List of German names of Tanzanian places

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Map with colonial place names of German East Africa (around 1905)

German place names in today's Tanzania originated during the colonial period , when Tanganyika was part of the German colony of German East Africa from 1885 to 1918, together with Burundi , Rwanda and the Kionga triangle .

A.

  • Old Iringa: Iringa
  • Alt-Langenburg: Lumbira
  • Alt Wangemannshöhe: on the Pipayika hill, in the Kondeland south of today's Tukuyu.

B.

D.

  • German Ikomba:?
  • Deutschehof: Lewa

E.

F.

G

H

K

L.

M.

N

P

R.

S.

W.

  • Male height: Kipangamansi
  • Wiedhafen: Manda
  • Wilhelmstal: Lushoto
  • Wissmannhafen: Kala

See also

Individual evidence

  1. Report in the Colonial Yearbook, ed. Gustav Meinecke, fifth year, 1892, p. 88f
  2. ^ Université du Burundi. Département d'histoire (1991). Histoire sociale de l'Afrique de l'Est: (XIXe – XXe siècle): actes du Colloque de Bujumbura (17–24 October 1989) . KARTHALA Editions. ISBN 978-2-86537-315-4 . P. 448