Summary

French map of Africa from 1912? [text in comment below says 1898], originally published as "Carte Générale de l'Afrique : Voir, à leur ordre alphabétique, les cartes detaillées des divers pays" in Nouveau Larousse illustré ; dictionnaire universel encyclopédique, publié sous la direction de Claude Augé. Paris, Librairie Larousse. 1898-1904. Original scan available at http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/maps/mapscan/AFthumbs.html

Colonial claims:

• British possessions are in yellow
• French possessions in pink
• Belgian in orange
• German in green
• Portuguese in purple
• Italian in striped pink
• Spanish in striped orange
• independent Ethiopia in brown

Note:
This map is depicts various anachronisms and despite the stated publication date above (different editions?) of its work, was drawn between 1911 and 1914:

• en:Belgian Congo includes the en:Lado enclave, which was ceded to Anglo-Sudan in 1910.
• Occupation of Libya by Italy started in 1911, and the colony was established in 1912.
• "Cameroun" is depicted with the territory of German en:Neukamerun, ceded from France 1911.

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