A panhandle area of northeast Namibia. It passed from Great Britain to Germany in 1890 in order to give German South-West Africa access to the Zambezi River.
Caprivi Strip
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A panhandle area of northeast Namibia. It passed from Great Britain to Germany in 1890 in order to give German South-West Africa access to the Zambezi River.
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Caprivi Strip (käprē'vē) or Caprivi Zipfel (tsĭp'fəl) [Ger. Zipfel=tip, point], region, c.300 mi (480 km) long and 50 mi (80 km) wide, NE Namibia, bordered on the N by Angola and Zambia and on the S by Botswana. It is named for the German chancellor Leo, Graf von Caprivi, who obtained it from Great Britain as part of a general settlement (1890) between the two countries. It gave the former German colony of South West Africa (now Namibia) access to the Zambezi River. The region has been the scene of clashes between separatists and government forces, and experienced significant flooding along the Zambezi in 2009.
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Caprivi may refer to:
Places
- Caprivi Region, an administrative province of Namibia
- Caprivi Strip, a part of Namibia
- The Caprivi Conflict, a conflict between the Caprivi Liberation Army and the Namibian government
- East Caprivi, a former bantustan in South West Africa
- Caprivi (Cumberland County, Pennsylvania), a village in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA
People
- Leo von Caprivi, German politician
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