Dominion
A dominion was any one of several largely self-governing countries that remained, especially in the first half of the 20th century, under the Crown as parts of the British Empire and then the British Commonwealth of Nations. The dominions in 1926 were Australia, Canada, the Irish Free State, New Zealand, Newfoundland, and South Africa; later Ceylon, India, and Pakistan also became dominions for short periods. Progressing from colonies, their degrees of colonial self-governance increased but did so unevenly over the late 19th century through the 1930s. In the years following the Second World War, the British Empire was refashioned into the more modern Commonwealth of Nations. By the time this transition was formally finalised, in 1949, the old dominions had become more autonomous and independent nation states, each in their own right, either as a Commonwealth republic or a Commonwealth realm.
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