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French language map of Ruanda-Urundi, c. 1929–1938 Both Rwanda and Burundi were assigned to the German Empire in the Berlin Conference of 1884–85. [9] Germany did not rule over the kingdoms themselves, but instead chose to rule indirectly through their monarchies, [6] making them the westernmost part of the German East Africa colony.
This is a list of the dates when African states were made colonies or protectorates of European powers ... Burundi: 1893 Germany [4 ... South Africa: 1879 United Kingdom:
German East Africa (GEA; German: Deutsch-Ostafrika) was a German colony in the African Great Lakes region, which included present-day Burundi, Rwanda, the Tanzania mainland, and the Kionga Triangle, a small region later incorporated into Mozambique.
Unlike much of Africa, Rwanda and the Great Lakes region was not divided by the 1884 Berlin Conference. This declared Rwanda and Burundi as part of the German Empire as colonial spheres of interest in exchange for renouncing all claims on Uganda. The inferior European maps referenced in these agreements left Belgium with a claim on the western ...
There were many kingdoms and empires in all regions of the continent of Africa throughout history. A kingdom is a state with a king or queen as its head. [1] An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant centre and subordinate peripheries".
In 1923, the League of Nations mandated to Belgium the territory of Ruanda-Urundi, encompassing modern-day Rwanda and Burundi, [3] the western kingdoms being assigned to Tanganyika. [5] The Belgians administered the territory through indirect rule , building on the Tutsi -dominated aristocratic hierarchy.
Ruanda-Urundi (French pronunciation: [ʁwɑ̃da uʁundi]), [a] later Rwanda-Burundi, was a geopolitical entity, once part of German East Africa, that was occupied by troops from the Belgian Congo during the East African campaign in World War I and was administered by Belgium under military occupation from 1916 to 1922.
Rwanda Republic of Rwanda RWA English: Rwanda—Republic of Rwanda French: Rwanda—République du Rwanda Kinyarwanda: Rwanda—Repubulika y'u Rwanda: Kigali English: Kigali French: Kigali Kinyarwanda: Kigali: 13,461,888 26,798 km 2 (10,347 sq mi) Rwandese franc: São Tomé and Príncipe Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe STP