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This is a list of former German colonies owned by states of Germany: Holy Roman Empire and German Confederation. Brandenburg-Prussia. Groß ...
In Germany after the First World War, the general public opinion was that the seizure of the colonies had been unlawful and that Germany had a right to its colonies. Nearly all the parties elected to the Weimar National Assembly on 19 January 1919, voted in favor of a resolution which demanded the return of the colonies on 1 March 1919, i.e ...
In this map of German colonies, yellow marks Klein-Venedig and red the Prussian colonies, some of them in the Caribbean. Klein-Venedig ("Little Venice"; also the etymology of the name "Venezuela") was the most significant part of the German colonization of the Americas between 1528 and 1546.
Germany quickly lost almost all its colonies. However, in German East Africa , a guerrilla campaign was waged by the colonial army leader there, General Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck . Using Germans and native Askaris , Lettow-Vorbeck launched multiple guerrilla raids against British forces in Kenya and Rhodesia .
Category: Former German colonies. ... Treaties extended to dependent territories of Germany (6 C) W. German West Africa (3 C, 10 P) Pages in category "Former German ...
This is a list of former European colonies. The European countries which had the most colonies throughout history were: United Kingdom (130), France (90), Portugal (52), Spain (44), Netherlands (29), Germany (20), Russia (17), Denmark (9), Sweden (8), Italy (7), Norway (6), Belgium (3), and Courland (2).
When the German Empire came into existence in 1871, [1] none of its constituent states had any overseas colonies. Only after the Berlin Conference in 1884 did Germany begin to acquire new overseas possessions, [2] [3] but it had a much longer relationship with colonialism dating back to the 1520s.
German colonies in the Pacific, with German New Guinea in brown Hoisting of the German flag at Mioko in 1884 By the German–Spanish Treaty of 1899 , Germany bought from Spain the Caroline Islands and the Mariana Islands (excluding Guam , which had been ceded to the US after the 1898 Spanish–American War ) for 25 million pesetas (equivalent ...