Sentence examples for under french administration from inspiring English sources
Under French administration, public utilities and communications were improved, and education was expanded (although higher education was left almost wholly in the hands of religious bodies).
After World War I, part of the Cameroon portion of the emirate came under French administration and part remained under British rule.
It did receive the former archbishopric of Salzburg (secularized in 1803); however, this territory would come under French administration (1809 10) and then Bavarian rule (1810 15) before finally becoming a permanent part of Austria after the Napoleonic Wars.
Danzig (Gdańsk) was to become a free city, independent of Germany; East Prussia was separated from the rest of the Reich by Polish Pomorze; and Memel was placed under French administration before eventually being ceded to Lithuania.
Although the French government considered appointing Essad Pasha Toptani to govern the Pogradec region it remained under French administration.
Territory under French administration was divided on two parts, north (Pogradec) and south (Republic of Korçë) of Devolli.
The earliest surviving of these is probably the ziggurat at Gao (Mali), but more typical of the savanna form are the mosques, bristling with wood reinforcement, of Agadez (Niger) and Mopti (Mali) and the great mosque of Djenné (Mali), which was greatly restored under the French administration.
Subsequently, under British and French administration, only the Union Jack and the French Tricolor were flown.
The Sykes-Picot agreement was a secret document signed by Britain and France - with a wink and a nod from czarist Russia - that basically carved up the Ottoman Empire and placed most of the Middle East under British and French administration.
The French considered the region ungovernable, and, following Chad's independence in 1960, BET remained under French military administration.
Because the area was considered ungovernable, following Chad's independence in 1960 it remained under French military administration until 1965, when the French withdrew at Chad's request.
