English Explanatory Dictionary

Caprivi Strip

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A narrow strip of land politically belonging to the country of Namibia and connecting the mainland with the Zambezi river.

Word forms

Caprivi Strip the Caprivi Strip

Etymology

Named after the German chancellor Leo von Caprivi, who negotiated with the British about this strip of land as well as the island of Helgoland in exchange for Zanzibar in 1890.

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on C Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary