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PRONUNCIATION OF GERMAN EAST AFRICA

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GERMAN EAST AFRICA

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German East Africa is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GERMAN EAST AFRICA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

German East Africa

German East Africa

German East Africa was a German colony in the African Great Lakes region, which included what are now Burundi, Rwanda and Tanganyika. Its area was 994,996 km2, nearly three times the area of present-day Germany. The colony was organized when the German military was called upon to put down a revolt against the activities of a colonial company during the late 1880s; it ended with Imperial Germany's defeat in World War I. Afterwards the territory was divided between Britain and Belgium and reorganized as a mandate of the League of Nations.

Definition of German East Africa in the English dictionary

The definition of German East Africa in the dictionary is a former German territory in E Africa, consisting of Tanganyika and Ruanda-Urundi: divided in 1919 between Great Britain and Belgium; now in Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GERMAN EAST AFRICA

German Baptist Brethren
German cockroach
German Democratic Republic
German measles
German Ocean
German Samoa
German sheep dog
German shepherd
German shepherd dog
German short-haired pointer
German silver
German sixth
German Southwest Africa
German speaker
German wire-haired pointer
German-speaking

WORDS THAT END LIKE GERMAN EAST AFRICA

Africa
America
Black Africa
British East Africa
British West Africa
East Africa
French Equatorial Africa
French North Africa
French West Africa
Horn of Africa
Italian East Africa
Nkosi Sikelel´ iAfrica
North Africa
Portuguese East Africa
Republic of South Africa
South Africa
South West Africa
Spanish West Africa
sub-Saharan Africa
Union of South Africa
West Africa

Synonyms and antonyms of German East Africa in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «German East Africa» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GERMAN EAST AFRICA

Find out the translation of German East Africa to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of German East Africa from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «German East Africa» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

德属东非
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

África Oriental Alemana
570 millions of speakers

English

German East Africa
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जर्मन ईस्ट अफ्रीका
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

شرق أفريقيا الألمانية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Германская Восточная Африка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

África Oriental Alemã
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জার্মান পূর্ব আফ্রিকা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Afrique orientale allemande
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Afrika Timur Jerman
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Deutsch-Ostafrika
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ドイツ領東アフリカ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

독일어 동 아프리카
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Jerman Wétan Afrika
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Đức Đông Phi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஜேர்மன் கிழக்கு ஆப்பிரிக்கா
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जर्मन पूर्व आफ्रिका
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Alman Doğu Afrika
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

German East Africa
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Niemiecka Afryka Wschodnia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Німецька Східна Африка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Germană Africa de Est
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Γερμανικά Ανατολική Αφρική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Duits-Oos -Afrika
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Tyska Östafrika
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Tysk Øst-Afrika
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of German East Africa

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GERMAN EAST AFRICA»

The term «German East Africa» is regularly used and occupies the 93.182 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GERMAN EAST AFRICA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «German East Africa» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «German East Africa» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about German East Africa

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GERMAN EAST AFRICA»

Discover the use of German East Africa in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to German East Africa and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Emancipation Without Abolition in German East Africa, ...
Of interest not only to historians of East Africa, but makes a contribution to the more general debate about the demise of slavery in the continent.
Jan-Georg Deutsch, 2006
2
Battle for the Bundu: the First World War in East Africa
Det ene af C. Millers værker om 1. Verdenskrig i Afrika - "Lunatic Express" haves ikke.
Charles Miller, 1974
3
British and German East Africa, Their Economic and ...
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.
Heinrich Brode, 2010
4
Studies in German Colonial History
First published in 1962
W.O. Henderson, 2012
5
Colonialism in Africa, 1870-1960: The economics of ...
important role in promoting technological change in the German territories.13 It concentrated on introducing rational methods of production in the German colonies: Kamerun, German East Africa, Togo and German South-West Africa.
Lewis H. Gann, Peter Duignan, 1975
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2013 Standard Catalog of World Coins - 1901-2000
UGANDA BELGIAN CONGO MOZAMBIQUE Indian Ocean KENYA NORTHERN RHODESHIA GERMAN EAST AFRICA German East Africa (Tanganyika), located on the coast of east-central Africa between British East Africa (now Kenya) and ...
George S. Cuhaj, Thomas Michael, 2012
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Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800-1914
CARL CAVANAGH HODGE German East Africa Although dwarfed as a settlement colony by German Southwest Africa, German East Africa was the largest and most populous German colony. During the early nineteenth century Arab slavers ...
Carl Cavanagh Hodge, 2008
8
The South Africans with General Smuts in German East Africa, ...
Originally published in 1939 as a South African official history for their forces in World War I, this book covers the period from February 1916 to January 1917.
John Johnston Collyer, 2004
9
Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez, ...
German East Africa, occupying territory that extended to Lake Victoria in the east and Tabora in the south, and that included the western part of the central railway to Lake Tanganyika. Following occupation, the Belgian government demanded ...
William Roger Louis, 2006
10
The Rulers of German Africa, 1884-1914
For an excellent survey of East African responses to German rule, see O. F. Raum, "German East Africa: Changes in African Tribal Life under German Administration, 1892-1914" in History of East Africa, eds. Vincent Harlow et al. (2 vols.
Peter Duignan, 1979

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GERMAN EAST AFRICA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term German East Africa is used in the context of the following news items.
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MV-Liemba, How An Iconic World War I Battleship Floated Into …
The boat was named Graf von Goetzen after German East Africa's first Governor. The warship started to patrol in 1915: it served to transport ... «Worldcrunch, Jun 15»
2
The Failed German Revolution of 1918-1919
... German East Africa, German New Guinea and a few islands in the South Pacific), the racist experiments conducted there, especially the 1904 ... «Anarkismo.net, Jun 15»
3
'Tanzania will not demand money from former rulers'
In the case of Tanzania, originally which was Tanganyika Territory, the British share of the former German colony of German East Africa, which ... «IPPmedia, May 15»
4
Burundi on the road to civil war
Both Rwanda and Burundi were part of German East Africa from 1899-1916. The colony was made up of two dominant ethnic groups, the Hutu ... «TouchVision, May 15»
5
In the salerooms
... a 1916 'Tabora Pound' (€1,000 to €1,500), a gold coin valued at 15 rupees that originated in German East Africa during the First World War. «Irish Independent, May 15»
6
Burundi violence: From Belgian colonisation to ongoing fight for …
The country, part of the German East Africa, remained under the German rule until the end of the Second World War, when Belgium took control ... «International Business Times UK, May 15»
7
Century-old German ship a lifeline for Burundi's refugees
... its life in a shipyard in Papenburg, Germany, in 1913 where it was named the Graf von Goetzen after German East Africa's former governor. «Yahoo News, May 15»
8
Our Favorite Films of Katharine Hepburn
Hepburn plays a British missionary in German East Africa, an area that today comprises parts of Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi. When World ... «Biography, May 15»
9
World View: 20000 Refugees Flee Violence in Burundi, Fearing …
Germany colonized the region as German East Africa, which included today's Rwanda and Burundi. Some histories say that there was a ... «Breitbart News, Apr 15»
10
Bolivia: Morales greets Pope Francis in front of thousands of well …
History. During the colonial period Burundi was part of the German East Africa colony along with Rwanda and Tanganyika (today's Tanzania). «NEWS.com.au, Apr 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. German East Africa [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/german-east-africa>. Apr 2024 ».
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