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             English: The German Empire and its colonial possessions in 1914. The red circles are to improve the sighting of very small single pixel German territories. Note that the northern most German holding in  China was one of many European holdings in the Chinese trading city of  Tianjin. 
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           | Date | 
           4 September 2007 (first version); 24 May 2009 (last version) | 
          
          
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           Transferred from  en.wikipedia; transferred to Commons by  User:Sreejithk2000 using  CommonsHelper. | 
          
          
           | Author | 
           Original uploader was  Andrew0921 at  en.wikipedia. Later version(s) were uploaded by  SpencerCS,  Ithanyx,  R-41 at  en.wikipedia. | 
          
          
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