An outlying residential area connected to the city by railways or roadways is called?

They are called suburbs

This is short for sub-urban areas, which are the areas that can be seen in older movies regarding the fifties and the sixties where there are communities of houses outside of cities where people have families and live well, but they go to their job into the city every day because of the built roads or railroads.

In the late fifteenth century, a major world power that established colonies in the era of old imperialism was france or germany or spain. their colonial activity was mainly limited to america or africa or asia.