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    Ruanda-Urundi (French pronunciation: [ʁwɑ̃da uʁundi]), later Rwanda-Burundi, was a geopolitical entity, once part of German East Africa, that was occupied...
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  • The Ruanda-Urundi franc was a currency issued for the Belgian mandate territory of Ruanda-Urundi in 1960–62 which continued to circulate within its successor...
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    Burundi (redirect from Urundi)
    means "Another one".[citation needed] Later the Belgian mandate to Ruanda-Urundi region came to rename it and their former capital "Usumbura" of both...
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    responsible for the territory of Ruanda-Urundi, an area equivalent to modern-day Rwanda and Burundi. Ruanda-Urundi formed part of German East Africa...
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    principally the Belgian Congo (modern DR Congo) from 1908 to 1960, Ruanda-Urundi (modern Rwanda and Burundi) from 1922 to 1962, and Lado Enclave (modern...
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    Rwanda (redirect from Ruanda)
    rule both Rwanda and Burundi as a League of Nations mandate called Ruanda-Urundi and started a period of more direct colonial rule. The Belgians simplified...
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    William Roger Louis, Ruanda-Urundi 1884–1919 (Oxford University Press 1963). Duarte, Mary T. (1995). "Education in Ruanda-Urundi, 1946–61". Historian...
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    I, forming the mandate of Ruanda-Urundi. Kigali remained the seat of colonial administration for Rwanda but Ruanda-Urundi's capital was at Usumbura (now...
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  • The following lists events that happened during 1959 in Ruanda-Urundi. November 1 – Violence between the Hutu and Tutsi people was triggered by an attack...
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    Ruanda-Urundi. The Germans established the office of Resident of Urundi in 1906. They moved the seat of the residency to Gitega in 1912. After Urundi...
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  • in Ruanda-Urundi (present day Rwanda and Burundi) and, from 1952, the currency was issued jointly in the names of the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi. After...
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    the western section of the former German East Africa to Belgium, and Ruanda-Urundi would go on to become a League of Nations mandate territory, under Belgian...
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    century, possessed a number of colonies, notably the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi. These colonies gained independence between 1960 and 1962. The second...
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    among the victorious powers under the Treaty of Versailles. Apart from Ruanda-Urundi (assigned to Belgium) and the small Kionga Triangle (assigned to Portuguese...
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  • Louis Postiaux (category Colonial governors of Ruanda-Urundi)
    March 1948) was a Belgian colonial administrator who was governor of Ruanda-Urundi, and then governor of Katanga Province. Louis-Joseph Postiaux was born...
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  • family of Burundian Mwami (king) Mwambutsa IV in Belgian-administered Ruanda-Urundi in 1932, Rwagasore was educated in Burundian Catholic schools before...
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    Rudahigwa's reign there was a marked stratification of ethnic identity within Ruanda-Urundi, the Belgian-ruled mandate of which Rwanda formed the northern part...
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  • Uganda, Congo, and German East Africa, which included Tanganyika and Ruanda-Urundi. In 1911, the Germans helped the Tutsi put down a rebellion of Hutu...
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    overseas possession of Belgium along with the League of Nations mandate of Ruanda-Urundi, the reconstruction of Belgium following the war, and the first five...
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    contact, it was united with the Kingdom of Rwanda, becoming the colony of Ruanda-Urundi - first colonised by Germany and then by Belgium. The colony gained...
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    colony was in turn adopted by the Minister of the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi, August de Schryver, who was also the leader of the Christian Social...
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  • Tanzania Ruanda (Mbozi), a ward in Mbozi District in southern Tanzania Ruanda (moth), a genus of moths in the subfamily Lymantriinae Ruanda-Urundi (1916–1962)...
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    Rwanda is a de facto one-party state ruled by the Rwandan Patriotic Front and its leader Paul Kagame since the end of the 1994 genocide against members...
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    Tabora. The completion of the Tabora Offensive not only left much of the Ruanda-Urundi territory under Belgian military occupation but gave the Allies control...
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    United Kingdom on 3 October 1932. Iraq B Belgian Mandate for East Africa Ruanda-Urundi Belgium German East Africa German Empire From 20 July 1922 to 13 December...
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    era, principally the Belgian Congo (modern DRC) from 1908 to 1960 and Ruanda-Urundi (modern Rwanda and Burundi) from 1922 to 1962. It also had a small concession...
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    in Ruanda-Urundi from 1916 to 1952. It was succeeded in that role in 1952 by the newly established Banque Centrale du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi. Its...
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    the Tutsi. Juvénal Habyarimana was born on 8 March 1937, in Gisenyi, Ruanda-Urundi to a wealthy Hutu family. After receiving a primary education, he attended...
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  • Alfred Marzorati (category Colonial governors of Ruanda-Urundi)
    was appointed royal commissioner in charge of the Belgian mandate of Ruanda-Urundi in 1919, and strongly supported the 1926 administrative union between...
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    (births/woman) 1  Iraq 8.11 2 (1)  Rwanda (Belgian overseas colonies, Ruanda-Urundi → United Nations trust territories →  Rwanda) 7.92 3 (2)  New Hebrides...
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