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	First World War - German East Africa
		von Lettow Vorbeck and his men were chivvied into Portuguese East Africa (now Mozambique) - but they turned the tables by attacking both their unwilling hosts and the British, before emerging in Northern Rhodesia towards the end of 1918.
		German East Africa comprised the territory occupied today by Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania.
		By the end of that year the motley Allied force inside German East Africa included the Gold Coast Regiment, 3 KAR, two regiments each from Kashmir and Baluchistan, and the 40th Pathans.
	www.mgtrust.org /gea.htm (369 words)

	East Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Some parts of East Africa have been renowned for their concentrations of wild animals, such as the "big five" of elephant, water buffalo, lion, leopard and rhinoceros, though populations have been declining under increased stress in recent times, particularly the rhino and elephant.
		East Africa during the 19th and early 20th century became a theatre of competition between the major imperialistic European nations of the time.
		East Africa or Eastern Africa is the easternmost region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/East_Africa (911 words)

	East Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Some parts of East Africa have been renowned for their concentrations of wild animals, such as the "big five" of elephant, water buffalo, lion, leopard and rhinoceros, though populations have been declining under increased stress in recent times, particularly the rhino and elephant.
		East Africa during the 19th and early 20th century became a theatre of competition between the major imperialistic European nations of the time.
		German East Africa, though very extensive, was not of such strategic importance as the British Crown's colonies to the north: the inhabitation of these lands was difficult and thus limited, mainly due to climatic conditions and the local geomorphology.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/East_Africa (949 words)

	Italian East Africa -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Occasionally (A military dictatorship in northern Africa on the Mediterranean; consists almost entirely of desert; a major exporter of petroleum; involved in state-sponsored terrorism) Libya (at the time another Italian colony) was referred to as being part of Italian East Africa, but this was uncommon and perhaps misleading.
		Italian East Africa ((A native or inhabitant of Italy) Italian: Africa Orientale Italiana) was an (A native or inhabitant of Italy) Italian colony in (The second largest continent; located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean) Africa.
		During the Second World War, the Italian army recruited many thousands of native (A native or inhabitant of Africa) Africans from the colony to fight against the (The people of Great Britain) British in the (Click link for more info and facts about East African Campaign) East African Campaign.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/it/italian_east_africa.htm (268 words)

	Nationmedia.com Daily Nation
		Africa Insight: China calling: Is it time to say goodbye to US and Europe?
		Africa's case is special, says EU The European Union said yesterday that it would strike a balance between opening its markets and retaining preferential trade access for Afr...
		Like most Christian festivals, Easter has taken on distinctly secular overtones, so that many people have forgotten what the holy week is su...
	www.nationmedia.com /dailynation (442 words)

	Flightsim East Africa - Main Page
		In time, more nations closer to the East will be added (namely Mozambique, Zambia etc.) with a future goal of encompassing sub Saharan Africa (this of course will depend on the feedback which we receive from visitors of this site as well as the number of visitors).
		This site is designed for flightsimmers to have a one stop access to aircraft and scenery files related to East Africa.
		Currently, the area of concentration for this site is East Africa, more to the horn of Africa.
	www.geocities.com /fseastafrica (157 words)

	British East Africa
		British East Africa (BEA) is a British territory which sits astride the equator of the Dark Continent.
		In 1886, Britain and Germany split up East Africa between them (except for the coastal strip, which was claimed by the Sultan of Zanzibar), establishing the present border between the two spheres of influence.
		By this time, British attempts to dissuade the Sultan of Zanzibar from slave trading had failed, and force was being used (mostly interception of slave ships by the sea- and aerial- vessels of the Royal Navy).
	www.heliograph.com /trmgs/trmgs2/bea.shtml (5747 words)

	British East Africa
		The new East African flag was seen for the first time on the 9 June celebrations in Uganda.
		The flag of British East Africa is the national banner of the Empire, bearing upon the intersection of the crosses a red lion, rampant, or aggressively walking forward on his hind legs...encircled by a wreath.
		British East Africa, which later became the Kenya Colony - the interior of Kenya - was originally colonised by a Chartered Company, the British East Africa Company.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/gb-eafri.html (5747 words)

