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| | GERMAN EAST AFRICA - LoveToKnow Article on GERMAN EAST AFRICA |
 | | This was followed, five days later, by a revolt of all the coast Arabs against German rulethe Germans, raw hands at the task of managing Orientals, having aroused intense hostility by their brusque treatment of the dispossessed rulers. | | | Of these above 10,000 were Arabs, Indians, Syrians and Goanese, and 3000 Europeans (over 2000 being Germans). | | | The German acquisitions were resented by Zanzibar, but were acquiesced in by the British government (the second Gladstone administration). |
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| | Geographies of Orientalism and Racism in Colonial German East Africa |
| | Their writings describe it as not only a religion, but also a political force and a means of organizing society, as well as an economic competitor. | | | Based on German records from East Africa stored in the German and Tanzanian National Archives, Kopf will describe German colonial understandings of and responses to this multidimensional threat. | | | German colonial administrators perceived Islam to be a major challenge to their rule. |
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http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/022301/africa.shtml
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| | German East Africa |
| | In the treaty of 1886, Germany renounced it's claims on the WITU AREA (on Kenya's coast, north of Mombasa) and on Uganda, and Britain recognized Germany's claim to what was to become German East Africa. | | | From the coast, the Germans penetrated the country and established their rule. | | | The German East Africa COMPANY (founded 1887, succeeded by the German government in 1891) established BAGAMOYO as their colony's capital, soon moving it to DARESSALAAM. |
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| | British East Africa Company |
| | The aim of the company seems to have been partly political, countering German, French and Italian influence in the area, partly commercial, though it never paid a dividend, and partly philanthropic, supporting the campaign to suppress the slave trade between East Africa and Arabia. | | | This co-operation collapsed in the 1970's, but was revived in the late 1990's. | | | Prior to World War 1, Kenya (and Kenya alone) was known officially as British East Africa, just as Tanganyika was officially known as German East Africa in the same period. |
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| | German East Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The German raider, SMS Königsberg also fought off the coast of East Africa. | | | Heralded after the war as one of their few heroes, the Germans celebrated Lettow-Vorbeck's Schutztruppe as the only German force in the First World War not to have been defeated in open combat. | | | It came into existence during the 1880s and ended during World War I, when the area was taken over by the British. |
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| | BRITISH EAST AFRICA - LoveToKnow Article on BRITISH EAST AFRICA |
| | Coincident with the transfer of the administration to the imperial government a dispute as to the succession to a chieftainship in the Mazrui, the most important Arab family on the coast, led to a revolt which lasted ten months and involved much hard fighting. | | | In 1889 Karl Peters, a German official, led what was ~ractically a raiding expedition into that country, after running a blockade of the ports. | | | The disturbance caused by the German claims had a dettimental effect on trade and put a considerable strain on the resources of the company. |
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| | German-East-Africa former German colony |
| | Postcard from the Germanen Karte Series: A grateful nation honours it's heroes - victorious engagement of the German Schutztruppe& Askaris; British-Indian regiments attempt to go ashore at Tanga (East Africa). | | | In the Battle of Tanga, the Schutztruppe (200 Germans and 900 Askari) decisively defeated the 8,000 British and Indian troops which disembarked in November. | | | In the Treaty of Versailles, Germany cedes it's claims to all it's colonies, including German East Africa, without compensation. |
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http://www.deutsche-schutzgebiete.de/ostafrika-english.htm
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| | Christian Lautherborn in German East Africa 1888-1906 |
| | In 1891 Christian Lautherborn had completed his assignment for Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Gesellschaft (German East African Company) in Bagamoyo, and he could start what he had actually come to Africa for - the cultivation of cotton. | | | On this same field there must be constructed buildings, the field has to be cleared, the cotton sowed and later proces-sed, and all must be finished within a time limit of 8 months; so that I can send cotton to Germany. | | | In order to achieve this, I am using all of my energy. |
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| | German East Africa -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Also features documents used by East German government to promote its ideology during the post World War II era." | | | 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. | | | The world became involved in the Middle East wars after Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal in 1956. |
