>>715486that's vague because due to european colonialism i think of colonies as overseas and far away..not a single land bulk..otherwise we'd say britain colonized the irish, sweden colonized finland or russia colonised the everything eastward including alaska…which some do consider it, and some don't depending on who you ask.
personally i find it vague too, i find it similar to conquest not colonization when its a single land or if the conquered people have been exploited for centuries, for example mongolia did a lot of conquest but no imperialism or colonization, and modern mongolia didn't even grow rich from that through centuries of it