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    Ruanda-Urundi (French pronunciation: [ʁwɑ̃da uʁundi]), later Rwanda-Burundi, was a colonial territory, once part of German East Africa, that was occupied...
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  • The Ruanda-Urundi franc was a currency issued for the Belgian mandate territory of Ruanda-Urundi in 1960–62 which continued to circulate within its successor...
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    Burundi (redirect from Urundi)
    local language, which means "Another one". Later the Belgian mandate to Ruanda-Urundi region came to rename it and their former capital "Usumbura" of both...
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    principally the Belgian Congo (modern DR Congo) from 1908 to 1960, Ruanda-Urundi (modern Rwanda and Burundi) from 1922 to 1962, and Lado Enclave (modern...
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    pp 3–22. William Roger Louis, Ruanda-Urundi 1884–1919 (Oxford U.P., 1963). Mary T. Duarte, "Education in Ruanda-Urundi, 1946–61, " Historian (1995) 57#2...
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    Rwanda (redirect from Ruanda)
    rule both Rwanda and Burundi as a League of Nations mandate called Ruanda-Urundi and started a period of more direct colonial rule. The Belgians simplified...
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    responsible for the territory of Ruanda-Urundi, an area equivalent to modern-day Rwanda and Burundi. Ruanda-Urundi formed part of German East Africa...
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  • The following lists events that happened during 1959 in Ruanda-Urundi. November 1 – Violence between the Hutu and Tutsi people was triggered by an attack...
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    I, forming the mandate of Ruanda-Urundi. Kigali remained the seat of colonial administration for Rwanda but Ruanda-Urundi's capital was at Usumbura (now...
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  • in Ruanda-Urundi (present day Rwanda and Burundi) and, from 1952, the currency was issued jointly in the names of the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi. After...
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