protectorate

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

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

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.

In Africa, French and British troops invaded the German protectorate of Togoland, while German forces attacked the British colony of South Africa.

He was sent to an orphanage in Lebanon, then a French protectorate, where he discovered French language and culture.