English-Spanish translations for protectorate

• protectorado
  Era un protectorado y continuará siéndolo. It was a protectorate and it will remain a protectorate.
  Kosovo será un protectorado de la Unión. Kosovo will be a protectorate of the Union.
  El Iraq no debe convertirse en un protectorado estadounidense. Iraq must not become an American protectorate.

Definition of protectorate

• Government by a protector; especially, the government of England, Scotland, and Ireland by Oliver Cromwell
• An autonomous territory that is protected diplomatically or militarily against third parties by a stronger state or entity

Examples

• Egypt became a British protectorate in 1914

Related words

• protector
• gastroprotector
• Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
• lord protector
• pocket protector
• athletic protector
• sheet protector
• surge protector
• earthquake protector