Please rewrite the question. We don't know the coastal areas you ask about.
Britain and France
Hitler
Spain did.
Austria
it is the french colonial empire
Cuba was a Spanish Colony.
Prior to World War I it was Germany
France
The United Kingdom and Egypt.
France
France had the control before the united states got.
The Ottoman Empire, but truthfully due to a series of civil wars and partial defeats by other empires the Byzantine empire had been in decline for centuries prior to their final defeat