Table of Contents
106 relations: Adolph Woermann, Alexander Young (VC), Alfred von Schlieffen, American Indian Wars, Aranos, Arnold Lequis, August Bebel, Basters, Battle of Namutoni, Battle of Sandfontein, Battle of Waterberg, Berthold von Deimling, Black suffrage, Cape Mounted Police, Charles Wilhelm Thesen, Christ Church, Windhoek, Cologne in the German colonial empire, Colonial war, FN M1900, Fransfontein, Free-space optical communication, Friedrich Fahnert, German colonial empire, German Empire, Gewehr 1888, Gewehr 98, Gochas, Gustav Adolf von Götzen, Gys Hofmeyr, Harold Pupkewitz, Heinrich Kirchheim, Heinrich Vedder, Hendrik (given name), Hendrik Witbooi (Namaqua chief), Henry Harold Welch Pearson, Herero, Herero and Nama genocide, Herero Day, Herero people, Hereroland, Hermann Ehrhardt, Hermann von François, Heroes' Day (Namibia), Hoachanas, Hosea Kutako, Imperial Schutztruppe for German South West Africa, Isaak Witbooi, January 1904, Joachim Peiper, Joachim von Heydebreck, ... Expand index (56 more) »
Adolph Woermann
Adolph Woermann (10 December 1847 in Hamburg – 4 May 1911 in the Grönwohld-Hof near Trittau) was a German merchant, shipowner and politician, who was also instrumental in the establishment of German colonies in Africa.
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Alexander Young (VC)
Alexander Young, VC (27 January 1873 – 19 October 1916) was an Irish-born South African soldier and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
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Alfred von Schlieffen
Alfred Graf von Schlieffen (28 February 1833 – 4 January 1913) was a German field marshal and strategist who served as chief of the Imperial German General Staff from 1891 to 1906.
See Herero Wars and Alfred von Schlieffen
American Indian Wars
The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, was a conflict initially fought by European colonial empires, United States of America, and briefly the Confederate States of America and Republic of Texas against various American Indian tribes in North America.
See Herero Wars and American Indian Wars
Aranos
Aranos is a town in the Hardap Region of central Namibia, situated in the Nossob River basin in the Kalahari Desert.
Arnold Lequis
Arnold Lequis (February 2, 1861 – February 16, 1949) was a German General of the Infantry who commanded the 12th Division during World War I as well as a commander of the Reichswehr during the German Revolution of 1918–19 against the Communists.
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August Bebel
Ferdinand August Bebel (22 February 1840 – 13 August 1913) was a German socialist politician, writer, and orator.
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Basters
The Basters (also known as Baasters, Rehobothers, or Rehoboth Basters) are a Southern African ethnic group descended from Cape Coloureds and Nama of Khoisan origin.
Battle of Namutoni
The Battle of Namutoni fought between the militaries of the Ondonga kingdoms and German South West Africa on 28 January 1904 was part of an uprising against German Colonial expansion catalysed by the Herero Uprising to the south that started a few weeks earlier.
See Herero Wars and Battle of Namutoni
Battle of Sandfontein
The Battle of Sandfontein was fought between the Union of South Africa on behalf of the British Imperial Government and the German Empire (modern-day Namibia) on 26 September 1914 at Sandfontein, during the first stage of the South West Africa Campaign of World War I, and ended in a German victory.
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Battle of Waterberg
The Battle of Waterberg (Battle of Ohamakari) took place on August 11, 1904 at the Waterberg, German South West Africa (modern day Namibia), and was the decisive battle in the German campaign against the Herero.
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Berthold von Deimling
Berthold Karl Adolf von Deimling (21 March 1853 – 3 February 1944) was a general officer of the German Army during World War I. Deimling entered the army in 1871, following the Franco-Prussian War, and after working on the General Staff and in German South-West Africa rose to command a brigade of infantry in 1907.
