Editing Kionga Triangle

{{Short description|German colony in modern Mozambique}}
[[File:Wirtschafts-Atlas der deutschen Kolonien - 22 cropped.jpg|thumb|The Kionga Triangle, shown on a contemporary German map]]

The '''Kionga Triangle''' ({{langx|de|Kionga-Dreieck}}, {{langx|pt|Triângulo de Quionga}}) was a small region of [[German East Africa]] situated at the mouth of the [[Ruvuma River]]. The Ruvuma served as the border between the German colony and [[Portuguese Mozambique]], and the Kionga Triangle was the only section of German East Africa south of the river. Its principal settlement was Kionga (now {{Ill|Quionga|pt}}) which had a population of 4,000 in 1910. It became a German possession in 1894 but came under Portuguese control in April 1916 during [[World War I]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z311FAuwbx8C&pg=PA161 |title=The First World War in Africa |author=Hew Strachan |author-link=Hew Strachan |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2004 |page=161 |access-date=21 September 2017 |isbn=9780199257287 |archive-date=4 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804012257/https://books.google.com/books?id=Z311FAuwbx8C&pg=PA161 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="NewittNewitt1995">{{cite book |author1=M. D. D. Newitt |author2=Professor Malyn Newitt |title=A History of Mozambique |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vLzp_zs1t6cC&pg=PA416 |accessdate=15 April 2021 |year=1995 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=0-253-34006-3 |page=416 |archive-date=15 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415075950/https://books.google.com/books?id=vLzp_zs1t6cC&pg=PA416 |url-status=live }}</ref> The post-war [[Treaty of Versailles]] reaffirmed that the river was the border between [[Tanganyika (territory)|Tanganyika]], then under British control, and Portuguese Mozambique. The triangle was the only territory that the treaty awarded to Portugal.<ref>{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia Britannica |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0QtXAAAAMAAJ |accessdate=15 April 2021 |year=1970 |publisher=Encyclopedia Britannica, Incorporated |page=863 |archive-date=15 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415085524/https://books.google.com/books?id=0QtXAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Fritz Zadow |title=Koloniale Revision |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FIUASRnmdHcC |year=1941 |publisher=W. Conrad & Company |page=176 |access-date=2022-04-04 |archive-date=2021-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211225230804/https://books.google.com/books?id=FIUASRnmdHcC |url-status=live }}</ref>

Today, the former Kionga Triangle forms part of [[Cabo Delgado Province]] in [[Mozambique]].

==See also==
*[[Postage stamps and postal history of Kionga]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
* Thomas, H. B., "The Kionga Triangle", ''Tanganyika Notes and Records'' Volume 31 1951, pages 47–50.

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