Tanzania | German East Africa | Tanganyika & Zanzibar

Our catalogues of maps and prints illustrate the history from pre-colonial times to present day of Tanzania including its precursor states of German East Africa, Tanganyika Territory & Zanzibar. German East Africa (Deutsch-Ostafrika) was organised into a colony in the 1880's in the African Great Lakes region which included present-day Burundi, Rwanda, the Tanzania mainland, and the Kionga Triangle, a small region later incorporated into Mozambique. It persisted until Imperial Germany's defeat in World War I. It was divided under League of Nations Mandate in 1922, the largest parts of which were entrusted to Great Britain (Tanganyika Territory) and Belgium, whose trusteeship eventually became present-day Rwanda and Burundi. Tanganyika, the mainland part of present-day Tanzania, existed as a sovereign state from the date of its independence from the United Kingdom in 1961 until 1964, when it joined with the People's Republic of Zanzibar and Pemba to form the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar. The new state changed its name to the United Republic of Tanzania within a year.

We have a range of maps of the region by Mallet (1683) illustrating early European contact with the region, later views and sketch maps from the early colonial period (1880's and 1890's), and some military maps illustrating the East African campaign of the First World War.

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Tanzania | German East Africa | Tanganyika & Zanzibar

The mythical Lake Uniamesi, according to Erhardt & Rebmann. Tanzania 1885 map

Chief explorers' routes in the Congo Basin East of Tanganyika.Tanzania 1885 map

Inhabitants of the Tanganyika Basin. Tanzania 1885 old antique map plan chart

View taken at Ujiji. Tanzania 1885 old antique vintage print picture

Karema/Kalema and Mpimbwe. Tanzania. Lake Tanganyika 1885 old antique map

Mouth of the Ruvuma/Rovuma river. Tanzania 1885 old antique map plan chart

Chief explorers routes north of the Rovuma.Tanzania.German East Africa 1885 map

The Rufiji Delta. Tanzania. German East Africa 1885 old antique map plan chart

Mahiva Type. Tanzania. German East Africa 1885 old antique print picture

Tribes between the Ruvuma/Rovuma & Pagani rivers. Tanzania 1885 old map

Wasagara people. Tanzania. German East Africa 1885 old antique print picture

Lindi - Seaward view. Tanzania. German East Africa 1885 old antique print

Bagamoyo. Tanzania. German East Africa 1885 old antique vintage map plan chart

Oceanic & Landward Coasts of Pemba Compared. Tanzania. Zanzibar 1885 old map

Pemba. Tanzania. Zanzibar Archipelago 1885 old antique vintage map plan chart

Karagwe. Tanzania. Sketch map 1885 old antique vintage plan chart

Ukerewe island & U-Sukuma. Speke Gulf. Lake Victoria. Tanzania. Sketch map 1885

Ujiji and the Malagarasi river. Tanzania sketch map. Tanganyika. SMALL 1885

Tippu-Tip. Swahili–Zanzibari slave trader. Tanzania. SMALL 1885 old print

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