German East Africa [1893–1920] Africa • Eastern Africa


Timeline of stamp issuing entities of German East Africa and connected areas

German East Africa 1888–1920
British Occupation of Tanganyika area 1915–1922
British Occupation of Mafia Island 1915–1916
Mandated Territory of Tanganyika 1921–1931
British Kenya-Uganda-Tanganyika (KUT) 1922–1960
Tanganyika Republic 1961–1962
Tanzania and Zanzibar [United Republic of] 1964
Tanzania [United Republic of] 1965–today
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Stamp issuing entities of German East Africa and connected areas

Name Issued
stamps 		Bird
stamps
1888–1920 German East Africa ≈ 80
1915–1922 British Occupation of Tanganyika area
→ see under British East Africa 		≈ 40
1915–1916 British Occupation of Mafia Island

Overprinted German postage and fiscal stamps, later overprinted British stamps

 ≈ 30
1921–1931 Mandated Territory of Tanganyika
→ see under British East Africa 		≈ 40
1922–1960 British Kenya-Uganda-Tanganyika (KUT)

Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika (KUT) is the name on British postage stamps made for use in the British colonies of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika. The stamps were circulated between 1935 and 1963 by the joint postal service of the three colonies, the East African Posts and Telecommunications Administration.

→ see under British East Africa 		≈ 100
1961–1962 Tanganyika Republic
→ see under Tanganyika 		≈ 20
1964 Tanzania and Zanzibar [United Republic of]
→ see under Tanzania 		≈ 4
1965–today Tanzania [United Republic of]
→ see under Tanzania 		≈ 5 Thousand ≈ 408

About German East Africa

also known as: Deutsch-Ostafrika de

German East Africa was a German colony in the African Great Lakes region, which included what are now Burundi, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda and Tanganyika (the mainland part of present Tanzania).

The Treaty of Versailles broke up the colony, giving the north-western area to Belgium as Ruanda-Urundi, the small Kionga Triangle south of the Rovuma River to Portugal to become part of Mozambique, and the remainder to Britain, which named it Tanganyika.

Source: Wikipedia

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