.N. to abolish Soviet colonialism in the Baltic states
Sign on the JAO government headquarters
Artist conception of astronauts working outside, near a large modular habitat
A settler is a person who has immigrated to an area and established a permanent residence there.
A (1850) depiction of the first medieval settlers arriving in Iceland
Chilean settlers in Baker River, Patagonia, 1935.
A family of Russian settlers in the Caucasus region, c. 1910
Early North American settlers from Europe often built crude houses in the form of log cabins