Obscure Colonizers

That's the reason I made the thread, there are so many possible countries that could have become colonial powers. I'm doing research now on per-unification Italy, since a few nations seem to fit most of the established criteria for a colonial power, but to no avail. [spoiler] I guess Venice kinda counts though [/spoiler]

Scotland once tried to colonize Panama for a land connection between the Caribbean and the Pacific. English traders, fearing for potential Scot competition boycotted it. When they tried to raise in other European countries, EIC blocked it as well. So they have to raise money from the people of Scotland itself, which many even to regular guy on the street invested, raised in total like a quarter of all of Scotland's wealth.
After landfall, the usual colonizer dying of diseases ensues. King of England prohibited English and Dutch ships to supply the Scot colony. Spain pissed the Scots building a colony in their turf, sieged them. Total disaster, in the end entire Scotland bankrupted, have to opt for Act of Union with England.

China actually.

Ming/Qing China officially did not practice colonization.

But Chinese merchant families did. In order to gain advantage in the lucrative Southeast Asian trade, Merchant Clans sent their relatives and employees to Southeast Asia to set up trading posts all over the place so as to have a foot in the SEAsian trading scene for the family.

The largest of these were in Borneo, where they became the "Kongsi Republics" named so because they were governed via "Kongsi" or "Clan Hall" meetings in which each family was to send a representative to the Clan Hall which acts as a governing parliament to the colony.

Sweden colonized the area around modern New Jersey/Delaware and sent many poor Finns and Sami to boost the polulation. Eventually, conflict with the Dutch in New York forced them out, but it's fun to think that America could've very well been Finnish. Things like log cabins and certain foods are their legacy here now

>Polish colony
Yeah, we have those in bigger cities. At first the crime rate goes up drastically but Poles assimilate easily, so all is good.

Angry pollack strikes again

>Scotland
Tfw you will never have the United States of Sami-merica

So Scotland

Finnish immigration to the US was mostly to the Upper Midwest, particularly Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

>the area that received the most Finns is a place where nobody lives even today
Some impact

How do Poles assimilate other people? Like the Thing? I guess I don't want to know but if it makes cities safer I guess it works.

then a bunch of Swedes moved into the next state over and brought a bunch of Somalians with them

Nice smartassing. I was using the verb intransitively.

That was in the 19th century though. Finnish settlets were a hotbed for unionization and labor rights in the early 20th century in the region, especially in logging/woodworking.

France attempted to colonize Brazil in the 16th century

BYLISMY KROLOWIE I KURWA

Finns were such hard ass commies that four time presidential candidate of the communist party Gus Hall was Finnish. His parents were born in Lapua.