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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A former German protectorate of eastern Africa comprising much of what is now Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi. The protectorate was declared in 1885 and lasted until the Germans surrendered the territory after World War I.
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- proper noun A former country and colony of Germany in Africa, spread mostly over present-day mainland
Tanzania ,Rwanda andBurundi .
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Examples
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¶Originally known as German East Africa, Tanganyika finally became independent in 1961.
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
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Before twelve months had passed the German flag flew over what came to be known as German East Africa, and also over Togoland and the The Cameroons on the West Coast.
An African Adventure Isaac Frederick Marcosson 1918
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At the age of fifteen, Ray arrived in Cape Town on board the German East Africa liner Urbena.
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GovernmentCountry name: conventional long form: Republic of Rwanda conventional short form: Rwanda local long form: Republika y'u Rwanda local short form: Rwanda former: Ruanda, German East Africa
Rwanda 2008
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Rwandaconventional long form: Republic of Rwanda conventional short form: Rwanda local long form: Republika y'u Rwanda local short form: Rwanda former: Ruanda, German East Africa
Country name 2008
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Here is German East Africa, three times the size of Germany itself, bordered to the northeast by a similar-sized swath called British East Africa.
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During World War I Smuts was tasked with defeating the German East Africa commander Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, as great a master of guerrilla warfare as Smuts had earlier been.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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During World War I Smuts was tasked with defeating the German East Africa commander Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, as great a master of guerrilla warfare as Smuts had earlier been.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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The Allied supreme council assigned to Portugal the mandate for part of German East Africa, known as the Kionga Triangle.
b. Portugal 2001
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World War I led to fighting between German and British forces, using African troops and porters, in Tanganyika (German East Africa).
d. East Africa 2001
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