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The six principal colonies of German Africa, along with native kingdoms and polities, were the legal precedents of the modern states of Burundi, Cameroon, Namibia, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Togo. Chad , Gabon , Ghana , Kenya , Uganda , Mozambique , Angola , Nigeria , Central African Republic and Republic of the Congo were also under the control of ...
The first to go was Togoland to the British and to the French. Germany's colonies put up a stout fight but by 1916 Germany lost most of its colonies, except German East Africa, where a German force of General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck held out against the Allies until the end of the war.
The following were German African protectorates: Kionga Triangle, 1894–1916; German South West Africa, 1884–1915; German West Africa, 1884–1915 Togoland, 1884–1916; Kamerun, from 1884–1916; Kapitaï and Koba, 1884–1885; Mahinland, March 11, 1885 – October 24, 1885; German East Africa, 1885–1918; Witu Protectorate, 1885–1890 ...
The following were German African protectorates: German colonies in Africa, 1914. German South West Africa, 1884 to 1915; German West Africa, 1884 to 1915 Togoland, 1884 to 1916; Kamerun, from 1884 to 1916; Kapitaï and Koba, 1884 to 1885; Mahinland, March 11, 1885 to October 24, 1885; German East Africa, 1885 to 1918; Witu Protectorate, 1885 ...
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.
This is a list of the dates when African states were made colonies or protectorates of European powers and lost their ... Germany [5] Oubangui-Chari: 1894 France ...
Togoland (part of German West Africa), Kamerun (another discontiguous part of German West Africa), German Southwest Africa (now Namibia), and; German East Africa (now Tanzania, etc). (The limits of the areas of control may not be perfectly accurate due to the imprecision of the reference maps.)
German strategic thinking was that if the region between the colonies of German East Africa (Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanganyika (Tanzania minus the island of Zanzibar)), German South West Africa (Namibia minus Walvis Bay), and Kamerun (today's Republic of Cameroon) could be annexed, a contiguous entity could be created covering the breadth of the ...