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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A former colonial possession of central Africa. Once a part of German East Africa, the territory was occupied by Belgian troops during World War I and later became a Belgian League of Nations mandate under the name Ruanda-Urundi. When independence was achieved in 1962, the region split into the present-day countries of Rwanda and Burundi.

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  • The soil map of the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi, 1958-59.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • The soil map of the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi, 1958-59.

    Soil Maps of Africa 2009

  • In 1929, the Belgian authorities expanded Albert National Park to include all of the Virunga Mountains that traversed the two colonies of the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi (a League of Nations territory under Belgian rule).

    Transboundary protected areas 2008

  • League in 1960 to provide medical teams for the civilian hospitals of the Congo, the relief given to the Angolan refugees, and the medical care and foodstuffs provided for the Watusi tribes from Ruanda-Urundi, who were not only given assistance in the form of medical care and foodstuffs, but were also resettled and equipped.

    League of Red Cross Societies - Nobel Lecture 1963

  • Independent Popular Monarchy of Ruanda-Urundi were all going to try to jump in and grab a piece of territory if possible.

    Hail to the Chief Randall Garrett 1957

  • Burundi, to Belgium as the territory of Ruanda-Urundi.

    unknown title 2009

  • Burundi, to Belgium as the territory of Ruanda-Urundi.

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  • In 1923, the League of Nations mandated to Belgium the territory of Ruanda-Urundi, encompassing modern-day Rwanda and Burundi.

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  • In 1923, the League of Nations mandated to Belgium the territory of Ruanda-Urundi, encompassing modern-day Rwanda and Burundi.

    unknown title 2009

  • The Music of Central Africa: An Ethnomusicological Study: Former French Equitorial Africa, the Former Belgian Congo, Ruanda-Urundi, Uganda, Tanganika Reprint of the 1961 edition by R. Brandel

    OpEdNews - Diary: Valentine's Day��Of Arms and Men 2007

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