OT: German West African colony?

[Dan Goncharoff]

Germany had two protectorates, Togoland and Camerun, both of which were
split into British and French zones during and after WWI. Neither territory
has any direct correspondence with current national borders.

DanG


On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 4/27/2012 11:19 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
> >And in West Africa, a colony that that I'm
> > > incapable of identifying with present-day countries without
> > > overlaying two maps.  [Wikipedia: German colonial empire.]
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> >That's Togo (formerly Togoland), I think.
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> >--bgz
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> If you compare the Wikipedia map for German Colonial Empire with a
> Google map for Togo, they don't seem to be in the same place -- the
> German colony rising from the N-S coast, Togo on the E-W coast.  And
> Togo is too small.
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> Joel
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