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Polity Africa

British East Africa

1895 CE – 1920 CE · 25 years

British protectorate in Africa from 1895 to 1920

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East Africa Protectorate on Wikipedia.

How these dates were made

Real dates from Wikidata, checked against the atlas.

These are real dates: British East Africa's founding and dissolution are recorded in Wikidata, and accepted here only because they agree with the centuries the atlas independently drew it in. The atlas itself draws the world at one moment in time, not continuously. The strip below covers those snapshots — 1914 CE to 1914 CE — which sits inside the fuller span above.

Elsewhere in Africa at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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