See also:

• HINTERLAND (German for " the land behind ")

HINTERLAND (See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German for " the See also:

• LAND

land behind ")  , the region lying behind a See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast or See also:

• RIVER

river See also:

• LINE

line, or a See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country dependent for See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade or See also:

• COMMERCE
• COMMERCE (Lat. commercium, from, cum, together, and rnerx, merchandise)

commerce on any other region . In the purely See also:

• PHYSICAL

physical sense " interior " on " back country " is more commonly used, but the word has gained a distinct See also:

• POLITICAL

political significance . It first came into prominence during 1883–1885, when See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany insisted that she had a right to exercise See also:

• JURISDICTION
• JURISDICTION, CRIMINAL LAW, DIVORCE

jurisdiction in the territory behind those parts of the See also:

• AFRICAN

African coast that she had occupied . The " See also:

• DOCTRINE

doctrine of the See also:

• HINTERLAND (German for " the land behind ")

hinterland " was that the possessor of the littoral was entitled to as much of the back country as geographically, economically or politically was dependent upon the coast lands, a doctrine which, in the space of ten years, led to the See also:

• PARTITION

partition of See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa between various See also:

• EUROPEAN

European See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers .