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1919–1922 — The Treaty of Versailles divides Germany's African colonies into mandates of the victors (which largely become new colonies of the victors). Most of Cameroon becomes a French mandate with a small portion taken by the British and some territory incorporated into France's previously existing colonies; Togo is mostly taken by the British, though the French gain a slim portion ...
The New-York Tribune printed this map on 9 November 1919, of the armed conflicts in Central and Eastern Europe in 1919, one year after World War I had ended: [1] Baltic States War of Independence and Russian Civil War
The following is a list of European colonies in Africa, ... (1919–61) Zanzibar; British Mauritius ... British Togoland (1916–56, today part of Ghana) Cameroons ...
The aftermath of World War I saw far-reaching and wide-ranging cultural, economic, and social change across Europe, Asia, Africa, and even in areas outside those that were directly involved. Four empires collapsed due to the war, old countries were abolished, new ones were formed, boundaries were redrawn, international organizations were ...
Background map : Africa map political-fr.svg (this revision) (modified) created by myself ; Reference maps : Map by John Bartholomew & Co. visible on Britishempire.co.uk ; Map from Hammond's Atlas of the Modern World, 1917 ; Map from WHKMLA Historical Atlas ; Map from the Texas Education Agency. Author: Eric Gaba (Sting - fr:Sting) Permission
A map of Europe as it appeared in 1815 after the Congress of Vienna. This article gives a detailed listing of all the countries, including puppet states, that have existed in Europe since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to the present day. Each country has information separated into columns: name of the distinct country, its lifespan, the ...
1919: German and Ottoman colonies came under the control of the League of Nations, which distributed them as "mandates" to Great Britain, France, Japan, Belgium, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. [57] 1936: Italy in a few months (between spring 1935 and summer 1936) conquest the last independent territory in Africa: Ethiopia.
Name Year Colonial power Morocco: 1912 France [1]: Libya: 1911 Italy [2]: Fulani Empire: 1903 France and the United Kingdom: Swaziland: 1902 United Kingdom [3]: Ashanti Confederacy: 1900 ...