At present, Lake Kivu is the sole natural lake in which Limnothrissa miodon, an endemic sardine originally from Lake Tanganyika, has been introduced initially to fill an empty niche.

Germany gained the islands of Heligoland () in the North Sea, originally part of Danish Holstein-Gottorp but since 1814 a British possession, the so-called Caprivi Strip ( chieftainship of the Fwe people in what is now Namibia ), and a free hand to control and acquire the coast of Dar es Salaam that would form the core of German East Africa ( later Tanganyika, now the mainland component of Tanzania ).

German East Africa was captured by the British during World War I and from then on was referred to as Tanganyika.

Among Protestants the strong numbers of Lutherans and Moravians point to the German past of the country, the numbers of Anglicans to the British history of Tanganyika.

British explorers Richard Burton and John Speke crossed the interior to Lake Tanganyika in June 1857.

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.

After World War II, Tanganyika became a UN territory under British control.

In 1923, the League of Nations mandated to Belgium the territory of Ruanda-Urundi, encompassing modern-day Rwanda and Burundi, but stripping the western kingdoms and giving them to British administered Tanganyika.

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.

The portion of the German territory, never a part of the Kingdom of Rwanda, was stripped from the colony and attached to Tanganyika, which had been mandated to the British.

* Sultanate of Zanzibar two incumbents ( from the Omani dynasty ) since the de facto separation from Oman in 1806, the last assumed the title Sultan in 1861 at the formal separation under British auspices ; since 1964 union with Tanganyika part of Tanzania )

Nigeria, the Southern Cameroons and British Somaliland were granted independence in 1960, Sierra Leone and Tanganyika in 1961, Uganda in 1962, and Kenya in 1963.

In 1929, after finishing work on The Science of Life, Huxley visited East Africa to advise the Colonial Office on education in British East Africa ( for the most part Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika ).

At the time his father, Richard Gower OBE, was working for the Colonial Service in a position in Dar es Salaam, capital of the then British administered territory of Tanganyika, where Gower spent his early childhood.

The movie was filmed on location in Okalataka, French Congo ; Mount Kenya, Thika, Kenya-you can see Mt Longonot and Lake Naivasha, both in the Kenyan Rift Valley, and Fourteen Falls near Thika as backdrops-Kagera River, Tanganyika ; Isoila, Uganda ; and at the MGM British Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, UK.

Here he presided over considerable decolonisation, seeing Nigeria, British Somaliland, Tanganyika, Sierra Leone, Kuwait and British Cameroon become independent, and in Kenya ending the state of emergency and freeing Kenyatta.

Johnston realised the strategic importance of Lake Tanganyika to the British, especially since the territory between the lake and the coast had become German East Africa forming a break of nearly 900 km in the chain of British colonies in the Cape to Cairo dream.

However the north end of Lake Tanganyika was only 230 km from British-controlled Uganda, and so a British presence at the south end of the lake was a priority.

With Belgian, German and Portuguese frontiers to contend with, Johnston ensured that British bomas were established ( in addition to those in Nyasaland ) east of Luapula-Mweru at Chiengi and the Kalungwishi River, at the south end of Lake Tanganyika at Abercorn, and at Fort Jameson between Mozambique and the Luangwa valley.

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.

After King Lewanika of the Barotse signed a treaty in 1890, the next year the British government placed Barotseland and land up to Nyasaland in the east and to Katanga and Lake Tanganyika in the north under the Charter of Rhodes ' British South Africa Company ( BSAC ), administrated as two different units, North-Western Rhodesia and North-Eastern Rhodesia.

The British government agreed that Rhodes ' company, the British South Africa Company ( BSAC ), would administer the territory stretching from the Limpopo to Lake Tanganyika under charter as a protectorate.

The province also borders Tanzania, although Katanga province and Tanzania do not share a land border but the border is within Lake 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.

That April, the republic was subsumed by the mainland former colony of Tanganyika.

When former German East Africa was divided into three mandated territories ( Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanganyika ) Smutsland was one of the proposed names for what became Tanganyika.

In 1964 Zanzibar was united with the former colony of Tanganyika to form Tanzania.

The 1st Battalion was doubled and the 6th ( Tanganyika Territory ) Battalion was raised from askaris of the former German East Africa and then it too was doubled.

John Stephen Akhwari ( born 1938 in Mbulu, Tanganyika ) is a Tanzanian former marathon runner.

Sultan Khalifah sent Zanzibari troops led by General Lloyd Mathews, a former Lieutenant of the Royal Navy, to restore order in Tanganyika.

Incipient imperial rivalry was forestalled when Germany handed its coastal holdings to Britain in 1890, in exchange for German control over the coast of Tanganyika.

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.

While the German colonial administration brought cash crops, railroads, and roads to Tanganyika, European rule provoked African resistance.

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.

Following the war, Britain gained the German colony of Tanganyika and part of Togoland in Africa.

The first German to visit or explore Rwanda was Count Gustav Adolf von Götzen, who from 1893 to 1894 led an expedition to claim the hinterlands of the Tanganyika colony.

On May 14, 1910 the European Convention of Brussels fixed the borders of Uganda, Congo, and German East Africa, which included Tanganyika and Ruanda-Urundi.

His father, a member of the untitled German nobility, operated a large farm in Tanganyika ( formerly German East Africa ) from 1928 until World War II.

German East Africa () was a German colony in East Africa, which included what are now: Burundi,: Rwanda and Tanganyika ( the mainland part of present Tanzania ).

" The German Administration in East Africa: A Select Annotated Bibliography of the German Colonial Administration in Tanganyika, Rwanda and Burundi from 1884 to 1918.

* 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.