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  2. German East Africa - Wikipedia

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    GEA's area was 994,996 km 2 (384,170 sq mi), [2] [3] which was nearly three times the area of present-day Germany and almost double the area of metropolitan Germany at the time. The colony was organised when the German military was asked in the late 1880s to put down a revolt against the activities of the German East Africa Company .

  3. German East Africa Company - Wikipedia

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    First territory ("Petersland") claimed by the German East Africa Company 1885. The German East Africa Company (German: Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Gesellschaft, abbreviated DOAG) was a chartered colonial organization that brought about the establishment of German East Africa, a territory which eventually comprised the areas of modern Tanzania, Burundi, and Rwanda.

  4. Germany–Tanzania relations - Wikipedia

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    GermanyTanzania relations are the bilateral relations between Germany and Tanzania. From 1885 to 1918, Tanzania (excluding Zanzibar ) was a German colony as part of German East Africa . In the 21st century, relations are primarily characterized by the joint development cooperation .

  5. Germany and Tanzania to open talks on colonial legacy

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    DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Germany will open talks with Tanzania about the legacy of its three decades of colonial rule in the East African nation, the two countries' presidents said on Tuesday.

  6. German colonization of Africa - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  7. History of Tanzania - Wikipedia

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    Nyerere's Tanzania had a close relationship with the People's Republic of China, [46] the United Kingdom and Germany. In 1979 Tanzania declared war on Uganda after the Soviet-backed Uganda invaded and tried to annex the northern Tanzanian province of Kagera. Tanzania not only expelled Ugandan forces, but, enlisting the country's population of ...

  8. Germany's president has apologized for colonial-era killings ...

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    Germany's president on Wednesday apologized for killings under colonial rule in Tanzania more than a century ago as he met descendants of an executed leader of a revolt against German rule, and ...

  9. German colonial empire - Wikipedia

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    The treaty of Versailles attributed war guilt to Germany, but most Germans did not accept this and many saw the confiscation of the colonies by the Allies as a theft, especially after the South African premier Louis Botha stated that all allegations which the Allies had published during the war about the German colonial empire were, without ...