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Black suffrage
Black suffrage refers to black people's right to vote and has long been an issue in countries established under conditions of black minorities as well as, in some cases (notoriously South Africa under apartheid and Rhodesia) black majorities.
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Cape Mounted Police
The Cape Mounted Police (originally Cape Police) was the principal law enforcement agency of the Cape Colony during its last three decades.
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Charles Wilhelm Thesen
Charles Wilhelm Thesen (14 November 1856 – 1 February 1940) was a Norwegian-born South African shipowner and timber merchant who played a leading role in the public affairs of the South African town of Knysna.
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Christ Church, Windhoek
The Christ Church (or Christuskirche) is a historic landmark and Lutheran church in Windhoek, Namibia, belonging to the German-speaking Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia.
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Cologne in the German colonial empire
The city of Cologne was significant to the development of the German colonial empire as a whole.
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Colonial war
Colonial war (in some contexts referred to as small war) is a blanket term relating to the various conflicts that arose as the result of overseas territories being settled by foreign powers creating a colony.
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FN M1900
The FN Browning M1900 is a single action semi-automatic pistol designed c. 1896 by John Browning for Fabrique Nationale de Herstal (FN) and produced in Belgium at the turn of the 20th century.
Fransfontein
Fransfontein is a small settlement in the Kunene Region, Namibia.
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Free-space optical communication
Free-space optical communication (FSO) is an optical communication technology that uses light propagating in free space to wirelessly transmit data for telecommunications or computer networking.
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Friedrich Fahnert
Friedrich Hermann Fahnert (18 January 1879, in Limbach – 10 June 1964) was a German military officer who served in World War I and as a Luftwaffe general in World War II.
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German colonial empire
The German colonial empire (Deutsches Kolonialreich) constituted the overseas colonies, dependencies, and territories of the German Empire.
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German Empire
The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.
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Gewehr 1888
The Gewehr 88 (commonly called the Model 1888 commission rifle) was a late 19th-century German bolt-action rifle, adopted in 1888.
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Gewehr 98
The Gewehr 98 (abbreviated G98, Gew 98, or M98) is a bolt-action rifle made by Mauser for the German Empire as its service rifle from 1898 to 1935.
Gochas
Gochas is a village in the Hardap Region of Namibia.
Gustav Adolf von Götzen
Gustav Adolf Graf von Götzen (12 May 1866 – 1 December 1910) was a German explorer, colonial administrator, and military officer who served as Reichskommissar of German East Africa.
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Gys Hofmeyr
Gysbert Reitz Hofmeyr, CMG (1871-1942) was a South African civil servant and the first Administrator of South West Africa (now Namibia) under the League of Nations Mandate.
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Harold Pupkewitz
Harold Pupkewitz (14 July 1915 – 27 April 2012) was a Lithuanian born, Namibian entrepreneur and member of the President's Economic Advisory Council.
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Heinrich Kirchheim
Heinrich Kirchheim (6 April 1882 – 14 December 1973) was a German generalleutnant who served in both World War I and World War II.
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Heinrich Vedder
Hermann Heinrich Vedder (born 3 July 1876 in, Westphalia, Germany; died 26 April 1972 in Okahandja, South-West Africa) was a German missionary, linguist, ethnologist and historian.
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Hendrik (given name)
The Dutch male given name Hendrik is a cognate of the English Henry.
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Hendrik Witbooi (Namaqua chief)
Hendrik Witbooi (c. 1830 – 29 October 1905) was a chief of the ǀKhowesin people, a sub-tribe of the Khoikhoi.
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Henry Harold Welch Pearson
Henry Harold Welch Pearson (28 January 1870 – 3 November 1916) was a British-born South African botanist, chiefly remembered for founding Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in 1913.
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Herero
Herero may refer to.
