Northeastern rhodesia

Northeastern Rhodesia is a quasi-state entity in southern Central Africa, and since 1899 part of the British South African Company . The government recognized this territory as a protectorate of the company only on January 29, 1900 , as did Northwest Rhodesia . In 1911, the British South African Company combined Northwestern and Northeastern Rhodesia, forming a protectorate of Northern Rhodesia , which coincides in territory with modern Zambia .

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Northeastern rhodesia
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Protectorate from 1899 to 1911, the border is shown in red until 1905.
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Capital	Fort Jameson ( Chipata )
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manager
• 1898	Sir Robert Codrington

Initially, Rhodes and BYUK traveled north, trying to capture the rich ore district of Katanga and hoping to find copper and gold in neighboring territories.

The company began expanding north of the Zambezi River in 1890 when Cecil Rhodes , head of the British South African Company, sent Joseph Thomson to the region to conclude contracts with local leaders, and Harry Johnston , consul in Nyasaland , announced the creation of the British Central African protectorate earlier, Alfred Sharpe . In 1891, agreements were signed with the rulers of Bemba and Cheva . ^[one]

The boundaries of the territory were approximately determined in 1884-1891. The convention with Germany in 1890 defined the border with German East Africa in the northeast; in the east a British protectorate of Central Africa was created a year earlier ( English British Central Africa Protectorate ). The Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1891, among other things, defined the border between the spheres of influence of Britain in Northeastern Rhodesia and Portugal in Mozambique, defining the southeastern border. From the southwest, the territory bordered Barotseland , and from the west with the territory of the Free State of Congo , the territory of which was designated by the Berlin Conference, and the Anglo-Belgian agreement of 1884. The area of ​​what became Northern Rhodesia, including Barotseland and land to Nyasaland in the east and to Katanga and Lake Tanganyika in the north, was placed at the disposal of the Council of the South African Council by Council Decree of May 9, 1891.

The region was completely conquered in 1899.

In January 1900, Queen Victoria signed an order for North-Eastern Rhodesia ( English -North-Eastern Rhodesia Order in Council, 1900 ). This document officially named the territory a protectorate of Northeast Rhodesia.

Initially, the border between North-West and North-East Rhodesia, which appeared in 1899, ran along the Kafue River, but in 1905 the border was moved east, coinciding in the southern part with the western border of the Eastern province of modern Zambia, this was associated with the beginning of a large-scale copper mining in the region, so all copper mines ended up in Northwest Rhodesia. Northeastern Rhodesia turned into the food base of the neighboring mining region, but without much success.

The capital since 1899 was founded in the same year by Fort Jameson (the modern city of Chipata ), before that the territory was controlled from Blantyre in modern Malawi.

The northeastern border of the protectorate was finally determined in 1901 by the Anglo-German border treaty that established the western border of German East Africa .