Protectorate

For the 17th-century British protectorate, see The Protectorate.

Not to be confused with Protecting power.

A protectorate, in the context of international relations, is a state that is under protection by another state for defence against aggression and other violations of law. It is a dependent territory that enjoys autonomy over most of its internal affairs, while still recognizing the suzerainty of a more powerful sovereign state without being a possession. In exchange, the protectorate usually accepts specified obligations depending on the terms of their arrangement. Usually protectorates are established de jure by a treaty. 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 protectorate.

A protectorate is different from a colony as it has local rulers, is not directly possessed, and rarely experiences colonization by the suzerain state. A state that is under the protection of another state while retaining its "international personality" is called a "protected state", not a protectorate.

History

Protectorates are one of the oldest features of international relations, dating back to the Roman Empire. Civitates foederatae were cities that were subordinate to Rome for their foreign relations. In the Middle Ages, Andorra was a protectorate of France and Spain. Modern protectorate concepts were devised in the nineteenth century.

Typology

Foreign relations

In practice, a protectorate often has direct foreign relations only with the protector state, and transfers the management of all its more important international affairs to the latter. Similarly, the protectorate rarely takes military action on its own but relies on the protector for its defence. This is distinct from annexation, in that the protector has no formal power to control the internal affairs of the protectorate.

Protectorates differ from League of Nations mandates and their successors, United Nations trust territories, whose administration is supervised, in varying degrees, by the international community. A protectorate formally enters into the protection through a bilateral agreement with the protector, while international mandates are stewarded by the world community-representing body, with or without a de facto administering power.

Protected state

See also: List of sovereign states without armed forces

A protected state has a form of protection where it continues to retain an "international personality" and enjoys an agreed amount of independence in conducting its foreign policy.

For political and pragmatic reasons, the protection relationship is not usually advertised, but described with euphemisms such as "an independent state with special treaty relations" with the protecting state. A protected state appears on world maps just as any other independent state.

International administration of a state can also be regarded as an internationalized form of protection, where the protector is an international organisation rather than a state.

Colonial protection

Multiple regions—such as the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria, the Colony and Protectorate of Lagos, and similar—were subjects of colonial protection. Conditions of protection are generally much less generous for areas of colonial protection. The protectorate was often reduced to a de facto condition similar to a colony, but with the pre-existing native state continuing as the agent of indirect rule. Occasionally, a protectorate was established by another form of indirect rule: a chartered company, which becomes a de facto state in its European home state (but geographically overseas), allowed to be an independent country with its own foreign policy and generally its own armed forces.

In fact, protectorates were often declared despite no agreement being duly entered into by the state supposedly being protected, or only agreed to by a party of dubious authority in those states. Colonial protectors frequently decided to reshuffle several protectorates into a new, artificial unit without consulting the protectorates, without being mindful of the theoretical duty of a protector to help maintain a protectorate's status and integrity. The Berlin agreement of February 26, 1885, allowed European colonial powers to establish protectorates in Black Africa (the last region to be divided among them) by diplomatic notification, even without actual possession on the ground. This aspect of history is referred to as the Scramble for Africa. A similar case is the formal use of such terms as colony and protectorate for an amalgamation—convenient only for the colonizer or protector—of adjacent territories, over which it held (de facto) sway by protective or "raw" colonial power.

Amical protection

In amical protection—as of United States of the Ionian Islands by Britain—the terms are often very favourable for the protectorate. The political interest of the protector is frequently moral (a matter of accepted moral obligation, prestige, ideology, internal popularity, or dynastic, historical, or ethnocultural ties). Also, the protector's interest is in countering a rival or enemy power—such as preventing the rival from obtaining or maintaining control of areas of strategic importance. This may involve a very weak protectorate surrendering control of its external relations but may not constitute any real sacrifice, as the protectorate may not have been able to have a similar use of them without the protector's strength.

Amical protection was frequently extended by the great powers to other Christian (generally European) states, and to states of no significant importance. After 1815, non-Christian states (such as the Chinese Qing dynasty) also provided amical protection of other, much weaker states.

In modern times, a form of amical protection can be seen as an important or defining feature of microstates. According to the definition proposed by Dumienski (2014): "microstates are modern protected states, i.e. sovereign states that have been able to unilaterally depute certain attributes of sovereignty to larger powers in exchange for benign protection of their political and economic viability against their geographic or demographic constraints".

Argentina's protectorates

• Liga Federal (1815–1820)
• Chile (1817–1818)
• Republic of Tucumán (1820–1821)
• Peru (1820–1822)
• Gobierno del Cerrito (1843–1851)
• Paraguay (1876)

Brazil's protectorates

• Republic of Acre (1899–1903)
• Paraguay (1869–1876)
• Uruguay (1828–1835)

British Empire's protectorates and protected states

Main article: British protectorate

Americas

• Mosquitia (1638–1860; over Central America's Miskito Indian nation)

Europe

• Malta Protectorate (1800–1813; de jure part of the Kingdom of Sicily but under British protection)
  • (Crown Colony of Malta proclaimed in 1813)
• Ionian islands (1815–1864; a Greek state and amical protectorate of Great Britain between 1815 and 1864)
• British Cyprus (1878–1914; put under British military administration (1914–22) then proclaimed a Crown Colony (1922–60))

