Colony (disambiguation)

A colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a geographically distant state. The word Colony comes from the Latin word colōnia.

Colony may also refer to:

Society

• Art colony
• Colony (fraternity or sorority), probationary chapter of a national fraternity or sorority
• Colony houses, model housing developments in Edinburgh
• Colonies in antiquity, Greek and Roman practice of settling independent daughter states, over which the mother state had no direct control
• Indian colony, Native American settlement
• Leper colony
• Penal colony
• Proprietary colony
• Space colony (disambiguation), multiple meanings
• Summer colony
• Colony (Russian Empire), a type of settlement in the Russian Empire with an invited foreign population

Animals, insects, micro-organisms, & plants

• Colony (biology), group of individual organisms of the same species living closely together
• Ant colony
• Bird colony
• Cat colony
• Clonal colony

Places

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Media

Literature

• Colony (Rob Grant novel)
• Colony (short story), by Philip K. Dick
• Colony (Buffy novel), based on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series

Film and television

• Colony (The X-Files), episode from the TV series The X-Files
• The Colony (2005 TV series), 2005 reality TV series set in historical Australia
• The Colony (U.S. TV series), 2009 Discovery Channel reality TV series set in a post-apocalyptic US
• Colony (film), 2010 documentary about beekeepers and the effect of colony collapse disorder
• The Colony (1995 film), a 1995 television film
• The Colony (1996 film), a 1996 television film
• The Colony (2013 film), a 2013 Canadian film
• Colony (TV Series), a 2016 American television series on USA Network

Music

• "Colony", a song by Susumu Hirasawa on the 1995 album Sim City
• Colony (In Flames album)
• Colony (Bjørn Lynne album)

Video games

• Colony (video game), 1987 computer game by Mastertronic
• The Colony (video game), 1988 computer game by Mindscape

Companies

• Colony Brands, mail-order and electronic retail company
• Colony Capital, private, international investment firm based in Los Angeles, California, United States

Other

• The Colony (professional wrestling), professional wrestling stable in Chikara
• Colony Club, social club in New York City, New York, USA
• The Colony Room, private drinking club on Dean Street in Soho, London, England
• Colony (restaurant), restaurant in London, England
• The Colony (restaurant), restaurant in New York City, 1923-1971
• Old Colony Railroad, in Massachusetts, United States
• Jim Colony, sports news announcer
• Colony Framework, open source plugin framework specification

See also

• All pages beginning with "colony"
• All pages with titles containing colony
• Colony class (disambiguation)
• Colony House (disambiguation)
• Bay Colony (disambiguation)
• Lost Colony (disambiguation)
• Old Colony (disambiguation)
• Colonization
• Colon (disambiguation)
• Commune
• Colonia (disambiguation)