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* in Tanganyika, the area acquired on 17 February 1885 by Carl Peters for the Deutsche Ostafrikanische Gesellschaft ( DOAG, ' German East African Company ', that was initially under an Administrator: 27 May 1885-8 February 1888 Karl Peters ), since the proclamation of the German East African protectorate ( 7 May 1885-1 July 1890 ) over Witu in Kenya ; contested by Britain ; on 28 April 1888 Germany obtains a lease of the coastal strip from the Sultan of Zanzibar ), a single Reichskommissar is appointed ( 8 February 1888-21 February 1891: Hermann von Wissmann ( b. 1853-d. 1905 ), after him Governors of 1 January 1891 when proclaimed German East Africa colony ( Deutsch Ostafrika ), ending the ' private ' DOAG rule.
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Tanganyika and area
The area around Lake Tanganyika is warmer, averaging ; the highest mountain areas are cooler, averaging.
The Treaty of Versailles broke up the colony, giving the north-western area to Belgium as Ruanda-Urundi, the small Kionga Triangle south of the Rovuma River to Portugal to become part of Mozambique, and the remainder to Britain, which named it Tanganyika.
Although he missed out in Katanga, altogether he helped to consolidate an area of nearly half a million square kilometres-say nearly, or twice the area of the United Kingdom in 2009-lying between the lower Luangwa River valley and lakes Nyasa, Tanganyika, and Mweru into the British Empire.
Following the 1889 Berlin conference and the ensuing Scramble for Africa by European powers, there was considerable interest by the Belgians, the Germans and the British in Southern and Central Africa to secure the area that covered the 4 Great Lakes namely, Lake Nyasa, Lake Mweru, Lake Tanganyika and Lake Victoria.
They include Lake Victoria, the second largest fresh water lake in the world in terms of surface area ; and Lake Tanganyika, the world's second largest in volume as well as the second deepest.
It is used in a narrow sense for the area lying between northern Lake Tanganyika, western Lake Victoria, and lakes Kivu, Edward and Albert.
In fact, Stanley met Livingstone in Ujiji on the shores of Lake Tanganyika on 27 October 1871. In colonial times the Kigoma area was known as the Western Region and the capital was Tabora.
Tanganyika and acquired
Once it had gained a foothold, Peters ' newly established German East Africa Company acquired further lands in Tanganyika up to the Uluguru and Usambara Mountains.
Today only BPPs whose status was acquired from their connection with Tanganyika and British Togoland have the possibility of still having BPP status.
Tanganyika and on
By the early 1960s, most of East and Central Africa, where the majority of the Ismāʿīlī population on the continent resided including Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Malagasy, Rwanda, Burundi and Zaire, had attained their political independence.
The lowest point in the country is at Lake Tanganyika, at, with the highest point being on Mount Heha, at.
Lake Tanganyika is used for transport, with the major port on the lake being Bujumbura.
* Kalemie to Kalundu ( the lake port at Uvira )-boat on Lake Tanganyika
* National Road No. 2, Kisangani-Bukavu – Goma, connecting the principal waterway systems of the country, namely Kinshasa-Kisangani on the Congo River and the Lake Kivu and Lake Tanganyika systems on the eastern edge of the country.
* Kalemie, Kulundu-Uvira and Moba on Lake Tanganyika to Kigoma ( Tanzania ), Bujumbura ( Burundi ) and Mpulungu ( Zambia ).
* Kalemie to Kalundu-Uvira on Lake Tanganyika
German East Africa was captured by the British during World War I and from then on was referred to as Tanganyika.
The country is divided into 26 regions, 5 on the semi-autonomous islands of Zanzibar, and 21 on the mainland in the former Tanganyika.
After the Zanzibar Revolution overthrew the Arab dynasty in neighbouring Zanzibar, which had become independent in 1963, the island merged with mainland Tanganyika to form the nation of Tanzania on 26 April 1964.
The other one is the Tanzania Railways Corporation, which provides services between Dar-es-Salaam and Kigoma, a town on the shores of Lake Tanganyika and between Dar-es-Salaam and Mwanza, a city on the shores of Lake Victoria.
He focused on the island and developed trade routes that stretched as far as Lake Tanganyika and Central Africa.
In January 1866 the Scottish explorer and missionary David Livingstone, who crusaded against the slave trade, went to Zanzibar, from where he set out to seek the source of the Nile, and established his last mission at Ujiji on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.
In the course of these expeditions, in 1879 a station was founded in Kigoma on the eastern bank of Lake Tanganyika, soon to be followed by the station of Mpala on the opposite western bank.
The Congo Free State was eventually to give up its claim on Kigoma ( its oldest station in Central Africa ) and on any territory to the east of Lake Tanganyika, to Germany.
On 29 March 1961 Britain agreed that Tanganyika would become an independent state on 28 December 1961.
Stanley found Livingstone on 10 November 1871, in Ujiji near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania, and may have greeted him with the now-famous, " Doctor Livingstone, I presume?
It is located on the northeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika.