South Asia

• Cis-Sutlej states (1809–1862)
• Kingdom of Nepal (1816–1923; protected state)
• Kingdom of Sikkim (1861–1947), (1947–1972)
• Maldive Islands (1776–1965, 1965–1968, 1968–1990)
• Various British Raj princely states (1845–1947)
• Bhutan (1906–1947 and 1948; protected state)

West and Central Asia

• British Residency of the Persian Gulf (1822–1971; headquarters based in Bushire, Persia)
  • Bahrain (1880–1971; protected state)
  • Sheikhdom of Kuwait (1899–1961; protected state)
  • Qatar, protected state (1916–1971)
  • Trucial States (1892–1971; precursor state of the modern UAE, protected states)
    • Abu Dhabi (1820–1971)
    • Ajman (1820–1971)
    • Dubai (1835–1971)
    • Fujairah (1952–1971)
    • Ras Al Khaimah (1820–1971)
    • Sharjah (1820–1971)
      • Kalba (1936–1951)
    • Umm al-Qaiwain (1820–1971)
  • Muscat and Oman (1892–1971; informal, protected state)
• Aden Protectorate (1872–1963; precursor state of South Yemen)
  • Eastern Protectorate States (mostly in Hadhramaut) (1963–1967; later the Protectorate of South Arabia)
    • Kathiri
    • Mahra
    • Qu'aiti
    • Upper Yafa (consisted of five Sheikhdoms: Al-Busi, Al-Dhubi, Hadrami, Maflahi, and Mawsata)
    • Hawra
    • Irqa
  • Western Protectorate States (1959 and 1962–1967; later the Federation of South Arabia, including Aden Colony)
    • Wahidi Sultanates (these included: Balhaf, Azzan, Bir Ali, and Habban)
    • Beihan
    • Dhala and Qutaibi
    • Fadhli
    • Lahej
    • Lower Yafa
    • Audhali
    • Haushabi
    • Upper Aulaqi Sheikhdom
    • Upper Aulaqi Sultanate
    • Lower Aulaqi
    • Alawi
    • Aqrabi
    • Dathina
    • Shaib
• Emirate of Afghanistan (1879–1919; protected state)
• Afghanistan (1919–1947, 1948, 1950, 1956)

Africa

1960 stamp of Bechuanaland Protectorate with the portraits of Queens Victoria and Elizabeth II

• British Somaliland (1884–1960)
• Bechuanaland Protectorate (1885–1966)
• Barotseland Protectorate (1889–1980)
• Nyasaland Protectorate (1893–1964)
  • British Central Africa Protectorate (1889–1907)
• Sultanate of Zanzibar (1890–1963)
• Sultanate of Wituland (1890–1923)
• Gambia Colony and Protectorate* (1894–1971)
• Uganda Protectorate (1894–1962)
• East Africa Protectorate (1895–1920)
• Sierra Leone Protectorate* (1896–1961)
• Nigeria* (1914–1963)
• Northern Nigeria Protectorate (1900–1914)
• Swaziland (1903–1968)
• Southern Nigeria Protectorate (1900–1914)
• Northern Territories of the Gold Coast (British protectorate) (1901–1957)/(1957-1960)
• Sultanate of Egypt (1914–1922)
• Kenya Protectorate* (1920–1963'1964)
• Kingdom of Egypt (1922–1936)
• Northern Rhodesia (1924–1964'1965'1980)

*protectorates which existed alongside a colony of the same name

De facto

• Khediviate of Egypt (1882–1913)

Oceania

• Territory of Papua (1884–1888)
• Tokelau (1877–1916)
• Cook Islands (1888–1893)
• Gilbert and Ellice Islands (1892–1916)
• British Solomon Islands (1893–1978)
• Niue (1900–1901)
• Tonga (1900–1970)

Southeast Asia

• British North Borneo (1888–1946)
• Brunei (1888–1984)
• Raj of Sarawak (1888–1946)
• Federation of Malaya (1948–1957)
  • Federated Malay States (1895–1946)
    • Negeri Sembilan (1888–1895)
      • Sungai Ujong (1874–1888)
      • Jelebu (1886–1895)
    • Pahang (1888–1895)
    • Perak (1874–1895)
    • Selangor (1874–1895)
  • Unfederated Malay States (1904/09–1946)
    • Johor (1914–1946)
      • Johor Muar (1897–1909)
    • Kedah (1909–1946)
      • Kedah Kulim (1894–1909)
    • Kelantan (1909–1946)
    • Perlis (1909–1946)
    • Terengganu (1909–1946)

China's protectorates

Further information: Protectorate (Duhu Fu)

• Han dynasty:
  • Protectorate of the Western Regions
• Tang dynasty:
  • Protectorate General to Pacify the West
  • Protectorate General to Pacify the North
  • Protectorate General to Pacify the East
• Yuan dynasty:
  • Goryeo (1270–1356)
• Qing dynasty:
  • Tibet

Dutch Empire's protectorates

Various sultanates in the Dutch East Indies (present day Indonesia):

Sumatra

• Tarumon Kingdom (1830–1946)
• Langkat Sultanate (26 October 1869 – December 1945)
• Deli Sultanate (22 August 1862 – December 1945)
• Asahan Sultanate (27 September 1865 – December 1945)
• Bila (1864–1946)
• Tasik (Kota Pinang) (1865 – December 1945)
• Siak Sultanate (1 February 1858 – 1946)
• Sungai Taras (Kampong Raja) (1864–1916)
• Panei (1864–1946)
• Sultanate of Serdang (1865 – December 1945)
• Indragiri Sultanate (1838 – September 1945)
• Jambi Sultanate (1833–1899)
• Kuala (1886–1946)
• Pelalawan (1859 – November 1945)
• Siantar (1904–1946)
• Tanah Jawa (1904–1946)

