| | Resident (title) Biography,info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | to the Sultan of the Maldives archipelago since he formally accepted British protection on 16 December 1887 (informally since 1796, after the British took over Ceylon from the Dutch), but in fact this office was filled ex officio by the colonial Governors of until 4 February 1948, abolished on 26 July 1965 |
 | | On the Comoros, in the Indian Ocean, several Residents were posted with the various native sultanates on major islands; they were all three subordinated to the French administrators of Mayotte island protectorate (itself constituting the native Maore or Mawuti sultanate) : |
 | | Ahmed ibn Fumo Bakari, the first mfalume (sultan) of Witu (on the Kenyan coast) ceded on 8 April 1885 25 square mile of territory to the brothers Clemens and Gustav Denhardt’s “Tana Company”, and the remainder of the Wituland became the German Protectorate of Wituland (Deutsch-Witu) on 27 May 1885. |
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