The Great Powers scramble to establish colonies…

1886 CE

The Great Powers scramble to establish colonies in East Africa after Carl Peters receives a charter for his German East Africa Company in 1885.

The 1886 Anglo-German commercial agreements concerning the Sultanate of Zanzibar place the sultanate’s five hundred mile-long southern coast (now Tanzania) in the German sphere of influence and ...

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Dar es Salaam Dar es Salaam Tanzania View →

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Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) View → Zanzibar, Omani Sultanate of View → German Empire (“Second Reich”) View →

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Colonization of Africa, German View → Scramble for Africa View →

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