Riau Archipelago

• Lingga-Riau (1819–1911)

Java

• Banten (1682–1811)
• Cirebon (1684–1819)
• Yogjakarta Sultanate (13 February 1755 – 1942)
• Mataram Sultanate (later Surakarta Sunanate) (26 February 1677 – 19 August 1945)
• Principality of Mangkunegara (24 February 1757 – 1946)
• Duchy of Pakualaman (22 June 1812 – 1942)
• Semarang (1682–1809)

Bali

• Klungkung (1843–1908)
• Badung (1843–1906)
• Bangli (1843–1908)
• Buleleng (1841–1872 and 1890–1893)
• Gianyar (1843–1908)
• Jembrana (1849–1882)
• Karang Asem (1843–1908)
• Tabanan (1843–1906)

Lombok

• Lombok (1843–1894)
• Sumbawa (1908–c. 1948)
• Bima (8 December 1669 – 1949)
• Dompu (1905–1942)

Flores and Solor

• Larantuka (1860–1904)
• Tanah Kuna Lima (1917–1924)
• Ndona (1917–1924)
• Sikka (1879–c. 1947)

Borneo

• Banjarmasin (1787–1860)
• Pontianak Sultanate (16 August 1819 – 1942)
• Sambas Sultanate (1819–1949)
• Kubu (4 June 1823 – 1949)
• Landak (1819–c. 1949)
• Mempawah Kingdom (1819–1942)
• Sanggau Kingdom (182?–1949)
• Sekadau (182?–c. 1949)
• Simpang (1822–c. 1949)
• Sintang (1822–1949)
• Sukadana (1828–c.1949)
• Kota Waringin Sultanate (1824–1949)
• Kutai Kertanegara Sultanate (8 August 1825 – 1949)
• Gunung Tabur (1844–c.1945)
• Bulungan Sultanate (1844–c.1949)
• Simbaliung (1844–c. 1949)
• Kubu (1823–1949)
• Tayan (1823–c. 1949)

Celebes

• Gowa Sultanate (1669–1906; 1936–1949)
• Bone Sultanate (1669–1905)
• Bolaang Mongonduw (1825–c. 1949)
• Laiwui (1858–c. 1949)
• Luwu (1861–c. 1949)
• Soppeng (1860–c. 1949)
• Butung (1824–c. 1949)
• Siau (1680–c. 1949)
• Banggai (1907–c. 1949)
• Tallo (1668–1780)
• Wajo (1860–c. 1949)
• Tabukan (1677–c. 1949)

Ajattappareng Confederacy (1905–c. 1949)

• Malusetasi
• Rapang
• Swaito (union of Sawito and Alita, 1908)
• Sidenreng
• Supa

Mabbatupappeng Confederacy (1906–c. 1949)

• Barru
• Soppengriaja (union of Balusu, Kiru, Kamiri, 1906)
• Tanette

Mandar Confederacy (1906–c. 1949)

• Balangnipa
• Binuang
• Cenrana
• Majene
• Mamuju
• Pambauang
• Tapalang

Massenrempulu Confederacy (1905–c. 1949)

• Allah
• Batulapa
• Bontobatu
• Enrekang
• Kasa
• Maiwa
• Malua

Moluccas

• Ternate Sultanate (12 October 1676 – 1949)
• Bacan Sultanate (1667–1949)
• Tidore (1657–c.1949)

West Timor and Alor

• Amanatun (1749–c. 1949)
• Amanuban (1749–c. 1949)
• Amarasi (1749–c. 1949)
• Amfoan (1683–c. 1949)
• Beboki (1756–c. 1949)
• Belu (1756–c.1949)
• Insana (1756–c.1949)
• Sonbai Besar (1756–1906)
• Sonbai Kecil (1659–1917)
• Roti (Korbafo before 1928) (c. 1750–c.1949)
• TaEbenu (1688–1917)

New Guinea

• Dutch New Guinea:
  • Kaimana Sultanate (1828-1949)

France's protectorates and protected states

Africa

"Protection" was the formal legal structure under which French colonial forces expanded in Africa between the 1830s and 1900. Almost every pre-existing state that was later part of French West Africa was placed under protectorate status at some point, although direct rule gradually replaced protectorate agreements. Formal ruling structures, or fictive recreations of them, were largely retained—as with the low-level authority figures in the French Cercles—with leaders appointed and removed by French officials.

