Technically they were ran by families. There is no real recording on who owned the most. IT was the Families who owned them or the most.
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The Philippine islands were a possession of Spain for some 350 years until they were transferred to the US in 1898 following the Spanish-American War.
French Guiana
No, it was owned by the Spanish until the US annexed it in the 1830s.