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| | South African Military History Society - Journal- THE GERMAN EAST AFRICA CAMPAIGN |
| | Help had earlier been sought from India and in November 1914, an Anglo-Indian landing was attempted at Tanga which was repulsed. | | | General Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, Commander-in-Chief of German Forces in East Africa during World War I is, by military standards, a legendary character. | | | The British Government, mindful perhaps of events fourteen years earlier when General J C Smuts (now Minister of Defence in the Union Government) was himself waging a guerilla campaign against the British Army in the Anglo-Boer War, sought his assistance. |
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| | German Colonial Uniforms |
| | Here we review a selection of highly recommended books that have all been useful in the making of this website. | | | The book assesses the forces and leaders involved and gives a good account of the confusion in East Africa at the start of the war before going on to describe the landings and action in detail. | | | This book covers the campaigns, revolts and diplomatic entanglements faced by the various European powers in their scramble for Africa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. |
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http://www.sacktrick.com/igu/germancolonialuniforms/books.htm
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| | German East Africa on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Author: Publication: Maps.com World History Maps Source: MAPS | | | The German government declared a protectorate over the area in 1885 and the German East Africa Company was organized to administer it. | | | During World War I the Allies captured German East Africa; after the war it was divided into League of Nations mandates. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/G/GermanE1a.asp
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| | Search:WWI - OXiDE |
| | All reports and research documents found on this site are available for only $9.95/page with FREE bibliographies and works cited pages!... | | | Research Reports On The "WWI Bush Ghost" of German East Africa. | | | Essays On The "WWI Bush Ghost" of German East Africa. |
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| | Amazon.com: Armies in East Africa 1914-18 (Men-at-Arms): Books: Peter Abbott,Raffaele Ruggeri |
| | Join Amazon Prime and ship Two-Day for free and Overnight for $3.99. | | | The achievements of the German commander Paul von Lettow Vorbeck - the last German commander in the field to lay down his arms in 1918 - brought him fame and respect comparable to those won by Rommel in World War II. | | | Armies in East Africa 1914-1918 is divided into short sections on the pre-war colonial forces in place (Germany, Britain, Belgium and Portugal), a campaign chronology, the campaign of 1914-1915, the 1916 Allied offensive, and then stalemate and pursuit in 1917. |
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| | 1901 - 1916 German East Africa |
| | Iliffe, J.A. Tanganyika under German Rule 1905-1912 Arusha pre 1939 | | | 1904 on Taxes Iliffe, J.A. Tanganyika under German Rule 1905-1912 Tax | | | 1905 Gotzen abolished labour in lieu of tax Iliffe, J.A. Tanganyika under German Rule 1905-1912 Tax |
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| | History of TANZANIA |
| | From 1965 each part of the union has only one political party, but they are different parties - TANU in Tanganyika and ASP (Afro-Shirazi Party) in Zanzibar. | | | President Mwinyi promulgates a new democratic constitution in 1992, with the stipulation that political parties will only be registered if they are active in both Tanganyika and Zanzibar and if they are not identified with specific religious, regional, tribal or racial groups. | | | Soon, inevitably, there are murderous attacks on Germans and the burning of their houses. |
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| | Near east - Trade Encyclopedia |
| | It possesses huge stocks of crude oil, is the birthplace and spiritual centre of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. | | | Starting in the middle of the 20th century, the Middle East has been at the centre of world affairs, and is an extremely strategically, economically, politically and culturally sensitive area. | | | The Middle East (also called Southwest Asia) is a region comprising the lands that extend from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. |
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| | East Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The German empire gained control of a large area named German East Africa, comprised from what is today Rwanda, Burundi and the mainland part of Tanzania named Tanganyika. | | | Some parts of East Africa have been renowned for their concentrations of wild animals, such as the "big five" of elephant, water buffalo, lion, leopard and rhinoceros, though populations have been declining under increased stress in recent times, particularly the rhino and elephant. | | | East Africa during the 19th and early 20th century became a theatre of competition between the major imperialistic European nations of the time. |
