foreign rule
Occupation by outsiders
Foreign rule is governance of a territory by an outside power rather than by its own people.
The term typically describes colonial administration, military occupation, or imperial control: India spent two centuries under foreign rule.
Resistance to foreign rule has driven independence movements throughout history.
The phrase carries connotations of illegitimacy and loss of self-determination.
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
- colonial powerNation governing foreign territories
- occupationOne's regular paid work
- military occupationForeign army's territorial administration
- imperialismExtending dominion over others
subjugation · domination · iron fist · under the boot · empire · conquest · oppression · puppet · puppet state · vassal · protectorate · annexation · resistance · freedom fighters · revolt · national liberation · uprising · tyranny
- Baroque ItalyVenice, Naples, Rome, Florence, Milan
- dependenciescolony, protectorate, dependency, dominion, vassal state
- Italian StatesTuscany, Piedmont, Lombardy, Sardinia, San Marino
- Polish Historypartitions, Piast dynasty, Pulaski, September 1939, Warsaw Ghetto
- RisorgimentoGaribaldi, unification, Piedmont, House of Savoy, Magenta
foreign ruleself-governance
Independent management of affairs
self-rule · self-determination · self-government · home rule · national sovereignty
foreign ruleindependence
Freedom from external control
sovereignty · autonomy · liberation · national independence · political independence
foreign, foreigner, foreigners, foreignness, rule, rules, ruled, ruling, ruler