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		This is his diary and the stories he wrote whilst hunting in Nyasaland (Malawi) and Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique) during 1928 - 1929.
		He had acquired some of the skills and knowledge needed to track big game in Tanganyika (Tanzania) whilst serving with the King’s African Rifles.
		This is a book about by father, David Macpherson; an extraordinary man living in an extraordinary time.
	www.birdsandelephants.com (244 words)

	5 Trade and Political Systems in Africa
		We shall not be spending a great deal of time on the slave trades in Africa because most of the great heyday of the Atlantic slave trade was before the 19th C, but we shall return to talk a bit about the trades in the 19th C and the abolition movements.
		During the 16th C, the Portuguese concentrated on East Africa, India and the East.
		In Africa, this kind of situation occurred for hundreds of years in west Africa and emerged in other areas only as a result of the modern slave trade.
	husky1.stmarys.ca /~wmills/course316/5Trade_Africa.html (2302 words)

	German Officer Tafel - WWI German East Africa - Wehrmacht-Awards.com Militaria Forums
		He served in the Chinese occupation forces 1904-1907, and from 3 December 1908 until his releasse from POW camp with Schutztruppen German East Africa.
		He served under GM Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck in German East Africa in WWI.
		After the First World War he served for some time in the police, and was reactivated as an army Major (E) on 1 January 1936.
	www.wehrmacht-awards.com /forums/showthread.php?t=5328 (655 words)

	Christian Lautherborn in German East Africa 1888-1906
		In 1891 Christian Lautherborn had completed his assignment for Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Gesellschaft (German East African Company) in Bagamoyo, and he could start what he had actually come to Africa for - the cultivation of cotton.
		If I make it, I will be the first to send products from East Africa to the German market.
		On this same field there must be constructed buildings, the field has to be cleared, the cotton sowed and later proces-sed, and all must be finished within a time limit of 8 months; so that I can send cotton to Germany.
	www.vhm.dk /lautherborn/engpagani.htm (594 words)

	Thaddeus Sunseri Reinterpreting a Colonial Rebellion: Forestry and Social Control in German East Africa, 1874–1915 Environmental History, 8.3 The History Cooperative
		German East Africa with Rufji and Kilwa districts shaded.
		German scientific forestry had been developed in the eighteenth century, at a time when officials worried that their forests were being fast depleted, threatening the industrial development of German states.
		Indeed, Germans considered Africans to be a clear threat to forests because of their kulturfeindliche Gepflogenheiten—"practices antithetical to culture" —a double entendre that implied that peasant land and resource use endangered cultivation of trees and land and also deterred a civilizing mission that came with German colonialism.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/eh/8.3/sunseri.html (10301 words)

	Africa
		New Light on Dark Africa; Being The Narrative of The German Emin Pasha Expedition, Its Journeyings and Adventures Among The Native Tribes of Eastern Equatorial Africa, The Gallas, Massais, Wasukuma, Etc., Etc., on The Lake Baringo and The Victoria Nyanza.
		Much of his photographic efforts were in the brush country near Mt. Kilimanjaro and the Nijiri Swamps in old German East Africa...
		He was said to be one of the most daring and resolute, and at the same time one of the most unassuming Englishmen in the Protectorate; a dead shot and a charming companion.
	www.sotherans.co.uk /Catalogues/BigGame/Africa.html (11104 words)

	British East Africa, Kenya and Mt. Kenya Squadron Commands, Legion of Frontiersmen 1907 - 1957
		The EAMR members were later to serve with Commonwealth Units that arrived for service in the "East Africa Campaign"** and to serve in the expanding KAR.
		British East Africa, Kenya and Mt. Kenya Squadron Commands, Legion of Frontiersmen 1907 - 1957
		One report on the Legion in Africa states that the Mt Kenya Squadron was disbanded in 1963.
	www.frontiersmen.org.au /kenya.htm (1353 words)

