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dependent territories

Term used as a means of referring collectively to colonies, protectorates, protected states, and trust territories for which Britain remains responsible. The term ‘dependencies’ is normally used to refer to territories placed under the authority of another; for example Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha are dependencies of St Helena.

In 1998 there were 11 inhabited British dependent territories: Anguilla; Bermuda; British Virgin Islands; Cayman Islands; Falkland Islands; Gibraltar; Montserrat; Pitcairn Islands; St Helena; South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; and the Turks and Caicos Islands. There were also two offshore Crown dependencies: the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.



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THE EUROPEAN EMPIRES were an amalgam of independent, semi-independent and dependent territories held together by economic, strategic, political, demographic and cultural ties with the metropolitan country that varied greatly in strength and character.
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In January 1998 the British government demanded that its five Caribbean dependent territories legalize gay sex, saying certain local laws in Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Montserrat, and the Turks and Caicos islands place the United Kingdom at risk of violating its international human rights agreements.
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Hong Kong people's disappointment and sense of betrayal were exacerbated by the fact that soon after the territory's return to China, London offered the right of abode in Britain to all British Dependent Territories Citizens outside Hong Kong.
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