Protectorate

How it is used

In imperial history, protection often involved unequal control; examine the arrangement's actual terms.

Example sentences

1. The protectorate retained a local ruler, but foreign officials directed diplomacy.

   Local officeholding can continue under substantial outside control.

2. The map distinguishes the protectorate from directly administered colonies.

   The distinction concerns the form of imperial administration.

Common collocations

• establish a protectorate
• protectorate administration

Related terms

• colonialismThe policy or practice of a state taking control of other territories and peoples, settling or ruling them, and using their land and resources for its own benefit.
• sovereigntySupreme authority over a territory and its people, including the right to make laws and to govern without control from any outside power.

More terms: Empires, States and Rulers

• empire
• dynasty
• reign
• monarchy
• colony
• city-state
• abdicate
• decline
• Ottoman Empire
• Byzantine Empire
• imperialism
• decolonization