Subject: Re: Brownlie&#39;s African Boundaries<br/>
Date: Aug 03, 2001 @ 16:31<br/>
Author: Peter Smaardijk (&quot;Peter Smaardijk&quot; &lt;smaardijk@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-2098738297">For some background information on that wonderful subject of German <br/>
colonies, see <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.deutsche-schutzgebiete.de/">http://www.deutsche-schutzgebiete.de/</a> . Apart from <br/>
Cameroon, Togo was also split in a French and a British protectorate <br/>
part after WW1. The British part became part of Ghana later.<br/>
<br/>
Harry, I presume you meant &quot;pre-1914, when Germany still owned its <br/>
part&quot;, and not pre-1940.<br/>
<br/>
Peter S.<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;Harry ten Veen&quot; &lt;pa8km@a...&gt; wrote:<br/>
&gt; Thank you Arif and Grant for explaining the former Nigerian<br/>
&gt; border-situation(s)!<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; &gt;I&#39;m not sure if it tapered down to a trinational quadripoint at <br/>
the Benue<br/>
&gt; River.<br/>
&gt; No, the to parts are not connected: there is a peace of land of <br/>
about 65 km.<br/>
&gt; in between.<br/>
&gt; The river benue is almost in the centre of that section.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; &gt;Does the &quot;split&quot; territory you mention lie in the region of the <br/>
narrow neck<br/>
&gt; in the Northern Provinces?<br/>
&gt; In the narrow neck (which isn&#39;t a neck) lies the province of <br/>
Adamawa. Its<br/>
&gt; capital is Yola, also to be seen on your scan.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; The Donga river is indeed the border between the Southern and <br/>
Northern<br/>
&gt; Cameroons in the SE region.<br/>
&gt; Southern Cameroons transferred to Rep. Cameroon.<br/>
&gt; I think Southern and Northern Cameroons are the same as Eastern and <br/>
Western<br/>
&gt; Provinces as you mention.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Grant, on your map in the upper-right corner is an arrow and the <br/>
start of a<br/>
&gt; name &quot;El ????&quot; what does it say there??<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Still, it remains a interesting situation!<br/>
&gt; I would love to see a map of, say around 1940, when Germany still <br/>
owned its<br/>
&gt; part.<br/>
&gt; Also a map after Germany&#39;s part was devided between UK and France.<br/>
&gt; My map of 1960.<br/>
&gt; Then a map of the situation after the independency in 1961, which <br/>
is the<br/>
&gt; present situation I presume?<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; gl<br/>
&gt; Harry ten Veen<br/>
&gt; (I&#39;am off now, for a short holliday) </span></blockquote></div>