Tanganika-Moero District

Parts of the Stanley Falls and Lualaba districts were combined to form Katanga in 1910, which was called a vice-government general.[1] An arrêté royal of 28 March 1912 divided the Congo into 22 districts.[2] A map of the colony after this division shows Tanganika-Moero District bordered by British territories and Lake Tanganyika to the east, Kivu and Maniema districts to the north, Lomami and Lulua districts to the west and Haut-Luapula District to the south.[3] The district was named after Lake Tanganyika and Lake Mweru, which bordered the district to the east and south respectively.

Katanga become a vice-government in 1913.[4] It contained the districts of Lomami, Tanganika-Moero, Lulua and Haut-Luapula.[3] In 1933 the provinces were reorganized into six provinces, named after their capitals, and the central government assumed more control.[5] Katanga became Elisabethville Province. The number of districts in the colony was reduced to 15, with 102 territories.[4] The northern part of Tanganika-Moero became Tanganika District, while the southern part was absorbed by Haut-Katanga District.[3]

On 11 July 1960, a few days after the Congo Republic had gained independence, the province of Katanga seceded as an independent state.[6] In November 1961 the northern portion was reconquered by the national government and made the province of Nord-Katanga. On 21 January 1963 the remainder of Katanga was reconquered and divided into the provinces of Lualaba and Katanga Oriental.[6] Nord-Katanga, Lualaba and Katanga Oriental were merged back into the province of Katanga on 28 December 1966. [6] In 2015 Tanganyika Province was formed from the Tanganyika district, whose town of Kalemie was elevated to capital city of the new province.

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  1910 districts after formation of Katanga in the southeast
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  1912 districts including Tanganika-Moero in the northeast of Katanga
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  1933 provinces and districts after Haut-Luapula was dissolved
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  The present Tanganyika Province
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  The present Haut-Katanga Province

• Districts of the Belgian Congo