Tyre was a trading colony established by the Phoenicians. Ur was a city in Mesopotamia founded by the Sumerians.
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The first English colony in North America was Roanoke, the settlers arrived in July 1584.Roanoke (in present-day North Carolina) was the first colony, but it was a dismal failure. The colonist disappeared without explanation and it came to be known as "The Lost Colony". About 20 years later Jamestown was established.
Egypt (it was actually a protectorate, but it was the northernmost British African Colony)
The first permanent Spanish settlement in North America was St. Augustine in what became Florida. It was established in September of 1565.
North Carolina
Carolina was established as a British colony in the early 1690's. By 1691, a governor was appointed for the Carolina colony with a deputy governor to control the northern region of Carolina.