#western togoland

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 7.20 (before 1940)

70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots. 792 – Kardam of Bulgaria defeats Byzantine Emperor Constantine VI at the Battle of Marcellae. 911 – Rollo lays siege to Chartres. 1189 – Richard I of England officially invested as Duke of Normandy. 1225 – Treaty of San Germano is signed at San Germano between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and Pope Gregory IX. A Dominican named Guala is responsible for the negotiations. 1398 – The Battle of Kellistown was fought on this day between the forces of the English led by Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March against the O'Byrnes and O'Tooles under the command of Art Óg mac Murchadha Caomhánach, the most powerful Chieftain in Leinster. 1402 – Ottoman-Timurid Wars: Battle of Ankara: Timur, ruler of Timurid Empire, defeats forces of the Ottoman Empire sultan Bayezid I. 1592 – During the first Japanese invasion of Korea, Japanese forces led by Toyotomi Hideyoshi captured Pyongyang, although they were ultimately unable to hold it. 1715 – Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Empire captures Nauplia, the capital of the Republic of Venice's "Kingdom of the Morea", thereby opening the way to the swift Ottoman reconquest of the Morea. 1738 – Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan. 1799 – Tekle Giyorgis I begins his first of six reigns as Emperor of Ethiopia. 1807 – Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon for the Pyréolophore, the world's first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saône in France. 1810 – Citizens of Bogotá, New Granada declare independence from Spain. 1831 – Seneca and Shawnee people agree to relinquish their land in western Ohio for 60,000 acres west of the Mississippi River. 1848 – The first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, a two-day event, concludes. 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Peachtree Creek: Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman. 1866 – Austro-Prussian War: Battle of Lissa: The Austrian Navy, led by Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, defeats the Italian Navy near the island of Vis in the Adriatic Sea. 1871 – British Columbia joins the Canadian Confederation. 1885 – The Football Association legalizes professionalism in association football under pressure from the British Football Association. 1903 – The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile. 1906 – In Finland, a new electoral law is ratified, guaranteeing the country the first and equal right to vote in the world. Finnish women are the first in Europe to receive the right to vote. 1917 – World War I: The Corfu Declaration, which leads to the creation of the post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia. 1920 – The Greek Army takes control of Silivri after Greece is awarded the city by the Paris Peace Conference; by 1923 Greece effectively lost control to the Turks. 1922 – The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom. 1932 – In the Preußenschlag, German President Hindenburg places Prussia directly under the rule of the national government. 1935 – Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen. 1936 – The Montreux Convention is signed in Switzerland, authorizing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bosphorus but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime. 1938 – The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.

[flagwars]

Flag Wars Bonus Round

[nationsoftheworldtournament]

Nations Of The World Retro: 1914

Round One Matches

1. Colombia vs British Honduras

2. Nicaragua vs South Orkney Islands

3. Amoy vs Togoland

4. Italian Somaliland vs Luxembourg

5. Chongqing vs French Indochina

6. Emirate of Afghanistan vs Persia

7. Uruguay vs South Shetland Islands

8. Khiva vs Union Islands

9. Federated Malay Islands vs Réunion

10. Bahama Islands vs New Zealand

11. Ottoman Empire vs Spain

12. Suzhou vs Monaco

13. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland vs Straits Settlements

