Togoland
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Togoland, officially the Togoland Protectorate, was a protectorate of the German Empire in West Africa from 1884 to 1914, encompassing what is now the nation of Togo and most of what is now the Volta
Askari troops in Togoland, c. 1911
German colonial empire
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The German colonial empire 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
Togoland
…of Mecklenburg, to the country's official independence celebrations. In 1914 a series of drafts were made for proposed Coat of Arms and Flags for the German colonies. However, World War I broke out before the designs were finalized and implemented and the symbols were never actually taken into use. Following the…
An East African Askari soldier holding Germany's colonial flag
Groß-Friedrichsburg, a Brandenburg colony (1683–1717) in the territory of modern Ghana
The Thetis, one of the ships of the East Asia Squadron
Woermann-Linie factory in Cameroon. From the 1830s, German shipping participated in trade with Africa and established factories there. From the 1850s, trade and plantation agriculture were undertaken by German companies in the South Seas. Some of these economic enterprises eventually formed the basis for the regions' conversion into German colonies.