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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.
The Belgian mandate, and later UN trust territory, of Ruanda-Urundi was subsequently established later that year and confirmed by the League of Nations in 1922. [32] The Belgian flag flew in Rwanda from then onwards, until the end of Belgian rule on 1 July 1962.
Flag of Burundi under Ruanda-Urundi: 1959-1962: First Royal standard of the Kingdom of Burundi: 1926-1945: First flag of the Belgian Congo [11] 1916-1962: Flag of the Kingdom of Belgium [12] 1890-1916: Flag of the German Empire [13] 1890-1916: Colonial flag: 1890-1916: Flags of the German East Africa Company: 1914-1916: Proposed flag for the ...
Flag Date Use Description 1962–2001: Second flag of the Republic of Rwanda: A vertical Tricolour of Red, Yellow and Green with a black R letter in the center. [12] [13] 1959–1961: First flag of the Republic of Rwanda: A vertical Tricolour of Red, Yellow and Green. [14] [15] 1926–1945: First flag of the Belgian Congo [16] 1916–1959: Flag ...
[39] [40] Belgian forces invaded Rwanda and Burundi in 1916, during World War I, and later, in 1922, they started to rule both Rwanda and Burundi as a League of Nations mandate called Ruanda-Urundi and started a period of more direct colonial rule. [41]
The Kingdom of Burundi (French: Royaume du Burundi), also known as Kingdom of Urundi (Kirundi: Ubwami bw'Urundi), was a Bantu kingdom in the modern-day Republic of Burundi. The Ganwa monarchs (with the title of mwami ) ruled over both Hutus and Tutsis .
It was restyled in 2001 to match the color scheme of the new national flag. The text reads "Republic of Rwanda – Unity, Work, Patriotism" in Kinyarwanda . The central tribal devices, a stem of sorghum, a branch of a coffee tree and a traditional basket are surmounted on a cogwheel with the sun with its rays above, while two typical Rwandan ...
Benutzer:Druryhunter36/Timeline of national flags; Usage on es.wikipedia.org Plantilla:Geodatos Burundi; Anexo:Cronología de banderas nacionales; Melchior Ndadaye; Elecciones generales de Burundi de 1961; Usage on eu.wikipedia.org Ruanda-Urundi; Usage on fa.wikipedia.org گاهشماری پرچم کشورها; رواندا-اوروندی