Did Britain really own chunk of Germany up to that time Germany be a country?
Answers: Could you be talking something like Helgoland? Britain gave up the islands to Germany within 1890 by virtue of the Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty. This treaty is a stimulating piece of history IMO.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helgoland
(a)Alwin E: Helgoland might be just a small island right in a minute, but up to the late 1960's is be strategically important. There is a purpose why the Brits shelled the island so heavily during WW II. Who ever controlled Helgoland controlled the North Sea. And without it man part of Germany the German share of the grease in the North Sea would be much smaller
Not that I know of. Britain owned parts of France and vice versa, throughout history. Maybe what you're asking have something to do with the Hanovers, a German royal domestic that reigned over Britain, and probably over the part of Germany they be originally from, so maybe Britain did own that subdivision of Germany. No, but the King of Hannover also was King of UK. Remember the Battenbergs are the dynasty contained by UK up to today! They changed their names for political reason to Mountbatten, wich is a wordly translation of their name from German to English, during WWI.
Vice versa did Germany (the King of Hannover) own Great Britain? :-).
One of my anchestors should hold come from Englang to the Kingdom of Hannover in 17XX. But to be precise a fairytale.
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No, Britain has never owned member of Germany. England has owned up to partially of France for a few centuries. Is that maybe it.
The 'Angles' (from which we capture the name 'England') be a people that come from the German region and settled in England contained by the 5-6th centuary. No. The house of Hannover was at equal time king of overseas and Hannover in personal grouping.
Besides, German was allways a country and a state, but beside a different structure than England or France.
t_maia is right as to the Helgoland treaty: That's really a fascinating piece of history. But next again, Helgoland is just a small island (getting smaller every year through erosion), so the British would not enjoy been hugely happy near it. (Neither are the Germans; some even say we should blow up that rock and sink it, but it's a tourist attraction, so we'll a moment ago leave it to temperament.)
Besides of that, it depends of what time in history we're conversation about. I know enormously little about ancient history, but as to my know-how, the British Isles were colonized by immigrant from Central Europe (before the ocean level rose and the British Channel came into existance), so strictly speaking, the Brits are Continental Europeans.
During the feudal times, nearby have be many ties between English and Scottish lord families and their German relatives and allies; it MAY be, hence, that some prince "owned" a part of Germany for some time later. But if you look at a historical map from these times, I wouldn't say that you could phone up that agglomeration of little princedoms, duchies, and other kinds of principalities (there be several hundred of them) a country.
After that, I can't remember any time where Britain would enjoy owned a part of Germany, until after WWII, where on earth they practically "owned" parts of West Germany and a quarter of Berlin. But does an occupation force count as "ownership"? In the practical sense, may be, in the judicial sense, probably not. However, as after the time of war, Germany was not however reconstituted as a country, one may rightfully say that Britain indeed "owned" segment of Germany during these years.
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thankfulness again, t_maia, I didn't know that Helgoland was really so esteemed for Germany's share of North Sea Oil. I really had thought we'd other had bought our Brent from Norway, but prominently, I was wrong.
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Britain is now ruled by Germans - the Royal Family! Nine You Britsh never own note at all we will control the world ha ha ha
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