	Travel in Tanzania & East Africa. Zanzibar, Ngorongoro, Mount Kilimanjaro, Serengeti... Small Group & Tailormade, personally arranged itineraries with Arc Journeys.
		We are also agents for the largest and most established operator in East Africa who can provide a wide range of services including standard departures, tailormade arrangements, balloon safaris and exclusive lodges and hotels in Tanzania, Zanzibar, Kenya, Uganda, Seychelles, Mauritius and Madagascar.
		We still offer the usual Safaris in most of East and Southern Africa with the best established African operator but we now also offer Tanzania as a tailor made destination so that you can choose your own style of travel, within the limits of what is available.
		There are resort hotels along the coast and the old port of Bagamoyo further north has some Arab and Portuguese influenced buildings from the slaving days, but Zanzibar is generally preferable both for history and beaches, if you have time to go there.
	www.travelarc.com /tanzaniatravel.html (1353 words)

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		He had come from South Africa and was handed over to an Indian cavalry regiment.
		Trehane describes his horse 'Devil' "The first time we had to saddle him he put 2 men in hospital.
		A night without water or fodder, a long march round behind the German position to cut off the retreat.
	members.lycos.co.uk /blewholt/wwihorseroh/page11.html (451 words)

	British East Africa
		In 1886, Britain and Germany split up East Africa between them (except for the coastal strip, which was claimed by the Sultan of Zanzibar), establishing the present border between the two spheres of influence.
		The Germans were showing interest in east Africa as well, which only added to the desire for the British to be a force there too.
		British East Africa (BEA) is a British territory which sits astride the equator of the Dark Continent.
	www.heliograph.com /trmgs/trmgs2/bea.shtml (5747 words)

	Africa - Coins of Somaliland
		Then in August 1940 (almost a year into the Second World War) the Italians took the region from British control and incorporated it into Italian East Africa (known to the Italians as �Africa Orientale Italiana�), which would soon comprise Italian Somaliland, Ethiopia, Eritrea and what had since 1888 and until then been British Somaliland.
		At the time the main Nickel usage in the British West Africa coins was in the 1/10, 1/2 and 1 Penny coins for which Bronze was used commencing with the 1952 dated issue.
		The level of success of the introduction of the EACB monies to British Somaliland was such that in 1948 (the year in which the military administration of British Somaliland ended) both East African Shillings and Indian Rupees were in use (Source -World History at KMLA, page entitled History of Somaliland, on the internet at http://www.stabi.hs-bremerhaven.de/whkmla/region/eastafrica/somaliland193960.html).
	www.wbcc.fsnet.co.uk /af-sol.htm (5747 words)

	First World War - German East Africa
		von Lettow Vorbeck and his men were chivvied into Portuguese East Africa (now Mozambique) - but they turned the tables by attacking both their unwilling hosts and the British, before emerging in Northern Rhodesia towards the end of 1918.
		By the end of that year the motley Allied force inside German East Africa included the Gold Coast Regiment, 3 KAR, two regiments each from Kashmir and Baluchistan, and the 40th Pathans.
		Captured supplies and ammunition maintained his small force - never more than 4,000 at any one time, including a couple of hundred white German officers.
	www.mgtrust.org /gea.htm (369 words)

	kenya map and information page
		At one time is was controlled by the Arabs, seized by the Portuguese, explored by whomever, eventually leased to the British East Africa Company, and then finally gaining its independence from Great Britain in 1963.
		The long term impact of severe droughts, and the greatly increased population are major concerns.
		Noted worldwide for its abundant wildlife, Kenya is a popular stop for tourists, especially those interested in exotic animal safaris.
	www.worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/africa/ke.htm (306 words)

