--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., Arif Samad <fHoiberg@y...> wrote:

> A few things about German colonies -
> There was a third colony that was divided in two
> mandates. German East Africa was divided in British
> Tanganikya and Belgian Rwanda-Urundi. I find it
> ironic that the much larger part actually joined with
> another (albeit tiny) country to be what it is now
> while the smaller part is now in two countries. I
> don't really know how much internal autonomy, if any,
> this areas had under Germany.

Yes, the third occurrence of this. Probably because Belgium was
another country at war with Germany in WW1 and profited from it's
defeat following Versailles. Rwanda-Urundi happened to be adjacent to
Tanganyika.

BTW: The Burundi flag is inspired by the flag of the Belgian airline
SABENA! This is a true story!

By the way the British

> part of Togo joined Ghana. By the way, the Cameroons
> had a much more interesting shape until a big chunk
> was ceded to French. Can't remember the exact year.

I know that a part of French equatorial Africa was ceded to Germany
following the Panther incident (Germany trying to get a foothold in
Morocco but not succeeding): this was called Neukamerun, and gave the
French territory a very strange shape. This was in 1911.

Peter S.