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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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Klein-Venedig

Klein-Venedig (lit. 'Little Venice') or Welserland was the most significant territory of the German colonization of the Americas, from 1528 to 1546, in which the Welser banking and patrician family of the Free Imperial Cities of Augsburg and Nuremberg obtained colonial right in the province of Venezuela in return....

[Image of South America with Venezuela territories highlighted in purple]

ugh

Holy Roman Emperor pays his debts by pawning off some coastal strip of Spanish Venezuela to South German merchants

some Germans actually move there taking a large number of slaves with them

spend their time and energy mostly searching for fabled golden city

fail and all die

later Spanish emperor revokes the land from the German merchants; settlers eventually treated like national heroes in 19th century German romantic literature.