recolonization
Noun
Meaning
A second or renewed colonization.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
return
homeland
emancipation
self-determination
independence
separation
autonomy
sovereignty
liberation
partition
secession
nationalization
self-sufficiency
breakaway
self-reliance
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Examples
Rediscovering these colonists and spreading the Protestant Reformation among them was one of the primary reasons for the Danish recolonization in the 18th century.
Wolf population declines have been arrested since the 1970s, and have fostered recolonization and reintroduction in parts of its former range, due to legal protection, changes in land-use and rural human population shifts to cities.