Habsburg colonial empire

The Habsburg colonial empire refers to the small network of colonies maintained by the former Austrian Empire and Austro-Hungarian Empire under the House of Habsburg. Austrian colonial influence, while relatively small in comparison to other European powers and ephemeral in most areas of their occupation, was fundamental to a number of state formations throughout the world.

List of Austrian colonial possessions

 * Contracts of the Ostend East India Company in Mocha, Surat and Canton - 1715-1730s
 * Colony of Delagoa Bay - 1778-1919 - now part of Tsongaland
 * Colony of the Theresia Islands - 1778-1783 - now part of the Nicobar Islands region, Andaman and Nicobar Islands
 * Grand Duchy of the Ionian Islands - 1815-1919 - now part of Heptanesia
 * Colony of the Kaiserin Elisabeth Islands - 1858-1919 - now the Kaiserines
 * Colony of Suakin - 1858-1919 - now part of Egypt
 * Imperial Free City of Dakhla - 1899-1919 - now disputed between Morocco and Western Sahara
 * Colony of Annobon Island - 1899-1919 - now part of Sao Tome and Principe
 * Austro-Hungarian Tianjin - 1902-1919 - now part of Manchuria