protectorate
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“By the time the Scramble for Africa was over,” Martin Meredith tells us, the vagaries of geopolitical geometry had amalgamated “some 10,000 African polities . . . into forty European colonies and protectorates.”
Britain “effectively reduced Iran to the status of a British protectorate,” according to Stephen Kinzer in All the Shah’s Men External link: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror.
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Britain “effectively reduced Iran to the status of a British protectorate,” according to Stephen Kinzer in All the Shah’s Men External link: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror.
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No arguments there; but there are certainly a few to be had with Mr. Dalrymple’s fourth so-called partition, that of Princely India—the nominally independent protectorates that constituted almost a third of the Indian empire.
Britain's former protectorate was named the "Pearl of Africa" in the early 20th century by the future British prime minister Winston Churchill.
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