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Gibraltar held a referendum on whether or not to share sovereignty with Spain. 98.48% of voters rejected the proposal in favour of remaining solely a British overseas territory with only 1.02% supporting the proposal. Falkland Islands: 11 March: 2013: Falkland Islanders voted in favour of remaining a British overseas territory by 99.8% to 0.2%.
1919–1922 — The Treaty of Versailles divides Germany's African colonies into mandates of the victors (which largely become new colonies of the victors). Most of Cameroon becomes a French mandate with a small portion taken by the British and some territory incorporated into France's previously existing colonies; Togo is mostly taken by the British, though the French gain a slim portion ...
The British Empire refers to the possessions, dominions, and dependencies under the control of the Crown.In addition to the areas formally under the sovereignty of the British monarch, various "foreign" territories were controlled as protectorates; territories transferred to British administration under the authority of the League of Nations or the United Nations; and miscellaneous other ...
After World War I, several former German and Ottoman territories in the Middle East, Africa, and the Pacific were governed by the UK as League of Nations mandates. Some were administered directly by the UK, and others by British dominions – Nauru and the Territory of New Guinea by Australia , South West Africa by the Union of South Africa ...
Demonstration against the Treaty in front of the Reichstag building. After the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919, between Germany on the one side and France, Italy, Britain and other minor allied powers on the other, officially ended war between those countries.
The partitioning was planned in several agreements made by the Allied Powers early in the course of World War I, [1] notably the Sykes–Picot Agreement, after the Ottoman Empire had joined Germany to form the Ottoman–German alliance. [2] The huge conglomeration of territories and peoples that formerly comprised the Ottoman Empire was divided ...
Between 1815 and 1914, a period referred to as Britain's "imperial century" by some historians, [101] around 10 million sq mi (26 million km 2) of territory and roughly 400 million people were added to the British Empire. [102] Victory over Napoleon left Britain without any serious international rival, other than Russia in Central Asia. [103]
Territory Purchased by Purchased from Cost Year Area Cost/Area Agreement (article) Isle of Man, Hebrides, Kintyre and islands of the Firth of Clyde [1] [2] Scotland: Norway: 4,000 marks sterling, 100 mark annuity 1266 ~8,000 km² ~0.5 marks sterling/km² Treaty of Perth: Dunkirk and Fort-Mardyck [3] France England: 5,000,000 livres: 1662 ~44 km²