* A branch line from Nseluka on the TAZARA Railway to Mpulungu on Lake Tanganyika has been proposed.
Tanganyika and 17
In his speech to the United Nations Trusteeship Council on 17 June 1957, he said that Tanganyika could become self-governing within ten to fifteen years.
Tanganyika and February
* February 13 – Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke become the first Europeans to discover Lake Tanganyika.
Exteriors were filmed in Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda and French Equatorial Africa from October 1952 – February 1953.
The party was created February 5, 1977, under the leadership of Julius Nyerere as the merger of the Tanzania African National Union ( TANU ), the then ruling party in Tanganyika, and the Afro-Shirazi Party ( ASP ), the then ruling party in Zanzibar.
Cameron's two European companions turned back, but he continued his march and reached Ujiji, on Lake Tanganyika, in February 1874, where he found and sent to England Livingstone's papers.
" Tanganyika Diamond Presented to Princess Elizabeth ," Old Africa, No. 21 ( February – March 2009 ) 16-17.
Tanganyika and 1885
The authority of the nine kingdoms ( Kihanja, Karagwe, Kiziba, Misenye, Bugabo, Kyamtwara, Ihangiro, Bukara and Biharamulo ) were diminished when Germans colonized Tanganyika in 1885 and supported the Haya, the ethnic group of Bukoba and Muleba Districts over the other districts.
Tanganyika and by
Farther north the western depression, known as the Albertine Rift is occupied for more than half its length by water, forming the Great Lakes of Tanganyika, Kivu, Lake Edward and Lake Albert, the first-named over 400 miles ( 600 km ) long and the longest freshwater lake in the world.
Tanganyika as a geographical and political entity did not take shape before the period of High Imperialism ; its name only came into use after German East Africa was transferred to the United Kingdom as a mandate by the League of Nations in 1920.
Known as the Maji-Maji war with the main brunt borne by the Ngoni people, this was a merciless rebellion and by far the bloodiest in Tanganyika.
A skillful and remarkably successful guerrilla campaign waged by the German commander Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck kept the war in Tanganyika going for the entire length of the First World War.
In 1920, by the Tanganyika Order in Council, 1920, the Office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Territory was constituted.
The British administration took measures to revive African institutions by encouraging limited local rule, and authorized the formation in 1922 of political clubs such as the Tanganyika Territory African Civil Service Association.
It was at this time that the Tanganyika army revolted and Britain was asked by Julius Nyerere to send in troops.
The western portion of the country between Lakes Victoria, Tanganyika, and Malawi consists of flat land that has been categorised by the World Wildlife Fund as part of the Central Zambezian Miombo woodlands ecoregion.
That April, the republic was subsumed by the mainland former colony of Tanganyika.
* November 10 – Henry Morton Stanley locates the missing explorer and missionary Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, and greets him by saying " Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
She was accompanied by her mother whose presence was necessary to satisfy the requirements of David Anstey, chief warden, who was concerned for their safety ; Tanzania was " Tanganyika " at that time and a British protectorate.
Macleod greatly accelerated decolonisation and by the time he was moved to Conservative Party Chairman and Leader of the Commons in 1961 he had made the decision to give independence to Nigeria, Tanganyika, Kenya, Nyasaland ( as Malawi ) and Northern Rhodesia ( as Zambia ).
This outflow is apparently not more than 12, 000 years old, caused by lava flows blocking and diverting the Kivu basin's previous outflow into Lake Edward and then the Nile system, and causing Tanganyika's water level to rise up to its current overflow level: ancient shorelines indicate that at times Tanganyika may have been up to 300m lower than its present surface level, with no outlet to the sea.
The largest biomass of fish, however, is in the pelagic zone ( open waters ) and is dominated by six species: two species of " Tanganyika sardine " and four species of predatory lates ( related to, but not the same as, the Nile perch that has devastated Lake Victoria cichlids ).
Under the command of Geoffrey Spicer-Simson the Royal Navy achieved the monumental task of bringing two armed motor boats Mimi and Toutou from England to the lake by rail, road and river to Kalemie on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika.
Just two weeks later, on October 13, 1961, Rwagasore was assassinated while taking his dinner at the Hotel Tanganyika by a Greek national named Georges Kageorgis, allegedly in the pay of the pro-Belgian Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ).
At this point postal service was taken over by the East African Common Services Organization, which issued commemoratives for the 1964 Summer Olympics inscribed " Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika, Zanzibar ", even though they were never actually used in Zanzibar.
Born in Tanganyika to Nyerere Burito ( 1860 – 1942 ), Chief of the Zanaki, Nyerere was known by the Swahili name Mwalimu or ' teacher ', his profession prior to politics.
Nyerere, unnerved by the Tanganyika Army mutiny a few days later, ensured that Okello was barred from returning to Zanzibar after a visit to the mainland.
Note that the postmark still gives " Tanganyika " as country name. 5-shilling stamp of 1980 depicting lion and cubs, used in 1985. The story of the postage stamps and postal history of Tanzania begins with German East Africa, which was occupied by British forces during World War I.
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