The first European settlement in Australia was a penal colony.
The surviving colony of Roanoke was not the first colony. The settlement of Jamestown was the first successful European settlement.
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the fist colony is Spain
Cuba.
The first colony in what is today the United States was Saint Augustine, Florida. The first permanent English colony was Jamestown, VA... followed by Plymouth, MA.
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France.
it was the first town of a new colony.
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