Chapter 448： Administrative divisions of 1874

Chapter 448 Administrative Divisions of 1874

In 1874, East Africa was actually not active in agricultural investment, and no other policies were implemented except to expand the inland planting area.

As of April this year, the immigrant population in Zambia has exceeded 500,000, and is spread throughout Zambia in the form of villages and towns. Including the southern plateau of Congo, the total population is about 800,000.

In the same period, Zimbabwe's population just exceeded 150,000. Although the population is small, it is growing at the fastest rate.

In addition to these three regions, the population growth in other regions totals about 300,000, including South Africa, the eastern plateau region of Angola, the White Nile Basin, the Azande Plateau, the Okavango River Delta and other regions, of which South Africa and the eastern plateau region of Angola Immigration is mainly needed to consolidate the border. For example, the Okavango River Delta, which has no such demand, only increased its population by more than 3,000.

“A well-established migration route has been formed from the ports of Dar es Salaam and Mtwara to Mbeya, with migrants being diverted in South Salzburg Province, via land and Lake Malawi. This is An important reason for the rapid population growth in the Zambezi and southern Congo River basins."

“In the same period, the level of agricultural development on the north and south banks of the Zambezi River Basin has improved significantly. In addition to the steady increase in the planting area of ​​the two main food crops of rice and wheat, tobacco is an important economic crop, and the development speed of sisal and other crops is also relatively outstanding.”

“The growth of population in inland areas has also added a lot of trouble to our work, mainly in terms of administrative efficiency. First, the provincial administrative divisions on the north bank of the Zambezi River, including the Congo River Basin, are too dense, but the population is not large enough, so This has caused serious waste; secondly, in the area south of the Zambezi River, administrative management is relatively chaotic, with too many military management areas, and it is difficult to coordinate and dispatch with towns as their respective cores."

This is mainly because Zimbabwe does not have provincial administrative divisions and is still managed according to the previous military regions, while Harare and Bulawayo have each formed municipal administrative division units with regional colors.

“Not only that, eastern my country is also facing this problem now. There used to be too many provincial administrative units, but now it seems that the development gap in many provinces is too large to support their independent development, and the level of industrial and agricultural development is relatively low.”

It’s time for the administrative map of the East African Kingdom to change again. In fact, since East Africa occupied South Africa, the administrative divisions of East Africa have been completely outdated.

Mainly reflected in the interior areas of Africa, East Africa exercises general rule in the three directions of west, southwest and south in the form of military districts.

When military control was initially implemented, it was because there was not much population in the interior of East Africa. Except for the army, they were basically indigenous people. It was necessary to use high-pressure military rule to treat the indigenous people.

It is different now. In some areas, the population proportion has been tilted towards immigrants. For example, in Zimbabwe, as East Africa has pumped away the local population, the immigrant population has accounted for nearly 19%.

Some provinces in eastern East Africa have overlapping functions or there is no need to establish provinces, such as Maritime Province and Kilimanjaro Province.

Following government studies and discussions, Ernst finally made the decision, and the new administrative divisions of East Africa were officially released in 1874.

The new administrative divisions divided East Africa into twenty-six provinces, the same as before, but this administrative division change included the entire East African territory, and many provinces were re-merged. For example, the six provinces in Zambia were merged into two provinces.

(Original administrative division map):

The changed East African provinces are as follows:

The four northern provinces remain unchanged (including Northern Province, Turkana Province, Juba Province and Northern Great Lakes Province).

Added three new provinces in the northwest: Nile Province (South Sudan), New Bavaria Province (eastern Azande Plateau), and Western Azande Province (western Azande Plateau).

Western Great Lakes Province remains unchanged.

In the previous Kenyan region, Eastern Great Lakes Province was abolished and merged into South Prussia Province, with the provincial capital in Nairobi.

In Tanzania, Kilimanjaro Province and Coastal Province were abolished and merged into Central Province, Oriental Province and Plateau Province respectively. Tanga, the capital of Coastal Province, was merged into Central Province. The Southern Great Lakes Province and the Hohenzollern Province were merged into the Plateau Province, the former Plateau Province and the southern part of the Hohenzollern Province were merged into the South Salzburg Province, and part of the eastern part of the former Plateau Province (mainly the river source area) was merged into Central Province, Mara Lake Province in southern Tanzania was renamed New Württemberg Province.

