* Togoland was split into British Togoland ( under an Administrator, a post filled by the colonial Governor of the British Gold Coast ( present Ghana ) except 30 September 1920 – 11 October 1923 Francis Walter Fillon Jackson ) and French Togoland ( under a Commissioner ) ( United Kingdom and France ), 20 July 1922 separate Mandates, transformed on 13 December 1946 into United Nations trust territories, French Togo Associated Territory ( under a Commissioner till 30 August 1956, then under a High Commissioner as Autonomous Republic of Togo ) and British Togoland ( as before ; on 13 December 1956 it ceased to exist as it became part of Ghana )

Togoland was separated into two League of Nations mandates, administered by Britain and France.

* The Trust Territory of Togoland under British administration ( British Togoland ): Much smaller than French Togoland, this territory was merged in 1956 with the British colony of the Gold Coast, which was granted independence as Ghana in 1957.

Prior to the July 1956 general elections in the Gold Coast, a plebiscite was conducted under United Nations ( UN ) auspices to decide the future disposition of British Togoland and French Togoland.

A clear majority of British Togoland inhabitants voted in favor of union with their western neighbors, and the area was absorbed into the Gold Coast.

There was, however, vocal opposition to the incorporation from some of the Ewe in southern British Togoland.

The German terms, as presented on July 15, while containing an offer to cede the northern part of Kamerun and Togoland, demanded from France the whole of the French Congo from the Sangha River to the sea, to which was later added the transfer of France's right to the preemption of the Belgian Congo.

French Togoland, seized by France from Germany in World War I, was for most of this period not nominally a colony but a Mandate territory.

Between 1934 and 1937, the League of Nations Mandate territory of French Togoland was subsumed into Dahomey, and between its seizure from Germany in World War I and independence it was administered through the AOF.

** 4 June 1892-November 1893 Jesko von Puttkamer ( 2nd time ); the same stayed on as the first of two Landeshauptleute (' Land captains '), till 13 August 1895 ; the second ( 18 November 1895-18 April 1898 August Köhler, b. 1858-d. 1902 ) was also the first of the Governors ( since 1 January 1905 as German colony of Togoland, till the British conquered it August 1914 )

* Togoland, formerly a German protectorate, was an Anglo-French condominium, from when the United Kingdom and France occupied it on 26 August 1914 until its partition on 27 December 1916 into French and British zones.

British Togoland was a League of Nations Class B mandate in West Africa, under the mandatory power of the United Kingdom.

It was effectively formed in 1916 by the splitting of the occupied German protectorate of Togoland into two territories, French Togoland and British Togoland, during the First World War.

After 1918, following the defeat of Germany, the League of Nations divided the German colony of Togoland from north to south, a decision that divided the Ewe people among the Gold Coast, British Togoland, and French Togoland.

A colonial lord in the German colony Togoland ( ca.

Germany's new colonies included Togoland ( now Togo and part of Ghana ), German Kamerun ( now Cameroon and part of Nigeria ), German East Africa ( now Rwanda, Burundi, and the mainland part of Tanzania ), and German South-West Africa ( now Namibia ).

In 1905, this became the German colony of Togoland.

After 1918, following the defeat of Germany, the League of Nations divided the German colony of Togoland from north to south, a decision that divided the Ewe people among the Gold Coast, British Togoland, and French Togoland.

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

* July 20 – The German protectorate of Togoland is divided into the League of Nations mandates of French Togoland and British Togoland.

* German Guinea, another name for the former colonies of Kamerun and Togoland in West Africa

German West Africa encompassed two colonial entities, Kamerun and Togoland.

Ho was a part of the German colony of Togoland until World War I, when it was occupied by the British.

His mission as commissioner resulted in Togoland and Kamerun becoming the first colonies of a German colonial empire.

By 1956, British Togoland, the Ashanti protectorate, and the Fante protectorate were merged with the Gold Coast to create one colony, which became known as the Gold Coast.

* in Togo the Reich Reichskommissare since 5 July 1884 proclamation of the Togoland protectorate:

On August 26, 1914, the German protectorate of Togoland was invaded by French and British forces and fell after five days of brief resistance.

The German explorer, medical doctor, imperial consul and commissioner for West Africa Gustav Nachtigal was the driving force toward the establishment of the West African colonies of Togoland and Kamerun.

In the years just before the Great War Lome had grown into the “ prettiest town in West Africa .” Because it was one of Germany's two self-supporting colonies, Togoland was acknowledged as a small but treasured possession.

On the 6th of March 1957, following the decolonization from the British under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah, the Gold Coasts Akanland was joined to British Togoland, and the Nothern region, Upper East region and Upper West region of the Gold Coast to form Ghana.

French Togoland ( French: Le Togoland français ) was a France Mandate territory in West Africa, which later became the Togolese Republic.

The title was also used by the German empire for governors during the early stages of its colonial rule over South West Africa ( 1893-1898 ), Togoland ( 1893-1898 ) and German New Guinea ( 1886-1889, 1892-1899 )

During the decolonization of Africa, a referendum was organised in British Togoland in May 1956 to decide the future of the territory.

" In African protectorates, especially Togoland and German East Africa, " improbably advanced and humane administrations emerged.

: In Africa, Britain and France divided German Kamerun ( Cameroons ) and Togoland.

In addition, the treaty established the German sphere of interest in German South-West Africa ( present-day Namibia ) and settled the borders between German Togoland and the British Gold Coast ( now Ghana ), as well as between German Kamerun ( now Cameroon ) and British Nigeria.

In the popular Canadian sketch comedy show, Second City Television ( which ran from 1976 to 1984 ), the news segment skit " SCTV News " regularly included news bulletins about natural catastrophes in " Togoland ," though no contemporary country had that name.

Today only BPPs whose status was acquired from their connection with Tanganyika and British Togoland have the possibility of still having BPP status.

* Military Operations: Togoland and the Cameroons, 1914 – 1916, Brigadier-General F. J. Moberly, 1931

The divided Togoland became two separate League of Nations mandates on 20 July 1922: British Togoland, which joined Gold Coast ( present day Ghana ) in 1956, and French Togoland, which is now the nation of Togo.

In 1922, British Togoland was formally placed under British rule while French Togoland, now Togo, was placed under French rule.