Jassini
Coordinates: 4 ° 40 ′ S , 39 ° 12 ′ E
Jassini was the German spelling of the small, now Tanzanian town of Yasini on the Tanzanian- Kenyan border.
Before World War I, there was a border post for the German East Africa colony opposite the neighboring British area. In January 1915 there was a loss-making battle in which units of the German protection force fought off the advance of Indian-British units. The battle was significant for the further course of the fighting in East Africa, as the German commander Lettow-Vorbeck drew the conclusion from the casualties to forego the use of large units and to switch to a decentralized method of combat ("small war").
Yasini is now part of the Mayomboni political community in the Mkinga district of the Tanga region .
The border crossing has lost its importance, as today's coastal road from Tanga to Mombasa continues inland.
Remarks
- ↑ The Tanzanian postal code directory has the spelling "Jasini", here pdf online under "Mayomboni 21518" , opened on June 30, 2018
- ↑ Michael Pesek: The end of a colonial empire: East Africa in the First World War, p. 58f online via google books
- ^ So Lettow in his memoirs Heia Safari , Leipzig 1920, p. 63, online here at archive.org