In addition to these provincial changes, the area of ​​the Serengeti Nature Reserve has been expanded, and parts of the former Kilimanjaro Province and Southern Great Lakes Province have been included (equivalent to no-man's land).

In the Mitumba Mountains, Mitumba Province was abolished and merged into Hesse Province to facilitate the unified management and dispatch of rubber planting areas. At the same time, this area is also an important mineral area in East Africa (including copper mines and tungsten mines, etc.).

The six provinces of Zambia and the southern highlands of Congo are the Western Province, Southern Frontier Province, East Katanga Province, West Katanga Province, Western Plateau Province, and Wallunga Province. These six provinces are integrated into Swabia Province in the north and Swabia Province in the south. The two provinces of Hohenzollern.

It should be noted here that the original province of Hohenzollern east of Lake Soren was cancelled, but Ernst established a new province of the same name in Zambia. The same treatment was given to the (New) Southern Frontier Province, but this We’ll talk about the provinces later.

In the west, a Congo Province is established in the Congo River Basin, Danube Province is established in the Kuango Plateau in the west of Congo Province, Zambezi Province is established at the source of the Zambezi River in the Lunda Plateau, and Letania Province is established in the middle and upper reaches of the Okavango River ( Taken from the Austro-Hungarian Empire).

In the south, the Kalagadi Basin is located, with the Lorraine Province centered on the inland delta of the Okavango River.

The Zimbabwe region established Matabele Province, and the former British Bechuanaland established New Baden Province (mainly British Bechuanaland).

The former Transvaal Republic and the Kingdom of Swaziland established the Province of Hechingen.

The new Southern Frontier Province was established at the junction of the original Zulu Kingdom, parts of the Kingdom of Lesotho, and the Orange Free State.

 At the same time, Ernst thoughtfully designated the arid grassland area south of Pretoria as the Limpopo River Nature Reserve to cover the gold mining area.

This administrative division also revoked the separate administrative division status of Pemba Island, Zanzibar Island, and Mafia Island. Pemba Island and Mafia Island were transformed from provincial administrative units into part of the Central Province, Zanzi The island of Bar was even included in the Central Province as a vassal state.

The main reason is that these three islands are now too small compared to the East African territory, but their location cannot be ignored, so they are simply included in the Central Province to facilitate the construction of military defense.

At the same time, the Comoros Islands have been upgraded to municipal administrative units, mainly for the East African navy to dock and replenish supplies, and to serve as a naval base.

(New administrative division map)

At the same time, in the new administrative divisions, East Africa will not pay attention to the plan for the west tomorrow morning. This does not mean that East Africa does not pay attention to it, but it shows that East Africa attaches great importance to this region. The East African government is very clear that currently East Africa has just stopped expanding, and the final shape of the territory has not been completed, so The land of the West is subject to change at any time.

At the same time, the Plateau Province as a whole has been strengthened in this administrative division. The actual reason is that the development of this region was not ideal before. Except for the former Southern Great Lakes Province, which developed fairly well, the former Hohenzollern Province and Plateau Province did not improve much.

South Africa's Southern Frontier Province and New Baden Province are mainly used to guard against the threat of the Cape Colony, so the Southern Frontier Province is distributed in a narrow east-west direction, while New Baden Province is to more effectively control the north bank of the Orange River, Deland Needless to say, the significance of the change of the Swarovski Republic into the Province of Hechingen goes without saying.

Provincial names also associated with the royal family of Hechingen are the (new) provinces of Hohenzollern and Swabia established in the southern highlands of Zambia and the Congo.

Because the Principality of Hechingen was previously part of the Principality of Swabia, the Swabian region is of great significance to Germany, including Württemberg, the Principality of Hechingen, the Principality of Sigmaringen, and the nobility of the Swabian Administrative Region of Bavaria. They all belong to the Swabian nobility.

The Habsburg family and the Hohenzollern family that came out of Swabia have influenced and dominated the history of the entire German nation.

(End of this chapter)