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Name |
Issued
stamps |
Bird
stamps |
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1897–1919
German Cameroon (Kamerun)
Beginning on July 5, 1884, all of present-day Cameroon and parts of several of its neighbours became a German colony, Kamerun, with a capital first at Buea and later at Yaoundé. |
≈ 50 | |
1897–1919
German Togo (Togoland)
In 1884 a treaty was signed at Togoville with the King Mlapa III, whereby Germany claimed a protectorate over a stretch of territory along the coast and gradually extended its control inland. In 1905, this became the German colony of Togoland. |
≈ 20 | |
1914–1915
British occupation of German Togo
During World War I this German territory was invaded by British troops from the neighbouring Gold Coast colony and French troops coming from Dahomey. |
≈ 20 | |
1914–1915 French occupation of German Togo | ≈ 20 | |
1915–1956
French Togo
→ see under French West Africa (AOF) |
≈ 200 | |
1915
British Occupation of German Cameroon
In World War I the British invaded Cameroon from Nigeria in 1914 in the Kamerun campaign, with the last German fort in the country surrendering in February 1916. After the war this colony was partitioned between the United Kingdom and France under a June 28, 1919 League of Nations mandates (Class B). |
≈ 10 | |
1915–1917
French occupation of German Cameroon
France gained the larger geographical share, transferred Neukamerun back to neighboring French colonies, and ruled the rest from Yaoundé as Cameroun (French Cameroons). |
≈ 50 | |
1921–1956
French Cameroon
→ see under French Equatorial Africa (AEF) |
≈ 300 | |
1957–today
Togo
French Togoland became an autonomous republic within the French Union in 1959. → see under Togo |
≈ 3 Thousand | ≈ 204 |
1958–today
Cameroon
French Cameroons achieved independence on January 1, 1960 as the Republic of Cameroon. → see under Cameroon |
≈ 1 Thousand | ≈ 33 |
also known as: Deutsch-Westafrika de
German West Africa (Deutsch-Westafrika) is a designation used for German territories in West Africa.