Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty
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The Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty was an agreement signed on 1 July 1890 between Germany and the United Kingdom.
Handover ceremony on Heligoland, 10 August 1890
Imperial German Postal Agency in Zanzibar with its staff (1890)
German soldiers celebrating infront of an English barrack (1891)
German East Africa
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German East Africa 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
Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty
…gave German South-West Africa access to the Zambezi River), the strategically located archipelago of Heligoland in the North Sea, and the heartland of German East Africa. In return, Germany recognized British authority in Zanzibar. Heligoland was needed to control the new Kiel Canal and the approaches to Germany's North…
Askari soldiers under German command in 1896
A streetscape photo of Dar es Salaam taken by Walther Dobbertin, c. 1906-1918
Fort Bagamoyo, c. 1891
1 rupie, German East Africa, 1902. Silver 917.