Haut-Luapula District
District
Haut-Luapula District is located in Democratic Republic of the Congo
Haut-Luapula District
Haut-Luapula District
Coordinates: 11°40′00″S 27°29′00″E / 11.666667°S 27.483333°E / -11.666667; 27.483333
CountryBelgian Congo
ProvinceKatanga
DistrictHaut-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.

Location

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 possessions 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]

Maps

See also

References

  1. ↑ Lemarchand 1964, pp. 62–63.
  2. ↑ Lemarchand 1964, p. 63.
  3. 1 2 3 Atlas général du Congo.
  4. 1 2 Lemarchand 1964, p. 64.
  5. ↑ Bruneau 2009, p. 8.
  6. 1 2 3 Congo (Kinshasa) Provinces.
  7. ↑ Provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Sources

  • Atlas général du Congo / Algemene atlas van Congo (in French and Dutch), Belgium: Institut Royal Colonial Belge, 1948–1963, OCLC 681334449
  • Bruneau, Jean-Claude (30 June 2009), "Les nouvelles provinces de la République Démocratique du Congo : construction territoriale et ethnicités", L'Espace Politique, 7 (2009–1), doi:10.4000/espacepolitique.1296, retrieved 2020-08-08
  • "Congo (Kinshasa) Provinces", Rulers.org, retrieved 2020-08-05
  • Lemarchand, René (1964), Political Awakening in the Belgian Congo, University of California Press, GGKEY:TQ2J84FWCXN, retrieved 19 August 2020
  • "Provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo". Statiods.com.
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