'colony' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a group of people who have settled in a new land or region, typically under the protection or authority of their parent country. For example, "The Spanish established a colony in the 16th century on the island of Hispaniola."
Algeria left the forerunner of the EEC when it became independent in 1962; the 56,000 residents of Greenland departed in 1985; the French Caribbean colony of Saint Barthelemy (which, with nearly 10,000 inhabitants, has as roughly the same population as Glastonbury, in Somerset) formally exited the EU in 2012.
She has been at the distant women's penal colony since October, serving the remainder of a two-year sentence on charges of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred".
Other options for active visitors include snorkelling – try Deep Bay, where there is a 100-year-old wreck; diving at Cades Reef (jollydive.com); exploring old fortifications such as Fort Berkeley; and taking the ferry to neighbouring Barbuda to see the frigate bird colony, caves and pink-sand beaches.
When Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova arrive in their colony they will be taken immediately into a quarantine block to be assessed to determine which otryad, or detachment, they will join for the duration of their sentence.
Svetlana Bakhmina, imprisoned for her part in the "Yukos affair" that saw oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky being sent to a colony in the Russian Far East, was taken to Mordovia.
In 1970, when the colony received a notice that the land would be cleared for use by BARC, it was natural for Arputham to lead the opposition.
Why are you doing this?" Arputham told her, and returned to Mumbai with a written assurance that the colony would not be cleared.
A force of 12,000 policemen stormed the colony and evacuated the 70,000 residents overnight to a swampy area four kilometres away (that turned into another, still extant, slum called Cheetah Camp).
Shivaji Nagar is a government-planned resettlement colony where poor Muslim and Dalit communities from slums in the city at large were relocated in the 1980s.
There was not any occasion that I'm aware where a colony specifically formed an army or a unit to go out and run a war with Indigenous Australians.
The trauma deepened as, within a few short decades, Algeria was not given the status of a colony but annexed into France.