• Benin traditional states
  • Independent of Danhome, under French protectorate, from 1889
  • Porto-Novo a French protectorate, 23 February 1863 – 2 January 1865. Cotonou a French Protectorate, 19 May 1868. Porto-Novo French protectorate, 14 April 1882.
• Central African Republic traditional states:
  • French protectorate over Dar al-Kuti (1912 Sultanate suppressed by the French), 12 December 1897
  • French protectorate over the Sultanate of Bangassou, 1894
• Burkina Faso was from 20 February 1895 a French protectorate named Upper Volta (Haute-Volta)
• Chad: Baghirmi state 20 September 1897 a French protectorate
• Côte d'Ivoire: 10 January 1889 French protectorate of Ivory Coast
• Guinea: 5 August 1849 French protectorate over coastal region; (Riviéres du Sud).
• Niger, Sultanate of Damagaram (Zinder), 30 July 1899 under French protectorate over the native rulers, titled Sarkin Damagaram or Sultan
• Senegal: 4 February 1850 First of several French protectorate treaties with local rulers
• Comoros: 21 April 1886 French protectorate (Anjouan) until 25 July 1912 when annexed.
• Present Djibouti was originally, from 24 June 1884, the Territory of Obock and Protectorate of Tadjoura (Territoires Français d'Obock, Tadjoura, Dankils et Somalis), a French protectorate recognized by Britain on 9 February 1888, renamed on 20 May 1896 as French Somaliland (Côte Française des Somalis).
• Mauritania: 12 May 1903 French protectorate; within Mauritania several traditional states:
  • Adrar emirate from 9 January 1909 French protectorate (before Spanish)
  • The Taganit confederation's emirate (founded by Idaw `Ish dynasty), from 1905 under French protectorate.
  • Brakna confederation's emirate
  • Emirate of Trarza: 15 December 1902 placed under French protectorate status.
• Morocco – most of the sultanate was under French protectorate (30 March 1912 – 7 April 1956) although, in theory, it remained a sovereign state under the Treaty of Fez; this fact was confirmed by the International Court of Justice in 1952.
  • The northern part of Morocco was under Spanish protectorate in the same period.
• Traditional Madagascar States
  • Kingdom of Imerina under French protectorate, 6 August 1896. French Madagascar colony, 28 February 1897.
• Tunisia (12 May 1881 – 20 March 1956): became a French protectorate by treaty

Americas

• Second Mexican Empire (1863–1867), established by Emperor Napoleon III during the Second French intervention in Mexico and ruled by the Austrian-born, French puppet monarch Maximilian I

Asia

1 Sapèque – Protectorate of Tonkin (1905)

• French Indochina until 1953/54:
  • Annam and Tonkin 6 June 1884
  • Cambodia 11 August 1863
  • Laos 3 October 1893
  • Vietnam 6 June 1884

Europe

• Rhenish Republic (1923–1924)
• Saar Protectorate (1946–1956), not colonial or amical, but a former part of Germany that would by referendum return to it, in fact a re-edition of a former League of Nations mandate. Most French protectorates were colonial.

Oceania

• French Polynesia, mainly the Society Islands (several others were immediately annexed). All eventually were annexed by 1889.
  • Otaheiti (native king styled Ari`i rahi) becomes a French protectorate known as Tahiti, 1842–1880
  • Raiatea and Tahaa (after temporary annexation by Otaheiti; (title Ari`i) a French protectorate, 1880)
  • Mangareva (one of the Gambier Islands; ruler title `Akariki) a French protectorate, 16 February 1844 (unratified) and 30 November 1871
• Wallis and Futuna:
  • Wallis declared to be a French protectorate by King of Uvea and Captain Mallet, 4 November 1842. Officially in a treaty becomes a French protectorate, 5 April 1887.
  • Sigave and Alo on the islands of Futuna and Alofi signed a treaty establishing a French protectorate on 16 February 1888.

Germany's protectorates and protected states

See also: List of former German colonies

5000 kronen – Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (1939–1945)

The German Empire used the word Schutzgebiet, literally protectorate, for all of its colonial possessions until they were lost during World War I, regardless of the actual level of government control. Cases involving indirect rule included:

• German New Guinea (1884–1920), now part of Papua New Guinea
• German South West Africa (1884–1920), present-day Namibia
• Togoland (1884–1914), now part of Ghana and Togo
• North Solomon Islands (1885–1920), now part of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands
• Wituland (1885–1890), now part of Kenya
• Ruanda-Urundi (1894–1920)
• German Samoa (1900–1920), present-day Samoa
• Marshall Islands
• Nauru, various officials posted with the Head Chiefs
• Gando Emirate (1895–1897)
• Gulmu (1895–1897)

Before and during World War II, Nazi Germany designated the rump of occupied Czechoslovakia and Denmark as protectorates:

• Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (1939–1945), however it was also considered a partially annexed territory of Germany
• Denmark (1940–1943)

India's protectorates

• Bhutan (1947–2007).
• Kingdom of Sikkim (1950–1975), later acceded to India as State of Sikkim.

Italy's protectorates and protected states

• The Albanian Republic (1917–1920) and the Albanian Kingdom (1939–1943)
• Monaco under amical Protectorate of the Kingdom of Sardinia 20 November 1815 to 1860.
• Ethiopia : 2 May 1889 Treaty of Wuchale, in the Italian language version, stated that Ethiopia was to become an Italian protectorate, while the Ethiopian Amharic language version merely stated that the Emperor could, if he so chose, go through Italy to conduct foreign affairs. When the differences in the versions came to light, Emperor Menelik II abrogated first the article in question (XVII), and later the whole treaty. The event culminated in the First Italo-Ethiopian War, in which Ethiopia was victorious and defended her sovereignty in 1896.
• Libya: on 15 October 1912 Italian protectorate declared over Cirenaica (Cyrenaica) until 17 May 1919.
• Benadir Coast in Somalia: 3 August 1889 Italian protectorate (in the northeast; unoccupied until May 1893), until 16 March 1905 when it changed to Italian Somaliland.
  • Majeerteen Sultanate since 7 April 1889 under Italian protectorate (renewed 7 April 1895), then in 1927 incorporated into the Italian colony.
  • Sultanate of Hobyo since December 1888 under Italian protectorate (renewed 11 April 1895), then in October 1925 incorporated into the Italian colony (known as Obbia).

