What European country colonized Tanzania?

Answer 1

Portugal, Germany and Great Britain have at one time or another all claimed what is now Tanzania as a colony.

Portugal first reached this area in 1498 and had subdued the entire coastline by 1525.

Then Germany began exploring and eventually colonizing the area from the mid 1840s until the end of WWI.

Finally, Great Britain controlled the area after WW I to its independence in 1961.

From 1884 to 1891, a German Colony was formed and was called the German East Africa Company, but was not directly controlled by Germany. Germany weakly controlled the area from 1891 to the end of World War I, when the United Kingdom took control.

Tanzania was part of the vast corridor of land in Africa that Great Britain recognized as part of it's colonial empire after World War I. This corridor stretched from Egypt in the north to South Africa in the south., although an Arabian influence had brought Islam to the Zanzibar Islands (which is part of Tanzania) centuries before. The Portuguese probably were the first modern Europeans to discover the coast of what is today Tanzania, but settled on acquiring Mozambique, while the British explored and, after Germany's brief occupation from 1891 to 1919, claimed and colonized Tanzania as part of their global empire and commonwealth of nations.

Answer 2

Germany Britain Italy Spain Portugal France Belgium

Answer 3

It was part of the colony of German East Africa (German: Deutsch-Ostafrika), from 1885.

It comprises the mainland part of today's Tanzania, excluding the islands of Zanzibar. During World War I it came under British military rule and its transfer to Britain under the 1919 Treaty of Versailles was confirmed by a League of Nations Mandate in 1922, later a United Nations Trust Territory. Britain changed the name to the Tanganyika Territory.

On 9 December 1961 as Tanganyika it became independent as a constitutional monarchy, and on 9 June 1962 it became the Republic of Tanganyika within the Commonwealth of Nations. In 1964, it joined with the islands of Zanzibar to form the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, changed later in the year to the United Republic of Tanzania.

Answer 4

Before the Great War it was Tanganyika, a German colony, and Zanzibar, an independent island off the coast. Both were taken by the UK after the Versailles Treaty.

Answer 5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanzania

Answer 6

I'm guessing England??

Answer 7

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071216080821AAcNnV3&r=w