Portugal itself was ruled as a virtual British protectorate.

Instead, he negotiated an unofficial treaty which made Saragossa subject to Castile and Leon, and established the Caliphate as a virtual protectorate of Alfonso's kingdom.

The Austrian leaders blamed the Serbian government for the assassination and demanded a virtual protectorate over Serbia, issuing Serbia a list of demands.

In Egypt the Jews had to take sides in the hostilities between the various factions which competed for whatever power was left under the virtual protectorate of Rome.

Muscat and Oman came under increasing British domination and in 1891 became a virtual British protectorate.

The Platt Amendment (1902), however, established Cuba as a virtual protectorate of the United States.

The result was that a virtual Japanese protectorate was created over Macau.

The international officials who have run Bosnia as a virtual protectorate since the West forced a peace deal in 1995 are eager to scale back their presence here soon.

This made it by 1943 a virtual protectorate, with Japanese consul Fukui Yasumitsu controlling all contact until 1945 with the Portuguese governor, Gabriel Maurício Teixeira.

After Russia's defeat in that war, Korea became a virtual protectorate of Japan, which eventually annexed it in 1910.