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HINTERLAND (German for " the land beh...

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

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