14. Kingdom of Italy vs French Madagascar

15. Portuguese East Africa vs Panama Canal Territory

16. Saint Barthélemy vs Netherlands

17. Guernsey vs Alaska

18. Bechuanaland vs Barbados

19. Ethiopia vs Curaçao and Dependencies

20. Midway Atoll vs Brunei

21. Saint Martin vs German East Africa

22. Amoy vs Sverdrup Islands

23. Sulu vs Northern Rhodesia

24. Serbia vs Panama

25. German Kiautschou vs Norway

26. British Guiana vs Sikkim

27. Falkland Islands vs Argentina

28. Ha'il vs Mexico

29. French Guiana vs British East Africa

30. Switzerland vs Seychelles

31. Italian Tripolitania vs Quita Sueño Bank

32. Italian Cyrenaica vs American Samoa

33. North Borneo vs Portuguese Guinea

34. Portuguese India vs British Jamaica

35. Portuguese Sao Tomé and Principe vs Kwantung

36. Jiujiang vs Zanzibar

37. Karafuto vs Costa Rica

38. France vs Hawaii

39. Jarvis Island vs British Winward Islands

40. Terengganu vs Surinam

41. British Trinidad and Tobago vs Belgium

42. Newfoundland vs Ubangi-Shari

43. Palmyra Atoll vs Romania

44. Fernando Poo vs Portuguese Macau

45. Sierra Leone vs Wallis and Futuna

46. British Mauritius vs French Tunisia

47. India vs Spanish Sahara

48. Tristan da Cunha vs Navassa Island

49. Siam vs Tientsin

50. Guadaloupe vs Bulgaria 51. Wake Island vs Maldive Islands

52. Johor vs Isla de la Pasión

53. Sarawak vs French Morocco

54. Norfolk Island vs Hankou

55. Swan Islands vs German Empire

56. Johnston Atoll vs Saint Pierre and Miquelon

57. Egypt vs Baker Island

58. Trucial States vs Paraguay

59. Hangzhou vs Isle of Man

60. Victoria Land vs Emirate of Nejd and Hasa

61. French Oceania vs French India

62. Territory of New Guinea vs Mbundaland 63. Spanish North Africa vs Nigeria

64. Uganda vs Phillipine Islands

65. Basutoland vs Tibet

66. Elobey, Annobón, and Corsico vs Nepal

67. San Marino vs Andorra

68. Kongo vs Howland Island

69. Canada vs Muscat and Oman

70. Martinique vs Rhodesia

71. Bolivia vs Russian Empire

72. Ascension Island vs Dutch East Indies

73. China vs Fort of São João Baptista de Ajudá

74. Graham Land vs Serranilla Bank

75. French Equatorial Guinea vs Liechtenstein 76. Portuguese West Africa vs Australia

77. Kingdom of Montenegro vs Weihai

78. Honduras vs Papua

79. Perlis vs Haiti

80. Bhutan vs Iceland

81. Middlebrook Island vs Greenland

82. Guam vs Setul Mambang Segara

83. Denmark vs Bahrain

84. Serrana Bank vs Gold Coast

85. Italian Eritrea vs Taiwan

86. French West Africa vs British Hong Kong 87. Gibraltar vs French Algeria

88. United States vs Bermuda

89. Puerto Rico vs Finland

90. Kamerun vs Kelantan

91. Anglo-Egyptian Sudan vs French Somaliland

92. Shanghai vs Suez Canal Zone

93. Shasi vs Sultanate of Aussa

94. Bouvet Island vs Empire of Japan

95. Portuguese Cape Verde vs Zhenjiang

96. Spanish Morocco vs Kingman Reef

97. Venezuela vs Principality of Albania

98. Aden vs Portugal

99. Darfur vs German Samoa

100. Belgian Congo vs Malta

101. Heard Island and McDonald Islands vs Ecuador

102. Swaziland vs Kuwait

103. Bukhara vs Gambia

104. Cuba vs Corn Islands

105. British Somaliland vs German South-West Africa

106. Kedah vs Portuguese Timor

107. Liberia vs New Caledonia

108. Danish West Indies vs Peru

109. Northern Nigeria vs Saint Helena

110. South Africa vs Bajo Nuevo Bank

111. British Leeward Islands vs Roncador Bank 112. Sweden vs British Western Pacific Territories

113. Kingdom of Greece vs Mongolia

114. Brazil vs Chile

115. Austria-Hungary vs British Hong Kong

116. Uryankhay vs Rio Muni vs British Cyprus

[professorfaber]

“[Neo-imperialist historians] Gann and Duignan almost reluctantly acknowledged that the German conquest of African territories “involved violence and brutality,” but consistently highlighted the “positive contributions” of German occupation, which they list as follows:

[The Germans] provided a basic infrastructure of modern transport; they encouraged new forms of economic enterprise; they promoted mining; they stimulated research; they imported new crops; to some extent they promoted peasant agriculture in export crops. They were responsible for the first feeble beginnings of secondary industry in their territories. They made a start, however slight, in providing western-type education, hospitals, and dispensaries, government research in medicine, agriculture, and veterinary problems. They built a Western-type civil administration; they laid the foundations of new states. Their colonial elite helped to force German Africa into the world economy; they introduced new skills and new occupations, and created new economic needs and new economic opportunities. German colonialism thus was an engine of modernization with far-reaching effects for the future. German rule provided African people with new alternatives and a wider range of choices.

