Is it true that Namibia is a former German Colony?
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Namibia, formerly known as South West Africa, was a protectorate, under UN mandate, of South Africa.  It was never a German colony because, despite repeated attempts, the Germans could never gain and maintain control over enough of it.\n\nHowever, there is a still a strong German influence visible in the country today.  They still have a German newspaper, many people speak Afrikaans and German (and enough English by now), and German architecture is visible in most of the more settled towns.\n\nIn Swakopmund and Walvis Bay, you are more likely to meet someone whose first language is German rather than Afrikaans (were talking about the white population, of course).  There is still an active German newspaper published.\n\nHowever, if you are planning a visit to Namibia, I recommend that you use English to communicate as much as possible.  To distance itself from South Africa once it gained its independence in 1989, English was declared as the national language.  If you are white, most people will approach you in Afrikaans.  If you are not white, they will approach you in whatever tribal language is the most populous in the area (there are about 5-6 major tribes in Namibia: Otjiwambo, Otjiherero, Setswana, Nama, Damara and the Ovihimba... the 'San' are few and far between and still not really recognized as tribe(s) with rights of their own).  I recommend learning to at least greet in whatever the language is in that area.  Don't try to greet in Nama or Damara because those clicks (like tones in Chinese) will distort the meaning... and it takes quite a while to learn them correctly.\n\nI was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Namibia and the nation still holds a special place in my heart.
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No, it is not.  It is its own country.  Though way back in the day Australia served as a penal colony to the UK.  Just like Guam was to the Philippines.  (Sorry my Asian brethren, just telling it like it is.)
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Schles·wig (shlĕs'wĭg, -wĭk, shlās'vĭk) \n\nA historical region and former duchy of northern Germany and southern Denmark in southern Jutland. The duchy was created in 1115 and passed, along with the duchy of Holstein, to Christian I of Denmark in 1460. After subdivisions caused by complex hereditary holdings, the duchies were once more reunited under the Danish crown in 1773. Denmark, Prussia, and Austria contended for the region until 1866, when it was annexed by Prussia. In 1920 the northern part of Schleswig was returned to Denmark by plebiscite. The southern portion became (1946) part of the West German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which became a state after German unification (1990).
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I forget but it probably is symbolic of the European withdrawl from colonization in Africa...
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certainly,cuba is for Cubans, Germany is for the Germans; and so forth, why espouse democracy,independence and self reliance  to the people of the World when in reality these are not being practiced. These are only rhetorics a misnomer
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Found some information for you , have included a link to the website also. Good Luck most of the citizenship information is in Deutch.\n\nNaturalizations of people with permanent residence outside Germany are rare. Applicants have to meet a host of requirements; you typically have to give up your present citizenship(s) in order to become a German citizen, fluency in the German language is another precondition - for more information.
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From my own memory\n\nFrom Africa\n\nUpper Volta = Burkina Faso\nDahomey = Benin\nGold Coast = Ghana\nUbangi Shari = Central African Republic\nBechuanaland = Botswana\nBasutoland = Lesotho\nNorth Rhodesia = Zambia\nSouth Rhodesia = Zimbabwe\n\nAll these countries (and  others I couldn't remember) changed names after the end of colonialism in Africa, starting with Ghana in 1957 and ending with Zimbabwe in 1980.  These nations wanted to get rid of their former colonial names and revert/invent to local names.\n\n\nFrom Europe\n\nFormer Soviet Union broken into the 15 states of:\n(European)            (Central Asian)\nRussia                    Kyrgistan\nUkraine                   Tajikistan\nBelarus                   Turkmenistan \nMoldova                   Kazakhstan\nLatvia                       Uzbekistan\nLithuania\nEstonia\nArmenia\nGeorgia\nAzerbaijan\n\nThe Former Yugoslavia broken into:\nSerbia & Montenegro (both to become independent entities)\nCroatia\nBosnia and Herzegovina\nMacedonia\nSlovenia\n\nAll these nations existed as separate entities before they were incorporated into the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, respectively.  They achieved independence after the dissolution of their respective parent states due to the falling of the Iron Curtain in the period 1989-1991.\n\nIn Asia\n\nBurma = Myanmar\nCambodia = Kampuchea\nDutch East Indies = Indonesia\n\nBurma was changed to Myanmar by the SLORC in 1989, Cambodia to Kampuchea by the Khmer Rouge in 1975.  Here again, they changed the names to get rid of their colonial names.\n\nFor more info (and to find others I may have missed)\n\n http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Former_colonies
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I agree with the comment about the first act on our soil is a crime.  And to wave their former countries flag about and demand ANYTHING is preposterous.  It is your former country for a reason, correct?  If it is your current country, here's your ticket.  If it is truly your former country, then for crying out loud ASSIMILATE!  I believe we were founded as a melting pot, not a storage shelf for your old icons and lifestyles.
