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In 1888, Sarawak, Brunei, and what is now Sabah were at last grouped together as a British protectorate, North Borneo, but it did not gain the status of a crown colony.
The alliance must establish an international protectorate in Kosovo that guarantees refugees the right of return, and it must reassure a wary world that it will not make a habit of waging war on sovereign nations.
Finally, you reach the birthplace of this British protectorate: St. George’s, a town that still reflects its 17th-century beginnings.
Instead, it seems about to inherit a long-term 100 per cent Albanian protectorate, ethnically cleansed by the victims of ethnic cleansing, who can be as cruel as their former tormentors when given a chance."
Portugal itself was ruled as a virtual British protectorate.