Herero and Nama genocide
The Herero and Nama genocide, formerly known also as the 'Herero and Namaqua genocide', was a campaign of ethnic extermination and collective punishment which was waged against the Herero (Ovaherero) and the Nama in German South West Africa (now Namibia) by the German Empire.
See Herero Wars and Herero and Nama genocide
Herero Day
Herero Day (also known as Red Flag Day and Red Flag Heroes' Day, Otjiserandu) is a gathering of the Herero people of Namibia to commemorate their deceased chieftains.
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Herero people
The Herero (Ovaherero) are a Bantu ethnic group inhabiting parts of Southern Africa.
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Hereroland
Hereroland was a bantustan and later a non-geographic ethnic-based second-tier authority, the Representative Authority of the Hereros, in South West Africa (present day Namibia), intended by the apartheid-era government to be a self-governing homeland for the Herero people.
See Herero Wars and Hereroland
Hermann Ehrhardt
Hermann Ehrhardt (29 November 1881 – 27 September 1971) was a German naval officer in World War I who became an anti-republican and anti-Semitic German nationalist Freikorps leader during the Weimar Republic.
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Hermann von François
Hermann Karl Bruno von François (31 January 1856 – 15 May 1933) was a German General der Infanterie during World War I, and is best known for his key role in several German victories on the Eastern Front in 1914.
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Heroes' Day (Namibia)
Heroes' Day (Heldentag) is a national public holiday in Namibia.
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Hoachanas
Hoachanas (Khoekhoe: ǃHoaxaǃnâs) is a settlement of 3,000 inhabitants in the Hardap Region of southern central Namibia, located northeast of Kalkrand.
Hosea Kutako
Chief Hosea Katjikururume Komombumbi Kutako (1870 – 18 July 1970), was an early Namibian nationalist leader and a founder member of Namibia's first nationalist party, the South West African National Union (SWANU).
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Imperial Schutztruppe for German South West Africa
The Imperial Schutztruppe for German South West Africa (Kaiserliche Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Südwestafrika) was the official name of the military formation that maintained the German Empire in its colony of German South West Africa.
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Isaak Witbooi
Isaak Witbooi, Nama name: ǃNanseb ǂKharib ǃNansemab, (25 May 1865 – 16 October 1928) was the fourth Kaptein of the ǀKhowesin, a subtribe of the Orlam, in Gibeon, South-West Africa (today's Namibia).
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January 1904
The following events occurred in January 1904.
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Joachim Peiper
Joachim Peiper (30 January 1915 – 14 July 1976) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and war criminal.
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Joachim von Heydebreck
Joachim von Heydebreck (6 October 1861 – 12 November 1914) was a German military officer who was born in Schwedt and grew up in Zützen.
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Khaua-Mbandjeru rebellion
The Khaua-Mbandjeru rebellion was an uprising of Africans in German South West Africa which took place in 1896.
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Kirsten Alnæs
Kirsten Elisabeth Alnæs (also known as Kirsten Alnaes, Kirsten Sommerfelt) (May 8, 1927 - February 4, 2021) was a Norwegian social anthropologist.
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Kurt Dinter
Moritz Kurt Dinter (10 June 1868 – 16 December 1945) was a German botanist and explorer in South West Africa.
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Lüderitz
Lüderitz is a town in the ǁKaras Region of southern Namibia.
List of battles 1901–2000
This article lists all the battles that occurred in the years of the 20th century (1901-2000).
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List of cemeteries in Windhoek
A complete list of cemeteries in Windhoek, the capital of Namibia.
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List of conflicts in Africa
This is a list of conflicts in Africa arranged by country, both on the continent and associated islands, including wars between African nations, civil wars, and wars involving non-African nations that took place within Africa.
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List of revolutions and rebellions
This is a list of revolutions, rebellions, insurrections, and uprisings.
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List of wars involving Germany
This is a list of wars involving Germany from 962.
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List of wars involving Namibia
This is a list of wars involving Namibia.
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List of wars: 1900–1944
This is a list of wars that began between 1900 and 1944.
