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German colonial rule in Africa 1884–1914 was an expression of nationalism and moral superiority that was justified by constructing an image of the natives as "Other". German colonization was characterized by the use of repressive violence in the name of 'culture' and 'civilization'. Techniques included genocide in parts of Africa. [170]
These were German colonies established in the Pacific: German New Guinea, 1884–1919. Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, 1885–1914. Bismarck Archipelago, 1885–1914. German Solomon Islands Protectorate, 1885–1914. Bougainville Island, 1885–1914. Buka Island, 1885–1914. Choiseul Island, 1885–1900. Shortland Islands, 1885–1900.
Klein-Venedig. 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. The Augsburg -based Welser banking ...
German East Africa. German East Africa (GEA; German: Deutsch-Ostafrika) was a German colony in the African Great Lakes region, which included present-day Burundi, Rwanda, the Tanzania mainland, and the Kionga Triangle, a small region later incorporated into Mozambique. GEA's area was 994,996 km 2 (384,170 sq mi), [2][3] which was nearly three ...
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 ...
Germany colonized Africa during two distinct periods. In the 1680s, the Margraviate of Brandenburg, then leading the broader realm of Brandenburg-Prussia, pursued limited imperial efforts in West Africa. The Brandenburg African Company was chartered in 1682 and established two small settlements on the Gold Coast of what is today Ghana.
Namibia. German South West Africa (German: Deutsch-Südwestafrika) was a colony of the German Empire from 1884 [1] until 1915, [2] though Germany did not officially recognise its loss of this territory until the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. German rule over this territory was punctuated by numerous rebellions by its native African peoples, which ...
Map of Kiautschou Bay with Tsingtau, 1905. The Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory [a] was a German leased territory in Imperial and Early Republican China from 1898 to 1914. Covering an area of 552 km 2 (213 sq mi), it centered on Kiautschou Bay (Jiaozhou Bay) on the southern coast of the Shandong Peninsula.