1890-1910 History of Central Africa Chad
1920-1939





Chad, 1910-1920



In 1910, Gabon, Moyen Congo and Oubangi-Chari-Chad were joined to form the Colony of FRENCH EQUATORIAL AFRICA, with capital at BRAZZAVILLE.
In 1911, Germany reluctantly renounced it's claims on the Moroccan port of Agadir (2nd Moroccan crisis) and in return France ceded a large stretch of territory on the border to Kamerun to Germany; Germany ceded a stretch of Kamerunese territory (Bagirmi) to France. These border corrections affected Chad's and Oubangi-Chari's western border.
In 1914, World War I broke out. German Kamerun was occupied by French, Belgian and British troops in 1916; the territories ceded by France to Germany in 1911 now were reintegrated into the old French possessions.
In 1920, Oubangi-Chari was made a separate province of French Equatorial Africa, separate from Chad.






EXTERNAL
FILES 		Chad, History of, from Infoplease ; from Library of Congress, Country Studies
DOCUMENTS Map of Central Africa 1895 from Annales de Geographie IV, from Perry Castaneda Library, UTexas, has borders between Chad/Oubangi-Chari and Kamerun
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