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British East Africa Protectorate
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/British_East_Africa_Protectorate
GPTKB entity
Statements (47)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
British colony
gptkbp:administeredBy
gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkbp:area
about 246,800 square miles
gptkbp:borderedBy
gptkb:Indian_Ocean
gptkb:German_East_Africa
gptkb:Somaliland
gptkb:Uganda_Protectorate
gptkb:Abyssinia
gptkbp:capital
gptkb:Mombasa
gptkbp:currency
gptkb:East_African_rupee
gptkbp:currentLocation
gptkb:Kenya
gptkbp:dissolved
1920
gptkbp:established
1895
gptkbp:ethnicGroup
gptkb:Indian
gptkb:Luo
European
Maasai
Swahili
Kikuyu
gptkbp:flag
gptkb:Flag_of_the_British_East_Africa_Company
gptkb:Flag_of_the_British_East_Africa_Protectorate
gptkbp:governor
gptkb:Sir_Charles_Eliot
gptkb:Sir_Henry_Conway_Belfield
gptkb:Sir_James_Hayes_Sadler
gptkb:Sir_Percy_Girouard
gptkbp:homeport
gptkb:Mombasa
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
British East Africa Protectorate
gptkbp:locatedIn
East Africa
gptkbp:notableEvent
gptkb:Construction_of_Uganda_Railway
gptkb:Nandi_Resistance
Hut tax introduction
Indian labor migration
Land alienation policies
Maji Maji Rebellion (indirectly affected region)
White settler immigration
gptkbp:officialLanguage
English
gptkbp:partOf
gptkb:British_Empire
gptkbp:population
about 4 million (early 20th century)
gptkbp:predecessor
gptkb:Imperial_British_East_Africa_Company
gptkbp:railwayStation
gptkb:Uganda_Railway
gptkbp:religion
gptkb:Christianity
gptkb:Islam
gptkb:Traditional_African_religions
gptkbp:successor
gptkb:Colony_and_Protectorate_of_Kenya
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:Uganda_Railway
gptkb:British_protectorate_(17th–19th_centuries)
gptkbp:bfsLayer
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