OT: German West African colony?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/27/2012 12:54 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>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.

Thanks, that sounds right assuming they together were larger than any
present country.

Joel


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>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.
> > >
> > >--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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