Old Cameroon

Cameroon's borders in 1911 and 1914:
 Eastern and southern borders of Old Cameroon
 Border between old and new Cameroon

Old Cameroon was part of the German colony of Cameroon . This meant the expansion that Cameroon had until the enlargement under the Morocco-Congo Treaty in 1911. The area of ​​Altkamerun covered almost 500,000 km². The part that was added was called New Cameroon accordingly . As a result, the colony in the east and south expanded considerably. In return, a German head start in the northeast of Old Cameroon - the so-called duck's bill - was ceded to France. With the reintegration of New Cameroon into the French colonial area after the end of the First World War , the retronym Old Cameroon also became obsolete.

Today the areas of Old Cameroon belong to the states of Cameroon , Nigeria and Chad .

Web links

• Old Cameroon , German Colonial Lexicon ,Leipzig 1920, Volume 1, p. 37.
• Cameroon - German colony from 1884 to 1919