Haut-Luapula District | |
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  Haut-Luapula District | |
| Coordinates: 11°40′00″S27°29′00″E / 11.666667°S 27.483333°E | |
| Country | Belgian Congo |
| Province | Katanga |
| District | Haut-Luapula |
Haut-Luapula District (French : District du Haut-Luapula, Dutch : District Boven Luapula) was a district of the Belgian Congo from 1912 to 1933, when it was dissolved. It roughly corresponded to the southern part of the present Haut-Katanga Province.
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 Haut-Luapula District in the extreme southeast of the province, bordered by British Overseas Territories to the south and east. It was bordered by Tanganika-Moero District to the north and Lulua District to the west. [3] The district was named after the Lualaba River, whose upper reaches flowed northward through the district.
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] Haut-Luapula was divided between Haut-Katanga District in the east and Lualaba District in the west. [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] Katanga Oriental corresponded to the Haut-Katanga District. Nord-Katanga, Lualaba and Katanga Oriental were merged back into the province of Katanga on 28 December 1966. [6] In 2015 Haut-Katanga Province was formed from the Haut-Katanga District and the independently administered cities of Likasi and Lubumbashi. Lubumbashi retained its status as a provincial capital. [7]
Katanga was one of the four large provinces created in the Belgian Congo in 1914. It was one of the eleven provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1966 and 2015, when it was split into the Tanganyika, Haut-Lomami, Lualaba, and Haut-Katanga provinces. Between 1971 and 1997, its official name was Shaba Province.
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Ituri District, later Kibali-Ituri District, was a district of the Belgian Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It roughly corresponded in area to the present Ituri Province.
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Équateur District was a former district of the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo. In 1914 it became part of former Équateur Province. The district went through various changes of extent and name over the years. The original district roughly corresponds to the current provinces of Équateur and Tshuapa.
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The Districts of the Belgian Congo were the primary administrative divisions when Belgium annexed the Congo Free State in 1908, each administered by a district commissioner. In 1914 they were distributed among four large provinces, with some boundary changes. In 1933 the provinces were restructured into six, again with boundary changes. The number of districts fluctuated between 12 and 26 through splits and consolidations, first rising, then falling, then rising again.
Lomami District was a district of the Belgian Congo from 1912 to 1933, when it was dissolved. It covered very roughly the same area as the present Lomami Province and the northwest of Haut-Lomami Province.
Tanganika-Moero District was a district of the Belgian Congo from 1912 to 1933, when it was dissolved. It roughly corresponded to the present Tanganyika Province and the northern part of Haut-Katanga Province.
Tanganika District was a district of the pre-2015 Katanga Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The district dates back to the days of the Belgian Congo. At its greatest extent it roughly corresponded to the present Tanganyika Province, with a small portion in the southwest now in Haut-Lomami Province.
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