In 1963, Zanzibar, a British protectorate since 1890, became an independent state within the Commonwealth.
In practice, the protectorate will probably have to continue for quite a bit longer.
Bosnia is already a protectorate in all but name, and likely to remain so for many years.
In Kosovo, in particular, the international protectorate's claim to be fashioning a law-governed, multi-ethnic state is wearing thin.
Inevitably, there is an element of improvisation about the policing of the international protectorate that Kosovo is becoming.
The Shi'ite holy city of Najaf is also veering toward becoming a protectorate of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
In 1939, the German army crossed the Czech frontier and Adolf Hitler proclaimed the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Running the place almost as a protectorate, it has the power to act.
Certainly, the leaders should use the opportunity to hammer out once and for all how the international protectorate will work.
He has also lodged some 18 objections to the autonomy plan that would in effect turn Kosovo into an international protectorate.
Some say that Greece has become a protectorate of the EU. Certainly the intervention from outside in Greece's internal affairs is unprecedented.
In 1970, the British protectorate of Tonga became independent within the Commonwealth.
Under the French protectorate, cannabis cultivation was eradicated in most of Morocco.
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In 1883, under the terms of the Treaty of Hue, France assumed the protectorate over Annam and Tonkin in what is now Vietnam.
With Kosovo now a western protectorate, Serbia is the only Balkan country that sets its face against the new pattern, preferring friendship with Russia.
But he is concerned that if international and eurozone partners continue to make such severe demands, the debt-ridden nation will transform into a "mafia-ridden" protectorate.
In Asia, the great tiger the U.S. may one day be riding is its protectorate of Taiwan, should China give fire to aggressive intimations.
In 1946, Britain recognised the independence of the protectorate of Transjordan.
Mr Bancoult's lawyers argue that the protectorate's governor enacted it illegally.
In 1964, the Nyasaland Protectorate became the independent state of Malawi.
This applies particularly to Kosovo, part of Serbia in law, but in practice an international protectorate, with many ethnic Albanians straining at the lead for independence.
The attack on the village was in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the highest ranking Nazi official in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Western aid donors, peace promoters and generals have virtually turned the country into a protectorate, with several thousand expatriates doing duty as a civil service and legislature.
Further, Varanasi was a British protectorate with a British Cantonment.
It was only in 1905 when Japan forcibly made Korea its protectorate that Japan illegally incorporated Dokdo as its territory through an administrative measure of one of its prefectures.
The risk is that Kosovo becomes dependent on these missions and thus simply an EU protectorate, its leaders shoving responsibility for difficult issues on to foreigners all too willing to rule.
Once a U.K. protectorate, Swaziland gained independence in 1968.
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The Sulu Sultanate once spread over several southern Philippine islands as well as parts of Borneo, and claimed Sabah as its own before it was designated a British protectorate in the 1800s.
In order to dedicate herself solely to me, she never married, and, in a sweetly sly way, she never let me marry either so as not to have to share her protectorate.
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