protectorate
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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
Closer to Dubai than to the Iranian mainland, Abu Musa was a British protectorate along with seven emirates that are today the United Arab Emirates.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
“We are neither a protectorate nor a colony of any foreign nation.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2025
But they are believed to have been intentionally introduced in East Africa around 1890s in a bid to tackle a mounting waste problem on the Zanzibar archipelago, then a British protectorate.
From BBC • Aug. 1, 2024
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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