Japan's protectorates

• Korean Empire (1905–1910)
• Manchukuo (1932–1945)
• Mengjiang (1939–1945)

Poland's protectorates

• Kaffa (1462–1475)

Portugal's protectorates

• Cabinda (Portuguese Congo) (1885–1974), Portugal first claimed sovereignty over Cabinda in the February 1885 Treaty of Simulambuco, which gave Cabinda the status of a protectorate of the Portuguese Crown under the request of "the princes and governors of Cabinda".
• Kingdom of Kongo (1857–1914)
• Gaza Empire (1824–1895), now part of Mozambique
• Angoche Sultanate (1903–1910)
• Kingdom of Larantuka (1515–1859)

Russia's and the Soviet Union's protectorates and protected states

• Cossack Hetmanate (1654–1764)
• Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti (1783–1801)
• Kingdom of Imereti (1804–1810)
• Revolutionary Serbia (1807–1812)
• Principality of Serbia (1826–1856), now part of Serbia
• Principality of Moldova (1829–1856), now part of Moldova, Romania and Ukraine
• Principality of Wallachia (1829–1856)
• Emirate of Bukhara (1873–1920)
• Khanate of Khiva (1873–1920)
• Uryankhay Krai (1914)
• Second East Turkestan Republic (1944–1949), now part of Xinjiang, China

De facto

See also: Russian-occupied territories

Some sources mention the following territories as de facto Russian protectorates:

• South Ossetia (2008–present)
• Transnistria (1992–present)
• Abkhazia (1994–present)
• Donetsk People's Republic (2015–2022)
• Luhansk People's Republic (2015–2022)
• Republic of Artsakh (2020–2023)

Spain's protectorates

• Spanish Morocco protectorate from 27 November 1912 until 2 April 1958 (Northern zone until 7 April 1956, Southern zone (Cape Juby) until 2 April 1958).
• Sultanate of Sulu (1851–1899)

Turkey's and the Ottoman Empire's protectorates and protected states

Main article: Vassal and tributary states of the Ottoman Empire

• Aceh Sultanate (1569–1903)
• Maldives (1560–1590)
• Cossack Hetmanate (1669–1685)

De facto

• Northern Cyprus (1983–present)

United Nations' protectorates

Main article: United Nations protectorate

List

Current

Name	Location	Years	Today part of
United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP)	United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus (UNBZC)	1964–present	Cyprus
United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF)	UNDOF Zone on the Golan Heights	1974–present	Syria (controlled by Israel)
United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK)	United Nations Administered Kosovo	1999–present (only de jure since 2008)	Kosovo (claimed by Serbia)

Former

Name	Location	Years	Today part of
United Nations Temporary Executive Authority (UNTEA)	Western New Guinea	1962–1963	Indonesia
United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC)	Cambodia	1992–1993	Cambodia
United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium (UNTAES)	Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia	1996–1998	Croatia
United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET)	United Nations Administered East Timor	1999–2002	Timor-Leste

United States' protectorates and protected states

After becoming independent nations in 1902 and 1903 respectively, Cuba and Panama became protectorates of the United States. In 1903, Cuba and the US signed the Cuban–American Treaty of Relations, which affirmed the provisions of the Platt Amendment, including that the US had the right to intervene in Cuba to preserve its independence, among other reasons (the Platt Amendment had also been integrated into the 1901 constitution of Cuba). Later that year, Panama and the US signed the Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty, which established the Panama Canal Zone and gave the US the right to intervene in the cities of Panama and Colón (and the adjacent territories and harbors) for the maintenance of public order. The 1904 constitution of Panama, in Article 136, also gave the US the right to intervene in any part of Panama "to reestablish public peace and constitutional order." Haiti later also became a protectorate after the ratification of the Haitian–American Convention (which gave the US the right to intervene in Haiti for a period of ten years, which was later expanded to twenty years through an additional agreement in 1917) on September 16, 1915.

The US also attempted to establish protectorates over the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua through the Bryan–Chamorro Treaty.

• Cuba (1902–1959)
• Panama (1904–1990)
• Haiti (1915–1957)

De facto

• Republic of Negros (1899–1901)
• Republic of Zamboanga (1899–1903)
• Sultanate of Sulu (1899–1915)

United States' protectorates and protected states Former insular areas

• Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands: U.N. trust territory administered by the U.S.; included the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
• Philippines: military government, 1899–1902; insular government, 1902–1935; commonwealth government, 1935–1942 and 1945–1946 (islands under Japanese occupation, 1942–1945 and puppet state, 1943–1945); granted independence on July 4, 1946, by the Treaty of Manila.
• Puerto Rico: military government, 1899–1900; insular government, 1900–1952; became a commonwealth on July 25, 1952.
• Guam: naval government, 1899–1941 and 1944–50 (island under Japanese occupation, 1941–1944); territory organized and civil government established by the Guam Organic Act of 1950.
• Hawaii: republic government, 1898–1900; territorial government, 1900–1959; became the State of Hawaii and the incorporated, unorganized territory of Palmyra Atoll on August 21, 1959.
• Swan Islands (1863–1972): claimed by the U.S. under the Guano Islands Act; sovereignty ceded to Honduras in a 1972 treaty.
• Serrana Bank and Roncador Bank: claimed by the U.S. under the Guano Islands Act; claims ceded to Colombia.
• Quita Sueño Bank: claimed by the U.S. under the Guano Islands Act; claim relinquished in treaty with Colombia.
• Caroline Island, Kirimati, Flint Island, Malden Island, Starbuck Island, Vostok Island, Birnie Island, Gardner Island, Orona, McKean Island, Manra, Rawaki, Canton Island and Enderbury Island: claimed by the U.S. under the Guano Islands Act; claims ceded to Kiribati.
• Funafuti, Nukufetau, Nukulaelae and Niulakita: claimed by the U.S. under the Guano Islands Act; claims ceded to Tuvalu.
• Pukapuka, Manihiki, Penrhyn and Rakahanga: claimed by the U.S. under the Guano Islands Act; claims ceded to the Cook Islands.
• Atafu, Fakaofo and Nukunonu: claimed by the U.S. under the Guano Islands Act; claims ceded to Tokelau.

