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    confused with any physical crown, such as those of the British regalia. The term is also found in various expressions such as Crown land, which some countries...
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  • The Crown Dependencies are three offshore island territories in the British Islands that are self-governing possessions of the British Crown: the Bailiwick...
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    A Crown colony or royal colony was a colony governed by England, and then Great Britain or the United Kingdom within the English and later British Empire...
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    the British Empire (such as Jamaica), in the UK the crown was never replaced as circulating currency by a five-shilling banknote. "Decimal" crowns were...
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  • British history provides several opportunities for alternative claimants to the English and later British Crown to arise, and historical scholars have...
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    The Crown Colony of Sarawak was a British Crown colony on the island of Borneo, established in 1946, shortly after the dissolution of the British Military...
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  • The Crown is a historical drama television series about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, created and principally written by Peter Morgan and produced...
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    its independence. Through a progressive sequence of regimes, the British imposed Crown Colony government on much of the area of West Africa which came...
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    The British half crown was a denomination of sterling coinage worth 1⁄8 of one pound, or two shillings and six pence (abbreviated "2/6", familiarly "two...
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    1878 to 1914 as a British protectorate, from 1914 to 1925 as a unilaterally annexed military occupation, and from 1925 to 1960 as a Crown colony. Following...
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