Dennis Laumann, A Historiography of German Togoland, or the Rise and Fall of a “Model Colony” (emphasis mine)

[ghanashowbizonline]

Court jails Western Togoland secessionists 5 years each

An Accra Divisional High Court has sentenced members of the Western Togoland separatist group to 5 years each in jail. The five members will spend a total of 25 years in jail. The five were arrested by the police in September 2020 after they blocked the Aveyime road from Accra with sand and attacked the Aveyime and Mepe Police stations in the Volta Region, The High Court convicted the five…

[mapsontheweb]

Map of Western Togoland, which declares its independence from Ghana past week.

[davasmedia]

Western Togoland's Newly Trained Soldiers Sends Message To All Ghanaians

[rvexillology]

Flag of Western Togoland, an African nation which declared it's independence from Ghana last week

from /r/vexillology Top comment: Wut, really?

[ghanashowbizonline]

Western Togoland case: Five convicted, sentencing deferred to March 21

A set of five persons standing trial for being members of a prohibited organization dubbed the Western Togoland Restoration Front (WTRF) have been found guilty by the High Court in Accra. The five – Ebenezer Gblorkor, Afetorgbor Kpodo, Joseph Nyamewu, Wisdom Kumor and Israel Bessah Kpexor were all found guilty after full trial and have been convicted. The court, presided over by Justice Mary…

[davasmedia]

Ex Prez Kuffour Reveals Western Togoland Secessionist Group Is A Form Of...

[gwendolynlerman]

Separatist and irredentist movements in the world

Western Togoland

Proposed state: Western Togoland

Region: Northern Region, North East Region, Oti Region, Upper East Region, and Volta Region, Ghana

Ethnic group: Ewe

Goal: independence

Date: 2017

Political parties: -

Militant organizations: Western Togoland Restoration Front

Current status: armed clashes

History

11th century-1888 - Kingdom of Dagbon

1701-1901 - Ashanti Empire

1884-1914 - Togoland

1916-1956 - British Togoland

1957 - British Togoland status plebiscite

2017 - Western Togoland failed independence declaration

2020 - beginning of the Western Togoland Rebellion

The territory claimed by Western Togoland was formerly ruled by the Kingdom of Dagbon and the Ashanti Empire. In 1884, Germany established the protectorate of Togoland. At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the colony was invaded by British and French forces and later divided into separate administrative zones.

Western Togoland then became part of British Togoland until 1956. One year later, a plebiscite was held to decide the fate of the former colony, which chose to join Ghana.

In 2017, the Homeland Study Group Foundation unsuccessfully tried to declare the independence of Western Togoland, but its leaders were arrested and prosecuted. Following this, armed clashes have continued to take place between secessionists and Ghanaian security forces.

Ewe people

The Ewe people mainly live in Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, and Togo. There are around 10.3 million Ewe.

They practice Christianity and the traditional religion of Vodun and speak Ewe, a Gbe language of the Atlantic-Congo family.

Ewe society is patrilineal, although women are the major merchants and traders. A notable aspect of their culture is the deep distress and voluntary acceptance of guilt for their ancestors' role in the slave trade.

Vocabulary

Eʋeawó - Ewe people

Eʋegbe - Ewe language

Ghana - Ghana

[prosperierendesimperium]

Lore of Another History; the actual lore

The year is 1939. After Finland started taking hits from the Soviets, Sweden jumped on helping them out in their war of terror against the Soviet Union.

The year  is 1941. Germany has told Sweden and Finland that no help can arrive, and that a massive offensive comes next year. This prompts Sweden to call for peace with the Soviet Union, but Finland's leaders and government officials were stubborn. The fighting increased from that point until both Swedish and Finnish supplies were drastically depleted, and they were forced into surrender.

At the conferences, no one took any land. Near the end of the conference, Sweden suggests something unlikely; a union with Finland. After the war, with all these supplies drained, they figured Sweden would be a great part of a union thanks to their natural riches. They take this offer to the King, who later realizes the same things the officials did.

In a conference room, on May 14th, 1941, Sweden and Finland worked together to sign through all sorts of treaties in order to fully organize the existance of Sweden-Finland. This addition to the Axis Powers made Britain a little uneasy, so they call to French nationalists in Africa to help take over the land. From here... something just, changes.

