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Vor 5 Tagen · Part of the research deals with a group of travelers who became quite crucial for the colonial German Empire. Carl Peters (1856-1918), a German politician and publicist, serves as an example here. Although he later fell out of favor with the German emperor, he is nevertheless considered one of the most important ideological pioneers for the establishment of the colony of German East Africa ...
25. Mai 2024 · A statue of an East African Askari soldier by Vivien Mallock. Source: vivienmallock.co.uk On July 31, three days after the war began in Europe, the German cruiser SMS Königsberg sailed from its port in Dar-es-Salaam with the intention of attacking British commerce in the Indian Ocean, narrowly avoiding two cruisers from the Cape Squadron, which had been ordered to shadow the German ship.
Vor 2 Tagen · Contemporaries considered the question of colonies, and of acquiring a German colonial empire, a necessity, as is emphasized by Bernhard von Bülow who maintained that 'the question is not whether we want to colonize or not, but that we must colonize whether we want to or not' (p.12). In view of Germany's relatively 'belated' arrival on the scene of colonial expansion, such a perceived need ...
Vor 2 Tagen · The Spanish Empire, [b] sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy [c] or the Catholic Monarchy, [d] [5] [6] [7] was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976. [8] [9] In conjunction with the Portuguese Empire, it ushered in the European Age of Discovery. It achieved a global scale, [10] controlling vast portions of the Americas ...
28. Mai 2024 · A number of German colonies and protectorates and Ottoman provinces were held as mandates by the United Kingdom (Tanganyika, British Cameroons, Togoland, Palestine and Mesopotamia); and its dominions of Australia (New Guinea, Nauru), New Zealand (Western Samoa), and South Africa (South West Africa).
Vor einem Tag · Order of independence of African nations, 1950–2011. The decolonisation of Africa was a series of political developments in Africa that spanned from the mid-1950s to 1975, during the Cold War. Colonial governments gave way to sovereign states in a process often marred by violence, political turmoil, widespread unrest, and organised revolts.
17. Mai 2024 · The German Empire had a total of four colonies in Africa in 1914: Togo, Cameroon, German Southwest Africa (Namibia), and German East Africa (Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania, except for Zanzibar). In addition to these African colonies, Germany also had colonies in other regions, such as Papua New Guinea and various Pacific islands.