Contemporary usage by the United States

Some agencies of the United States government, such as the Environmental Protection Agency, refer to the District of Columbia and insular areas of the United States—such as American Samoa and the U.S. Virgin Islands—as protectorates. However, the agency responsible for the administration of those areas, the Office of Insular Affairs (OIA) within the United States Department of Interior, uses only the term "insular area" rather than protectorate.

• District of Columbia
• American Samoa
• Guam
• Northern Mariana Islands
• Puerto Rico
• U.S. Virgin Islands

Colonies by American (continent) countries

American

Further information: List of Guano Island claims and United States territorial acquisitions

Governor General William Howard Taft addressing the audience at the Philippine Assembly in the Manila Grand Opera House

• American Concession in Tianjin (1869–1902)
• American Concession in Shanghai (1848–1863)
• American Concession in Beihai (1876–1943)
• American Concession in Harbin (1898–1943)
• American Samoa
• Beijing Legation Quarter (1861–1945)
• Corn Islands (1914–1971)
• Canton and Enderbury Islands
• Caroline Islands
• Cuba (Platt Amendment turned Cuba into a protectorate – until Cuban Revolution)
• Falkland Islands (1832)
• Guantánamo Bay
• Guam
• Gulangyu Island (1903–1945)
• Haiti (1915–1934)
• Hawaii
• Indian Territory (1834–1907)
• Isle of Pines (1899–1925)
• Liberia (Independent since 1847, US protectorate until post-WW2)
• Mexico City (1847)
• Midway
• Nicaragua (1912–1933)
• Northern Mariana Islands
• Palau
• Palmyra Atoll
• Panama (Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty turned Panama into a protectorate, protectorate until post-WW2)
• Panama Canal Zone (1903–1979)
• Philippines (1898–1946)
• Puerto Rico
• Veracruz
• Quita Sueño Bank (1869–1981)
• Roncador Bank (1856–1981)
• Ryukyu Islands
• Russian Far East
• Shanghai International Settlement (1863–1945)
• Sultanate of Sulu (1903–1915)
• Swan Islands, Honduras (1914–1972)
• Tangier International Zone (Now present-day Tangier, Morocco) (1924–1956)
• Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
• United States Virgin Islands
• Wake Island
• Wilkes Land
• Californias
• Central America
• Chiapas
• Clipperton Island
• Revillagigedo Islands
• Texas
• Manila
• Guatemalan
• Belize
• Chiapas

• Ecuadorian
• Galápagos Islands
• Tumbes
• Jaén
• Maynas
• Colombian
• Panama
• Ecuador
• Venezuela
• Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina
• Mosquito Coast

• Venezuelan
• Western part of Guyana
• Argentine
• Argentine Antarctica
• Asuncion (1873)
• California (1818)
• Chile (1817–1818 during the Chilean war of independence)
• Equatorial Guinea (1810–1815)
• Falkland Islands and Dependencies (1829–1831, 1832–1833, 1982)
• Formosa
• Gobierno del Cerrito (1843–1851)
• Gonaïves, Haití.
• Misiones
• Paraguay (1873)
• Patagonia
• Peru (1820–1822 during the Independence of Peru)
• Puna de Atacama (1839– )
• Tierra del Fuego
• Uruguay (Cisplatine War)
• Paraguayan
• Mato Grosso do Sul
• Formosa
• Eastern Salta
• Misiones
• Southwestern Paraná
• Peruvian
• Arica
• Tarapacá
• Acre
• Bolivian
• Puna de Atacama (1825–1839 ceded to Argentina) (1825–1879 ceded to Chile)
• Atacama
• Salta
• Jujuy
• Western Catamarca
• Acre
• Chilean
• Patagonia
• Tierra del Fuego
• Easter Island
• Brazilian
• Uruguay
• Acre
• Cape Verde (Occupied for two years after independence)
• Angola (During the Angolan war of independence)
• Mozambique (During the Mozambican war of independence)
• Asuncion
• Brazilian Antarctica

Gained independence from the United States

1898-1965

Country	Event name	Colonial power	Independence date	First head of state	Part of war(s)
Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo Affair	United States	February 11, 1904	Juan Isidro Jiminez	Banana Wars
Haiti	United States occupation of Haiti	United States	August 1, 1934	Sténio Vincent	Banana Wars
Dominican Republic	United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–1924)	United States	September 18, 1924	Desiderio Arias	Banana Wars
Dominican Republic	Dominican Civil War	United States	September 3, 1965	Joaquín Balaguer	Cold War

1907–1919 (miscellaneous)

