The word 'protectorate' is correct and is commonly used in written English.
It is used to describe a state or country that is protected and controlled by a more powerful nation. It can also refer to the relationship between the two nations. Example: After gaining independence, the small country became a protectorate of the neighboring superpower, ensuring its security and stability.
The family have ruled Qatar, a former British protectorate no larger than Yorkshire, for more than 150 years.
But colonialism it was, all the same, as demonstrated when Britain turned the Arabian peninsula into a protectorate exactly 100 years ago, in a 1915 treaty with Ibn Saud, the founder of the Saudi dynasty.
Another part of the mission is supposed to make sure that Kosovo lives up to various standards its leaders have committed themselves to.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.
Mersin, an outpost of multicultural Levantines, hard by the disputed territory of Hatay and the British controlled protectorate of Palestine, had its full share of foreign visitors looking for more than the beach.
Under the 1947 partition, the land was supposed to become a UN protectorate, not part of Palestine.
That, in essence, is the case that the Ilois, the erstwhile inhabitants of the Chagos Islands, have been pressing in the high court in London this month.The islands, in the middle of the Indian Ocean, make up a British protectorate, the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT).
German efforts to resupply the beleaguered protectorate in east Africa were audacious.
Local media now routinely describe their country as a "protectorate", run by the West's civilian "high representative", Carlos Westendorp, and backed by 35,000 NATO led troops.Since December, when the countries and organisations sponsoring the peace process gave him the power to impose decisions on recalcitrant politicians, Mr Westendorp has unabashedly taken over the job of nation-building.
Tibet has been a protectorate of China (and later under formal Chinese jurisdiction) since the Qing Dynasty 300 years ago.
And in 1922, when Izmir's Christian quarters were burned down and destroyed, desperate Armenians used their fluent French to talk their way onto warships from France.In Lebanon, which became a French protectorate after the first world war, the Gallic link is even more obvious.
Yet its north-west bit, Somaliland, once a British protectorate that merged with Italian Somalia to form unified Somalia in 1960, actually feels like a proper country.
