It actually was! Kuwait, together with the Trucial States, Bahrain, Qatar, and Oman (and the Iranian port city of Bushehr) was part of the Persian Gulf Residency, which was administered as part of the British Raj from 1873 onwards!I remember reading somewhere on this forum that the British Empire thought of making Kuwait a part of the British Raj, was this actually proposed, or am I confusing a random text from this site as truth?
I recall reading that the comment also said maybe adding Iraq as a whole to the Raj, but this would obviously not be feasible, so maybe the user confused Kuwait for Iraq.
It actually was! Kuwait, together with the Trucial States, Bahrain, Qatar, and Oman (and the Iranian port city of Bushehr) was part of the Persian Gulf Residency, which was administered as part of the British Raj from 1873 onwards!
So if anything the question was whether Iraq could've been added to the Persian Gulf Residency, too. That likely wouldn't have been possible, including because of the mandate status of Iraq...
Oh lol, really need to learn history right, thanks for the heads up!It actually was! Kuwait, together with the Trucial States, Bahrain, Qatar, and Oman (and the Iranian port city of Bushehr) was part of the Persian Gulf Residency, which was administered as part of the British Raj from 1873 onwards!
So if anything the question was whether Iraq could've been added to the Persian Gulf Residency, too. That likely wouldn't have been possible, including because of the mandate status of Iraq...
Yeah I only knew about Aden being a part of the Raj, had no idea about the rest, however, Aden was detached from the Raj and made its own separate colony in 1937, so I think that I incorrectly assumed that the same was done for all other states.I think Aden was, at least at first, subordinated to the Raj as well
Oh lol, really need to learn history right, thanks for the heads up!
Yeah I only knew about Aden being a part of the Raj, had no idea about the rest, however, Aden was detached from the Raj and made its own separate colony in 1937, so I think that I incorrectly assumed that the same was done for all other states.
Chief's Commissioner's Province of Aden - Wikipedia
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It actually was! Kuwait, together with the Trucial States, Bahrain, Qatar, and Oman (and the Iranian port city of Bushehr) was part of the Persian Gulf Residency, which was administered as part of the British Raj from 1873 onwards!
So if anything the question was whether Iraq could've been added to the Persian Gulf Residency, too. That likely wouldn't have been possible, including because of the mandate status of Iraq...
Yes but that's due more to modern slavery than their time as part of the RajAren't there more Indo-Aryan residents than Semites in multiple Gulf countries?
I'm wondering how long Rome could reasonably hold those - it vacated Dacia fairly quickly, IIRC.There were proposals by Emperor Marcus Aurelius in the years 100s about annexing the central part of the Pannonian Basin (where the Iazygues lived, presumably under loose/informal Roman control) between Roman Dacia and Roman Pannonia; and to also annex "Marcomannia", modern day Bavaria, Czechia and Slovakia:
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Maybe it could somehow convince all the people galavanting into the Empire that they are better off settling in those places?I'm wondering how long Rome could reasonably hold those - it vacated Dacia fairly quickly, IIRC.
Well, as far as I'm concerned, the withdrawal from Dacia was seen as a temporary mesure (the Legions were needed elsewhere, and the majority of Roman settlers there didn't withdraw with them, and daily life went the same as under Roman rule for some years) and not because they thought it was ungovernable. But we won't ever know for sure.I'm wondering how long Rome could reasonably hold those - it vacated Dacia fairly quickly, IIRC.
Those are the following states of the United States of Iberia. A federation proposed by Fernando Garrido, a liberal Spanish, in 1881.
Santo Domingo isn't mentioned thou, and by 1881 Spain had already relinquished claims to the island.So this is how would it look.
As far as I can read on the screenshot and some guessing, I suppose he thinks that these possessions aren't as developed or populated to become states of its own, rather they would be federal territories or something like that.It's interesting that he wants Portugal but none of its or Spain's island possessions in Africa.
According to wikipedia:How large was the population of the Philippines compared to mainland Iberia at the time?