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| | DAVID AND GOLIATH; German East Africa |
| | Though all the warring nations attempted to maintain the moral high ground, all were, naturally, looking out for number one. | | | Also, the native Askari troops were treated the same way that the white troops were; there was no discrimination between black and white. | | | Von Lettow-Vorbeck, with his 4,000 soldiers, (German and native Askaris) caught the British in an ambush after the landing and drove them back to their landing ships. |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/944/49415
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| | Christian Lautherborn in German East Africa 1888-1906 |
| | Upon the conclusion of World War I German East Africa became a British protectorate and came to be called Tanganyika. | | | pon the conclusion of World War I German East Africa became a British protectorate and came to be called Tanganyika. | | | In the beginning of April 1888 the 27 year-old Christian Lautherborn said his farewells to his family at the Hjørring Railway Station and boarded the "milk train" on its way to Hamburg. |
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| | First World War - German East Africa |
| | German settlers came to join him from time to time, too. | | | By the end of that year the motley Allied force inside German East Africa included the Gold Coast Regiment, 3 KAR, two regiments each from Kashmir and Baluchistan, and the 40th Pathans. | | | After the 11 November general armistice, it took the British two weeks to trace their enemy so that they could tell him the war was over. |
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| | German Officer Tafel - WWI German East Africa - Wehrmacht-Awards.com Militaria Forums |
| | He served in the Chinese occupation forces 1904-1907, and from 3 December 1908 until his releasse from POW camp with Schutztruppen German East Africa. | | | After the First World War he served for some time in the police, and was reactivated as an army Major (E) on 1 January 1936. | | | Served in the German army and colonial forces 9 February 1898 to 31 March 1920. |
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| | East Africa Living Encyclopedia |
| | 1898-1903 German troops attack Mwezi Gisabo and force him to sign the Treaty of Kiganda on May 24, 1903, recognizing German authority. | | | 1885 King Leopold of Belgium establishes a claim to the Congo region; Rwanda and Burundi become part of German East Africa. | | | Among the first are the Banyaruguru from the North; later, in the 17th and 18th centuries, the Bahima group comes from the East. |
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| | East Africa Living Encyclopedia |
| | This borderline was retained through the periods of Belgium's League of Nations Mandate and the United Nations Trusteeships for Ruanda-Urundi; it became a national boundary when Ruanda-Urundi and Tanganyika gained independence between 1961 and 1962 as Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanganyika (now Tanzania). | | | A de facto boundary existed between Rwanda and Burundi during the period of German control up to World War I. When Rwanda and Burundi became independent states in 1962, they accepted the border as it was defined in the European statutes. | | | This 135-mile boundary was partly established in 1920, when the former German East Africa was divided into separate mandates. |
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| | Janus: German East Africa, 1900s |
| | The family was apparently based at Amani and may have been named Unger (see prints 115 and 116). | | | Showing a group of Europeans posed on the deck of a ship. | | | This collection is available on microfiche: Africa, fiche number 113. |
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| | Trehane describes his horse 'Devil' "The first time we had to saddle him he put 2 men in hospital. | | | My orderly called him Shaitan (Devil) because the 1st thing he ever did was to bite you on the breeches". | | | He had come from South Africa and was handed over to an Indian cavalry regiment. |
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| | Research in African Literatures: Kala Shairi: German East Africa in Swahili Poems.(Book Review)@ HighBeam Research |
| | This bilingual anthology presents a treasure trove of Swahili historiographic poetry about the German colonial rule in East Africa between 1884 and World War I. The poems raise many questions: For what kind of audience were they written? | | | Kala Shairi: German East Africa in Swahili Poems.(Book Review) | | | Do we have to assume instances of self-censorship when we attempt to... |
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| | eBay - german east africa ..., Europe, Coins World items on eBay.com |
| | German East Africa-Deutsch Ostafrika-1 Rupie in 1910 J | | | Use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of the eBay User Agreement and Privacy Policy. | | | 1904A GERMAN - EAST AFRICA 1/2 HELLER in RED UNC |
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| | German East Africa |
| | German East Africa was a German colony and issued German stamps with an overprint until they could issue their own. | | | At the end of WW1 German East Africa was occupied and owned by the British. | | | The British gave part of German East Africa which included Ruanda and Urundi (Belgian East Africa) to the Belgians. |
