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German East Africa

noun

  1. a former German territory in E Africa, the area now comprised of continental Tanzania and the independent republics of Rwanda and Burundi.


German East Africa

noun

  1. a former German territory in E Africa, consisting of Tanganyika and Ruanda-Urundi: divided in 1919 between Great Britain and Belgium; now in Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

There were also several officials with high-sounding titles who were going out to their stations in German East Africa.

Two professional ivory hunters were starting for German East Africa by way of the lake.

Indians of (the late) German East Africa find themselves in a worse position than heretofore.

German East Africa was actually and potentially by far the most valuable of German oversea possessions.

German East Africa is in many places barren and almost everywhere malarious.

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