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Kamerun

American  
[kah-muh-roon] / ˌkɑ məˈrun /

noun

  1. German name of Cameroons.


Kamerun British  
/ ˈkaməruːn /

noun

  1. the German name for Cameroon

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The report of the incident, made last week by a Kamerun plantation manager to his Berlin employers, did not mention an autopsy.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was a restless day in the African Kamerun.

From Time Magazine Archive

June 11—Garua, an important station on the Benue River, Kamerun, German West Africa, surrenders unconditionally to an Anglo-French force.

From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various

The colony of Kamerun has an area of 190,000 square miles, and an estimated population of 3½ millions, whites numbering less than 2,000.

From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 by Parrott, James Edward

Recently photographed in Kamerun, the last of the German provinces in Africa to surrender to the Allies.

From Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Miller, Kelly