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German East Africa. German East Africa ( GEA; German: Deutsch-Ostafrika) was a German colony in the African Great Lakes region, which included present-day Burundi, Rwanda, the Tanzania mainland, and the Kionga Triangle, a small region later incorporated into Mozambique. GEA's area was 994,996 km 2 (384,170 sq mi), [2] [3] which was nearly three ...
- German East Africa Company
The German East Africa Company (German:...
- Tanganyika
Tanganyika was a colonial territory in East Africa which was...
- Carl Peters
Carl Peters (27 September 1856 – 10 September 1918) was a...
- Heinrich Schnee
Kolonialmacht Deutschland (Germany, colonial power), German...
- Schutztruppe
Schutztruppen, carriers, German East Africa, 1899. At the...
- German East Africa Company
German East Africa, former dependency of imperial Germany, corresponding to present-day Rwanda and Burundi, the continental portion of Tanzania, and a small section of Mozambique. Penetration of the area was begun in 1884 by German commercial agents, and German claims were recognized by the other European powers in the period 1885–94.
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A guest contribution by Ian McCall on the guerrilla warfare of Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and his forces in German East Africa during World War I. Learn how he tied down over 300,000 British and French troops, fought after the armistice, and earned the respect of his people.
By the Anglo-German Agreement of 1886, the sultan of Zanzibar’s vaguely substantiated claims to dominion on the mainland were limited to a 10-mile- (16-km-) wide coastal strip, and Britain and Germany divided the hinterland between them as spheres of influence, the region to the south becoming known as German East Africa.
How did the native population of German East Africa recover from the war and colonialism? Learn about the challenges, losses, and changes they faced in the 1920s.
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In eastern Africa: Partition by Germany and Britain …an imperial charter for his German East Africa Company. With this the European scramble for Africa began. In east-central Africa the key occurrence was the Anglo-German Agreement of 1886, by which the two parties agreed that their spheres of influence in East Africa should be divided by a line running…