In 1942, the Axis  invasion of the Soviet Union is cancelled thanks to the massive effect Sweden-Finland had on the stability of Western regions. Instead, a national-socialist revolution is sparked by the German Reich, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Sweden-Finland, and even Japan. The Soviet Union collapses, and a swift takeover of the weakened lands follows. Germany puppets White Ruthenia, Ukraine, and Caucasia. Romania annexes Bessarabia from Ukraine. Sweden-Finland annex Estonia, Karelia, and Livonian regions from the USSR, as well as establishing a puppet of Novgorod. Japan annexed Vladivostok and practically the entirety of the Eastern lands. At this point, China makes peace with Japan and Japan moves to refocus on the Southern front.

Britain realizes the situation and calls out for help from the United States. Of course, the United States is also seeing the issue, and joins the war against the Axis.

The year... is 1943. Germany has constructed the first atom bomb, and threatens to nuke London if the United States doesn't leave the war. Stubborn American morale was way too high for this, so they in turn deny it, calling it a bluff.

Explosions rip through London. all sorts of heavy bombers are dropping thousands upon thousands of kilograms of bombs. Buildings reduced to rubble, hundreds of thousands of people die. American morale just... drops. Peace negotiations are held between Japan, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, the Croatian fascist and Serbian fascist puppets, Great Britain, British rag, Australia, the Netherlands, and the United States, among many others.

German demands;

Annexation of Belgium, Czechia from Czachoslovakia, northern France, occupied lands from Poland, and Denmark

Vassalization of Switzerland, Vichy France, the Netherlands, Ukraine, White Ruthenia, Caucasia, and the Russian Fascist state

Establishment of the old colonies of Kamerun, German East Africa, German Southwest Africa and Togoland.

Establishment of new colonies; German Egypt, German Newfoundland, German Algeria, German South Africa, and German Equatorial Africa.

The Dominion of Canada shall be come the Reichskommisariat der Kanada, and Quebec will be granted its freedom under German reign as a vassal state.

All other Allies' colonies are to be given independence.

Dissolution of the United Kingdom, into England, Wales and Scotland. Northern Ireland is returned to Ireland.

War reparations paid by France and England.

Slovakian demands;

None

Hungarian demands;

None

Romanian demands;

Establishment of new colonies; Romanian Tunis

Italian demands;

Annexation of Monaco, Spain, Portugal, Spanish Morocco, French Morocco, Spanish Sahara, Greece, Albania, Turkey, Iran and British/French holdings in the Middle East

Establishment of new colonies; Italian Somalia (annexed British Somaliland, French Somaliland), Italian Ethiopia, Italian Sudan and Italian Nigeria

Bulgarian demands;

Annexation of Serbian, Macedonian and Montenegrin lands except for Vojvodina

Dobrich becomes a split-vassal of Romania and Bulgaria

Swedish-Finnish demands;

Annexation of Norway, Karelia, Livonia and Estonia

Vassalization of Novgorod, Iceland, and Greenland

British demands;

None

American demands;

The Nazi regime will be disbanded in exchange for a German monarchy.

These terms are all agreed on May 16th, 1943.

[rvexillology]

My take on Western Togoland

from /r/vexillology Top comment: Wow. REEEAAAL inclusive of you to only include red hands /j

[ghanashowbizonline]

High Court convicts 5 Western Togoland members; they’ll be sentenced on Tuesday, March 21

The Accra High Court has set Tuesday, March 21 to sentence five members of the Western Togoland Restoration Front (WTRF) after finding them guilty of charges the state prosecutors proffered against them. After a full trial, the court held that Ebenezer Gblorkor, Afetorgbor Kpodo, Joseph Nyamewu, Wisdom Kumor and Israel Bessah Kpexor committed crimes punishable by the laws of the land. The…

[goptephlon]

Did this Ghanaian newspaper recognized the so called "Western Togoland" in the past?

Did this Ghanaian newspaper recognized the so called “Western Togoland” in the past?

[GHANA] – An image of a very old newspaper publication available to WestAfrica24.com shows that a Ghanaian media outlet, Ghana Weekly Review had in Ghana’s independence era recognized Western Togoland as independent state.

The publication which was titled, “TOGOLAND AND TRANS – VOLTA: First Trust Territory To Achieve Independence”referred to the relationship between Ghana and the Western…