Sentences with 'protectorates'

Example sentences and phrases with the word protectorates and other words derived from it.


« Since governments generally stepped in to declare protectorates and colonies after mercantile interests went under, the cost of maintaining empire grew along with the territorial claims themselves. »
« However, even as British and French politicians initiated plans to divide Ottoman territory into protectorates (called "mandates" after the war) under their control, the leader of the Young Turks, Mustafa Kemal, waged a major military campaign to preserve not the independence of the Ottomans but of Turkey, and the other ethnic groups that had lived under Ottoman rule were pushed aside or destroyed. »

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