See Herero Wars and List of wars: 1900–1944
Lothar von Trotha
General Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha (3 July 1848 – 31 March 1920) was a German military commander during the European new colonial era.
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Ludwig von Estorff
Ludwig Gustav Adolf von Estorff (25 December 1859 – 5 October 1943) was a German military officer who notably served as a Schutztruppe commander in Africa; and later as an Imperial German Army general in World War I. He also was a recipient of the Pour le Merite, Germany's highest military award.
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Maji Maji Rebellion
The Maji Maji Rebellion (Maji-Maji-Aufstand, Vita vya Maji Maji), was an armed rebellion of Africans against German colonial rule in German East Africa (modern-day Tanzania).
See Herero Wars and Maji Maji Rebellion
Manie Maritz
Manie Maritz (26 July 1876 – 20 December 1940), also known as Gerrit Maritz, was a Boer officer during the Second Boer War and a leading rebel of the 1914 Maritz Rebellion.
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Martin Chales de Beaulieu
Franz Martin Chales de Beaulieu (11 November 1857 – 27 April 1945) was a German general in World War I. He was also involved in the Herero Wars as chief of staff to Lothar von Trotha.
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Maxim gun
The Maxim gun is a recoil-operated machine gun invented in 1884 by Hiram Stevens Maxim.
Maximilian Bayer
Maximilian Bayer (11 May 1872 – 25 October 1917) was the founder of Scouting in Germany, along with Alexander Lion.
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MG 01
The Maschinengewehr 1901, or MG 01, was the standard machine gun of the Imperial German Army from its introduction in 1901 to the adoption of its successor, the MG 08, in 1908.
Military Merit Cross (Mecklenburg-Schwerin)
The Military Merit Cross (Militärverdienstkreuz) was established by Friedrich Franz II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin on August 5, 1848.
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Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.
Namibian nationality law
Namibian nationality law is regulated by the Constitution of Namibia, as amended; the Namibian Citizenship Act, and its revisions; and various international agreements to which the country is a signatory.
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Neudamm, Namibia
Neudamm is a farm and settlement in the Khomas Region of central Namibia, situated east of Windhoek on the B6 to Gobabis, close to Windhoek's international airport.
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New Imperialism
In historical contexts, New Imperialism characterizes a period of colonial expansion by European powers, the United States, and Japan during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Okahandja Reformed Church (NGK)
The Okahandja Reformed Church is a congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (NGK) in central Namibia.
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Omaruru, Namibia
Omaruru is a town in the Erongo Region of central Namibia.
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Omuramba
Omuramba (plural: Omiramba) is the term for ancient river-beds found in the Kalahari Desert of Africa, notably in the North Eastern part of Namibia and North Western part of Botswana.
Oupyakadi
Oupyakadi was a Roman Catholic mission station in southern Angola, located ca.
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck (20 March 1870 – 9 March 1964), popularly known as the Lion of Africa (Löwe von Afrika), was a general in the Imperial German Army and the commander of its forces in the German East Africa campaign.
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Prostitution in Namibia
Prostitution in Namibia is legal and a highly prevalent common practice.
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QF 1-pounder pom-pom
The QF 1 pounder, universally known as the pom-pom due to the sound of its discharge, was a 37 mm British autocannon, the first of its type in the world.
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Racism in Africa
Racism in Africa has been a recurring part of the history of Africa.
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Red Line (Namibia)
The Red Line, also referred to as the veterinary cordon fence, is a pest-exclusion fence separating northern Namibia from the central and southern regions.
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Schutztruppe
Schutztruppe (Protection Force) was the official name of the colonial troops in the African territories of the German colonial empire from the late 19th century to 1918. Similar to other colonial armies, the Schutztruppen consisted of volunteer European commissioned and non-commissioned officers, medical and veterinary officers.
