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Togoland, officially the Togoland Protectorate (German: Schutzgebiet Togo; French: Protectorat du Togo), was a protectorate of the German Empire in West Africa from 1884 to 1914, encompassing what is now the nation of Togo and most of what is now the Volta Region of Ghana, approximately 90,400 km 2 (29,867 sq mi) in size.
Map of Togo Location of Togo. Togo is a small Sub-Saharan state, comprising a long strip of land in West Africa.Togo's geographic coordinates are a latitude of 8° north and a longitude of 1°10′ east.
On 7 December 1916, the condominium collapsed and Togoland was subsequently partitioned into British and French zones, creating the colonies of British Togoland and French Togoland. On 20 July 1922, Great Britain received the League of Nations mandate to govern the western part of Togo and France to govern the eastern part. In 1945, the country ...
Map of Togoland showing delimitation between French and British Togoland: Date: 27 February 2014: Source: File:Togo Deutsches Koloniallexikon, Verlag von Quelle & Meyer Leipzig.jpg+File:Togo political map 2007, CIA.jpg: Author: User:Nostrifikator: Other versions
British Togoland, officially the Mandate Territory of Togoland and later officially the Trust Territory of Togoland, was a territory in West Africa under the administration of the United Kingdom, which subsequently entered a union with Ghana, part of which became its Volta Region.
Map from 1896 of the British Gold Coast Colony Map of the Gold Coast Colony, the Ashanti Colony, the Northern Territories and the mandate territory of British Togoland. The British sphere of influence was eventually extended to include Asante. Following the defeat of Asante in 1896, the British proclaimed a protectorate over the kingdom. [81]
In the First World War German Togoland was conquered by the Allies and then split into British and French mandates along a mandate lines agreed upon on 10 July 1919. [ 8 ] [ 2 ] The new boundary between the mandates (i.e. the modern Ghana–Togo border) was then confirmed between Britain and France on 21 October 1929 following demarcation work ...
In December 1956, the residents of British Togoland voted to join the Gold Coast as part of the new independent nation of Ghana. British Togoland shown in pale green, which joined with Ghana. In the Representative Assembly elections in 1946, there were two parties, the Committee of Togolese Unity (CUT) and the Togolese Party of Progress (PTP ...