Chapter 448 Administrative Divisions in 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, the population of Zimbabwe 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, among which Immigration in the plateau areas of eastern South Africa and Angola is mainly due to the need to consolidate the border. The Okavango River Delta, which has no such demand, only increased its population by more than 3,000 people.
“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 River Basin and the southern Congo River Basin. "
"In the same period, the level of agricultural development on the north and south sides of the Zambezi River Basin has been significantly improved, except for the two main foods, rice and wheat. In addition to the steady increase in crop planting area, 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 troubles to our work, mainly reflected in the following. In terms of administrative efficiency, firstly, 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, resulting in serious waste; secondly, in the area south of the Zambezi River, administrative management is relatively chaotic. There are too many military management areas, and it is difficult to coordinate and dispatch with cities and 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 areas, while Harare is. and Bulawayo each formed municipal administrative unit with regional color.
“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 are relatively low.”
It's time to change the administrative map of the East African Kingdom. In fact, since East Africa occupied South Africa, the administrative divisions of East Africa have been completely outdated.
Mainly reflected in the inland areas of Africa, East Africa exercises general rule in the three directions of west, southwest and south in the form of military regions.
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 essential to use high-pressure military rule to treat the indigenous people.
Now it is different. In some areas, the population proportion has been tilted towards immigrants. For example, in Zimbabwe, as East Africa has pumped and sent 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 divide East Africa into twenty-six provinces, the same as before, but this administrative division change covers the entire East African territory, and many provinces are re-merged. For example, the six provinces of 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, Zhu Ba Province, North Great Lakes Province).
In the northwest, three new provinces were added: 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 Congo’s southern plateau region, Western Province, Southern Frontier Province, East Katanga Province, West Katanga Province, Western Plateau Province, and Wallunga Province, are integrated into the northern Swabia, the two provinces of Hohenzollern in the south.
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, with the same treatment (new) Southern Frontier Province, but we will talk about this province later.
In the west, a Congo Province will be established in the Congo River Basin, a Danube Province will be established in the western Kuango Plateau of Congo Province, a Zambezi Province will be established in the source of the Zambezi River in the Lunda Plateau, and a Congo Province will be established in the middle and upper reaches of the Okavango River. Province of Letania (from the Austro-Hungarian Empire).
To the south, in the Kalagadi Basin, is the province of Lorraine, centered on the inland delta of the Okavango River.
Matabele Province was established in the Zimbabwe region, and New Baden Province was established in the former British Bechuanaland (mainly British Bechuanaland).
The former Republic of Transvaal 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 territory of East Africa, 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 division, East Africa will not pay attention to the planning of the west tomorrow morning. This is not that East Africa does not pay attention to it, but it shows that East Africa attaches great importance to this region. East Africa The government is very clear that the expansion of East Africa has only stopped and the final shape of the territory has not been completed, so the western territory may change at any time.
At the same time, during this administrative division, the Plateau Province as a whole has been strengthened. The actual reason is that the development of this region was not ideal before. Except for the former Southern Great Lakes Province, which was relatively well developed, 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 Oran. Needless to say, the significance of the change of the Republic of Transvaal to the Province of Hechingen on the north bank of the river is needless to say.
The names of provinces also related to the royal family of Hechingen are the (new) Hohenzollern and Swabia provinces established in the southern plateau of Zambia and 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 Bavaria. The nobles in the Swabian administrative region all belong to the Swabian noble family.
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)