	LINNS.COM: The website of the world's largest weekly stamp newspaper-Linn's Stamp News
		Italy's East African empire was short-lived, and in 1941, Ethiopia was liberated with the help of British forces, and independence was restored.
		In 1935-36, Ethiopia was defeated by Italy, and in 1936, with Eritrea and Italian Somaliland, it was organized into the colony of Italian East Africa.
		In 1936, Eritrea was absorbed into Italian East Africa.
	www.linns.com /reference/entities/entity_e.asp (306 words)

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		[Coded [et] (Europe, East Central) before Mar. 1988]
	www.loc.gov /marc/geoareas/gacsetom.html (306 words)

	WorldViews: The Music of Africa
		The latter is stronger in its annotated lists of individual recordings, while the strength of World Music lies in its long and informe d narrative overviews of the musical traditions of the Mediterranean and Maghreb (chapter 3), West Africa (chapter 6), Central and East Africa (chapter 7), and Southern Africa (chapter 8).
		In the Time of Cannibals: The Word Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants (Coplan 1994) and A Song of Longing: An Ethiopian Journey (Shelemay 1994) are case studies of music in two distinct African environments, immigrant mine workers f rom Lesotho and the Falashas of Ethiopia.
		There is the traditional music of drums (perhaps the predominant musical reference point in the minds of Westerners); there is the modern or popular music of Mali's Ali Farka Tour e, Nigeria's King Sunny Ade and his African Beats, and South Africa's Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
	worldviews.igc.org /awpguide/music.html (1175 words)

	Citrix » Europe, Middle East and Africa Support Programs
		The following list outlines the different levels of support that are available in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
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	www.citrix.com /English/SS/supportThird.asp?slID=5042&tlID=21178 (372 words)

	birding facts Birding Resources by the Fat Birder
		This is absolutely true if you compare it with East Africa (Kenya and Tanzania) when it is referring to the people.
		Malawi is a small narrow country between East Africa and South Africa.
		We recorded 306 species (according to Clements) during this time, including White-backed Night-Heron, Striped Flufftail, Wattled Crane, Violet-tipped Courser, Ruwenzori Nightjar, Boehm`s Bee-eater, White-chested and Cholo Alethes, Livingstone`s Flycatcher, Sharpe`s and East Coast Akalats, White-winged Apalis and a host of miombo species such as Pale-billed Hornbill, Stierling`s Woodpecker and Boehm`s Flycatcher...
	www.fatbirder.com /links_geo/africa/malawi.html (2066 words)

	WhoWon.com ... The Internet Source for Motorsports News and Information
		The Lucas Oil NARA DirtCar Series returns to the track for the first time since that record setting performance at East Bay as the series heads for the first time to one of the best facilities for dirt track racing in the country.
		The Ray Cook Racing team and driver Ray cook will compete with the Lucas Oil NARA Dirtcar Series this weekend for the first time since the week-long ‘Winternationals’ at the East Bay in February.
		DIRT's big-block modifieds have been selected as the opening act for one of the nation's most historic and prestigious motorsports events, the May 29 Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series race.
	www.whowon.com /ResultsDates.asp?TrackID=2187 (2066 words)

	Diamond Africa Day Tours
		Throughout the year, Standard Time in South Africa is two hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), making it an hour ahead of Central European Winter Time and seven hours in advance of Eastern Standard Winter Time.
		Situated south of the Limpopo River, South Africa is the southernmost country on the African continent with the Atlantic Ocean on the west coast and the Indian Ocean on the east coast.
		This makes South Africa three times the size of Texas and five times larger than Great Britian, yet it only occupies four percent of Africa's total land mass.
	www.diamondafrica.co.za /home.htm (2066 words)

	CENTRAL AFRICA
		Central Africa tends to be a predominately French-speaking area, and some of the time people resort to sign language to get the message across.
		In contrast to West and East Africa, Central Africa has a lot of jungles and is a predominately tropical climate.
		This part of Africa is tends to attract fewer tourists than East and West Africa.
	www.angelfire.com /in2/anotheradventure2/centralafrica.html (718 words)

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