Chapter 448 Administrative Divisions in 1874
In 1874, East Africa was actually not very active in investing in agriculture, and no other policies were implemented except for expanding inland planting areas.
As of April this year, the immigrant population in Zambia has exceeded 500,000, and they are spread across the entire Zambia region in the form of villages and towns. Together with the southern plateau of Congo, the total population is about 800,000.
During the same period, Zimbabwe's population just exceeded 150,000. Although the population is small, its growth rate is the fastest.
In addition to these three regions, the population growth in other regions totaled about 300,000, including South Africa, the eastern plateau of Angola, the White Nile Basin, the Azande Plateau, the Okavango Delta and other regions. Among them, immigration from South Africa and the eastern plateau of Angola was mainly due to the need to consolidate the border. The Okavango Delta, which had no such demand, only increased its population by more than 3,000.
"A well-established migration route has been formed from the ports of Dar es Salaam and Mtwara to Mbeya, with migrants being diverted through land and Lake Malawi in the southern Salzburg Province, which is an important reason for the rapid population growth in the Zambezi River Basin and the southern Congo River Basin."
"During the same period, the level of agricultural development in the north and south banks of the Zambezi River Basin has improved significantly. In addition to the steady increase in the planting area of the two main food crops, rice and wheat, tobacco is an important cash crop, and sisal has also developed at a relatively fast pace."
"The population growth in the inland areas has also added a lot of trouble to our work, mainly in terms of administrative efficiency. First, 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, so there is a serious waste; second, the area south of the Zambezi River has a relatively chaotic administration, with too many military administrative areas, and it is difficult to coordinate and dispatch with towns as the core."
This is mainly because Zimbabwe does not have provincial administrative divisions and is still managed according to the previous military regions, while Harare and Bulawayo have each formed city-level administrative units with regional characteristics.
"Not only that, the eastern part of our country is also facing this problem. In the past, there were too many provincial administrative units, but now it seems that the development gap between many provinces is too large to support their independent development, and the level of industrial and agricultural development is relatively low."
It is 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 become completely outdated.
This is mainly reflected in the inland areas of Africa, where East Africa exercises general rule over the west, southwest and south in the form of military regions.
Martial control was implemented in the first place because there was not much population in the inland areas of East Africa. Apart from the army, most of the people there were indigenous people. It was necessary to use high-pressure military rule against the indigenous people.
It is different now. In some areas, the population proportion has tilted towards immigrants, such as Zimbabwe. With the withdrawal and donation of local population in East Africa, the immigrant population accounts for nearly 19%.
Some provinces in the eastern part of East Africa have overlapping functions or there is no need to set up provinces, such as the Coastal Province and Kilimanjaro Province.
After government research and discussion, Ernst finally made the final decision, and the new administrative divisions of East Africa in 1874 were officially released.
The new administrative divisions divide East Africa into 26 provinces, the same as before, but this time the administrative division changes include the entire East African territory, and many provinces have been re-merged, such as the six provinces in the Zambia region were merged into two provinces.
(Original administrative division map):
The East African province after the changes is as follows:
The four northern provinces remain unchanged (including Northern Province, Turkana Province, Juba Province, and Northern Great Lakes Province).
Three new provinces were added in the northwest: Nile Province (South Sudan), New Bavaria Province (eastern Azande Plateau), and Western Azande Province (western Azande Plateau).
The Western Great Lakes Province remains unchanged.
In the previous Kenya region, the Eastern Great Lakes Province was abolished and merged into the South Prussia Province, with its capital in Nairobi.
In Tanzania, Kilimanjaro Province and Coastal Province were abolished and merged into Central Province, Eastern 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 Southern Salzburg Province, part of the eastern part of the former Plateau Province (mainly the river source area) was merged into the Central Province, and the Southern Lake Province of Tanzania was renamed the New Württemberg Province.
In addition to these provincial changes, the Serengeti National Reserve was expanded to include parts of the former Kilimanjaro and South Great Lakes provinces (equivalent to no-man's land).
In the Mitumba Mountains, the Mitumba Province was abolished and merged into the Hesse Province to facilitate unified management and scheduling of rubber planting areas. The region is also an important mineral area in East Africa (including copper and tungsten mines, etc.).
The six provinces of Western Province, Southern Frontier Province, East Katanga Province, West Katanga Province, Western Plateau Province, and Wallonga Province in the southern plateau areas of Zambia and Congo were integrated into two provinces: Swabia in the north and Hohenzollern in the south.
It should be noted here that the original Hohenzollern province east of Lake Soren was abolished, but Ernst established a new province with the same name in Zambia. The same treatment was also given to the (new) South Border Province, but this province will be discussed later.
In the west, a Congo Province was established in the Congo River basin, Danube Province was established in the Kuango Plateau west of Congo Province, Zambezi Province was established at the source of the Zambezi River in the Lunda Plateau, and Letania Province (taken from the Austro-Hungarian Empire) was established in the middle and upper reaches of the Okavango River.
In the south, in the Kalahari Basin, the Lorraine Province is established with the inland delta of the Okavango River as its center.
The Matabele Province was established in the Zimbabwe region, and the New Baden Province (mainly British Bechuanaland) was established in the former British Bechuanaland.
The former Transvaal Republic and the Kingdom of Swaziland established the Hechingen Province.
A new Southern Frontier Province was established at the border of the former 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 abolished the independent administrative status of Pemba Island, Zanzibar Island and Mafia Island. Pemba Island and Mafia Island were changed from provincial administrative units to part of the Central Province, and Zanzibar Island was incorporated into the Central Province as a dependent state.
The main reason is that these three islands are too small compared to the territory of East Africa, but their location cannot be ignored, so they are simply incorporated into the Central Province to facilitate the construction of military defense.
At the same time, the Comoros Islands were upgraded to a city-level administrative unit, mainly for the East African Navy to dock and replenish supplies and serve as a naval base.
(New administrative division map)
At the same time, in the new administrative divisions, East Africa is not paying attention to the planning of the west. This does not mean that East Africa does not attach importance to it. On the contrary, it shows that East Africa attaches great importance to this region. The East African government is very clear that East Africa has only stopped expanding and the finalization of the territory has not been completed, so the western territory may change at any time.
At the same time, the Plateau Province as a whole was strengthened in this administrative division. The actual reason was that the development of the region was not ideal before. Except for the former South Great Lakes Province, which developed quite well, the former Hohenzollern Province and Plateau Province did not improve much.
South Africa's South Frontier Province and New Baden Province were mainly used to guard against the threat of the Cape Colony, so the South Frontier Province was long and narrow from east to west, while the New Baden Province was to better control the north bank of the Orange River. Needless to say, the significance of changing the Transvaal Republic to the Hechingen Province.
Also associated with the House of Hechingen are the (New) Hohenzollern Provinces and Swabia, established in Zambia and the southern Congo Plateau.
Because the Principality of Hechingen was formerly part of the Duchy of Swabia, the Swabian region has extraordinary significance to Germany. The nobles of Württemberg, the Principality of Hechingen, the Principality of Sigmaringen, and the Swabian administrative region of Bavaria all belong to the Swabian nobility.
The Habsburg family and the Hohenzollern family, which came from the Swabian region, influenced and dominated the history of the entire German nation.
(End of this chapter)
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