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Seebataillon
Seebataillon (plural Seebataillone), literally "sea battalion", is a German term for certain troops of naval infantry or marines.
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Shark Island concentration camp
Shark Island or "Death Island" was one of five concentration camps in German South West Africa.
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SMS Vineta (1897)
SMS Vineta was a protected cruiser of the, built for the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) in the 1890s.
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Squatting in Namibia
Squatting in Namibia is the occupation of unused land or derelict buildings without the permission of the owner.
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SS Lourenço Marques
SS Lourenço Marques was a steam cargo liner that was launched in Germany in 1905 as Admiral for Deutsche Ost-Afrika Linie (DOAL).
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Swakopmund
Swakopmund ("Mouth of the Swakop") is a city on the coast of western Namibia, west of the Namibian capital Windhoek via the B2 main road.
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Theodor Leutwein
Theodor Gotthilf Leutwein (9 May 1849 – 13 April 1921) was a German military officer and colonial administrator who served as Landeshauptmann and governor of German Southwest Africa from 1894 to 1905.
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Timeline of Windhoek
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Windhoek, Namibia.
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V.
V. is a satirical postmodern novel and the debut novel of Thomas Pynchon, published on March 18, 1963.
Valeriano Weyler
Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, 1st Duke of Rubí, 1st Marquess of Tenerife (17September 183820October 1930) was a Spanish general and colonial administrator who served as the Governor-General of the Philippines and Cuba, and later as Spanish Minister for War.
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War of annihilation
A war of annihilation (Vernichtungskrieg) or war of extermination is a type of war in which the goal is the complete annihilation of a state, a people or an ethnic minority through genocide or through the destruction of their livelihood.
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Warmbad, Namibia
Warmbad (Afrikaans and German for Warm Bath, Nama: |Aixa-aibes) is a settlement located in the ǁKaras Region of southern Namibia.
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Wartime sexual violence
Wartime sexual violence is rape or other forms of sexual violence committed by combatants during an armed conflict, war, or military occupation often as spoils of war, but sometimes, particularly in ethnic conflict, the phenomenon has broader sociological motives.
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Waterberg Plateau Park
Waterberg Plateau Park is a national park in central Namibia on the Waterberg Plateau, south-east of Otjiwarongo.
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Wireless telegraphy in the Italo-Turkish War
The use of wireless telegraphy in the Italo-Turkish war was the first example of its large-scale military application, its origins dating from the end of the 1880s.
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Women in warfare and the military (1900–1945)
This timeline of women in warfare and the military (1900–1945) deals with the role of women in the military around the world from 1900 through 1945.
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15 cm sFH 93
The 15 cm sFH 93 was a German howitzer which served in a number of colonial conflicts, the Balkan Wars and World War I.
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6 cm S-Bts K L/21
The 6 cm Schnelllade-Boots-Kanone L/21 in Landungslafette C/1900 (6 cm fast-firing boat's cannon 21 calibers on landing carriage circa 1900) or 6 cm S-Bts K L/21 was a landing gun used by Germany during World War I.
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7.5 cm Gebirgskanone L/13 C/80
The 7.5 cm Gebirgskanone L/13 C/80 was a mountain gun used by several countries during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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7.7 cm FK 96
The 7.7 cm Feldkanone 96 (7.7 cm FK 96) was a field gun used by Germany before World War I.
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8 cm Kanone C/73
The 8 cm Kanone C/73 was a field gun developed after the Franco-Prussian War and used by Germany before and during World War I.
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9 cm Kanone C/73
The 9 cm Kanone C/73 was a field gun developed after the Franco-Prussian War and used by Germany before and during World War I.
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References
Also known as German-Herero conflict 1904-1907, Herero German War, Herero Rebellion, Herero Revolt, Herero Uprising, Herero War, Herero and Nama War, Herero and Namaqua Uprising, Herero and Namaqua Wars, Herero-German War, Hetero uprising, Namaqua revolt.