Tanganyka
| Tanganyika (1961–62)
Republic of Tanganyika (1962–64) |
||||||||||
|
||||||||||
|
Anthem Mungu ibariki Afrika 'God Bless Africa' |
||||||||||
.svg) |
||||||||||
| Capital | Dar es Salaam | |||||||||
| Languages | ||||||||||
| Government |
Parliamentary monarchy (1961–62) Presidential republic (1962–64) |
|||||||||
| Head of state | ||||||||||
| • | 1961–62 | Elizabeth II | ||||||||
| • | 1962–64 | Julius Nyerere | ||||||||
| Governor-General | ||||||||||
| • | 1961–62 | Richard Turnbull | ||||||||
| History | ||||||||||
| • | Independence from British Empire | 9 December 1961 | ||||||||
| • | Republic | 9 December 1962 | ||||||||
| • | Union with Zanzibar | 26 April 1964 | ||||||||
| Currency | East African shilling | |||||||||
|
||||||||||
Tanganyika /ˌtæŋɡənˈjiːkə/ was a sovereign state, comprising the mainland part of present-day Tanzania, that existed from 1961 until 1964. It first gained independence from the United Kingdom on 9 December 1961 as a state headed by Queen Elizabeth II before becoming a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations exactly a year later. After signing the Articles of Union on 22 April 1964 and passing an Act of Union on 25 April, Tanganyika officially joined with the People's Republic of Zanzibar and Pemba to form the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar on Union Day, 26 April 1964. The new state changed its name to the United Republic of Tanzania within a year.
Tanganyika originally consisted of the Tanganyika Territory, the British share of German East Africa, which the British took under a League of Nations Mandate in 1922, and which was later transformed into a United Nations Trust Territory after World War II. The other parts of German East Africa were taken into Belgian trusteeship, eventually becoming present-day Rwanda and Burundi.
...
Wikipedia