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    Today 8 states have dependent territories. These 8 states include Australia, Denmark, France, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States. In 1960 there would have been at least one more state on this list. Which state, or states?

    Question #86510. Asked by author. (Sep 27 07 9:52 AM)


    queproblema

    		Vrooom! Hopping aboard my time machine and careening back to 1960 I find Portugal and Germany on the list.

    In real life, here, I'm hopping aboard a more local transit and scooting to work, so somebody else can take a ride now and find some specifics and links.

    Sep 27 07, 3:06 PM
    Baloo55th

    		Spain and Portugal both had dependent territories in 1960. I'm not sure if India would count, as I'm not sure of the status then of the Andaman Islands. Ecuador could come in, with the Galapagos Islands, and is it Chile that has Juan Fernandez?

    Germany?

    Sep 27 07, 3:07 PM
    queproblema

    		Aackk! My lead foot lurched me over four decades too far back! At least I didn't make it all the way to Prussia....

    Here's a link to the Portuguese Empire.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Empire

    Germany had lost hers by the end of WWI.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_German_colonies

    For Spain I'll resort to cut-and-paste, which I'm normally allergic to:
    "In March 1968, under pressure from Equatoguinean nationalists and the United Nations, Spain announced that it would grant independence to Equatorial Guinea. At independence in 1968, Equatorial Guinea had one of the highest per capita incomes in Africa. In 1969, under international pressure, Spain returned Sidi Ifni to Morocco. Spanish control of Spanish Sahara endured until the 1975 Green March prompted a withdrawal. The future of this former Spanish colony remains uncertain."

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


    Sep 27 07, 5:41 PM
    author

    		Okay, Spain and Portugal are ok, but I am disappointed you all forgot Belgium.

    Germany is definitely not on the list as they lost all their colonies in WWI.

    Sep 27 07, 6:31 PM
    queproblema

    		Not forgotten, neglected. Helen Roseveare wrote a gripping account of her kidnapping in the Belgian Congo in "Give Me this Mountain." I think. Maybe it was another book--it's been a while.

    http://www.allreaders.com/Topics/info_7765.asp

    Sep 27 07, 6:42 PM
    author

    		Belgium had these colonies in 1960:
    Congo (today Democratic Republic of Congo), although this colony became a republic this year.
    And then there were Rwanda and Burundi, which were both independent in 1962.

    Sep 27 07, 6:44 PM
    Baloo55th

    		Burundi and Rwanda were technically mandated territories rather than colonies, having been placed in Belgian care following WW I. The Belgian Congo was a colony, after the Belgian government took it over from King Leopold.

    Sep 28 07, 1:10 PM
    author

    		The mandate system which originated after WW1 technically ended in 1947.

    http://anthonydamato.law.northwestern.edu/encyclopedia/Mandatedterritory-wb.pdf

    Sep 28 07, 3:13 PM
    author

    		Wiki quote: "During World War I, 1916, Belgian forces advanced from the Congo into Germany's East African colonies. After Germany lost the War, Belgium accepted the League of Nations Mandate of 1923 to govern Ruanda-Urundi along with the Congo, while Great Britain accepted Tanganyika and other German colonies. After World War II Ruanda-Urundi became a United Nations (UN) "trust territory" administered by Belgium. The Belgian involvement in the region was far more direct than had been the German involvement and extended its interests into education and agricultural
    supervision."
    So you might say that Belgium treated Rwanda as its colony and were considered colonialists.

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

    Sep 28 07, 3:17 PM
    author

    		This information (also a Wiki quote) concerns both Rwanda and Burundi:
    " In 1916 Belgian troops conquered the area during the First World War. In 1923, the League of Nations mandated to Belgium the territory of Ruanda-Urundi, encompassing modern-day Rwanda and Burundi, but stripping the western kingdoms and giving them to British administered Tanganyika. The Belgians administered the territory through indirect rule, building on the Tutsi-dominated aristocratic hierarchy.
    Following World War II, Ruanda-Urundi became a United Nations Trust Territory under Belgian administrative authority."

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

    Sep 28 07, 3:20 PM

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