protectorate
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In 1941, Denmark’s ambassador to Washington, Henrik Kauffmann, signed an agreement behind his government’s back that allowed the U.S. to establish defense bases in Greenland, effectively turning the island into an American protectorate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
It was a British protectorate - known as British Somaliland - until it merged with Italian Somaliland in 1960 to form the Somali Republic.
From BBC • Dec. 29, 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
“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
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