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  2. Protectorate - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] [4] In exchange, the protectorate usually accepts specified obligations depending on the terms of their arrangement. [4] Usually protectorates are established de jure by a treaty. [2] [3] Under certain conditions—as with Egypt under British rule (1882–1914)—a state can also be labelled as a de facto protectorate or a veiled ...

  3. Colony - Wikipedia

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    A colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule, [1] which rules the territory and its indigenous peoples separated from the foreign rulers, the colonizer, and their metropole (or "mother country"). [2]

  4. List of colonies - Wikipedia

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    Colony of New Zealand; Colony of Singapore; A view of shops with anti-British and pro-Independence signs, Malta, c. 1960 Crown Colony of Malta; East Africa Protectorate; Emirate of Afghanistan (de jure) Emirate of Transjordan; Falkland Islands; Falkland Islands Dependencies; French and British interregnum in the Dutch East Indies; Gambia Colony ...

  5. Indirect rule - Wikipedia

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    The ideological underpinnings, as well as the practical application, of 'indirect rule' in Uganda and Nigeria is traced back to the work of Frederick Lugard, the High Commissioner of the Protectorate of Northern Nigeria from 1899 to 1906. Indirect rule was by no means a new idea at the time, since it had been in use in ruling empires throughout ...

  6. British protectorate - Wikipedia

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    British protectorates were protectorates under the jurisdiction of the British government. Many territories which became British protectorates already had local rulers with whom the Crown negotiated through treaty, acknowledging their status whilst simultaneously offering protection.

  7. Historical flags of the British Empire and the overseas ...

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    Gambia Colony and Protectorate: A blue ensign defaced with an elephant and the letters G. under the feet of the elephant all inside a disc. 1889–1965: Gambia Colony and Protectorate (Civil Ensign) A red ensign defaced with an elephant and the letters G. under the feet of the elephant all inside a disc.

  8. Dependent territory - Wikipedia

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    As such, a dependent territory includes a range of non-integrated not fully to non-independent territory types, from associated states to non-self-governing territories (e.g. a colony). A dependent territory is commonly distinguished from a country subdivision by being considered not to be a constituent part of a sovereign state. An ...

  9. Dominion - Wikipedia

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    In South Africa, the Cape Colony became the first British self-governing colony, in 1872. (Until 1893, the Cape Colony also controlled the separate Colony of Natal .) Following the Second Boer War (1899–1902), the British Empire assumed direct control of the Boer Republics , but transferred limited self-government to Transvaal in 1906, and ...