For a map of "Greater Kamerun" (="old" Kamerun and Neukamerun), see
http://www.jadu.de/jaduland/kolonien/landkarten/pages/kamerun.html

Peter S.

--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@y...> wrote:
> --- 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.