Sentence examples for colonial capital from inspiring English sources

As one of many new cities recently built as seats of power in Southeast Asia and the 'global south', Putrajaya is emblematic of the trend of former colonies to reject the colonial capital and to replace it with a city that symbolizes the state's national ideology and aspirations.

He evidently reached the colony's San Gabriel settlement, which had served as the colonial capital, by the following spring.

Downtown Edenton, once a Colonial capital, is two blocks away.

For six years, until Legazpi's removal to Manila, Cebu was the Spanish colonial capital.

Jamestown remained the colonial capital until Williamsburg became the capital in 1699.

In 1694 the colonial capital was moved there from St . Marys City.

Most of the exteriors were shot in Mexico City and the colonial capital of Puebla.

He moved to the colonial capital at 16 to study medicine.

In 1704, Delaware broke away from Pennsylvania, and New Castle was designated the colonial capital.

But pleasure gardens were not the only gardens flourishing within the colonial capital.

Any crowd in Burma's old colonial capital is a rarity and I asked the driver who they were.