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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 515 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HINTERLAND (See also:German for " the See also:land behind ")  , the region lying behind a See also:coast or See also:river See also:line, or a See also:country dependent for See also:trade or See also:commerce on any other region . In the purely See also:physical sense " interior " on " back country " is more commonly used, but the word has gained a distinct See also:political significance . It first came into prominence during 1883–1885, when See also:Germany insisted that she had a right to exercise See also:jurisdiction in the territory behind those parts of the See also:African coast that she had occupied . The " See also:doctrine of the See also: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 of See also:Africa between various See also:European See also:powers .

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