Surely the Romans?
1610 years.
490 years
1,611 years ago
Quite a lot. Danes and Vikings occupied much of southern Britain for hundreds of years.
Malta was officially under British rule from 1814-1964 but had been occupied by Britain somewhat earlier.
The Turks occupied the Balkan countries for 500 years.500 years
The rush-bagot agreement fixed the border between the United States & Canada at the 49th parallel & it resolved conflict to the claims of Oregon between Britain and the U.S. (they occupied it jointly for 10 years)
Britain ruled over India for about 339 years. The British rule in India is sad to have come to an end in 1947.
The British only occupied certain parts of India. It lasted for 90 years - from 1857 until 1947.
during the world war2 Britain needed help defeating the Nazis so they turned to the Jews in Europe promising them with an independent land of their own in case they agreed to fight for them and they did. Since palestine was allready occupied by Britain and Jerusalem is where Jews used to live 2000 years ago Britain decided to end its occupation there leaving it to the Jews to be the new occupiers however the british occupation was only military unlike the Jews where they turned it into a homeland so that's where the U.N. resolution of deviding palestine came from
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