Back مستعمرة روانوك Arabic مستعمرة روانوك ARZ Roanok koloniyası Azerbaijani Раанок (калонія) Byelorussian Роаноук (колония) Bulgarian Colònia de Roanoke Catalan Gwladfa Roanoke Welsh Roanoke (Kolonie) German Roanoke Colony English Kolonio Roanoke Esperanto
| Roanoke Colony | |
|---|---|
| Colony of England | |
| 1585–1590 | |
  Location of Roanoke Colony within what is now North Carolina | |
| Population | |
• 1585 | Approx. 108 |
• 1587 | Approx. 112–121 |
| History | |
| Government | |
| Governor | |
• 1585–1586 | Ralph Lane |
• 1587 | John White |
| Historical era | Elizabethan era |
• Established | 1585 |
• Evacuated | 1586 |
• Re-established | 1587 |
• Found abandoned | 1590 |
| Today part of | Dare County, North Carolina, US |
Roanoke Colony was a British colony in North America that disappeared mysteriously. It is called the "Lost Colony." It was on Roanoke Island in what is today Dare County, North Carolina, in the United States. It was started in 1585 by Sir Walter Raleigh. It disappeared sometime between 1587 and 1590. Today, nobody knows what happened to the people who were living there.