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protectorate

[pruh-tek-ter-it] / prəˈtɛk tər ɪt /




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Germany claimed Nauru as a protectorate from the late 1880s until World War I, when the island was captured by Australian troops.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

Mr. Mamdani, a professor of government and anthropology at Columbia University, is himself a Ugandan Asian, the term used to describe people from British India who had settled in the British protectorate of Uganda.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

In the winter of 1956, The Times correspondent David Holden arrived on the island of Bahrain, then still a British protectorate.

From BBC • Jun. 21, 2025

“We are neither a protectorate nor a colony of any foreign nation.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2025

Rumor has it that the Resistance fighters have been getting bolder, recruiting not just Scholars, but Mariners, from the free country of Marinn, to the north, and Tribesmen, whose desert-territory is an Empire protectorate.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir




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