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The German colonial empire encompassed parts of several African countries, including parts of present-day Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Namibia, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Chad, Nigeria, Togo, Ghana, as well as northeastern New Guinea, Samoa and numerous Micronesian islands.
After the foundation of the German Empire in 1871 it was possible to map the entire national territory according to standard cartographic features. In 1878, the four German kingdoms of Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony and Württemberg decided to compile this map series at a scale of 1:100,000.
Langhans’s atlas is not only the first German collec-tion of colonial maps. It is also the only completed series of maps for all “protectorates of the German Empire” (Demhardt 2009, 28).
The German Empire consisted of 25 states, each with its own nobility, four constituent kingdoms, six grand duchies, five duchies (six before 1876), seven principalities, three free Hanseatic cities, and one imperial territory.
The German colonial empire constituted the overseas colonies, dependencies and territories of the German Empire. Unified in the early 1870s, the chancellor of this time period was Otto von Bismarck.
13. Dez. 2023 · Explore the history and geography of the German colonies in Africa and Asia from 1884 to 1914. See the interactive map, the flag proposals, and the population data of the former German colonies.
21. Mai 2024 · German Empire, historical empire founded on January 18, 1871, in the wake of three short, successful wars by the North German state of Prussia. Within a seven-year span, Denmark, the Habsburg monarchy, and France had been vanquished.
