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LZ 104 (L 59), the Glossary

Zeppelin LZ 104 (construction number, designated L 59 by the German Imperial Navy) and nicknamed Das Afrika-Schiff ("The Africa Ship"), was a World War I German dirigible.^[1]

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1910s German military transport aircraft
1917 in Bulgaria
Airships of the Imperial German Navy
Aviation accidents and incidents in 1918
Yambol

Airship

An airship is a type of aerostat or lighter-than-air aircraft that can navigate through the air flying under its own power.

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Alternate history (also referred to as alternative history, allohistory, althist, or simply AH) is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events have occurred but are resolved differently than in actual history.

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Aramco World

Aramco World (formerly Saudi Aramco World) is a bi-monthly magazine published by Aramco Services Company, a US-based subsidiary of Saudi Aramco, the state-owned oil company of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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Assegai (novel)

Assegai is Wilbur Smith's thirty-second novel, it follows The Triumph of the Sun in which the author brought the Courtney and Ballantyne series together.

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Bulgaria

Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located west of the Black Sea and south of the Danube river, Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north. It covers a territory of and is the 16th largest country in Europe.

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Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr

The Bundeswehr Centre of Military History and Social Sciences (Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr, abbreviated as ZMSBw) is a German research institution focused on military history and social sciences.

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Constantinople

Constantinople (see other names) became the capital of the Roman Empire during the reign of Constantine the Great in 330.

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Crete

Crete (translit, Modern:, Ancient) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.

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Dakhla Oasis

Dakhla Oasis or Dakhleh Oasis (Egyptian Arabic: الواحات الداخلة,, "the inner oases"), is one of the seven oases of Egypt's Western Desert.

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De Gruyter

Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter, is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature.

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Doubleday (publisher)

Doubleday is an American publishing company.

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Duralumin

Duralumin (also called duraluminum, duraluminium, duralum, dural(l)ium, or dural) is a trade name for one of the earliest types of age-hardenable aluminium–copper alloys.

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East African campaign (World War I)

The East African campaign in World War I was a series of battles and guerrilla actions, which started in German East Africa (GEA) and spread to portions of Mozambique, Rhodesia, British East Africa, the Uganda, and the Belgian Congo.

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Edirne

Edirne, historically known as Adrianople (Adrianoúpolis), is a city in Turkey, in the northwestern part of the province of Edirne in Eastern Thrace.

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Enver Pasha

İsmail Enver (اسماعیل انور پاشا; İsmail Enver Paşa; 23 November 1881 – 4 August 1922), better known as Enver Pasha, was an Ottoman military officer, revolutionary, and convicted war criminal who was a part of the dictatorial triumvirate known as the "Three Pashas" (along with Talaat Pasha and Cemal Pasha) in the Ottoman Empire.

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German East Africa

German East Africa (GEA; Deutsch-Ostafrika) was a German colony in the African Great Lakes region, which included present-day Burundi, Rwanda, the Tanzania mainland, and the Kionga Triangle, a small region later incorporated into Mozambique.

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German Empire

The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.

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Hugo Eckener

Hugo Eckener (10 August 1868 – 14 August 1954)SchwensenThomas Adam.

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Imperial German Navy

The Imperial German Navy or the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) was the navy of the German Empire, which existed between 1871 and 1919.

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Iron Cross

The Iron Cross (Eisernes Kreuz,, abbreviated EK) was a military decoration in the Kingdom of Prussia, and later in the German Empire (1871–1918) and Nazi Germany (1933–1945).

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Janusz Meissner

Janusz Meissner (pen name: "porucznik Herbert," English: "Flt Lt Herbert"; 21 January 1901 in Warsaw – 28 February 1978 in Kraków) was a Polish writer and journalist, and a pilot of Polish Air Force.

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Khartoum

Khartoum or Khartum (al-Khurṭūm, pronounced al.xur.tˤuːm) is the capital of Sudan.

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Luftschiffbau Zeppelin

Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH is a German aircraft manufacturing company. LZ 104 (L 59) and Luftschiffbau Zeppelin are Zeppelins.

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Machine gun

A machine gun (MG) is a fully automatic and rifled firearm designed for sustained direct fire with rifle cartridges.

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Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd in the UK and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC in the US) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publishers (along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster).

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Mahenge

Mahenge is a town in the Mahenge Mountains of Tanzania.

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Malta

Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Mersa Matruh

Mersa Matruh (مرسى مطروح), also transliterated as Marsa Matruh (Standard Arabic Marsā Maṭrūḥ), is a port in Egypt and the capital of Matrouh Governorate.

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Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift

The Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift (English: Military History Journal) is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering military history.

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Muslin

Muslin is a cotton fabric of plain weave.

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Nauen

Nauen is a small town in the Havelland district, in Brandenburg, Germany.

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Oberleutnant zur See

(OLt zS or OLZS in the German Navy, Oblt.z.S. in the Kriegsmarine) is traditionally the highest rank of Lieutenant in the German Navy.

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Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck

Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck (20 March 1870 – 9 March 1964), popularly known as the Lion of Africa (Löwe von Afrika), was a general in the Imperial German Army and the commander of its forces in the German East Africa campaign.

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Richard Meinertzhagen

Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, CBE, DSO (3 March 1878 – 17 June 1967) was a British soldier, intelligence officer, and ornithologist.

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Sea of Marmara

The Sea of Marmara, also known as the Sea of Marmora or the Marmara Sea, is a small inland sea located entirely within the borders of Turkey.

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SM UB-53

SM UB-53 was a German Type UB III submarine or U-boat in the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) during World War I. She was commissioned into the Pola Flotilla of the German Imperial Navy on 21 August 1917 as SM UB-53.

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Staaken

Staaken is a locality at the western rim of Berlin within the borough of Spandau.

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Strait of Otranto

The Strait of Otranto (Ngushtica e Otrantos; Canale d'Otranto) connects the Adriatic Sea with the Ionian Sea and separates Italy from Albania.

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Sudan

Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa.

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Tom Kratman

Thomas P. Kratman (born September 4, 1956) is an American military science fiction author and retired United States Army officer whose work is published by Baen Books.

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Wilbur Smith

Wilbur Addison Smith (9 January 1933 – 13 November 2021) was a Northern Rhodesian-born British-South African novelist specializing in historical fiction about international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries.

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William Stevenson (Canadian writer)

William Henry Stevenson (1 June 192426 November 2013) was a British-born Canadian author and journalist.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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Yambol

Yambol (Ямбол) is a city in Southeastern Bulgaria and administrative centre of Yambol Province.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_104_(L_59)

Also known as Zeppelin LZ 104, Zeppelin LZ104.

LZ 104 (L 59), the Glossary

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See also

1910s German military transport aircraft

1917 in Bulgaria

Airships of the Imperial German Navy

Aviation accidents and incidents in 1918

Yambol

References