Tanganyika

Tanganyika (Tanganyika ) is the name given to the mainland of Tanzania Zanzibar and Pemba without, but with the island of Mafia; or: for the former territory of German East Africa without Rwanda, Burundi and the 1919 Mozambique Affiliate south of the Rovuma lying Kionga Triangle. As a country name, it was introduced, was transferred after the First World War the greater part of the German colonial territory as a mandate to Britain.

The choice of the name met the British Colonial Secretary Alfred Milner, who wished to have a local name with a clear local reference. Therefore, proposals such as New Maryland, Windsor Country and Victoria were discarded. In the immediate choice also " Kilimanjaro " and " Tabora " were drawn before for " Tanganyika Territory " decided Milner.

The area was named after Lake Tanganyika on its western border and administered by the United Kingdom since its conquest in the First World War. In 1922, Tanganyika was transferred as a mandate to Britain by the League of Nations. 1946 became a British Trust Territory of the United Nations, in the years 1958 and 1959 saw the first parliamentary elections held in Tanganyika. On 9 December 1961, gained its independence.

On 9 June 1962, the " Republic of Tanganyika " was founded in the last presidential elections were held in the same year. Tanganyika became a sovereign, but short-lived republic, and the island state of Zanzibar to the " United Republic of Tanzania " united on April 26, 1964.

Within Tanzania, Zanzibar has its own political structures. As since the end of the 20th century increased political tensions between Zanzibar and the government as a whole, formed on the mainland groups, which again require a separate political identity for " Tanganyika ".