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  2. History of German settlement in Central and Eastern Europe

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    The fortress Ordensburg Marienburg in Malbork, founded in 1274, the world's largest brick castle and the Teutonic Order's headquarters on the river Nogat.. The medieval German Ostsiedlung (literally Settling eastwards), also known as the German eastward expansion or East colonization refers to the expansion of German culture, language, states, and settlements to vast regions of Northeastern ...

  3. Colonial Germantown Historic District - Wikipedia

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    [2] [4] [5] Colonial Germantown was a leader in religious thought, printing, and education. Important dates in Germantown's early history include: [6] August 16, 1683, Pastorius arrives in Philadelphia; October 25, 1683, Lots are drawn for land among Pastorius's followers and settlement begins; 1688, first American anti-slavery protest published

  4. German colonial projects before 1871 - Wikipedia

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    From 1850 to 1875 the region around Valdivia, Osorno and Llanquihue in Southern Chile received some 6,000 German immigrants as part of a state-led colonization scheme. [62] Some immigrants were leaving Europe as consequence of the aftermath of the German revolutions of 1848–49 . [ 63 ]

  5. Drang nach Osten - Wikipedia

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    Drang nach Osten (German: [ˈdʁaŋ nax ˈʔɔstn̩]; lit. 'Drive to the East', [1] [2] or 'push eastward', [3] 'desire to push east') [4] was the name for a 19th-century German nationalist intent to expand Germany into Slavic territories of Central and Eastern Europe.

  6. Ostsiedlung - Wikipedia

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    German eastward expansion 895–1400. The Ostsiedlung followed an immediate rapid population growth throughout Central and Eastern Europe. During the 12th and 13th centuries, the population density increased considerably. The increase was due to the influx of settlers on the one hand and an increase in slavic populations after the settlement on ...

  7. Shenandoah Germans - Wikipedia

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    The Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia and parts of West Virginia is home to a long-established German-American community dating to the 17th century. The earliest German settlers to Shenandoah, sometimes known as the Shenandoah Deitsch or the Valley Dutch , were Pennsylvania Dutch migrants who traveled from southeastern Pennsylvania .

  8. Prussian Settlement Commission - Wikipedia

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    The Prussian Settlement Commission, officially known as the Royal Prussian Settlement Commission in the Provinces West Prussia and Posen (German: Königlich Preußische Ansiedlungskommission in den Provinzen Westpreußen und Posen; Polish: Królewska Komisja Osadnicza dla Prus Zachodnich i Poznańskiego) was a Prussian government commission that operated between 1886 and 1924, but actively ...

  9. List of former German colonies - Wikipedia

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    German colonies in Africa, 1914. 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