• British protectorates were protectorates under the jurisdiction of the British government. Many territories which became British protectorates already...
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    British Somaliland, officially the Somaliland Protectorate (Somali: Maxmiyadda Dhulka Soomaalida), was a protectorate of the United Kingdom in modern...
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    East Africa Protectorate (also known as British East Africa) was a British protectorate in the African Great Lakes, occupying roughly the same area as...
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    Najeriya) was a British protectorate which lasted from 1900 until 1914, and covered the northern part of what is now Nigeria. The protectorate spanned 660...
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    The Aden Protectorate (Arabic: محمية عدن Maḥmiyyat ‘Adan) was a British protectorate in southern Arabia. The protectorate evolved in the hinterland of...
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    The Protectorate of Uganda was a protectorate of the British Empire from 1894 to 1962. In 1893 the Imperial British East Africa Company transferred its...
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    protectorate. Influenced by Mackenzie, in January 1885 the British government decided to send a military expedition to South Africa to assert British...
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  • (a Greek state and amical protectorate of Great Britain between 1815 and 1864) British Cyprus (1878–1914) (put under British military administration 1914–1922...
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    The British Central Africa Protectorate (BCA) was a British protectorate proclaimed in 1889 and ratified in 1891 that occupied the same area as present-day...
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    established the Oil River Protectorate in 1884. British influence in the Niger area increased gradually over the 19th century, but Britain did not effectively...
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    9.4350917°S 159.9512389°E / -9.4350917; 159.9512389 The British Solomon Islands Protectorate was first established in June 1893, when Captain Herbert...
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    The Colony and Protectorate of Kenya, commonly known as British Kenya or British East Africa, was part of the British Empire in Africa from 1920 until...
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    The Colony and Protectorate of Sierra Leone (informally British Sierra Leone) was the British colonial administration in Sierra Leone from 1808 to 1961...
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    the "veiled protectorate". During this time the Khedivate of Egypt remained an autonomous province of the Ottoman Empire, and the British occupation had...
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    Qatar became a British protectorate and Abdullah Al Thani signed a treaty stipulating that he could only cede territory to the British in return for protection...
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    Nigeria was a British protectorate in the coastal areas of modern-day Nigeria formed in 1900 from the union of the Niger Coast Protectorate with territories...
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  • Western Aden Protectorate (based at Mukallah and Lahej; together covering all Yemen), the British Representatives in each were styled British Political officers...
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    Malta Protectorate (Italian: Protettorato di Malta, Maltese: Protettorat ta' Malta) was the political term for Malta when it was a British protectorate. The...
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    Coast Protectorate was a British protectorate in the Oil Rivers area of present-day Nigeria, originally established as the Oil Rivers Protectorate in 1884...
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    (Arabic: السلطنة المصرية, romanized: Salṭanat al-Miṣrīyya) was a British protectorate in Egypt which existed from 1914, after the outbreak of World War...
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    Kingdom on July 26, 1965, after 78 years as a British protectorate. In accordance with the broader British policy of decolonization, an agreement was formalized...
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    War, in exchange for British support of the Ottomans during the Congress of Berlin. Cyprus was then proclaimed a British protectorate and was informally...
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    Arabian Peninsula under treaties of protection with Britain. The area of the former protectorate became part of South Yemen after the Aden Emergency and...
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  • Nigeria Protectorate (complete list) – British protectorate, 1900–1914 Southern Nigeria Protectorate (complete list) – British protectorate, 1900–1914...
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    The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its...
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    Nigeria Protectorate (complete list) – British protectorate, 1900–1914 Southern Nigeria Protectorate (complete list) – British protectorate, 1900–1914...
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    by historians as an indication that a British protectorate was established over the Mosquito Kingdom. Britain's primary motive and the most immediate...
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    coercion in the Protectorate's British policies, these can hardly said to amount to a 'British vision' designed to create a new British state from the...
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    laid the foundation for the British protectorate over the Trucial States that lasted until December 1971. A British protectorate from this point forward,...
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    but the British suppressed the insurrection and captured the city of Kumasi. The territory of the Ashanti people became a British protectorate on 1 January...
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