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German colonial empire
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- historical country
- Subclass of
- historical region
- Part of
- German Reich
- Country
- German Empire
- Capital
- Berlin
- Owned by
- German Empire
- Image
- Kamerun-Kompanie DSWA 1914-15.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:German colonial empire
- Commons category
- Colonialism of Germany
- inception
- 1884-01-01
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1920-01-01
- native label
- Deutsches Kolonialreich
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Encyclopedic overview
An East African Askari soldier holding Germany's colonial flag
The German colonial empire (German: deutsches Kolonialreich) constituted the overseas colonies, dependencies, and territories of the German Empire. Unified in 1871, the chancellor of this time period was Otto von Bismarck. Short-lived attempts at colonization by individual German states had occurred in preceding centuries, but Bismarck resisted pressure to construct a colonial empire until the Scramble for Africa in 1884. Claiming much of the remaining uncolonized areas of Africa, Germany built the third-largest colonial empire at the time, after the British and French. The German colonial empire encompassed parts of Africa and Oceania.
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