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From July 11, 1962, to December 28, 1966, this area was known as the province of Nord-Katanga, but the administration of the province was taken over in 1966 by the central government. It was finally merged into the restored Katanga Province by the Mobutu government, where it was administered as the Tanganyika district. In 2015, Tanganyika was ...
The UK held Tanganyika as a League of Nations mandate until the end of World War II after which it was held as a United Nations trust territory. In 1961, Tanganyika gained its independence from the UK as Tanganyika, joining the Commonwealth. It became a republic a year later. Tanganyika now forms part of the modern-day sovereign state of ...
When Belgium annexed the Belgian Congo as a colony in November 1908, it was initially organised into 22 districts. Ten western districts were administered directly by the main colonial government, while the eastern part of the colony was administered under two vice-governments: eight northeastern districts formed Orientale Province, and four southeastern districts formed Katanga.
A map of the colony after this division shows Tanganika-Moero District bordered by British territories and Lake Tanganyika to the east, Kivu and Maniema districts to the north, Lomami and Lulua districts to the west and Haut-Luapula District to the south. [3]
Map of German East Africa. Map of German East Africa (bordered in red), 1905. Map of Tanganyika Territory, 1934. The colony of German East Africa (German: Deutsch-Ostafrika) was founded in the 1880s, after the German explorer Carl Peters signed treaties with native chieftains on neighboring Zanzibar.
Tanganyika (1961–1964), a sovereign state, comprising the mainland part of present-day Tanzania; Tanzania Mainland, the current area of the former country state and territory of Tanganyika; Lake Tanganyika, an African Great Lake; Tanganyika Province, a province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Tanganyika Province (est. 2015) — a historical and current Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in the southeast on Lake Tanganyika. Subcategories.
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