Occupied territory	Years	Occupied state	Occupying state	Event	Part of war(s)	Subsequently annexed?
Nicaragua	1912–1933	Nicaragua	United States	Occupation of Nicaragua	Banana Wars	No
Veracruz	1914	Mexico	United States	Occupation of Veracruz	Mexican Revolution	No

World War I and immediate aftermath

Occupied territory	Years	Occupied state	Occupying state	Event	Part of war(s)	Subsequently annexed?
Haiti	1915–1934	Haiti	United States	Occupation of Haiti	Banana Wars	No
Dominican Republic	1916–1924	Dominican Republic		Occupation of the Dominican Republic		No
Cuba	1917–1922	Cuba		Sugar Intervention		No

1960–1979

Occupied territory	Years	Occupied state	Occupying state	Event	Part of war(s)	Subsequently annexed?
Dominican Republic	1965–1966	Dominican Republic	United States	Invasion of the Dominican Republic	Dominican Civil War	No

1980–1999

Occupied territory	Years	Occupied state	Occupying state	Event	Part of war(s)	Subsequently annexed?
Falkland Islands	1982	United Kingdom	Argentina	Occupation of the Falkland Islands	Falklands War	No
Grenada	1983	Grenada	United States	Invasion of Grenada	Grenadian Revolution	No
Panama	1989–1990	Panama	United States	Invasion of Panama	War on drugs	No
Haiti	1994–1995	Haiti	United States Poland Argentina	Operation Uphold Democracy	1991 Haitian coup d'état	No

Joint protectorates

Further information: Condominium (international law)

• Republic of Ragusa (1684–1798), a joint Habsburg Austrian–Ottoman Turkish protectorate
• The United States of the Ionian Islands and the Septinsular Republic were federal republics of seven formerly Venetian (see Provveditore) Ionian Islands (Corfu, Cephalonia, Zante, Santa Maura, Ithaca, Cerigo, and Paxos), officially under joint protectorate of the allied Christian powers, de facto a British amical protectorate from 1815 to 1864.
• Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1899–1956)
• Independent State of Croatia (1941–1943)
• Allied-occupied Germany (1945–1949)
• Allied-occupied Austria (1945–1955)

Former condominia

See also: Timeline of national independence

• Allied-occupied Germany and subsequently East Germany, West Germany, and West Berlin were under the control of the Allied Control Council, which consisted of representatives from France, the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom from 1945 until 1990.
• In 688 the Byzantine Emperor Justinian II and the Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan reached an unprecedented agreement to establish a condominium (the concept did not yet exist) over Cyprus, with the collected taxes from the island being equally divided between the two parties. The arrangement lasted for some 300 years, even though in the same time there was nearly constant warfare between the two parties on the mainland.
• Fellesdistrikt (Norwegian: Fellesdistrikt, Russian: Общий район) was a Russo-Norwegian condominium comprising Sør-Varanger Municipality and the Pechengsky District from 1684 until 1826.

Flags of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1899–1956)

• Anglo-Egyptian Sudan was legally an Egyptian-British condominium from 1899 until 1956, although in reality Egypt played no role in its government other than providing some administrators in the country: all political decisions were made by the United Kingdom and all Governors-General of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan were British. The system was resented by Egyptian and Sudanese nationalists, and would later be disavowed by the Egyptian Government, although it persisted due to the United Kingdom's effective control over Egypt itself, which began from 1882 and continued until at least 1936.
• The Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina was jointly ruled by Cisleithanian Austria and Transleithanian Hungary between 1908 and 1918, while both countries were parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
• An islet in the border river Brömsebäck was considered to belong to neither (or both) Denmark and Sweden.
• The Duchy of Courland was a condominium of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Crown of Poland from 1726 until 1795.
• The Independent State of Croatia during World War II from 1941 to 1943 was a military condominium of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy until 1943, when Italy split between the Allied-leaning Kingdom of Italy under King Victor Emmanuel III and Axis-leaning Italian Social Republic under Benito Mussolini.
• Canton and Enderbury Islands were a British–American condominium from 1939 until 1979 when they became part of Kiribati.
• Couto Misto was shared until 1864 between Spain and Portugal, even though in its final decades of existence it was de facto independent.
• Egypt from 1876 to 1882 was under France and the United Kingdom.
• A small area (Hadf and surroundings) on the Arabian Peninsula, a part of Oman, at one time was jointly ruled with the Emirati member state of Ajman. The agreement defining the Hadf zone was signed in Salalah on 26 April 1960 by Sultan Said bin Taimur and in Ajman on 30 April 1960 by Shaikh Rashid bin Humaid Al Nuaimi III, ruler of Ajman. This provided for some joint supervision in the zone by the ruler of Ajman and the shaikhs under the rule of Muscat. It allowed the Ajman ruler to continue collecting zakat (Islamic tax). The ruler of Ajman was, however, not to interfere in the affairs of the local people, the Bani Ka'ab (a branch of the Banu Kaab), which were the sole responsibility of shaikhs who were under Muscat rule. The agreement was later terminated.
• The Holy Roman Empire hosted numerous condominia within its boundaries. Many princes and especially Imperial knights and counts mortgaged partial ownership or rights within their lands to the Emperor, sometimes in perpetuity. Most of these were located in the Swabian Circle, close to the Emperor's personal domains in Further Austria. Some condominia were shared by lesser princes, especially in cases of inheritances held in common by branches of a princely line. Disputes over condominium contracts were submitted to the Imperial court at Wetzlar, or petitioned to the Emperor himself. Some cases within the Holy Roman Empire included the following:
  • The City of Bergedorf was a condominium of the Imperial cities of Hamburg and Lübeck, and the terms were extended beyond the Holy Roman Empire's dissolution until 1868, when Lübeck sold its rights in Bergedorf to Hamburg.
  • The City of Erfurt from 12th century until the Thirty Years' War was shared between the Archbishopric of Mainz and the Counts of Gleichen, the latter replaced by the city council in 1289 (Concordata Gebhardi), the Landgrave of Thuringia in 1327 and the House of Wettin in 1483 (Treaty of Weimar).
  • The County of Friesland (West Frisia) was from 1165 to 1493 a joint condominium of the County of Holland and the Prince-Bishopric of Utrecht, then again until 25 October 1555 under Imperial administration.
  • The Imperial village of Holzhausen was a partial condominium, two thirds of which was immediate to the Emperor and the remaining third subject to various landlords.
  • The City of Maastricht was a condominium for five centuries until 1794. It was shared between the Prince-Bishopric of Liège and the Duchy of Brabant, the latter replaced by the Dutch Republic in 1632.
  • The village of Nennig was a condominium of the Trier bishopric, Lorraine (the Kingdom of France from 1766) and Duchy of Luxembourg until its annexation by Revolutionary France in 1794.
  • The County of Sponheim was ruled since the 15th century by the Margraves of Baden, the Counts Palatine of the Rhine and the Counts of Veldenz, later Palatinate-Simmern, Palatine Zweibrücken and Palatinate-Birkenfeld as heirs of Veldenz.
• The Free City of Kraków was a protectorate of Prussia, Austria and Russia from 1815 until 1846, when it was annexed by Austria.
• Neutral Moresnet was shared from 1816 until 1919 between the Netherlands (later Belgium) and Prussia.