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Germany had to relinquish claims on all foreign lands with sizeable German ethnic minorities. Many German ethnic persons in Eastern Europe were forcibly relocated to Germany so their indirect protection would no longer be a cause for German aggression. Because Poland was forced to accept withdrawal to their original eastern border (ie-before the 1920-21 war with Russia), Germany was forced to surrender East Prussia, Silesia, etc. Germany was divided into 4 occupation and de-Nazification zones. Several million German prisoners or war were forced to do labor in France and Russia for about 5 years (see book Other Losses) and the Russian zone (East Germany) was forced to allow the relocation of much of their remaining industrial plants into Russia as reparation.\n\nJapan was forced to surrender all of her pre-war empire (Formosa, Korea, Manchuoko, League of Nations Mandate Islands, etc). Japan was forced to accept occupation and de-militarization for many years under American supervision. Japan was forced to accept American dictated constitution and form of government.\n\nBoth Germany and Japan were forced to accept and cooperate with Allied imposed War Crimes investigations.\n\nFinland was forced to formally accept the treaty boundary after the 1940 Winter War and agree to pay huge reparations to Russia (finally paid in full in mid-1980's). Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria were forced to accept Russian occupation as part of the Yalta sphere of influence agreement which resulted in staged Bolshevik coups and Soviet political domination for forty-five years. Italy, because it had staged a Royalist coup in 1943 and then officially changed sides, was still forced to surrender its overseas empire (Lybia, Somalia, Albania) as well as her limited territorial gains in Tyrol and Trieste, but was not forced to accept division, occupation and de-Fascization.
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http://www.germany-info.org/ \n\nTons of information here. It is always updated.
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There's one in Khorixas, that's in Namibia.
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You're not...\nBut it was'nt YOU who comitted those crimes, so dont worry about it. But if you blame Germany for what they did in the past, then you should blame yourself too.\nWorry about the millions of people GBush is killing NOW...
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From Wikipedia:\n\n"Niger's colonial history and development parallel that of other French West African territories. France administered its West African colonies through a governor general at Dakar, Senegal, and governors in the individual territories, including Niger. In addition to conferring French citizenship on the inhabitants of the territories, the 1946 French constitution provided for decentralization of power and limited participation in political life for local advisory assemblies.\n\nA further revision in the organization of overseas territories occurred with the passage of the Overseas Reform Act (Loi Cadre) of July 23, 1956, followed by reorganizational measures enacted by the French Parliament early in 1957. In addition to removing voting inequalities, these laws provided for creation of governmental organs, assuring individual territories a large measure of self-government. After the establishment of the Fifth French Republic on December 4, 1958, Niger became an autonomous state within the French Community. Following full independence on August 3, 1960, however, membership was allowed to lapse."
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only in germany 50 years ago
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No, Antarctica is not  a country like any other. It has not got its own indigenous population. People found there are scientists working on research projects and ship crew for example.It is reported that 26 nations operate there through their various national antarctic programs
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Germany, nameDeutschland, Germany, L'Allemagne, Alemania, La Germania, Saksa and the sources of all these names!\nThere was a post on rec.travel.europe today that got me thinking about the name of the country I'm going to, and decided to do some research. Thanks to the Word Nerds, I even have some sources for it.\n\nAnyway the post this morning, posted by David Horne, on rec.travel.europe said:\n\n\n\n"German deutsch is from Old High German diutisg and Low German theodisc, meaning "of the people," which comes from an Indo-European root, teuta-, meaning "tribe" or "clan." This became tuath "people" in Old Irish and\ntheod "people, nation in Old English." \n\n\nThe Italian tedesco comes from this root, as do the Swedish word tysk and the English word Dutch, which formerly was applied to all Germans, but gradually came to refer only to those Germanic people who inhabit\nwhat is now the Netherlands"\n\n\n\n\nDavid's source is livejournal.com. The full article, on Etymology of the various names for the people of the area of Germany, from all kinds of languages, is at http://www.livejournal.com/community/linguaphiles/344988.html\n\nEtymonline.com, which is the source that both the Word Nerds and leo.org suggest for English Etymology.\n\nThe names are all names of people in that area of central Europe which comprised a bunch of tribes for many years. Indeed the current borders of Germany will be only 15 years old when I am over there in early October. It almost seems like people call the country by the name of the tribe they came in contact with the mosts. \n\n"Germany" comes from Latin and date back to Julius Caeser. Etymonline traces the etymology back to Celtic words Noisy (garim) or neighbor (gair), while Live Journal's linguaphiles identify spear-man, or gari+mann as possible eymologies. Note that some version of the Germania version of the name of the country is used in Italian (La Germania), Hebrew ("germanit"), Hindi (jarman),a dn Indonesian (jerman) according to Live Journal. \n\nThe French/Spanish version of the name of the country (L'Allemagne, Alemania), according to etymonline AND the linguaphiles comes from a tribe in the southwest corner of Germany, Alsace, and Switzerland. It could come from a word meaning all men, "Alamanniz" (precursor to "alle Männer). or come from "Allobroges" which means "foreign men" and may refer to the fact that this tribe moved into an area previously occupied by different people.\n\nDeutsch (and ultimately Deutschland) makes its appearance in 1380 according to etymonline, and comes from the ancestor languge of German, duit-isc, or teodisc (note consonant shift, from the t to the d). It means people, community, country. Diutusklant, the predecessor of Deutschland, was, according to etymonline, in use from the 13th century. \n\nTeutonic feels like it should be related to these, but it refers to a tribe on the coast of Germany, although at some point it probably shared the same root and also means people. (How many countries do you think have called themselves "the people?"\n\nI note that the Livejournal linguaphiles also address the roots of slavic names for Germany, but I'm tired, and I'm not going into that. You can read it yourself. \n\nd Deutschland in the German language
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At that time Germany was known as West Germany. They were beaten 2-1 by Algeria