File:Africa1898.png
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French map of Africa from 1912? [text in comment below says 1898], originally published as "Carte Générale de l'Afrique : Voir, à leur ordre alphabétique, les cartes detaillées des divers pays" in Nouveau Larousse illustré ; dictionnaire universel encyclopédique, publié sous la direction de Claude Augé. Paris, Librairie Larousse. 1898-1904. Original scan available at http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/maps/mapscan/AFthumbs.html
Colonial claims:
- British possessions are in yellow
- French possessions in pink
- Belgian in orange
- German in green
- Portuguese in purple
- Italian in striped pink
- Spanish in striped orange
- independent Ethiopia in brown
Note:
This map is depicts various anachronisms and despite the stated publication date above (different editions?) of its work, was drawn between 1911 and 1914:
- en:Belgian Congo includes the en:Lado enclave, which was ceded to Anglo-Sudan in 1910.
- Occupation of Libya by Italy started in 1911, and the colony was established in 1912.
- "Cameroun" is depicted with the territory of German en:Neukamerun, ceded from France 1911.
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