Dominion

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A dominion was a self-governing country within the British Empire and then the British Commonwealth of Nations, primarily in the first half of the 20th century. The dominions in 1926 were Australia, Canada, the Irish Free State, New Zealand, Newfoundland, and South Africa; in 1947 India and Pakistan, and in 1948 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). In the years following the Second World War, the British Empire was refashioned into the more modern and post-colonial Commonwealth of Nations, after which the former dominions were often referred to as the Old Commonwealth. This was formalised by the London Declaration, 1949, by which time the dominions (with the exception of Newfoundland, which had joined Canada) had become independent nation states. By 1952 the United Kingdom no longer used the term dominions in reference to member nations of the Commonwealth. In 1925, the government of the United Kingdom created the Dominions Office out of the Colonial Office, although for the next five years they...

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