protectorate

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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

The French-speaking part of the former German protectorate, carved up between France and Britain after World War I, gained independence in 1960, joined a year later by British Cameroon.

From Barron's • Oct. 9, 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