1890s Colour Antique Map GERMAN COLONIAL PROPERTIES ,1894 Antique Colour Map

HISTORICAL COLONIAL MAP

The German colonial empire was an overseas area formed in the late 19th century as part of the Hohenzollern dynasty's German Empire. There had also been some short lived attempts at colonisation before this.There was an attempt to colonise the area which is part of Venezuela in the sixteenth century by the Augsburg banking families of Anton and Bartholomeus Welser. Between 1528 and 1556 Germans had some rights to Venezuelan territory, see German colonization of the Americas. There had been some other attempts at colonisation, such as Arguin Island off Mauritania's Atlantic coast (5 October 1685 acquired by Brandenburg, from 1701, Prussian, 7 March 1721 lost to France). Short-lived colonies had been established by individual German states in the 17th century. Branderburgisch-Africanische Compagnie of Brandenburg, which became the Kingdom of Prussia, established colonies at Arguin in Mauritania and along the Prussian Gold Coast (later integrated as part of the Dutch Gold Coast) in present-day Ghana and on the island St. Thomas. The Baltic German-led Duchy of Courland also colonized Tobago and St. Andrews Island. However, none of the German states was strong enough to contend with the Atlantic maritime powers. Similarly, from the Habsburg Monarchy's Austrian territories within the Holy Roman Empire, only the Ostender-Kompanie - based in the Southern Netherlands, now in Belgium - briefly held territory in India, on the Coromandel Coast and Andaman and Nicobar Islands from 1719 to 1732, when it was dissolved on French insistance. Owing to its delayed unification by land-oriented Prussia in 1871, Germany came late to the imperialist scramble for remote colonial territory (their so-called "place in the sun"). The German states prior to 1870 had retained separate political structures and goals, and German foreign policy up to and including the age of Otto von Bismarck concentrated on resolving the "German question" in Europe and securing German interests on that same continent. On the other hand, Germans had traditions of foreign sea-borne trade dating back to the Hanseatic League; a tradition existed of German emigration (eastward in the direction of Russia and Romania and westward to North America); and North German merchants and missionaries showed lively interest in overseas lands. Many Germans in the late 19th century viewed colonial acquisitions as a true indication of having achieved nationhood, and the demand for prestigious colonies went hand-in-hand with dreams of a High Seas Fleet, which would become reality and seriously challenge Britain's maritime supremacy. Because Germany was so late to join the race for colonial territories, most of the world had already been carved up by the other European powers; in some regions the trend was already towards decolonisation, especially in the continental Americas, encouraged by the American Revolution, French Revolution, and Napoleon Bonaparte. This is a list of former German Empire colonies and protectorates (German: Schutzgebiete), the German colonial empire. Africa * German East Africa - Deutsch-Ostafrika o Tanganyika; after World War I a British mandate, which in 1962 became independent and in 1964 joined with former British protectorate of the sultanate of Zanzibar to form present-day Tanzania o Rwanda (present-day) o Burundi (present-day) * German South West Africa - Deutsch-Südwestafrika o Namibia (present-day) except Walvisbaai * German West Africa -Deutsch-Westafrika - existed as one unit only for two or three years, then split into two colonies due to distances: o 1. Kamerun; after World War I separated in a British part, Cameroons, and a French Cameroun, which became present Cameroon. The British part was later split in half, with one part joining Nigeria and the other Cameroon. o 2. Togoland; after World War I separated in a British part, which joined Ghana, and a French one, which became Togo Pacific * German New Guinea - Deutsch-Neuguinea, Kaiser-Wilhelmsland (today Papua-New-Guinea) o German Solomon Islands o Caroline Islands (Karolinen) + Federated States of Micronesia (present-day) + Palau (present-day) o Mariana Islands (Marianen) o Nauru o Marshall Islands * Samoa

1890s Wood Engraving, Antique Map

Approximate Overall Size: 12 X 9 1/2 inches

CONDITION: Book Plate Map - Excellent Condition. Folded. As Scanned. German Text. Beautiful with excellent detail. Map Print is Blank on the back