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| | Rare German East Africa Siege coins, notes and collectables in the Balson Holdings Family Trust collection - |
| | He was never beaten by the Allies in the field of conflict and through his efforts tied up over 250,000 troops with his small force of a few thousand schutztruppe and African Askaris. | | | Image right: The German East African flag was based on the German horizontal tricolour of black, white and red charged in the centre with a distinctive shield of the colony. | | | He led the first recorded guerilla war in which tens of thousands of Allied troops died or fell violently ill - victims of the African bush not the bullet. |
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| | German East Africa Bank Notes |
| | Came under British control from 1917 until 1961 when it was granted self-government. | | | German East Africa, located on the coast of east-central Africa, was a German protectorate 1884-1917. |
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| | Researching GM Alfred Gutknecht - WWI German East Africa - Wehrmacht-Awards.com Militaria Forums |
| | Also, his photo in "Die Generale des Heeres" depicts him wearing two Imperial decorations on his ribbion bar: the EK II (with 1939 Bar) and one that appears to be white with four narrow vertcal stripes. | | | Does anyone have any references to him in their literature on GM Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck's campaigns in German East Africa? | | | No mention of him in Charles Miller's "Battle for the Bundu," the best account of the German side I have seen in English. |
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| | German East Africa Line / Woermann Line |
| | 1940 requisitioned by German Navy, 1945 bombed and sunk near Stettin. | | | 1940 requisitioned by German Navy as accommodation ship, bombed and sunk at Bordeaux, refloated but 1944 scuttled in River Gironde. | | | Many thanks to Ted Finch for his assistance in collecting this data. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Dictionary - German East Africa definition |
| | Ger·man East Af·ri·ca former German territory comprising present-day Burundi, Rwanda, and mainland Tanzania | | | Search for "German East Africa" in all of MSN Encarta | | | MSN Encarta - Dictionary - German East Africa definition |
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| | Your people in Africa eBay Store About My Store |
| | You can also buy Africa Ethnic Art, batiks, oil paintings, as well as Masai and other ethnic jewellery. | | | Use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of the eBay User Agreement and Privacy Policy. | | | Coins and Banknotes from East Africa & German East Africa. |
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| | german east africa - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Phrases that include german east africa: german east africa company | | | German East Africa : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info] | | | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "german east africa" is defined. |
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| | MiniatureWargaming - German East Africa Group |
| | The German East Africa Yahoo Group was formed to "obtain and share information related to miniature wargaming about German East Africa, particularly the Abushiri (Wahehe) Rebellion of 1888, the Maji Maji Rebellion of 1905, and Lettow-Vorbeck's masterful operations during World War One." | | | Posted by The Editor at 03:00 PM in Colonials, Wargaming Sites, World War I |
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| | german_east_africa |
| | The following notes are available for your viewing pleasure! | | | German East Africa (Tanganyika), was located on the coast | | | German East Africa - Capital: Dar es Salam |
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| | Tanzania |
| | German forces on the move until 14 Nov 1918. | | | 9 Oct 1916 British occupation of German East Africa begins | | | May 1916/19 Sep 1916 Belgian conquest of parts of German East Africa; |
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| | WHKMLA : History of Tanzania, ToC |
| | Banknotes of German East Africa, from Ron Wise's World Paper Money | | | Article Zanzibar, from Catholic Encyclopedia 1912 edition; Article German East Africa, Zanzibar, from EB 1911 | | | Tanzania, from Land Forces of Britain, the Empire and Commonwealth |
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| | Young Indy German East Africa Pictures 4 |
| | Reaching their destination - the west coast of French Equatorial Africa. | | | And take a boat downstream with some skirmishes along the way. | | | Indy learns a lesson on the immorality of colonialism and how Africa should be for the Africans. |
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| | German East Africa |
| | a former German territory in E Africa, the area now comprised of continental Tanzania and the independent republics of Rwanda and Burundi. |
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| | Berman's Postal History GERMAN EAST AFRICA |
| | 1909 Mi.19 SG.#25 No Wmk: 3R bl-black & red - vertical pair FU - pmk TANGA &; 19.4.09 cds [2x] - [cDM 1200 - œ150] - both Sgd: Pauligk BP GERMANY - Cols - E. Africa 241880 |
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