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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 ...
Map of Tanganyika Territory. The area that made up Tanganyika was commonly visited by Arabic traders who would come to the area to buy enslaved people and smuggle ivory. The island of Zanzibar was even taken as a part of the Sultanate of Oman; when Seyyid Said came to power in 1806, Omani interests in Tanzania began to increase.
Tanganika District was a district of the pre-2015 Katanga Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.The district dates back to the days of the Belgian Congo.At its greatest extent it roughly corresponded to the present Tanganyika Province, with a small portion in the southwest now in Haut-Lomami Province.
Nord-Katanga, Lualaba and Katanga Oriental were merged back into the province of Katanga on 28 December 1966. [6] In 2015 Tanganyika Province was formed from the Tanganyika district, whose town of Kalemie was elevated to capital city of the new province.
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
Moba Territory is a territory in the Tanganyika Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The administrative center is Moba port. The territory has an estimated area of 24,500 square kilometres (9,500 sq mi) and a population of almost 610,000. [1]
Katavi Region is located between Longitude 30° and 33° East of Greenwich and Latitudes 5° 15° to 7° 03° South of the Equator. It is bordered to the north by the Urambo District (Tabora), to the east by the Sikonge District (Tabora), to the east by the Chunya District (Mbeya), to the south by the Sumbawanga District (Rukwa), to the south-east by 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 This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.