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1
Yanüari
1885

Berlin Conference formalizes the European scramble for Africa

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📅 1 Yanüari 1885 📍 Africa, Alemania

The Berlin Conference’s General Act set rules for European claims and trade in Africa without African political participation. It did not itself draw every later border, but it legitimized imperial competition and accelerated colonial partition, resource extraction, and resistance that would shape the war’s African theatres.

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Otto von Bismarck

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Berlin Conference

European empires