  

  1966 flag of the colonial New Hebrides

• Nauru was a tripartite condominium mandate territory administered by Australia, New Zealand and United Kingdom from 1923 to 1942 and again in 1947 as a UN trust territory until independence in 1968.
• New Hebrides formed a French–British condominium in 1906 until independence in 1980 as a republic, now called Vanuatu.
• Northern Dobruja was shared by the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Bulgaria) during World War I.
• The Oregon Country was an Anglo-American condominium from 1818 until 1846. It would later become the Pacific Northwest of the United States and British Columbia in Canada.
• Samoan Islands from 1889 to 1899 were a rare tripartite condominium under joint protectorate of Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. It would later become Samoa and American Samoa.
• Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg were an Austrian-Prussian condominium. The two German powers acceded it following the 1864 Second Schleswig War. According to the Gastein Convention in the next year, Lauenburg left the condominium (to Prussia), Austria governed Holstein and Prussia controlled Schleswig. In 1866, after the Austro-Prussian War, Austria passed over its remaining rights to Prussia. Prussia later created the Province of Schleswig-Holstein, which would become divided between Germany and Denmark after the Treaty of Versailles.
• The Spanish Netherlands became an Anglo-Dutch condominium in 1706 during the War of the Spanish Succession, until the peace treaties of Utrecht and Rastatt in 1713/14 ending the war.
• Togoland, formerly a German protectorate, was an Anglo-French condominium, from when the United Kingdom and France occupied it on 26 August 1914 until its partition on 27 December 1916 into French and British zones. The divided Togoland became two separate League of Nations mandates on 20 July 1922: British Togoland, which joined Gold Coast (present-day Ghana) in 1956, and French Togoland, which is now the nation of Togo.
• Zaporozhian Sich, a brief condominium between Russia and Poland-Lithuania, was established in 1667 by the Treaty of Andrusovo.
• Tangier International Zone, an international zone nominally under Moroccan sovereignty but jointly administered by several European powers in 1924. It was returned to full Moroccan sovereignty in 1956.
• The term is sometimes even applied to a similar arrangement between members of a Monarch's countries in (personal or formal) union, as was the case for the district of Fiume (what is today Rijeka, Republic of Croatia), shared between Hungary and Croatia within the Habsburg Empire since 1868.
• Between 1913 and 1920 Spitsbergen was a neutral condominium. The Spitsbergen Treaty of 9 February 1920 recognises the full and absolute sovereignty of Norway over all the arctic archipelago of Svalbard. The exercise of sovereignty is, however, subject to certain stipulations, and not all Norwegian law applies. Originally limited to nine signatory nations, over 40 are now signatories of the treaty. Citizens of any of the signatory countries may settle in the archipelago. Currently, only Norway and Russia make use of this right.
• In 1992, South Africa and Namibia established a Joint Administrative Authority in the enclave of Walvis Bay, prior to its cession to Namibia in 1994.
• The Saudi Arabian–Kuwaiti neutral zone was established in 1922 by the Uqair Convention. It was a 2,000 square mile area designed to accommodate the Bedouin people, a nomadic group who regularly crossed through the Saudi and Kuwaiti border. The area was partitioned in 1970 after a 1938 discovery of oil near the zone brought speculation that there may be oil in the condominium.

See also

• British Protected Person
• Client state
• European Union Police Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• EUFOR Althea
• High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina
• League of Nations mandate
• Peace Implementation Council
• Protector (titles for Heads of State and other individual persons)
• Protectorate (imperial China)
• Timeline of national independence
• Tribute

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